Zoosk Review September 2023

Signing up is a quick and easy process. You just need to fill out a personal information form disclosing your gender and gender preference, birthday, email address, and zip code. Zoosk detects VPN, so you have to sign-up using any zip code from the country where you reside.

After providing your necessary personal details, an activation link will be sent to the email address you provided. Once you click on that link, you can already freely access the website. However, your access is limited unless you validate your account by providing a number and entering the code sent to that number. You will also be encouraged to increase your profile credibility by connecting your Facebook and Twitter accounts to your dating profile.

Contacting other members may be quite a challenge if you’re not a premium member. As a free member, you can only browse profiles and send flirt pings. The people you send these flirt notifications to will be able to see them, but if they are also a free member, they wouldn’t be able to reply. Same with digital gifts—you could buy using coins and send them as you wish, but they need a premium membership to allow you to reply.

The platform offers two kinds of matchmaking features. The first one is called ‘Carousel’ where profile suggestions are shown to you. Here, you need to decide whether it’s an ‘x’, ‘maybe’, or a ‘check’. The Carousel shows two kinds of suggestions: ‘Meet’ and ‘Match’.

The Match tab is connected with Zoosk’s other matchmaking feature called ‘SmartPick’. SmartPick shows you match suggestions based on your behavior on the site—the profiles you view, your search queries, the profiles you send smiles and hearts to, etc.

Overall, the quality of the profiles is good. It is easy to get the gist of a member’s personality just by looking at their listed interests, which any member can view freely.

Most profiles are straightforward and somewhat complete, making it easy for you to determine whether the account you are viewing is a match or not. Validation of profile is also required in Zoosk—you can see from the profile view how the members verified their identities.

With this, there is a guarantee that the profile you are viewing is real. Seemingly, it is highly possible to get actual dates.

Safety and Privacy

Although there are forum discussions found online that complain about “fake profiles”, we didn’t find any. As mentioned earlier, Zoosk has a strict verification process that is required for all members to continue using the dating site.

Failing to verify your identity will disable you from using the platform to find potential matches. However, in the instance that you see a fake profile, you can easily report them to the administrators.

To report abuse and/or block a member, click the ‘Report/Block’ button found on the member's profile. Zoosk dating does not take the responsibility of routinely screening members, but the validation process makes up for this.