About Us

Chris Pleines, our dating expert on Dating Scout, wrote the book Online Dating for Dummies. It gives singles lots of help and tips how to navigate the Online-Dating jungle and where to have the highest chance to find the date you're looking for. Online Dating for Dummies is available on leading bookstores and online stores like Amazon.

The global Coronavirus pandemic presented us all with new challenges and was a burden on dating. In the first few months, travel and contact restrictions due to the fear of infection were also expressed in online dating. Singles preferred to stay safe at home and don’t go out on dates and meet new people.

Dating services around the world reacted quickly and provided risk-free dating alternatives such as video chats. Yet, after weeks of isolation, many no longer want to be alone and start looking for a partner online.

Online dating booms and we grow too. We now help singles in Denmark choose the right dating site and give tips for searching for the right partner.

Since this year, we are the first and the only online dating comparison website that is able to show real-time data charts about each dating site’s number of new members and member activity in comparison to other dating portals that are within the same category.

We want to know and collect a unique data set of singles worldwide to analyze using artificial intelligence. The world's first study of this kind, it examines and explains various profile photo characteristics – from facial expressions, backgrounds, hobbies, accessories to dating intentions. The study is based on more than 24 million profile photos.

Of course, we don’t only collect data from the United Kingdom. In fact, we gathered data from a total of 16 countries. We constantly update our studies so that we do not miss any photo trends and tips.

Dating Scout is now launched and made available in Spain.

Our comparison portal continues to grow globally: We launch in the USA, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

Our dating site comparison portal is becoming increasingly popular. We are expanding into our neighbouring countries Switzerland and Austria. The team is growing as we face new challenges.

Finally, in cooperation with the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, we publish our second large Facebook study with over 10,000 profiles and 4.2 million data records. 

We participate in the German Accelerator startup program of the German federal government, which gives German startups the opportunity to learn from the "really big" ones in California's Silicon Valley.

Here we study the American dating market on-site over a period of several months. We learn a lot here, as a lot of dating sites are being developed in the USA and we are there right at the source.

Online dating can become a trap: confusing layouts, hidden costs, and well-organized scammers can quickly spoil your flirting fun. Our mission is to warn against these traps and to recommend secure dating sites – the best ones. Other dating reviews and comparison sites present information about online dating platforms that are either out of date, incomplete or hard to comprehend.

To counteract this, we expand our blog with helpful content – offering test and experience reports, and start to plan studies on the subject of online dating in order to provide the best answer to the simple question: “Which dating site best suits ME?"

Our blog is attracting more and more visitors as we regularly test new dating sites and apps. Our knowledge of online dating and the intents of dating site users become more and more well-founded. From this, we make our blog articles and reviews more and more diverse to accommodate what our visitors want to know.

Computer science student and single?

This is the rule in our circle of friends. The high demands of the course, combined with the blatant lack of women in the computer science course, hardly allows getting to know people outside the university for quick flirting.

Online dating seems like the perfect solution to us. However, the industry is still far from being as diverse as it will be 12 years later. The dating agencies that exude seriousness and promise real success are not priced for students. Besides, we are not willing to pay for something that we cannot count on having absolute success.

Still, we don't give up hope and soon have a brilliant idea about how we can use dating sites without losing money. We build our own blog where we present and compare the various online dating sites available in the market. In return, we receive free demo accounts.

We want to show you the different options of finding a partner online – the difference between personals, dating agencies, dating apps, and other types of platforms – ultimately, for you to find the best option. Each online dating provider offers different features and price tiers, and has its own strengths and weaknesses. We dive deep into testing and reviewing each online dating platform so you can register with a clear conscience and get your money's worth.

• datingscout.com (US)
• zu-zweit.de (DE)
• solteros.es (ES)
• datingscout.co.uk (GB)
• datingscout.com.au (AU)
• zu-zweit.ch (CH)