What Is DateMyAge?
Older folks may find that most mainstream dating sites are overrun with people in their 20s and 30s, and finding people in a senior age bracket becomes more challenging. The DateMyAge dating site and app aim to fill that gap by providing a dating platform for mature singles who are over 40.
This review will explore the site’s best dating features, as well as how to create and fill out your profile. We’ll let you know the good, the bad, and the ugly of the pros and cons, user profile quality, and safety features. We’ll also tell you how much it’ll cost to use the site. Finally, we’ll explain our rating and answer some burning questions to wrap it up.
Pros
There is a DateMyAge free app available.
Very active userbase.
The site is available worldwide.
Can send/receive real gifts from other users.
Cons
The accounts seem fake.
Everything costs credits.
Credits are expensive.
Login Process
Creating your profile is a relatively painless process that shouldn’t take more than 10-15 minutes. You’ll start the DateMyAge login process from the homepage by entering your gender and preferred age range. You also have the option of signing up using your Google account. This is followed by 5 pages of information for you to complete. First, you provide some information about yourself, including your name, gender (again), birth date, and hometown.
Next is an About Me section, where you can complete your bio. That’s followed by an Ideal Partner section, where you can write a few words describing your perfect match. The penultimate step is to select your interests from a list; you can choose as many as you’d like. These include various hobbies like camping, sports, shopping, fashion, and crafts. You must finally add a photo and verify your email by clicking a link that was sent to you to enter the site.
Profile Completion
You completed most of the profile during registration. If you skipped the About Me and Ideal Partner sections, you’ll need to write a few words to answer them to complete your profile. You can also choose a cover photo, which is rare but adds a nice pop of color and personality to your profile.
The final step to having a fully complete profile will be to complete some shorter basic questions. These are the usual lifestyle and appearance questions that all dating sites ask:
Education level and occupation
Relationship status
Do you smoke/drink?
Body type and height
User Account Quality
While the site boasts a lot of profiles, and most of them have photos, we have some suspicions. Our test profile got tons of messages and would always get a deluge of new messages as soon as coming online. This is a bad sign because it is usually a strong indicator that the profiles aren’t real. The messages are also odd, they seem like AI-generated conversation starter messages.
We scoured the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and found no mention of staff-run or fake profiles. This suggests one of three things is true:
The profiles are real but act unlike people in real life.
The profiles are staff-run, and the site is simply omitting that fact from their policy documents.
The profiles are run by external scammers.
We can’t confirm that the profiles aren’t real, but many other Date My Age reviews cite fake profiles as a serious problem. This negatively affects the user experience.
Dating Features
Send Virtual Gifts
You can send your match a virtual gift in chat. These are little images of gifts like a gemstone heart, a castle, a handbag, a bunch/basket/single rose, etc. These cost credits will be between 35 and 11,999 credits to send. They can be a great way to indicate interest, but some are incredibly expensive.
The Terms of Use state that popular members must comply with the community standards, and they will earn a portion of the money raised from virtual gifts that they receive. This raises the question of whether people are earning money from the site and whether they are here to date. Or are they site employees here to keep you engaged and spending?
Send Presents
From member’s profiles, you can access a different present menu. These presents are not animated pictures like virtual gifts but are IRL products, and you can send these to your match in real life.
These include phones, clothes, perfume, jewelry, and gift cards. The options vary according to the user’s location and popularity and, strangely are similarly priced to the cartoony virtual gifts. If you send one of these presents, you’ll receive photo confirmation of the present delivery, with the receiver visible in the picture.
Sparks
Sparks are another form of virtual currency on Date My Age, and they work in a similar way to credits. However, instead of buying them, you earn sparks when you get a premium and receive virtual gifts from other users. You can then use your sparks to send virtual gifts, but these are slightly different from the usual ones.
Let’s Mingle
This feature will send your custom introduction message to a number of potential matches at once. This can be a good way to make connections and meet new people. You’re able to specify the gender and minimum age that you want to send the message to. For example, you want to reach out to women over 25 years old. This feature costs 5 credits to use.
Video Streams
You’re able to broadcast yourself on Date My Age, or to view other members’ video streams. These must be family-friendly, so it’s often just men or women chatting with viewers. You can use your credits to tip streamers with ‘diamonds.’ Each streamer has a diamond goal and will indicate what they’ll do once they reach that goal. For example, they’ll do 20 pushups or sing a song.
Book a Metaverse Date
A totally unique feature is the ability to book a date in the ‘Metaverse’. This feature allows you to choose who you’d like to date (from 5 options; these always stay the same), where you’d like to go (beach, forest, or sky lounge), and then pick a time and date. You’ll create a virtual avatar that resembles you. When the time and day arrives, you and your date can explore the virtual setting with your avatars and chat using your voices.
This is a very fun, futuristic take on virtual dating and has a lot of potential. However, it’s unclear if you’re going on a date with a real person or if it’ll just be a site employee. It costs 250 credits for a 30-minute date, but there’s an ‘early access discount’ price of 99 credits.
Prices & Costs
The DateMyAge dating site has some ads but mainly runs on a credit system. These can often be more expensive in the long run because your credits can run out faster than you think. They offer a “monthly plan” for premium, but this is mainly a monthly credit purchase.
Premium
With a premium subscription, your main benefit is the monthly credits you’ll receive. You can also communicate with regular members for free, but this doesn’t include Popular users (who have a flame icon on their profiles). You’ll get to read all your messages in the chat, and you gain access to the Let’s Mingle feature. You can choose between 3 credit packages:
150 Credits/month: $50
600 Credits/month: $150
1500 Credits/month: $300
This is a subscription, and it will automatically renew at the end of the month. You can disable autorenewal by contacting support@datemyage.com. Most dating sites allow you to disable it easily and quickly in your profile settings. This is rather inconvenient. While most dating sites have a notice period of about 24 hours, DateMyAge requires a 10-day notice period.
Credits are also very expensive, considering that many virtual gifts cost over 1500 credits to send. The monthly credits that come with your subscription cannot accumulate – any unused credits will expire at the end of the month.
1st Month Discount
There’s currently an offer for a discount on your first month if you purchase the 150 Credits package. You can get it for only $19.99 for the first month. From the second month, it’ll cost the usual $50. This offer is only available on the 150 Credit package.
Credits
So, you’ve got your premium subscription and 150-1500 credits. Now you’re wondering how much each message/email costs. There’s an extensive price list in the Terms of Use. We’ll list some of the main items:
Sending a message: 1 Credit (for 160 characters – about 2 lines)
Two-way video chat: 6 credits per minute
Sending/viewing photos or videos in chat: 15 credits per item
Sending an email: 10 credits per email
Sending virtual gift: 1-12000 credits per gift
Credit Top-Ups
Once you run out of credits, and you will, you’ll need to top up. Unfortunately, we could not access the top-up costs, but some other DateMyAge reviews mention spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on the site over several months.
Free Member
It’s possible to gain free membership to the site, but this is subject to several terms and conditions. First, you must have the DateMyAge app installed on your mobile and have push notifications and video and microphone access allowed. Your profile needs to be fully complete and accurate. You must share your profile link to your social media and use proper English.
You must also have a paid premium account for 3 months and:
Reply to 80% of emails within 1 day.
Reply to 80% of online chats within 10 minutes.
Sign in to the site or dating app at least 5x and spend 8 hours online in total per week.
Use the Let’s Mingle feature every time you log in.
Upload 3 new photos a week.
How Safe Is DateMyAge.com?
General Privacy Policy and Terms of Use
After a thorough readthrough of the site’s policy documents, we’re pleased to tell you we didn’t spot anything of concern. Here are some general notes that may be relevant:
They will not sell your personal information.
Some site team members may live in other countries, so your data may be transmitted to a country you don’t live in.
Your data can also be transferred to third parties, but they must comply with DateMyAge’s Privacy Policy.
No mentions of fictional/entertainment profiles.
Privacy Settings for Discreet Browsing
DateMyAge has a few privacy settings, including editing or managing your notifications, and you can also change your notification sound. Here, you can turn off all your email notifications if necessary. You can even temporarily hide your profile, which will remove your profile from search results. These are helpful if you need discretion, but we’ve seen better, more thorough privacy settings on other sites.
Verify Identity
You can verify yourself on the site by submitting a selfie where you copy a given pose. The moderation team will compare this selfie to your other photos to ensure that they match. This is a great way to prove that a verified profile uses their own photos and does not engage in catfishing. Usually, this is also a good way to prevent scammers.
Submit a Report
A helpful safety feature that’s available is the Report and Block functions. Reporting someone will result in an internal investigation into the situation, and they could get a warning or have their account suspended or terminated. When you make the report, you’ll need to include a reason, and you can choose between a fake profile, adult/nudity, spam/fraud, prohibited products/services, or abuse/violence.
Submitting a report will also automatically block the other user, which means they’ll no longer be able to message you. Together, these features allow users to keep themselves and others safe because a suspicious profile can be immediately reported and dealt with.
Final Thoughts
We’ll start with the positives, the site is well designed and easy to use, and has a lot of members. There’s a free Date My Age app available, and the Terms of Use didn’t give us any cause for concern.
However, there are also several negatives. While there’s no clause stating that there are fake profiles, the users on the site act very much like bots or AI. This could be because they’re attempting to get free membership, and complying with the requirements could make them seem robotic. The features that allow users to make money from virtual gifts or receive real-life expensive gifts could also attract a certain gold-digging sort of person to the site.
Credits are expensive, and with almost every click, you’ll be spending them, so you’ll run out very quickly if you’re not careful. And even if you are careful, some DateMyAge.com reviews suggest that actions may cost more than they’re supposed to or that credits simply disappear. It’s not easy to cancel the autorenewal of a premium subscription, and there are reports that even after canceling, charges continue to appear.
For all these reasons, we rate Date My Age 2.9/10 and would not recommend using the site. Of course, if you’re looking to chat with people halfway across the world and spend a lot of money for the privilege, go ahead. But for anyone else, there are better and cheaper mature dating sites available.
FAQ
Is DateMyAge Legit?
It’s a site for online senior dating, and while you can create your account and there are other real people there, there may be profiles of people who are paid by the site.
Is DateMyAge Free?
It’s free to create your account and browse the site, as well as view broadcasts. You’ll need to pay for credits to communicate with other users. We couldn’t find a way to get DateMyAge free credits.
How Does DateMyAge Work?
After creating your account, you can browse through singles, send them emails, chats, or virtual gifts, and view live streams.
How Much Does DateMyAge Cost?
A premium account costs between $50 and $300 per month, but it could be much more than this if you need to top up your credits.
How Do I Use DateMyAge For Free?
If you’ve been a premium subscriber for 3 months, you can submit a request to convert to a free premium user. There are a lot of conditions and requirements, which are discussed extensively in the review above.
How Do I Cancel My Date My Age Account?
On a computer or laptop, access your account and go to Settings.
In Manage Account, click the DateMyAge Delete Account button.
Confirm your choice and optionally give a reason for leaving.
Confirm your password and Click Delete Profile.
How Can I Contact DateMyAge Customer Service?
You can contact the team via email at support@datemyage.com, or on the DateMyAge phone number: +1 (800) 291-5025.
