Looking for a taste of online dating? Jswipe is a low-effort way to begin. Looking for something else? Not so good. To get an idea of what the online dating world looks like (don't expect too much more), I suggest putting a small amount of time into the app—no more than ~20 minutes per day, or you'll be wasting your time—over a week or two, using your daily Super Swipe on people you find interesting. At this point, you'll have approximately maximized your results: you'll have gotten some idea of what online dating looks like, and hopefully gotten someone interesting to talk to you. I wouldn't count on getting a lot else out of this service, and paying doesn't really give you anything, both of which are why this is a 4-star review. If it were possible to buy Super Swipes from the get-go so you could spend a few hours in one sitting blasting through everyone you want to Super Swipe, then drop the app (save for checking back biweekly to see if you've gotten any matches), I'd give this a 5-star review. But you can't: to buy Super Swipes, you need to first buy a subscription for $25/mo, which isn't worth for the results. Right now, I suggest you use the app for free. If you could buy Super Swipes without paying for anything else, I'd suggest you invest the ~$10 and upgrade this to a 5-star review.

In agreement with another review I just read: the developers have made the app extremely annoying to use, as the only way to exit out of a persons profile is to reach up and tap a tiny “x” in the corner of the screen which is glitchy and difficult to press. In the past, you were able to just swipe in a certain direction and it would go back to the main page of the app where you could continue swiping. The app is no longer user-friendly. I reached out to Jswipe and mentioned this a couple months ago and I have seen at least three updates go by with no fix to this issue. Additionally, I no longer see mutual friends under a person’s profile, which used to be a nice feature on the older versions. (Also, they now make you pay to undo the last immediate swipe.) Not such a fan anymore 👎

The purpose of Jswipe was to bring together Jewish singles who are seeking out something which is important to them—seeking out other Jewish singles. This app used to help us navigate our already limited pool of prospective matches. I am a little annoyed by the lack of transparency of the app. Other apps are up front about what paying for membership means (more matches, targeted advice etc..); however, jswipe maintains that you have full access to the people without paying(and only the extra features cost money). It is abundantly clear based on my own experience and others with whom I’ve spoken, that the “basic” jswipe is not the same as the old. I get shown the same people over and over again, and where a few months ago I had 50+ matches at a time, now I only have 5 (and it’s not because of anything changing on my profile). This seems like a change in philosophy of the app, not a technical glitch (of which there are many). The fact that jswipe is a Jewish app made me stay as long as I did. I used to be a strong proponent of jswipe, however, if things don’t change soon, I’m going to send all my friends to the nicer boys of Hinge and Bumble.

I’ve been on JSwipe for far longer than I would like to admit and it seems as though whoever took it over after David Yarus couldn’t give a rats behind about helping to create Jewish couples. There are such simple changes that could be made to improve the user experience but there are never any updates whatsoever. How difficult would it be to expand the categories of Jewish communities that people fit into to make things easier for us? Orthodox is way too big of an umbrella and kosher vs non isn’t sufficient either. Why in the browsing section does it show you everyone, even people who don’t at all fit what you’re looking for?? Why if I am one denomination and looking for the same do I have to click through people I would never date? This is such an obvious change that would make such a difference. Everyone always has problems with the messaging aspect and getting new message notifications as well. Feels like whoever runs this app knows that people are going to continue to attempt to use it regardless of how bad it is so they don’t bother to improve it.