Iris Dating
AI matchmaking that learns the faces you actually find attractive.
About
Iris Dating is an AI-first dating app that tries to learn what you actually find attractive instead of asking you to state a type. New users train the AI by rating stock photos, and the app builds a model of facial attraction patterns that it refines from ongoing swipes, then only shows profiles with a high predicted mutual attraction. The company says this short training process sharply raises the share of shown photos a user finds attractive, and that mutual matches are far likelier than with random matching.
Founded by CEO Igor Khalatian, Iris reported 2 million users in 2023 and says its selfie-verification system has blocked hundreds of thousands of potential catfishers. The app also uses ChatGPT to help members write bios and opening lines. Coverage has noted the obvious open question: an AI trained on your past swipes can entrench narrow patterns, including racial and body-type bias, which the company says it addresses through diverse training data.
What it can do
- AttractionDNA facial-preference learning from photo ratings
- Curated matches ranked by predicted mutual attraction
- Mandatory selfie verification and trust ratings
- ChatGPT-assisted bios and opening lines
- Continuous learning from swipe behavior
- Free app
Setup
- Download Iris from the App Store or Google Play.
- Create a profile with a live selfie for verification.
- Train the AI by rating the photos it shows you.
- Browse your curated matches and use the ChatGPT-assisted bio and opener tools.
Prerequisites
iOS or Android device; a live selfie for verification.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 6/10
Scored 6/10 (metrics tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: 2M users reported 2023 (Global Dating Insights); selfie-verification anti-catfish system (BusinessWire, 2022); covered by Refinery29 and AI Business. Strengths: genuinely novel AI-first approach, real user scale, anti-fraud investment. Docked for: (1) mutual-attraction lift figures are vendor-reported; (2) bias concerns around attraction-pattern training remain unresolved publicly. License: proprietary.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 6.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 6.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 6.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 6.0/10
- · 2M users reported 2023 (Global Dating Insights)
- · Selfie-verification anti-catfish system (BusinessWire, 2022)
- · Covered by Refinery29, AI Business, swipestats.io
Sources
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