Review of www.udate.co.uk

Subscription costs
1 Month : £24.95
3 Months : £49.95 0r £16.65 per month
6 Months : £69.90 or £11.65 per month

What is free: You can browse for free and sign up for a free trial. They don’t take your credit card details.

Special Offers : n/a
Summary
Udate in the UK has over a million members with thousands joining up every month so there will be a lot of members for you to date.

When you sign up and complete your profile, you can then make some quick choices of what kind of relationship you are looking for and their profile. This is made easy by ticking a list of boxes, takes 2 minutes. The next page then immediately takes you to the list of members who match the boxes you ticked. You can browse the list of matches they found for you including pictures and personal profiles.

One of their unique features is that you can see who is online and send them a whisper which is like an instant message. You can upgrade to a paid membership and initiate emails with other members through your private email box.

There is a tab called encounters which shows you who has looked at your profile and so you can expect them to know that you have looked at their profile too. If there is interest, they will get in touch. You can also see who has added you as a friend and which appears high in the match list. For a lot of people, this feature is what makes udate a favourite with other online daters. You can increase your success rate if you reply to someone who has browsed you and added you as a friend. It makes you less hesitant to email that person to start a conversation as it takes a of the guesswork in whether your profile is interesting to other person.

Occasionally you will be sent emails with details of new members who matches your criteria.

All in all, udate is a very easy site to use and to browse. The joining procedure is simple and the profile creation is quick. You can browse matches within a few minutes of joining up.

Thumbs Up
You can upload your photo to your profile in about half and hour rather than the 24 hours that some sites take. Quick sign up process and free to browse.

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You can’t switch off from people you are not interested in and don’t want to talk to and you will continually be matched to this person. You can’t read emails that are sent to you unless you are a paid member.