Dating profile photo checker
A match whose photos look a little too perfect? Save a photo, upload it, and Checko will tell you whether it sees signs of AI, and why. It checks the photo, not the person.
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What Checko checks
Profile photos are mostly faces, which suits the face analysis. It looks closely at the largest face in the photo, if it's at least 64 pixels across, for the traces that face swaps, AI face edits and generated faces leave behind. The whole-image analysis looks at everything else in the frame.
Images that still carry signed Content Credentials from trusted AI tools that record AI generation or editing are flagged too. A missing credential means nothing, because most apps strip them.
If a photo is flagged
A flag is one signal about one photo. It isn't proof, and it says nothing about who the person is or what they want. Plenty of people run their photos through filters and AI editing apps. Before you decide anything, ask for something a generator can't fake on demand:
- A quick video call. It's the simplest check there is, and most people who are who they say they are will agree to one.
- A new photo with a specific gesture you choose, such as three fingers up or a hand on one ear. Ask for it now, not later.
- The app's own profile verification, if it has one. Check whether the profile carries it.
- However the photos look, don't send money or personal documents to someone you haven't met.
If nothing is flagged
No AI detected means neither detector found signs at its threshold. It isn't a clean bill of health. Photos copied from someone else's account aren't AI at all, so an AI detector won't flag them. A reverse image search is the tool for that: if the same face turns up under another name, you've learned something.
Getting a good check
- Check every photo on the profile, not just the first one.
- Save the photo itself if the app lets you. If it doesn't, take a screenshot with the photo shown as large as possible, then crop away the buttons and text.
- Images under 256 pixels on the short side are refused, and a refusal doesn't use a free check.
- In group photos the face analysis checks the largest face. Crop the image to check a different one.
Where it can miss
- Strong beauty filters and heavy retouching can look like AI editing, and dating photos are often both. A flag on a filtered photo may just mean the filter.
- Screenshots and re-sent photos add compression, which hides detail and makes a fair check harder.
- New generators and swap tools appear all the time. Some AI photos slip under the threshold.
- Faces smaller than 64 pixels across are left to the whole-image analysis, which doesn't study the face on its own.
Questions
Is this a catfish photo checker?
It checks photos, not people. It can tell you whether a profile photo shows signs of AI. It can't tell you who is behind a profile. For that, a video call and a reverse image search do more than any detector.
Will it flag a filtered photo?
Sometimes. Strong beauty filters and heavy retouching can look like AI editing to the model. We're measuring how often that happens.
Should I tell my match their photo was flagged?
That's up to you. If you do, keep it about the photo and ask for a video call. A flagged photo doesn't make anyone a liar: they may have used a filter, or their photos may have been taken by someone else.
Is it free?
Yes. You can check 3 images a day without signing up, or 10 a day with a free account.
Do you keep my photo?
Not on free checks: the image is checked in memory and then discarded, and we keep a fingerprint of the file and the verdict. Paid plans keep the images you check in your private history, with a switch in Settings to turn that off. The privacy page has the details.