How Long Has eHarmony Been Around?

For more than twenty years. eharmony's own FAQ says its team has worked for 20+ years on creating relationships based on key dimensions of personality. The company also describes itself as one of the first algorithm-based dating sites. It is still running, it belongs to an established dating company group, and it still sells Basic and Premium memberships.

Everything below comes from eharmony's own pages, so read it as the company's description of itself and not as an outside audit.

It calls itself one of the first dating sites to match people with an algorithm, and it says the team has spent 20+ years on compatibility. It also says that over those years it has created over 2 million successful relationships in over 125 countries.

Treat the 2 million figure as marketing. The site does not publish how it counts a successful relationship, so you cannot compare it with anything. What you can say safely is that it is an old, established service and not a new app that might vanish.

eharmony is part of ParshipMeet Group. The group's own site lists eharmony among its brands. A Business Wire press release says the group owns and operates three matchmaking brands: eharmony, Parship and ElitePartner.

The same release says the group also owns The Meet Group's apps, including MeetMe, LOVOO, Tagged, Skout and GROWLr. So the company behind eharmony runs both serious matchmaking sites and looser, more casual social apps. That tells you eharmony is one product in a portfolio, run as a business like any other.

A site that has lasted this long has a few things going for it. It has survived many shifts in how people date. Its help center and its app store listing are live, its Compatibility Quiz works, and its members can reach support when something breaks.

A long history does not tell you whether it will work for you. Plenty of old sites have thin pools in a given city, and plenty of new apps have busy ones. The right test is not how long the site has existed. The right test is what happens when you use it.

The quality of a dating site for one man comes down to who is on it where he lives. A site with twenty years of history can still have few women of the right age within an hour of your house.

You can check this for free. Start on Basic, set your age range and distance, and look at how many people the site suggests. If the list is thin, try widening the distance or the age range before you decide the site is empty. If it is still thin, that is useful information about eharmony in your area, however well established it is.

The method is simple to describe: you take the Compatibility Quiz, and your answers are used to suggest members it thinks fit you. That is a different way of working from a swipe app, where a stranger's face is the only information you get.

For a man who wants something serious, that structure is the point. Every woman you see has answered the same long quiz, which is a decent sign that she is not on the site for a distraction. For a man who wants a lot of fast, casual dates, a site built on a quiz will feel slow, and a dating coach's advice to test several apps and keep what produces dates applies.

If you were asking because you wondered whether eharmony is a scam or a ghost town, the answer is no on both. It is an old, active service with a clear owner and live support pages.

The next step is the same one for every dating app. Join on the free Basic membership, take the quiz honestly, put up photos that show your face in daylight, and write to women whose pages you actually liked. Then count how many conversations became a plan and how many plans became a date.

That count is the only number that decides whether eharmony is worth your time. Twenty years of history gets you a stable site. A good first message and a clear suggestion to meet are what get you the date.