Hot or Not in Review

You could sign in either from scratch or through one of your social media accounts, and it's incredibly easy either way. If you register from scratch, you only have to fill in a few fields and upload some photos. If you do it through Facebook, you only have to authorise Hot or Not on a pop-up window. Your first name and your 6 - 7 latest profile photos are automatically used for your profile. The latter method is more convenient, but it could be jarring to suddenly have your photos posted without prior warning.

Hot or Not employs the very popular swiping system, and it's probably the first social network that did so. Once you match with someone, you can start chatting with someone. However, a lot of the members only chat with verified users. Even if you've already match, you can't talk to them unless you're verified. You can verify your profile by connecting one of your social media accounts and uploading a photo that follows the exact same pose of a sample that they'll show you.

You can view someone's rating on the website. The rating is calculated based on how many people thought they were hot among all the people who visited their profile. You can also someone's ranking in search results and their popularity (low/average/high/very high) today. The personal details on profiles are minimal, but this is to be expected because Hot or Not doesn't advertise itself to be a matchmaking website. It doesn't even promise to be a dating site.

In addition to the ones listed above, Hot or Not offers premium packages that are on both ends of the spectrum. The 1 day package costs 1 AUD while the Lifetime package costs 99 AUD. Women automatically get a 3-day free trial while men have to invite their email contacts onto the website to do this. However, during our test, we found that when men try to delete their account, Hot or Not will only then offer the 3-day free trial. The premium subscription can be activated through credit card, PayPal, SMS, and your app store account.