Describe your audience and goal. Makeform turns the brief into a dating survey with answer choices, open responses, and optional demographics you can edit before sharing.
Send dating survey responses to Google Sheets, Slack, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a prompt, adapt its audience and purpose, or send it into the Makeform builder as a practical starting point.
Audience
Single adults in a matchmaker's target community
Format
Preference survey with conditional follow-ups
Prompt size
255 chars
Example survey structure
Preference survey with conditional follow-ups
What kind of relationship are you seeking?
Which values matter most in a partner?
Which preferences are firm requirements?
What communication style works for you?
Anything else you want a matchmaker to understand?
Suggested routing tags
Dating habits
Partner preferences
Open responses
Separate dealbreakers from preferences: a required choice for each helps matchmakers avoid treating every nice-to-have as a firm boundary.
Step 1
Define
audience, purpose, and boundaries
Step 2
Generate
questions, scales, and answer choices
Step 3
Review
tone, privacy, and survey flow
Step 4
Share
collect and organize responses
Better dating research
Explain the purpose, offer thoughtful choices, and collect only what the project needs.
Rank values, habits, and goals, then add an optional comment for context.
Show app or first-date follow-ups only to relevant respondents.
Use optional identity fields, inclusive choices, and Prefer not to answer.
Built for different goals
Start with the use case closest to yours, then edit the tone, length, eligibility rules, and answer choices before publishing.
Explore relationship goals, compatibility factors, dealbreakers, preferred meeting styles, and unmet needs across a target dating pool.
Build consistent behavior and attitude questions with neutral scales, screening logic, and optional demographics for subgroup analysis.
Run approachable polls about first dates, texting, green flags, and dating etiquette, then use responses to plan future content.
Learn how people discover matches, move from chat to meeting, handle friction, and decide whether an experience feels worthwhile.
Survey workflow
Provide the audience and goal, then review each personal question before sharing.
Name the audience and use, such as studying app habits or planning content.
Fix vague labels, add skip options, and keep every scale direction consistent.
Screen for relevant experience and route ineligible people to an exit message.
Publish or embed the survey, then send submissions into your review workflow.
Choose the right format
The best format depends on whether you want patterns across a group, a quick audience reaction, or information about one person.
Field guide
Choose only the sections that answer your research goal.
Eligibility & context
Screen for relevant experience, define a time frame, and route ineligible people to an exit.
Habits & channels
Ask about app use, introductions, messaging, and dates as behaviors. Use frequency bands instead of exact counts.
Goals & preferences
Use rankings for goals, values, lifestyle, and communication priorities to reveal tradeoffs.
Boundaries & dealbreakers
Mark dealbreakers separately, allow sensitive items to be skipped, and offer optional context.
Experience ratings
Use labeled endpoints, a meaningful neutral point, and consistent scale direction.
Open reflection
Use one optional, focused question to uncover frustrations and unexpected themes.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for researchers, matchmakers, creators, and product teams planning a survey about dating.
A dating survey asks a group how people meet, communicate, choose partners, and experience dating. It can support audience research, service planning, or content development.
Focus on relevant experience, ways of meeting, goals, communication, compatibility, boundaries, and one open reflection. Use time frames for behaviors and optional, inclusive demographics.
Explain the purpose, use neutral language, allow skips, and never make one relationship style the default. Distinguish preferences from requirements and preview the survey with its intended audience.
Yes. Omit names, contact fields, profile links, handles, workplaces, and identifiable stories. Clearly explain what your survey collects and how you intend to use it.
Yes. Show app questions to app users, recent-date ratings to eligible participants, and an exit message to people outside the sample. Branching keeps each path relevant.
Keep only questions that support the research decision. Remove duplicates, limit large matrices, test the completion effort, and tell respondents what the survey covers.
Yes. Makeform offers unlimited free forms and responses, including generation, editing, publishing, and response collection. The paid tier only removes the Makeform badge.
Responses reach your Makeform inbox and connected workflows such as Google Sheets, Slack, and Zapier. Remove identifying details and describe the sample accurately when publishing findings.
Turn curiosity into clear questions.
