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Bumble Dating App: Meet & Date
Bumble Holding Limited · 1,745,924 ratings · ★ 4.3
4.3
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Top complaints - extracted from 89 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"people"
19 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Needs improvement. It’s starting to come off like tinder. If this was for real this app would be helpful for people looking for partners and NOT casual hooks up" - soda4more
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"bumble"
16 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Scammers!. I checked preauthorized transactions in Apple wallet and Bumble wasn’t there. I still got charged and they won’t let me speak to a human. It’s AI ran app!" - Bellomf
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"profile"
15 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Pay just for basic use. What’s the point of having a dating profile if you can’t even see matches without paying for it? I’m not looking for bells and whistles, but to be able to see who likes you is the least that could be done." - eenely
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"match"
15 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Pay just for basic use. What’s the point of having a dating profile if you can’t even see matches without paying for it? I’m not looking for bells and whistles, but to be able to see who likes you is the least that could be done." - eenely
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"dating"
14 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Expensive for no reason. I haven’t been on dating apps in 3 years. The price has increased significantly and as a woman I refuse to pay for ai generated photos of men waiting for women to reach out to them. I have nothing nice to say." - mooneytoon
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"money"
14 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Bumble. My likes come back fast on tinder than on here. You don’t get very many daily likes. After that you have to wait 24 hours to get more or pay too much money for it" - OpenGryphon
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"women"
12 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Expensive for no reason. I haven’t been on dating apps in 3 years. The price has increased significantly and as a woman I refuse to pay for ai generated photos of men waiting for women to reach out to them. I have nothing nice to say." - mooneytoon
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"matches"
12 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Pay just for basic use. What’s the point of having a dating profile if you can’t even see matches without paying for it? I’m not looking for bells and whistles, but to be able to see who likes you is the least that could be done." - eenely
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"waste"
11 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Terrible. Terrible. - don’t waste your time or money on this. All brief chitchat and no real Interaction. 6 years of nothing but chitchat" - fhuhhgh
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"likes"
10 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Bumble. My likes come back fast on tinder than on here. You don’t get very many daily likes. After that you have to wait 24 hours to get more or pay too much money for it" - OpenGryphon
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"support"
9 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Lifetime Subscription NOT. Bye bumble! Don’t buy the lifetime subscription if you have the opportunity to… if god forbid you have to come to the app… no “restore” is working. No support, no way to email anyone." - CFDCapt
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"without"
9 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Pay just for basic use. What’s the point of having a dating profile if you can’t even see matches without paying for it? I’m not looking for bells and whistles, but to be able to see who likes you is the least that could be done." - eenely
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Why you block IRAN ??
You pay and then find out you have to pay more to actually get the features you want.
Insanely expensive. Paid and then found out it doesn’t include most of the features. $50 a month is just stupid. I won’t ever be renewing.
Expensive for no reason
I haven’t been on dating apps in 3 years. The price has increased significantly and as a woman I refuse to pay for ai generated photos of men waiting for women to reach out to them. I have nothing nice to say.
Scammers!
I checked preauthorized transactions in Apple wallet and Bumble wasn’t there. I still got charged and they won’t let me speak to a human. It’s AI ran app!
Needs improvement
It’s starting to come off like tinder. If this was for real this app would be helpful for people looking for partners and NOT casual hooks up
Bumble
My likes come back fast on tinder than on here. You don’t get very many daily likes. After that you have to wait 24 hours to get more or pay too much money for it
Yikes
It’s highly regarded. Totally ideologically captured app, developed by cuks in California. I don’t want to see mentally deluded gender dysphorics on my queue.
Worst app ever
This app is full of bots promoting a fake Snapchat and it’s probably the worst way to meet a dating partner
Lifetime Subscription NOT
Bye bumble! Don’t buy the lifetime subscription if you have the opportunity to… if god forbid you have to come to the app… no “restore” is working. No support, no way to email anyone.
Pay just for basic use
What’s the point of having a dating profile if you can’t even see matches without paying for it? I’m not looking for bells and whistles, but to be able to see who likes you is the least that could be done.
Login issues
Still can’t login tried support. No help. They took way too long to answer then never got an answer.
Won't let you order your own photos
If you try to order your photos even with best photo turned off it will just ignore you and tell you oops make sure your best photo is first dawg
App sucks
I accidentally entered incorrect info when setting up a profile and there was no way to hit a back button or delete the profile. Terrible app!! I didn't even finish a profile. I can't delete my info because it never created an account.
Politically biased developers
The devs are politically biased and therefore have coded in systems that will disallow you to create a conservative leaning profile. It’ll be determined to be “against policy” and deleted. This is disgusting discrimination. This company should be held accountable.
Says I have matches
Says I have matches but they never seem to show up, really don’t think it shows
my profile to like anyone and I bought all the subscriptions probs spent like thousands on bumble what a joke
my profile to like anyone and I bought all the subscriptions probs spent like thousands on bumble what a joke
Terrible
Terrible. - don’t waste your time or money on this. All brief chitchat and no real
Interaction. 6 years of nothing but chitchat
Interaction. 6 years of nothing but chitchat
Fake AI generated women
The app is full of primarily fake women. the profiles are Ai generated. The price of the subscription continues to rise as well. So beware if you are a man you are paying for a service where you will get no real matches or likes. Very disappointing app
Low quality app
With all the issues of online dating and its monetization practices those did not make me write this review, the app itself is really poor quality and full of bugs that other apps do not have. So much basic functionality is broken in a way that indicates a lack of basic competency. Bumble was a major dating app once.
Chuds
I selected women and dudes keep coming up on my shi either that or the girls were just getting fatter and uglier every swipe.
Features requires dollars and you still get no luck
If you have lots of money to spend for their premium features but chances of finding a match is extremely low it’s not worth using this app if you’re a man because women ALWAYS get hundreds of likes everyday. Just go out and put yourself out there to find your special someone
Terrible app
Honestly this app is beyond terrible. I get tons of matches on hinge, tinder and facebook dating (2+ a day). Yet on this “app” there’s nothing let alone anybody even to match with. Talking with people from other apps saying they’ve never once seen me on here yet put specific filters to try and still can’t. It’s obvious they shadowban and remove people from the list to just keep them paying while getting nothing in return. You’re better off finding bar flies and taking them home than using this horrible excuse of an app.
Freezes Constantly
The worst app ever now. You can’t get through writing one message without it freezing and having to shut it down. People must still be writing the code for it. Just. Awful.
No good
If you don’t respond to every female they report you and you get whatever bumble calls it for a week or so, the editor says they don’t shadow ban, so whatever bumble chooses to call it is what they do. Far too expensive for games bumble.
Predatory algorithm
Bumble used to be way better than all the match group apps. Something changed recently, you’ve clearly done something to the algorithm to force people to pay.
I’d rather have ads on all of these apps than pay the insane prices you guys put up to have an account that gets any visibility.
I’d rather have ads on all of these apps than pay the insane prices you guys put up to have an account that gets any visibility.
Just horrible
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So many bugs and fake profiles
This site freezes up constantly on the app. And continues to charge more money every time you want to do anything it’s absolutely ridiculous they can’t even fix the bugs but continue to charge more and more money just to message people. The back button never works. You guys should be ashamed of yourselves. Horrible app!!!!
Got Banned Unfairly
I got banned for “the promotion of controlled goods and substances”. The reality is I mentioned that I’m a stoner, in a place that’s legal. Not only has it been in my account for a while, there are many other accounts that mention they’re stoners. My appeal wasn’t accepted but who knows if anyone even actually read it.
Casual app- matches based on phone location
Overall, disappointing. This app makes its intentions feel very clear: the experience is casual like Tinder rather than focused on building meaningful relationships. Matching is based on present location, which makes it feel more like Tinder than a platform designed for people seeking long term connection. People can use travel mode to be casual as well, hide their location and waste my time when they don’t even live here. For a brand that positions itself around helping people find love, the experience does not reflect that promise. App also froze multiple times when I tried to send simple messages. My match said the same for him.
Keeps freezing
Fix it. So annoying
Fake accounts
80% of all accounts there are fakes one. So basically it’s just wasting time
And also they’ve banned my account for nothing without explanation and I’m pretty sure I haven’t violated any rules
And also they’ve banned my account for nothing without explanation and I’m pretty sure I haven’t violated any rules
Poor customer service
I ran out of time with a match so decided to purchase the boost for 1 week so that I could rematch with them. They have it on my account as a recurring subscription that I didn’t want as I chose the just “1 week” option. When I messaged the customer service agent for help with this all I got was an AI bot telling me “sorry it’s non refundable.” I think that it’s very predatory and sneaky behavior to hide a subscription in and not give the person a chance to cancel it.
Replys don't work. No keyboard and it freezes
Broken app as far as I can tell
Females
People don’t really respond on here
Banned after buying a 400 dollar lifetime membership
This app sucks and the women are hostile for no reason
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Literally useless
Women don’t respond to matches, doesn’t show profiles that are into you. What is the point.
I don’t want guys
I would like for my feed not to be just all men or any men for that matter. Im not gay nor Do I feel comfortable seeing men as an option
This app is overrated
I tried messaging multiple people different times a day. I even tried making my profile more visible. I even put recent pictures on my cell phone there making sure my face was fully visible. I even message people trying to relate to them and ask questions about what they liked but nothing I seem to do works. it makes me just wanna bang my head against the wall.
Abhorrent Greed
Miss a potential match? Too bad that’ll be 20$ to undo a left swipe. Wanna see who likes you as to not waste your time? Give us another 20$ to be able to see that information for only a week. This app takes advantage of lonely people to a disgusting degree and is the worst of all the dating apps as far as monetizing connection. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
Bumble doesn’t care about their own Ts&Cs
Ts&Cs clearly stated there’s 3-day grace period for subscribers living in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, or Wisconsin. But their customer support takes forever to respond and refused to provide the refund. The app is not worth any investment.
Worse than it used to be
As someone who genuinely can’t afford to waste my money on dating apps, this was a terrible experience, 4-5 years ago when I first started using the app (that’s how well it’s worked to begin with, plus i’m not attractive?) I would get a handful of matches a week and have all of them go nowhere. Now after redownloading for a week I received 0 matches. I have more luck talking to real women in real life. Don’t waste your time here unless you’re a woman, beautiful, or well off because this is designed to hijack your ego and keep you swiping. Dating apps have ruined dating and we need to revert to actually talking to people. Sure it’s worked for some people, but genuine human connection has worked since homo sapiens came to be! Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
Terrible app
Comlete waste of time. Just a money scam.
Unpaid QA job
It’s great. Spend all your time reporting AI profiles. Profile images with AI watermarks. Nonsense bio text. Good news is, AI slop may make people go back to real world socializing, so yeah, it’s great.
Leave the hive 🐝
This app nickel and dimes you for features that are free on other dating platforms yet even basic functions need repair. Pictures take minutes to load. Sometimes when you make a match and have to answer the opening move the reply field won’t appear. Someone actually unmatched me because I didn’t answer her question quick enough all because that field would not populate for me.
No support
Apps throwing errors if I try to pay. No support response for weeks. Trash company
Scam profiles
Matched with someone who was “photo verified” and they attempted to extort me for money. Can’t recommend this app, too many scammers and I can’t trust any profile is real on here. Never using again I suggest anyone else to stay away!
Stupid app
Stupid app , they order verry hard varifecation to start it ! You need a lot of time to solve it ! It's a waste of time
Scammed
I created a “free” Bumble account and was subsequently shown that there were four people who “liked” me. Interested in finding out who they were (you can’t see them without having a paid subscription), I subscribed and paid. When I returned to the app to see them they were gone. I think Bumble lured me into a paid subscription.
Not good
I’ve had the app for months and have not received a single like or message
Terrible
Made a profile, got verified, swiped through maybe 5 people and got told that was it for my area.
A couple people apparently liked my profile, i went to check and their pictures were blurred out. Tried to match with them and instantly prompted to pay 16 bucks a week to “see my matches”. Absolutely not; instantly uninstalled.
Do not waste your time on this predatory garbage. I used it years ago and remembered it being a decent experience. No idea what happened.
A couple people apparently liked my profile, i went to check and their pictures were blurred out. Tried to match with them and instantly prompted to pay 16 bucks a week to “see my matches”. Absolutely not; instantly uninstalled.
Do not waste your time on this predatory garbage. I used it years ago and remembered it being a decent experience. No idea what happened.
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Sentiment summary
81%
Positive (4-5★)
9%
Neutral (3★)
10%
Negative (1-2★)