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Instinct: Casual Dating App
Instinct Dating Company · 128,250 ratings · ★ 4.9
4.9
★★★★★
128,250 ratings
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Top complaints - extracted from 25 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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"money"
7 negative reviews mention this · 28% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Scam. This app is a scam. It makes you keep buying more features like booosts and sparks to get seen but your profile still never gets seen or interacted with. Right off the bat, it looks like 5 people liked your profile, but in order to see th…" - butthurtlibtard
2
"profiles"
6 negative reviews mention this · 24% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Very bad app and Publishers. All right everyone, so this is the way it goes here. If you want to be scammed and ripped off, go with this app because that’s what they do here! Just my honest review. This may or may not be removed, depending upon whether they feel, it’s …" - AB772s
3
"people"
6 negative reviews mention this · 24% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Meh. This app is not good at all. Lots of attractive girls on here but it’s impossible to get a response from any of them. And my biggest problem is the fact that Ill wait 24 hours for my likes to refresh, like 2-3 people then get told I have to…" - wilddriver13
4
"scam"
5 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Very bad app and Publishers. All right everyone, so this is the way it goes here. If you want to be scammed and ripped off, go with this app because that’s what they do here! Just my honest review. This may or may not be removed, depending upon whether they feel, it’s …" - AB772s
5
"likes"
5 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Meh. This app is not good at all. Lots of attractive girls on here but it’s impossible to get a response from any of them. And my biggest problem is the fact that Ill wait 24 hours for my likes to refresh, like 2-3 people then get told I have to…" - wilddriver13
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"profile"
5 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Very bad app and Publishers. All right everyone, so this is the way it goes here. If you want to be scammed and ripped off, go with this app because that’s what they do here! Just my honest review. This may or may not be removed, depending upon whether they feel, it’s …" - AB772s
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"fake"
5 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Scam. This app is a scam. It makes you keep buying more features like booosts and sparks to get seen but your profile still never gets seen or interacted with. Right off the bat, it looks like 5 people liked your profile, but in order to see th…" - butthurtlibtard
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"worth"
4 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Very bad app and Publishers. All right everyone, so this is the way it goes here. If you want to be scammed and ripped off, go with this app because that’s what they do here! Just my honest review. This may or may not be removed, depending upon whether they feel, it’s …" - AB772s
9
"fake profiles"
4 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Scam. This app is a scam. It makes you keep buying more features like booosts and sparks to get seen but your profile still never gets seen or interacted with. Right off the bat, it looks like 5 people liked your profile, but in order to see th…" - butthurtlibtard
10
"subscription"
4 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not enough users. Ran out of people to swipe on very quickly. Not worth the subscription cost as a result." - Coralflorida
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"person"
3 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Don’t trust. I matched with someone that asked me for nudes then tried to extort me for hundreds of dollars They were supposedly verified but the person that called me had an Indian accent Taking it to the cops but just stay away" - Sleepymalosgv
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"sign"
3 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Very bad app and Publishers. All right everyone, so this is the way it goes here. If you want to be scammed and ripped off, go with this app because that’s what they do here! Just my honest review. This may or may not be removed, depending upon whether they feel, it’s …" - AB772s
📋 All 25 negative reviews
Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").
Don’t trust
I matched with someone that asked me for nudes then tried to extort me for hundreds of dollars
They were supposedly verified but the person that called me had an Indian accent
Taking it to the cops but just stay away
They were supposedly verified but the person that called me had an Indian accent
Taking it to the cops but just stay away
Very bad app and Publishers
All right everyone, so this is the way it goes here. If you want to be scammed and ripped off, go with this app because that’s what they do here! Just my honest review. This may or may not be removed, depending upon whether they feel, it’s truthful or not. The truth is, right after I signed up there was literally nobody within 600 miles of me. No profiles whatsoever. So I readjusted my preferences as the application suggested, to try and find more profiles available. No such thing, no profiles. I disputed the charges twice and got denied both times! The creators of this app or whoever runs it, are absolute scam artist. Do not sign up unless you want to be screwed like me! now I have to dispute it with my credit card company. Hopefully this will save somebody from having a complete and total headache and heartache finding out that this app basically a scam and have absolutely no intention on finding you a soulmate or a match. It is strictly designed to create revenue for them. Unfortunately, it also creates an adversarial relationship, between the customer and the company, that’s what it did for me! I will never pay for this app again. Also, this does not look good for apple inc - company, if they’re sponsoring applications-like this on their App Store. Not a good idea! This is just the reality of the situation. Take it for what it’s worth! I gave you my honest opinion. So do with it as you wish.
Scam
This app is a scam. It makes you keep buying more features like booosts and sparks to get seen but your profile still never gets seen or interacted with. Right off the bat, it looks like 5 people liked your profile, but in order to see their profiles you have to upgrade. So after you pay for an upgrade, you look at those profiles and can see they are just fake profiles to make you pay for an upgrade. This app just takes your money and gives no results. Don’t waste your money or time.
Not enough users
Ran out of people to swipe on very quickly. Not worth the subscription cost as a result.
Can’t sign in
Can’t sign in
Sucks, hide “likes”
They hide anyone who likes you behind a paywall, and then only give you about 10 likes a day. Not worth your time, and surely not your hard earned money.
Don't Bother
Not for men
Trash
Steaming pile of dog xxxxx app. Total scam. Not to mention bottom of the barrel ghetto profiles.
Need more than one subscription
Subscribed, then I found out that I need another subscription to see likes
Wth
Wth
Money grab and spam
I am not sure how this got 5 star reviews. This is just downright awful. You can like people but you have to pay for sparks. I really wish I could get my money back!!!’
Bad
The subscription prices are way too high and they are especially not worth it when no one else wants to pay for it either, despite it needing to be required to proceed with anything. Talk about an impasse. And why does this app have so many 5 stars?
Scam.. do not buy
All the likes I had turned out to be fake profiles or someone from Africa. They tricked me into paying to make me think I had actual matches. Do not buy!!!!
Not working
I have been trying to make an account for over an hour and it just stays at the login screen
SCAM DO NOT USE
Got a like started talking and then the scammer must have hacked my phone and pulled some of my pics from it and made a fake post of me sending stuff to minors and said if I don’t send money they would ruin my life don’t us this app
Can’t access profile
Went to check my messages and app wants me to log in and it goes through the entire sign up process now. Did my profile get deleted? No customer service or email
Boring
Not many people
Dating app scammers
I’ve never used this app before and the first person to reach out to me turned out to be a scammer making threats for money. Please be careful with who you talk to.
Bad app
Hard to use
Got scammed
Tried this app out only to get scammed and the person demanded money or they would release my info watch out for a profile called Jayden Ann
Not a single real profile
It’s hilarious how the app will show ‘sensitive content’ warnings for something like a woman in a swimsuit and all you can see her back, oh my! But the real issue is all the fake profiles. Numerous matches with verified profiles, yet all would eventually ask for money or immediately want to go to another app to chat, where they demand pictures and get upset if you scale it down. Definitely feel like an idiot for buying a 3-month subscription, which apple would not refund on the basis of fake profiles.
Waste of time
Doesn’t seem like there is that many real people on this app. The profile information could be better, more detailed about oneself. It has some cool aspects to it. But I think the majority are fake profiles
Meh
This app is not good at all. Lots of attractive girls on here but it’s impossible to get a response from any of them. And my biggest problem is the fact that Ill wait 24 hours for my likes to refresh, like 2-3 people then get told I have to wait ANOTHER 24 hours to like again. It is extremely annoying because this is a common occurrence for me. App is cheeks and id rather kms then use it again
Naw
Can’t send messages without upgrading
Good
Practice
No pay to see who likes you
Don’t want to pay to see who likes me
Sentiment summary
97%
Positive (4-5★)
1%
Neutral (3★)
2%
Negative (1-2★)