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Zoosk - Social Dating App
Zoosk, Inc. · 105,286 ratings · ★ 4.2
4.2
★★★★★
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Top complaints - extracted from 91 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"
21 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Didn’t work. I tried to use it in spite of the horrific reviews because I had used it several years ago and found an amazing woman who was perfect. Tried to sign up this time and it just keeps saying “something went wrong, try again” on the email addres…" - JNT281
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"zoosk"
18 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Zoosk. I’ve waited for a month and a half to select height and stuff but it didn’t allow it very disappointed" - lighten bolt
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"waste"
17 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Definitely Top Tier GARBAGE!. Let’s start with the fact that you have to pay and subscribe to even be able to hit likes or receive likes then after you’ve paid your weekly monthly fees, you get zero hits and if by chance you do get any hits or likes they’re all robots n…" - Adj17751984
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"message"
17 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Didn’t work. I tried to use it in spite of the horrific reviews because I had used it several years ago and found an amazing woman who was perfect. Tried to sign up this time and it just keeps saying “something went wrong, try again” on the email addres…" - JNT281
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"people"
17 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "95% fake profiles that never respond to hundreds of individually custom, written messages. The women never respond, they only view your profile over and over continuously but never chat even if you pay the additional fee like I’ve always done for the past seven years on zoosk. They won’t respond at all, you only ever get response…" - justRSX
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"profiles"
15 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "95% fake profiles that never respond to hundreds of individually custom, written messages. The women never respond, they only view your profile over and over continuously but never chat even if you pay the additional fee like I’ve always done for the past seven years on zoosk. They won’t respond at all, you only ever get response…" - justRSX
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"anything"
12 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Definitely Top Tier GARBAGE!. Let’s start with the fact that you have to pay and subscribe to even be able to hit likes or receive likes then after you’ve paid your weekly monthly fees, you get zero hits and if by chance you do get any hits or likes they’re all robots n…" - Adj17751984
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"dating"
12 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Crooks, poorest dating app!. I have tried several dating apps but what at first seemed like a four star app I soon discovered it to be trash and a waste of time and money. I’m in my seventies so the waste of my time is more important than money. When you’re divorced la…" - Inspector3162
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"site"
12 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Crooks, poorest dating app!. I have tried several dating apps but what at first seemed like a four star app I soon discovered it to be trash and a waste of time and money. I’m in my seventies so the waste of my time is more important than money. When you’re divorced la…" - Inspector3162
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"messages"
12 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Crooks, poorest dating app!. I have tried several dating apps but what at first seemed like a four star app I soon discovered it to be trash and a waste of time and money. I’m in my seventies so the waste of my time is more important than money. When you’re divorced la…" - Inspector3162
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"fake"
11 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "95% fake profiles that never respond to hundreds of individually custom, written messages. The women never respond, they only view your profile over and over continuously but never chat even if you pay the additional fee like I’ve always done for the past seven years on zoosk. They won’t respond at all, you only ever get response…" - justRSX
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"profile"
10 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Horrible. I created a profile only Saturday May 2 and they blocked my account for no reason" - SubieguyFA24
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Horrible
I created a profile only Saturday May 2 and they blocked my account for no reason
Definitely Top Tier GARBAGE!
Let’s start with the fact that you have to pay and subscribe to even be able to hit likes or receive likes then after you’ve paid your weekly monthly fees, you get zero hits and if by chance you do get any hits or likes they’re all robots nobody actually responds or holds conversations 99% of the time you really don’t get anything off of here or any benefit from it! But if you let your subscription run out and don’t renew it all of a sudden you become extremely popular with multiple hits a day multiple likes multiple requests for chat. Definitely not worth the subscription fees! Don’t waste your time!!!!!
Worthless
Why bother. App does nothing to actually help you to find somebody that matches to your likes. Everything is pap, pay and pay. What a waist.
Zoosk
I’ve waited for a month and a half to select height and stuff but it didn’t allow it very disappointed
Didn’t work
I tried to use it in spite of the horrific reviews because I had used it several years ago and found an amazing woman who was perfect. Tried to sign up this time and it just keeps saying “something went wrong, try again” on the email address, without telling me what was wrong. I tried multiple times with multiple emails and it just kept giving the same obscure message. From what it sounds like it actually saved me some time and money
Memorial Herman Katy Texas.
Cheryl Acobe. ERN. Go see her at the hospital. Bring your credit card for what you may need. She will provide all your needs and I mean all of them. So this is what the app can provide.
Crooks, poorest dating app!
I have tried several dating apps but what at first seemed like a four star app I soon discovered it to be trash and a waste of time and money. I’m in my seventies so the waste of my time is more important than money. When you’re divorced late in life you don’t have time to waste on poorly designed, purposely mismanaged dating sites like this one.
They will waste your time also by never deleting the photos of attractive women, I know this is a fact as two of the attractive women posted I just happened to know personally. When contacting them neither have been on this site for years, one has been in a wonderful marriage for ten years or more. I know the husbands and wives personally and even attended one of the weddings!
So, by not deleting attractive women on their site Zoosk has an unlimited supply of pretty faces to give men false hope, keep men clicking useless likes, keep them writing unanswered messages and continue to charge for their worthless subscriptions. They also know when you’re not getting replies to your messages that men start getting desperate and sign up for expensive perks in hope in hopes of improving their chances of meeting someone. Don’t waste your time or money.
They will waste your time also by never deleting the photos of attractive women, I know this is a fact as two of the attractive women posted I just happened to know personally. When contacting them neither have been on this site for years, one has been in a wonderful marriage for ten years or more. I know the husbands and wives personally and even attended one of the weddings!
So, by not deleting attractive women on their site Zoosk has an unlimited supply of pretty faces to give men false hope, keep men clicking useless likes, keep them writing unanswered messages and continue to charge for their worthless subscriptions. They also know when you’re not getting replies to your messages that men start getting desperate and sign up for expensive perks in hope in hopes of improving their chances of meeting someone. Don’t waste your time or money.
Pointless
Have to pay otherwise it’s pointless and doesn’t do anything. Delete
95% fake profiles that never respond to hundreds of individually custom, written messages
The women never respond, they only view your profile over and over continuously but never chat even if you pay the additional fee like I’ve always done for the past seven years on zoosk. They won’t respond at all, you only ever get responses from scammers that immediately or delete their account and send you photos that look nothing like them in an attempt to ask for money. It’s such a shame years ago I found many women on there in the instant connections, and dated a few, but now I can’t get any of them to even say hello. You need to delete inactive accounts and leave series people only on the app. Find some way to force the women to respond, they can even say you’re ugly or they hate you but please say anything! Everything is geared around the woman on these apps and gives them way too much power and leverage Camma and has an adorable young man I’m left to sit there scrolling through the same exact pictures over and over again for them to never speak
Subscription issue
I have the 35$ loaded with my gift card and the Zoosk subscription is not working
Ghosting
I’ve been on the site for 6 weeks, wrote 64 messages to women of those 16 viewed me (repeatedly) no replies. Those I matched with through carousel all were removed for suspicious activities (fakes) . Very few profiles are active too! If you’re a guy and you’re looking to get ghosted this is the site to avoid!
Live option not working??
So I can’t go live anymore and that’s the only reason i downloaded this app. Been a few days and still no live option.
Don't waste your money
Terrible
Same old scammy site
I used this years ago and the app has the same fake profiles, and everyone messages you. But, you have to pay to read the messages.
Update: takes 100 years to upload a photo, get "encountered an error" frequently, and the ads every 3 or 4 likes in the carousel should be enough income to make the rest of the app features free.
Seriously, nobody has time to watch a 20 second ad after seeing a handful of profiles. They must pay people to give good reviews to have a rating over 4.
It's so bad it should be criminal!
Update: takes 100 years to upload a photo, get "encountered an error" frequently, and the ads every 3 or 4 likes in the carousel should be enough income to make the rest of the app features free.
Seriously, nobody has time to watch a 20 second ad after seeing a handful of profiles. They must pay people to give good reviews to have a rating over 4.
It's so bad it should be criminal!
Guys better off throwing money in the baby section of Walmart and see what crawls out.
12/30/25 Fake profiles is one after another. Having Zoosk employees posing as real people and exchanging numbers is a whole other level of misleading.
Okay so why don’t you wanna renew your premium ? This last sentence was copied from my text messages.
Okay so why don’t you wanna renew your premium ? This last sentence was copied from my text messages.
Fraud. It’s illegal in every state.
Zoosk asks for a premium. As soon as you sign up though their paywall. They ask you to pay $9.99 more a mo th for messaging guarantee. See where this is going? I’ve already emailed their support and asked if they were blocking my messages. So far, no response to any of my questions, now three days later. January 2nd, I’m going to the Nac Attorney Genrals office and show them how this fraud is happening. I will let them see the captures I’ve done with worship and show how they are using blockers on messages and in the code. Save your money. None of these dating apps. Fulfill their contractural part of the agreement. Which they are required to do. It’s a phony site with phony women accounts. Employee a cou t’s mixed in with legit accounts. It’s fraud. Across the board.
Juice Isn't Worth the Squeeze
Tried this for three months.
The number of females is very limited and the app tries to expand the number of results by offering up inactive profiles and profiles from long distance away.
If it weren't for catfish accounts and scammers, I'm not sure I'd have had more than 5 or 6 true interactions over the course of three months.
Do yourself a favor, get a hobby, go to a bar, join a church, go workout. Anything but using this app.
The number of females is very limited and the app tries to expand the number of results by offering up inactive profiles and profiles from long distance away.
If it weren't for catfish accounts and scammers, I'm not sure I'd have had more than 5 or 6 true interactions over the course of three months.
Do yourself a favor, get a hobby, go to a bar, join a church, go workout. Anything but using this app.
Waste of time
Awful
Useless
There’s no way to contact people or send them a message. There’s no way to give people a notice that you’ve been interested in them. This app is utterly useless and impossible to cancel. Beware.
TRASH! Very Expensive
I have to pay $35.00 per month to send a message ? Where’s the black men? Zoosk has changed it use to be free years ago now it’s Total Trash. 🗑️
Not for me
Same people over and over. You can say no and see that person again and again.
Billing
They are a joke, save your money
Dosing work
GARBAGE. I’ve tried to sign in 50 TIMES. It either goes nowhere or gives some stupid error and customer service is USELESS. The app DOES NOT WORK PERIOD
Zero support- paid for nothing
No support, glitchy- subscribed and couldn’t us
App is Bad & Service Too
The app has a filter feature that does not properly save selections. The app also does not show activity of users. It seems like many of the non-fake accounts are just inactive users. - The app also has many fake profiles, despite showing a Google verification.
It’s ok. Definitely not worth the price they charge.
Definitely not worth the price it’s over priced!! Such a rip off. If you click on someone’s profile it sends you an automated message. Which is really Stupid! And Annoying! Lots or bots And Tons of fake profiles and Automated messages!! 85 percent of the profiles are scammers! Stay away!!
Broken app
App freezes up within seconds of opening it. Will crash and reset if I go back to phones desk top and back to app or when closing phone. Repeating the process all over again. Not spending any money on this app.
I want a refund!
I was all set up I paid for 1 month only then they blocked me!!! Why I did not do anything wrong!
Tinker
Too many scammers fake photos
Don’t waste your time
Most accounts are inactive. I paid for a subscription and set the miles down to 20. It showed me women over 100 miles away. Waste of money and time. Honestly, these dating apps are a waste of time it seems.
WE NEED A UPDATE
Update the app!!!!
LIARS!!!
The do not have 40 million members! 90% of their member accounts have been inactive for an extended time, some even years. Good luck getting a refund! ZOOSK ARE ALL THIEVES!!!
Useless
I used to use this app years ago. Now it won’t let me log in via Google or Facebook or through my email address. Apparently they don’t want business.
Scam!! Scam!!! Scam!!
They say go to iTunes to cut your subscription but it doesn’t work! I cancelled it with email and then deleted day of and they charged me another 25 bucks!! Never using them again and I still can’t cancel!!
Worthless
There are no real profiles and if they are they can't Interact. Don't waste your money
Pay to Message
It is a paid app, you need to pay to be able to message people
A Worst Dating App Ever
I googled for the dating apps and I got highly recommended by the search. First, I paid 3 month membership then I realized that I had to pay extra to see if people read my message. Basically, I could send many messages but I couldn’t see their replies unless I paid more. This is a sleazy and stupid money making app that wouldn’t get you a single date although you spent money on it. I wouldn’t recommend this app to anyone since mostly I found only grand-daddies looking for young boys. Save yourselves some money already.
Confoundingly Bad
This is by far one of the worst apps I’ve ever used. Its purpose is unclear because the creators obviously don’t value the time and effort of the users. I tried six times to just add my name and it simply refused. The UI is overly complex and confusing. It doesn’t explain the layout at all. Nothing seems to load properly and when it does it’s unclear how to proceed once you decide if the other user is a match or not. You can try sending a message but you’ll be prompted to pay a staggering $35 for a monthly subscription. Seems pretty steep for an app where you can’t even save your name.
Don’t bother with this app
This app used to be great. Now it’s all glitches, scammers and spammers. They need to go through and delete anyone that hasn’t been active in 2-3 months. It’s a joke and never used to be this bad. Don’t waste your money
bad app
bad
Are you a human
Unfortunately you can’t even get on the app because something is so messed up with the human identification. Just keeps on spinning.
Misleading
This is the worst dating app out there. First I signed up for a month to try it. It was like $39.99. After joining it said hey if you want others to message you it’s am additional $14.99. And if you want to see if they have read your message it’s $9.99 so they won’t $60 a month to use it. Second you can’t see where the people are from the smart matches until after you click yes. The layout is bad because you can only see one person you can’t choose who you want to view. If it didn’t cost more than every dating site out there just to try it out I wouldn’t have gave it a 1 star but with all the terrible stuff like the add ons and the layout. overall it’s definitely not worth it.
Awful
Downhill big time from a couple years ago. I had a mutual like, zoosk forced me to watch a video to message them (which is fine, im not a paid member), but then the message system still didnt allow me to message. And the Live feature doesnt even seem to be dating related. And like most/all dating sites, they keep profiles up amd active even if the user is dormant for years.
Don’t bother
This app is trash they charge for everything aside from the already charge you use the app. Can’t give anyone near me keeps showing me people 1k miles away from me or people seeing my profile hundreds of miles away. Can’t message people because they sang reply unless they pay too or god knows why they charge so high steep prices not worth it stay away from this app.
Buissnessman
Worst site ever
Terrible App/waste of time
It happens to be a ridiculous site. If you like someone you have to go thru umpteen guys and X them out until you get thru 99% to be able to see and lookup the guy you liked! And if you see someone else you might want to check out while X-ing and check them as a like, then when you reach 99% you will only see that one and not the the original one you were looking for. Used to be different and you could see most of the guys you checked.
Blocked
I was clearing out old like and I got blocked for “suspicious” activity.
Terrible App
Not good majority of people on the app are not members no way to communicate
Same as Badoo. Nothing is free
Fake old profiles from 2020. Similar app like Badoo lol
Terrible
Awful
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Sentiment summary
79%
Positive (4-5★)
7%
Neutral (3★)
14%
Negative (1-2★)