4.72★ from 272,657 ratings · version 2026.9.4 · 49 of the last 53 written reviews are one or two stars
Excessive paywalls and pay-per-feature design
8of the 49 read·16%
Users report nearly all features are behind paywalls, including basic functions like messaging and group creation, making the app difficult to use for free.
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“Paywall — Everything is behind a paywall and it makes it super fking annoying to do anything for free” — ★☆☆☆☆“Too many requests to pay money — This “upgraded” app keeps trying to make people pay to join … what I thought was a “free” service. The organizer fees have doubled w/ less helpful customer service!” — ★★☆☆☆“Increasingly unfunctional — It went downhill within 1.5 years, charged for previous basic functions, app was not doing what it said it would with organiser or pro function. Cost went up for nothing new. It was after 3.5 years, i decided to end my time with the app. Incredibly clunky and unnecessary first it was matching and connecting and then ads. Move on” — ★☆☆☆☆
Unauthorized or unclear billing charges
5of the 49 read·10%
Users were charged repeatedly, charged full amounts instead of free trials, charged weekly instead of as agreed, or charged for subscriptions they never authorized.
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“Wasteful — Even after buy premium you still have to pay to chat not worth it” — ★☆☆☆☆“Unauthorized charges!! — Completely unscrupulous company charged me TWICE on the same day for a subscription I NEVER authorized. Already filed a dispute. These guys need to be banned from App Store. Old review: Like Evernote, Bending Spoons take over an app and community and jack up all the prices, adding “features” nobody wants.” — ★☆☆☆☆“Scam — I signed up for a free event years ago. They charged my account $10/week afterwards. I can’t even get in touch with anyone for a refund? Don’t bother. This is infuriating.” — ★☆☆☆☆
Numerous bugs, glitches, and UI malfunctions
5of the 49 read·10%
Users report the app has many glitches, broken basic operations like reporting spam, users get trapped on screens, and basic features don't work reliably.
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“Buggy and awful — After discontinuing the organizer app my account has never been the same. I lost access to most everything and have been using a basic account for the year even though I paid $300/for an organizer account. I even recently lost access to my own discussion board for a couple months. Every time I set up a support ticket with their IT team, nothing is resolved and there is poor communication.” — ★☆☆☆☆“So many bugs in UI, how? — This app has so many glitches and bugs in the UI, I can’t imagine how someone looked at that and said “yes, that looks good. Ship it“ so many basic operations either don’t work or leave you trapped in a screen you can’t get out of. Basic things like reporting spam don’t even work!!! Seriously, how? The list of your groups is entirely useless, never showing relevant events happening when a…” — ★☆☆☆☆“Advertised free trial but charged me for a year — It said I had a free 7-day trial, followed by a yearly $169.99 fee. I accepted but was charged the full amount and not given a free trial. Apple also denied my refund request! Absolute scam and I am exploring legal options.” — ★☆☆☆☆
Rampant spam, scams, and fake accounts
4of the 49 read·8%
Groups are flooded with scammers creating fake accounts and phishing messages, and reporting them doesn't work or they immediately create new accounts.
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“Nothing but spam — If you install this app, you will be constantly barraged by notifications from scammers who create accounts to post the same phishing scam to multiple meetups groups. As soon as you report them, their account will be deleted, but they will immediately create a new one. The app is nearly unusable due to the sheer volume of spam, and Meetup.com are either unable or unwilling to control it.” — ★☆☆☆☆“BEWARE OF SCAMS!! — This app flood you with constant scam message and when you try and press “Report” nothing happens.. very sketchy!” — ★☆☆☆☆“AI Bots Have Overrun This App — My event organizers and I have had a HORRIBLE experience with this app. It used to be good years ago but over the last six months, AI bots have been infiltrating groups and spamming messages about fake job opportunities. Two days ago, we had an AI bot/hacker infiltrate our group, remove our main organizer, and take over our group that we worked so hard to grow. Meetup customer support…” — ★☆☆☆☆
Aggressive and deceptive ad behavior
3of the 49 read·6%
Ads open automatically without user taps, scrolling past ads counts as clicks, and ads take users out of the app involuntarily.
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“Dishonest app opens ads without a tap — Opens advertisers links without me tapping on them. Dishonest app. Swiping to scroll is not a tap on ad ,” — ★★☆☆☆“Forced Ads — I’ve never intentionally clicked on an ad in this app, but I know for sure when I use it ads pop up links in the browser simply by scrolling past. I noticed this behavior right around the news of the IPO. I bet the numbers look good internally — but the user experience has taken a nose dive. I use it much less. Scummy.” — ★☆☆☆☆“Aggressive, Pushy Ads — You’ll be scrolling past an ad, and if you don’t speed past, it will count the touch as wanting to open it and take you out of the app. I don’t know who their genius marketers are, but after that happens twice I just leave because I’m sick of it. I’m just about done with this app.” — ★☆☆☆☆
Excessive storage and cache usage
3of the 49 read·6%
The app takes up huge amounts of storage space, with users reporting 1.8GB of cache on a 20MB app and needing weekly cache deletion.
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“Why still a 4.7 rating? — Going through the recent comments, the ratings are at best a 3 star, mostly 1 and 2’s for the past year. For good reasons. Very suspicious. I deleted it a few months ago because mostly it was taking up 70 G of space. How? I don’t know. The app is just garbage all around. Don’t download it and definitely don’t pay for it.” — ★☆☆☆☆“2gb of space? — 20mb app with 1.8gb of additional space?!?” — ★☆☆☆☆“Worst Storage Cache Offender of Any App on My Phone — Meetup app is useful. But the developers went out of their way to make this app’s storage grow unbounded on our devices. This app requires constant deletion on a weekly basis.” — ★☆☆☆☆
No accessible customer support
3of the 49 read·6%
Users cannot reach support representatives to resolve billing issues or other problems, with no way to contact the company for help.
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“Billing and membership — So hard to use, I keep getting advertisements for a membership I’m already in. I’m struggling to access the features promised on the membership outline. There is no way to contact support.” — ★☆☆☆☆“Existing Users? — Why on earth did I need to go through a 7-step onboarding flow just to get to the screen where I could login to my existing account?” — ★★☆☆☆“Review — No representatives to speak with about billing or any issues .” — ★☆☆☆☆
Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 49 most recent negative ones. Newest review 2 days ago (07.09.2026), last collected yesterday.
Germany
4.59★ from 8,429 ratings · version 2026.9.4
We have not read this app's reviews yet. Apple rations that feed to about one page per address every ten minutes and refuses datacentre addresses, so the reading is done by hand — the rating above is live, the complaints are not there yet.
Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 0 most recent negative ones. Newest review never, last collected never.
France
4.66★ from 5,988 ratings · version 2026.9.4
We have not read this app's reviews yet. Apple rations that feed to about one page per address every ten minutes and refuses datacentre addresses, so the reading is done by hand — the rating above is live, the complaints are not there yet.
Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 0 most recent negative ones. Newest review never, last collected never.
Britain
4.64★ from 33,050 ratings · version 2026.9.4
We have not read this app's reviews yet. Apple rations that feed to about one page per address every ten minutes and refuses datacentre addresses, so the reading is done by hand — the rating above is live, the complaints are not there yet.
Apple publishes the most recent written reviews, up to five hundred, and that is what was read — not a search for bad ones. Why so many of them are angry. The complaints above come from the 0 most recent negative ones. Newest review never, last collected never.