Bumble

I've been happy overall with Bumble. It finds me pretty good matches and mostly works well. BUT...
(1) Bumble can't handle a phone number change. I didn't know people could call me through the app and, after getting an unexpected call from a stranger one night while I was on the app, I changed my phone number to a number I only answer if I have a pre-arranged phone date set up. But Bumble can't handle a phone number change. I can no longer access my account on a computer. The site doesn't recognize either the old or the new phone number. I contacted Bumble customer service and they said I was out of luck. The only way to fix it would be to delete my account and start over from scratch. Very frustrating.
(2) You can't set your filter to look for people who LIVE near you. The app can only recognize current location. I live near an airport. I get matched with people that are technically in my city -- for a 30 minute stopover. You have to swipe down 4-5 screens to the bottom of every single profile to see where the person actually lives. It's really time consuming. I have contacted Bumble customer service about this twice and they have failed to respond.

All these dating sites employ the same business model - how they market the sites is the only difference. Their primary objective is to make money, not help find you a partner.

So, onto Bumble. This is what you can expect, from a male perspective: -

I would say 70-80% of the profiles are fake including the "verified" ones - and that's a conservative estimate.

Many of the photos look suspiciously like pro stock images. Either that or many women have their own personal photographer.

The photos are staged, women raising a glass of wine or champagne, completing marathons, hiking photos, canoeing, standing against a wall mural with angel wings, in exotic locations.

Typically they like wine or gin, yoga, cheese, hiking, gym, running, horses, weightlifting, skiing, and various outdoor activities.

Many profiles answer to the zombie apocalypse plan is "to go down the Winchester until it all blows over". Strange how so many from all over the UK drink in a pub with the same name. No, this is not a selectable answer from a list. These are bot fake profiles.

The classic, "You must be able to make me laugh" is all over the site.
As is "looking for a partner in crime".
90% of the women have nose piercings.
Oh, and animal-ears filter pics.

Many narcissists register on Bumble just to advertise their Instagram page.
You get the posers and pouters, attention seekers, egotists, show offs, who have no intention of dating.

The usual algorithm on these sites is to lure you in at first, you will get plenty of attention, likes, and chats, maybe a couple of actual dates. Soon, the same profiles that you previously swiped left on mysteriously reappear. Then after a few weeks, the activity will slow down almost to a halt, you will be left with false likes you cannot see until you pay for membership, enticing the unaware and desperate user to fork out his cash. People have reported paying for the premium package in order to see the women who have liked their profile, only for the likes to vanish once they upgrade.

Reportedly, cancelling a subscription is extremely difficult. Also numerous reports of people getting banned for no reason after paying for a lifetime subscription.
Bumble? More like Swindle.

Overall it's a demoralising experience, as it is on all these sites. Avoid them all.

I'm genuinely confused. I'm not hideous. Im a woman with a nice face. I have 150+ likes and yet when I swipe I am getting no matches? But I can see my matches for $20? Like...what? Seriously what? I am generously swiping right too like, on BFF and dating and I just don't understand how I have gotten zero interaction with a single person. I'm following the directions to get more engagement and yet it's like, I have to struggle to maybe have an interaction with literally anyone at this point. Like not even trying to get laid or make a friend I'm genuinely still using this app to see how long it takes me to even get to the HELLO HOW ARE stage. What's going on here?

I'm not sure if this is a dating app problem or specifically a bumble problem but more often than not, I end up blocking the men I meet. I was raped on a bumble date and I have been working with police to track him down. I don't know his last name and I blocked him and reported him to bumble but not the police. I'm finally ready to talk to the police about it, so I asked bumble if they could help me and it took them weeks to respond. I eventually sent them a DM on Instagram and then they responded. They wouldn't give me the information of my rapist because of their privacy policy and I get that they don't want vigilantes but the way they worded it felt like they were more interested in protecting the privacy of my rapist instead of helping me with the police. Then they shared with me some $#*!ty blog post with advice on how to stay safe on dates which only reiterates the fear that it was my fault. I'm really disappointed on how they treated me, especially since their branding is all about supporting and protecting women

I'm sure plenty of legitimate bans are placed each day on creeps and solicitors, but I'm a normal guy who just randomly had his account deleted without warning or reason. Customer support has also ignored me completely.

All the men on these site don't talk and if they do the only offers you're going to get are to come over their house and have sex. Really low caliber men on this site…absolutely horrible. The free sites hold up their reputation I've tried it a few times each time I feel awful depressed negative energy. Not worth going in there even it being free.

I canceled my account and they still take payment out with NO refunds. I got premium and no views. Just a scam.

There are only bots on this website. The few real women on here are fat and ugly...and still have to NERVE to unmatch with you even if you are the kinda guy with a full time job, a house and multiple cars. A bunch of mouth breathing losers and bots here. AVOID.

Bumble only allows you to use the app if you give your location. So if you don't feel safe meeting a stranger right around the corner you can't use the service. That's not safe. Nobody wants to date the neighbor.

Bumble is a total scam,all the profiles not real, texts the same, questions the same, grown man writes as 5 years old, 250 people lime to cook spaghetti in the morning. It's scam websites which is total insult to all. When you have 250 likes and 250 unmatching you in a 2 hours thats not real. Question number 3 "How long have you been single? " it's a scam site nob9dy is real there,stay away. Avoid!

REAL TIME EXPERIMENT AS WELL: made a new account after posting this review. Got 8 likes within about 10 minutes of creating. Swiped no on 100 people without seeing one "you missed a like" message then I used up all of my likes on people who hadn't liked me. Directly after using up all my likes they showed me a potential like and I could tell because their first picture was them with a very bright red/yellow sky behind them and in my "likes" tab you could tell it was them through the blurred picture because of their head position and the bright sky background

It's a fraudulent and scam service…

They don't show you like it's matches (don't say it's a preference or distance thing) I changed everything and never saw my likes

All of the profiles are bots and just say hi but nothing after that

I really understood their FRAUDULENT services when I deleted my account and a few days later they sent me an email about a pile I got, she just so happens to be absolutely gorgeous… things is I deleted my account so how am I getting likes

It's a scam tactic coded into the algorithm to try to trick people into redownloading and making purchases

If you make a purchase you get more likes and matches because of the algorithm not because you are doing anything different, your account is just getting flagged as paying money so then they start showing you other things to manipulate you into making another purchase while never finding dates

I just want to say thank you to Bumble to give me my destined partner and my lifetime!i would recommend this app for sure to all the folks out there.

Lots of frustrating issues.

If you snooze this should pause your subscription too obviously.

Premium can see all matches so the other swiping side should be for new people.

Need a setting whereby if you are up for something casual, then in new city you shown people where you would normally not fit their distance filters. However if you aren't looking for something casual, then in new cities you should only be shown to those whose distance filter youd normally match. Too many "how far r away r u"!

Should be clear on the app when weekly benefits have renewed.

Finally its very easy to get banned by the tinder/match group because of baseless malicious reporting. Need a better appeals process. My friend got blocked by the group by someone on the app shed been seeing. Tinder very very unhelpful.

It feels like a scam, a gimmick, a trick somewhat.
It showed my friend 4 matches, but when he actually paid for the premium, the matches reduced to 1.
They are just making money off men. We emailed their support, and they didn't even reply.

Do yourself a favor and don't install bumble if you like your money or if you have any self-respect.

Also, the reviews seemed way too positive, I think they are paying for fake reviews. I can understand women rating the app higher, but for men, it's not very useful and I am surprised how high the review is.

The company makes millions but won't spend enough to staff their customer service. I paid for a lifetime premium membership and they banned my profile for reasons that were not correct but they didn't care to find out because I had already paid the maximum they weren't going to get any more money from me so why bother to answer my request to text or email with a real person instead of a bot who just kept repeating the same answer which was totally false about me. Very sad indeed. Yet, my male friends have told me they get tons of fake foreign young women texting them - really? They aren't banned. I'm a professional woman and I got banned - my friends couldn't believe it.

They don't give you any way to contact customer service they want to keep billing you even when you don't want the app anymore it sucks!

Horrible, manipulative, liars. Bumble pre covid were a great choice and addition to dating apps. But ever since covid and the whole george floyed thing happened, it changed. They became political and even if youre not into politics or about sexual orientation and LGBTQ then youre immediately banned from the platform without notice. I even gave them a 5 star on the app store but changed it, Heck i even saw that all the reviews ARE FAKE! All the 5 star reviews on the app store and google store have been switched from 1 star to 5 star, they literally pay the apps stores to change the ratings of the negative reviews to positive (while unediting the reviews themselves) just to keep it high up there, and making sure they stay as ''editors choice''. They are a fraud of a company! And dont you even dare spend money on the app. Im just a normie, who doesnt care about politics and used to go out there to search for a pretty girl to date, and be respectful to everyone! Trying to contact bumble is useless, they will tell you to use social media like twitter, IG, FB and going to their messages But no one replies! Till this day it bothers me how this company is still in business while lying and manipulating the stock market and system, and it bothers me even more that i got banned and i dont even understand what i did wrong and how can i fix it? If youre a liberal and LGBTQ only dating app at least advertise yourself as such. Make sure to grab some popcorn and see all the negative/ ''positive'' (that were originally negative) and see how many people have lost opportunities and money because of this app. Someone should sue Bumble and call them out.

Bumble tries to be different by having a site where women are the ones who have to initiate contact with a man first, but apart from that it appears to be just one more dating app that's designed to extract as much money as possible, especially when most of the thing's you're paying for are basic elements that should be free.

PROS
None

CONS
+ No one will ever message you.

+ The search facility is none existent and as a man all you can do is swipe right for the women you like and swipe left on the one's you don't and hope that someone likes you back and initiates contact. Women have and will continue to have all the power on dating sites, so why design a dating app that only allows women to initiate communication when in-depth studies have shown most women tend to sit back and merely await interest coming to them, so the theory behind the site is flawed.

+ There are no options to save the profiles of women whom you're interested in, so as soon as you've swiped right, they're gone forever.

+ As a man why would I ever pay for a site that I have no ability to send messages? Why would I pay to merely unblur women's photos who have supposedly 'liked' me when there's a good possibility, I wouldn't be attracted to them or they're fake? I'm looking for a partner, not paying to gamble.

+ So many profiles are fake. A lot of them state they're situated locally or in a nearby town but then their profile reveals they're in a town miles away, or even in a different country.

+ Are there any genuine women on the site? Well, I have had women 'like' me but whom suspiciously never make contact, even though they know the sites designed for them to do so and the men are unable to do so. Personally, I think the so called 'likes' are bait to peak men's curiosity and get them to pay so they can see who is purportedly interested.

+ There are so many profiles where women post their Instagram and Tik Tok addresses who are obviously just trying to increase their social media following rather than looking for a partner.

+ There are prostitute profiles who are advertising their 'services'.

+ And there are so many profiles who state they're single but a quick photo reverse search, or look on Facebook reveals that they're actually in a relationship, so they are either cheating, or are just on Bumble for attention and to mess guys around.

My advice to men is to stay away from this site, as no one will ever message you and there are just too many red flags. Overall Bumble is just a carbon copy of virtually all modern dating apps on the market and really not worth your time or money, especially if you're a guy.

It a money making scam, selling overpriced subscriptions, overpriced super likes and compliments. Which I got burnt for twice by deluded female woke-tards full of white racism and gender ideology.
FFS the site even has a "non-binary" third gender selection, like what is that! A "hermaphrodite"? Cause what you are born with downstairs is what you are, hence blue or pink, if you think you can choose, you need to see a shrink,(in a lunatic asylum).
I don't have any screenshots this time, I hastily deleted my profile cause I copped a gut full of mis·andry, all because I prefer women who have meat on their bones and love handles to hug.

Like I said about POF, gents if you are shy, lonely introverted like me, 1st step is admit it to yourself and then see a shrink and get social lessons even social groups. I might see there