Leave a Review OkCupid Dating
Developers of this app only care about 1 thing.
The developers behind this app only care about making a few bucks from everyone as fast as possible. You will have 100+ matches but as soon as you pay for a premium membership to be able to see them, it’s people that live on the Moon, Mars or Jupiter. Why would I want to match with people that are thousands of miles away from me? Isn’t this suppose to be a dating app & not a long distance relationship app? People shouldn’t be allowed to change their location just because they “don’t like people from their country” or “want to learn english” This app isn’t made for people to learn english. This is literally done for one reason: you wonder why you have so many likes & you end up paying to see who they are but its people from Europe and Asia while you live in the US. My US profile shouldn’t be visible to people that are not in the US. There are so many ways to fix this, implement phone number confirmation so people don’t jump around all over the world wasting other peoples time. Very predictable & sad to see every update just add another way for you to spend money but nothing is done about these location issues for months/years. Good luck keeping this afloat.Show lessM19ARES
A dating app that’s actually good
I’m only 24 so I’m very familiar with Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge but I was never too thrilled with any of them, all of them thrive on making sure you stay unsatisfied, always looking for the theoretically “perfect” person but never finding them, so you keep paying for the premium features for as long as possible. OKCupid was the dating service for “old people” in my mind and I wrote it off until I was frustrated enough with the other apps to give it a try, and wow, I really wish I tried it sooner. If you thought Hinge was detailed, OKCupid is on another level, you can put in an insane amount of detail into your profile with hundreds of questions you can answer to help you filter through the randos and find people you’re actually compatible with. There definitely aren’t as many young people in my area using this app compared to other apps but since the profiles are so detailed, you don’t have to swipe through hundreds of profiles just to find a few people that you MIGHT be compatible with. People on this app also seem to take it more seriously on average. If you’re looking for a serious relationship with someone you really click with, this is definitely the app to use.Show lessZombychichen
Bizarre technical issues and rude customer service
OKcupid provided me with the strangest experience I have ever had with a company. My account disappeared overnight. When I opened the app in the morning I was at the login screen and when I tried to log in it told me no such account existed. I contacted customer service. Initially they told me that I had made a typo while entering my email address and that they had fixed the issue, so I tried signing in again but nothing had changed. I contacted them again to which they responded “congratulations, you have successfully deleted your account, you can now create a new account with the same email.” I told them I had not in fact deleted my account. They insisted that I did. Eventually they sent my case to management. Someone from management emailed me and told me he checked and I had in fact deleted the account and that it had not happened on their end.
I think it is extremely rude when a company’s customer service tries to push the blame onto you for a problem that is clearly their fault. At the beginning they acknowledged that my account existed, then they claimed I had deleted it. How could I have deleted the account if I couldn’t even log in. I’m not going to use an app where my account, all of its data, all of the matches I’ve made, could disappear overnight just for customer service to try to gaslight me. Count me out.Show lessBowcaster
Truthfully
Truthfully, I’m writing this review entirely because I think it may help my chances with the algorithm. I’m being honest because I don’t think that will effect it. OKCupid is all about the algorithm. I’ve had some success with likes and matches, but tried to moderate a friends account, which was shaped very similar to my own and despite A-list account status he saw maybe 2 likes a week. How could that be possible? There are absolutely people that swipe right on everything. OKCupid for whatever reason just wasn’t showing his profile to anyone. He was frequently active, communicating with the very few people he was connected with. As far as my account is concerned I’ll go through a dry spell where I’ll get 2 likes a week, and then get 30 likes in 2 days. The lack of consistency isn’t with my profile, it’s with whether or not OKCupid feels like showing people my profile. OKCupid is better than most online dating sites because there’s more detail on the people you’re meeting. That’s great. But online dating is hard enough and stupid from the perspective of dating in general. We shouldn’t also have to worry about whether our dating site wants to be nice to us or not regarding showing other people our profile, or have to worry about it arbitrarily passively blackballing us.Show lessBlastpoopface
Poor dating site
I decided to download 5 of the dating apps in the UK and one of them was OkCupid. I supplied the same photos of me and bio information etc on each site. One thing became apparent, the other sites were far more accommodating for new swipes after a period of time without the paid option; however, OKCupid gives you a few swipes at the start, but tightens its control and is then sadly strictly designed for pay pay pay. 💰
Needles to say, my inbox was completely empty on OkCupid despite receiving many hidden likes, as opposed to other dating apps where I actually had plenty inbox communication and successfully arranged several dates. So, hugely disappointed with the format on this one, maybe it’s better if you throw money at it, but to be honest, nothing fills me with confidence about OkCupid, big let down and a total disappointment. 🤷🏼Show lessPaul Maclaren
Don’t pay for it
What this app does well is allowing you to fill out a profile on smart prompts. There are some problems with the app, but they’re not immediate. Swipe left, swipe right, give someone a super like: pretty basic stuff. But the basic paid package advertises no ads—and there are indeed less ads once you start swiping. They still advertise their premium service and their boosts, and they do it in the main screen where you swipe left and right on people. This means that you cannot mindlessly swipe endlessly—you’ll have to pause to click the x button on the screen when you accidentally swipe right on the boost or premium.
More damning are the technical issues: mysterious badges that say you have messages waiting, but when you click the button to show you those messages nothing pops up. Then the app sometimes freezes on the main screen, meaning you have to exit, close it, reopen it, and try again. This happens every fifteen to twenty minutes of rapid swiping.
I’ve enjoyed the people I’ve had conversations with on this app, and there are not too many people trying to scam you, but they are there. However, the vast majority simply don’t respond to first responses, even though both of you have to like each other for them to show up in the message feature.Show lessChris And Again
Inconsistent
Sometimes intros go through, sometimes they do not. A number of people I’ve connected with me and said they never saw the intro and they even knew exactly where to look for intros. I have had the same experience also. I have been an unpaid member, and then tried being a paid member. There are multiple levels of paid membership which can be confusing. I’m back to being an unpaid member because even as a paid member it’s not working all that well for me. My partner has posted pictures within writing prompts and they do not show up to anyone else, although they do appear in her profile when she looks at it. She has reported this to tech-support and they did nothing about it. I do greatly appreciate the fact that OKC supports non-monogamous dating. And the very detailed questions and answers. A lot of the questions are worded in such a way though that it is difficult to answer them because the questions are vague or potentially confusing like they could be interpreted in completely opposite ways sometimes. And more of them need an intermediate choice instead of just yes or no. Finally, a strange behavior I noticed when we started new profiles not long ago, without any indication of this, the app assumes a person would reject every answer that differs from yours. You have to go back through and review all your answers and the answers you would accept, in order to change this.Show lesscgnickname1
Used the app 7 years ago and hated it
I hated this app because it was so underwhelming the app was glitchy and it had no people on it. No search settings just your average swipe and fall… and then it had a high pay to meet. For the price I wasn’t getting anything that I was looking for. Just the most basic app I had ever seen so I went back to tinder…
I recently came back and now I feel like I can breathe the questions are actually to die for the percentage of matches doubles the more questions you answer and the profiles are expansive. You actually get to know the people your looking for rather than reading a fake bio that leaves you hanging and has no frame on the basis of your personality… you don’t have to be a creative writing prodigy in order to have a good relationship with someone. It sets the bar low enough that the average person can be on the app and not be lost in complexity and high enough that it’s entertaining to be on. Being able to like parts of peoples profile makes it way more personal. Too bad it’s also a cash grab. But a worth while cash grab.Show lessChrohm3
They nickel-and-dime you around every corner.
(EDIT: Just spoke with a girl on here! After a couple days of messaging we exchange numbers and she reveals herself as, literally, a prostitute. This is online dating in 2022: thirst traps, fake profiles and hookers. Deleted.)
First of all, all of these five star reviews on here are fake. Don’t fall for them. These guys charge you to turn on read receipts. It’s not a feature of their premium monthly subscription or anything reasonable like that, it’s something you have to purchase QUANTITIES OF, to use on individual matches, to see if they read your message yet. And they try to get you to buy bundles of them by charging waaaaay too much for just one. That’s how little OkCupid/Tinder/Match respects your thirst. This whole dating site scene has become a total scam. It’s designed from the ground up to not benefit the average person but to continue stringing them along even though there is very little hope of meeting anybody. It’s why their entire business model is built from the ground up to get as many impulsive microtransactions out of you. Don’t use dating sites. Just live your life and wait for the right person to come along. Relationships are expensive and time-consuming anyway, and sex is overrated and way too much work.Show lessjoshdammit
Would give Zero stars if I could, absolutely awful excuse of a dating app!
Very first used this app in late 2018 and got a few matches with women around the uk. But eventually after meeting women who just suddenly stopped replying or made no effort back with me in building a potential relationship, and generally coming across people that were not right for me, left the app after like 3 months in early 2019 and started using other apps to meet women.
I decided to give this app one last chance in late 2021 to meet people, and my goodness it’s gotten exceptionally worse! Not only has the membership fee gone up, but after giving the app about a month, I got matches from women in foreign countries such as Thailand, Kenya, and other African or Asian countries. Not what I’m looking for at all especially if I’m living in the U.K!! A lot of other people who were not my type.
My personal opinion if you’re a genuine real guy looking to make genuine realistic beneficial connections look elsewhere!! Garbage app in my opinion just like tinder. Will never use again!Show lessMrGenuine71
