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Frustrating
So every so often I “cross paths” with someone. Sometimes it’s going in opposite directions on a highway. I bought a pack of “hellos” . I sent it to someone. She had already liked me but there is no way ti send her a message. I sent her one, did she get it? Can she respond? Who knows? Today someone a mile away showed up on the map. Why could i not like her? Why us that not possible? She liked me! So I sent her a hello. Then a little box appears and says “hello sent” or something like that. It has an x so I click the x thinking it closes the box. Nope! It deletes her. There goes the one that liked me, and a dollar. I suppose it works better with the paid subscription, but, why bother?Show lessimnotahappycamper999999988888
Only worthwhile in certain communities
Bottom Line: maybe good for extremely densely populated areas, but not for the rest of the world.
I used the app for approximately one month. For the first three weeks I was moving around Miami, a city I thought large enough to encounter a person or two. Well, this was exactly what happened, I crossed paths with two people; two in a city of over a million. I then was on a long distance road trip going through four or five major cities (Tampa, Atlanta, Nashville, St. Louis, and on north), and I decided to check the app to see if maybe there were more users. Out of all of these places, I only had one additional “happner”.
Only three proximity matches in a month? This implies either the app doesn’t have that many users, or people are conscientious about their data privacy and do not want to share their location data with the app. Either way, it was not worthwhile for me. Finally, since there were no filter criteria, it just felt like Tinder, but with no proximity range.Show lessJoey Marx
Sub-Typical
If you’re a guy dating online you know what to expect. If not, educate yourself. This isn’t a bad idea for an app but it is problematic if you live in an area with a decent amount of National and international travel. You need to be out and about for this app to be useful and that isn’t the case for many right now.
Why the 2 stars? Three days before my account was to expire I started getting more than the usual amount of Likes. I’ve seen this behavior with other dating apps. Of these interested women one was on the other coast, one said she lived in the U.S. state of “Barret”, one was a flat-out fake profile (I found her pictures on a duplicate account with a different name) and one is roughly 7,500 miles away in Hong Kong.Show lessTenth Engine
Scammers
One of the attractions of this app was the less likelihood of scammers, but that proved a false belief. I had two "crossed paths" at 4AM and 5AM. I was also asleep at these times. There is no way anyone was out at those times, let alone the people that showed up. Let's just say they would be at high risk of harm in this area. In spite of knowing it was bogus, I went ahead and crushed with one, and it was very obviously a bot or someone that did not speak English natively. Aside from that, I've had zero "crossed paths" with anyone, and this is in a metro area! It's bad enough that the app is now showing me people outside any reasonable area. I love the idea. I just wish more people were using it and scammers would just find something else to do.
Oh I forgot. I also had a person show up that was very obviously underage, which I found quite disturbing.Show lessStumpus
Scammers and taxi drivers abundant
App functionality is quirky -can’t delete people you have no interest. Customer service non-existent never got a reply to any message I submitted.
If you are looking to meet construction workers, taxi drivers and security guards you will find them here. If you are bored you can spend a lot of time having rote script chats with scammers using stolen photos who live “downtown.”
In the one year that I paid for, I met one live human and emailed one additional real verified person with a professional background. I turned in and blocked dozens of scammers This company should pay me for weeding them out and also turning them into male-scammers site.Show lessSallieMeta
Crap app
This app will only help you untill unless you pay them otherwise they never show who likes you or texted you. They will start asking you money at early stages. Wastage of time.U Lakha
Shocking bias and price model
So moving away from the creep show this can be loosing others to know your location, what’s striking is that it’s female centric, meaning that if your a man you pay more. So if you want to say hello to a woman , then it comes at a cost, but other way round free for women?... so much for equality right
Then moving on to the price model of 80+ per year or 30 for a month, With the same people popping up and the distances getting further and further away, it just goes to show that the update on this is low and so the so the chances of you meeting some one local is very limited
If your a bloke i would say boycott this app due to its biased pricing of charging men to what they give the women free, if your a women go else where it’s terrible, local men are limited and the ones that are skate at best on the free versions.Show lessTh3steg
Developer Response
Hello Th3steg, I think there has been a misunderstanding. The app works the same way for men and women: both can use the basic functionalities of happn for free and both have to pay in order to go Premium. See you soon on happn! Mo from happn.Don’t waste your time!
I’m using this app quite a long time, but it’s getting worse and worse. I’ve paid 2 times, sent 5 hello’s per day to whole London (even though I’m a good looking guy and get responses on other apps a lot) no one replied. Couple of fake crushed I had and they disappeared and show up after again. When you do cancel a crush they keep showing on crush game all the time. As soon as your subscription ends you get immediately 6, 7 crushes but you cannot see them unless you pay again. When you pay, you will noticed that they are very far from you and fake people. It’s so terrible feeling being cheated! All they want to take your money. Stay away, save your time.Show lessmanuel-ayar
Careful lots of fake accounts
I’ve had about 80% fake accounts make contact either trying to harvest email addresses or sell crypto currency stocks or some other investment trading scheme as part of the dating conversation. Mostly using Chinese or other foreigner profile pictures. It’s always (consistent story) that they have an uncle who is a big trader that’s advising them.
Happn also allows non path crossing matching so attracts these fake account crush matches with almost no profile information.
Another issue is Not being able to track who you already sent charms to is frustrating and a wa$te not to mention annoyance to the receivers.Show lessSergieGmail
Met the love of my life on Happn
I met my best friend and love of my life on Happn a little over 2 years ago. We crossed paths 60+ times and I thought dang, this guy must be my neighbor but turns out he lived a few miles from where I did and worked. Once we connected and started talking he even saw me crossing the street with my boss one afternoon near my work before we even met. That's fate and we found out later that we crossed paths our entire lifes including during childhood, across states, and concerts, mutual interest events, and more but we kept missing each other. Without Happn we might not have ever met. No app is perfect for finding love, there is a bit of magic to it all but I loved the initial appeal that it was a more natural way of meeting the person you are supposed to be with. You could have crossed paths with the one seconds before or after them a hundred times and would have never know. This just gave us the visibility we needed, a nudge. Thank you! Forever grateful for whoever came up with this. I'd like to think my story is what you were trying to create with this app. Well done!Show lessdallaswomen
