Coffee Meets Bagel Dating App User Reviews

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Very dodgy and limited

Even if you pay and it’s not expensive they limit you extensively and force you to keep paying more.

If you are a paid member they present with you 5-8 options daily and it can take a long time to find even one you want to match.

They only allow you 8 likes per month as a paid member and then they force you to pay for as a paid member this is ridiculous. If I am a paid member let me like as many as I want.

They also control who you can see as search results show only a tiny selection that they decide and after you used your 8 likes you have to wait a month to like anyone again it’s more than £5 per like insane.

And you can’t favourite anyone in the search results so they are impossible to find later if you like them but are out of likes.

Finally as they want to control everything and treat us like we are babies they limit how long you can talk in the chat with you matches.

Worst dating app.

If I pay let me like as many as I want. Let the search results show me all results that match. Let me decide when and how long I take to chat to my matches.

They obviously do this as if it was open like other apps like hinge you would like the profiles they have in a day and leave quickly this way they keep people on longer.

This is made for them to milk your purse not to help you find good dating options.

Hinge is much better.
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Solid Dating app that mostly avoids the hook up culture

So I’ve tried two dating apps - Hinge and CMB. I like the lay out of CMB more and the fact that there are less people to sort through each day. The fact that the app suggests people for you each day that it thinks are a good match meant that I actually had consistently decent recommendations after the first few days (it took a bit for the algorithm to figure out my preferences). People on the app also seem more inclined to progress things to a date sooner, since the chat on the app runs out after 7 days. At first I thought that feature might be stressful but I actually grew to really appreciate it. Anywho, found an awesome cute guy that I’m currently dating after only 2 weeks on the app. That’s pretty solid in my book. I’d definitely recommend this app to people looking for something more serious 🙂
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Wasted 1 hour

Just wasted 1 hour to cherry pick the right photos and captions - totally normal ones - only to get suddenly kicked out and “unable to verify my account” with my regular phone number - for no reason whatsoever!!! I’ve literally just created my normal account and haven’t even got a chance to message or match with anyone. Good thing I didn’t buy any subscription yet as this seems to be happening an awful lot, according to other reviews. What a disappointing start. Shame on you CMB. Shame shame shame! If you help me fix this issue ASAP, I’ll update my review.

UPDATE I was finally able to get back online and been using the app for a few weeks now. Think I’m about to delete it completely - I rarely get any men in suggested, liked or discover that I’m really attracted to. It’s like they don’t show my profile enough to the good looking men, and only show me some questionable men for free. I’m a gorgeous girl with a well filled out profile, and never had this issue before. Also, a huge bummer: I don’t see my new messages very often; somehow, they don’t show as new for days and weeks, and then of course the chat expires and I need to pay to reply. Blood sucking app that’s designed to nickel and dime you, not help you find meaningful connections.
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Response from developer

We care about your experience. Please feel free to reach out to us at contact@coffeemeetsbagel.com.

Great dating app

One thing i noticed is the users on here seem more intelligent then on tinder and less wild party girls who are there to promote their instagram.

Of course it does suffer from the same old online dating problems. But thats just how it is across all platforms so i wont take any rating away.

Finding dates in real life is better but if you’re gonna use an app, this is one of the good ones.
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Response from developer

Thank you for the positive feedback! We're happy to hear you are enjoying CMB! If you would like to provide any additional feedback for us, email us at contact@coffeemeetsbagel.com or use this link to make a support ticket: http://bit.ly/cmb-help-center

Fraudulent App

They create fake profiles to keep you in the app. I paused my account, but next day got a like (fake), so I went back into the app. This time in the Discover section (putting filters) the profiles seemed higher quality. When I tried to like one of these profiles, it said I had to unpause my account first - after clicking ok, my account unpaused, it appeared to try to like the profile but came up with “Action Failed: ... Please check you internet connection and try again”, even though my internet was fine. After restarting the app, that profile couldn’t be found again. I got suspicious, so I repeated the process of pausing my account and going to discover, put filters, and the profile came back, and repeated the same process, tried to like, same popup of “Action Failed... Internet” etc came up.

Previously when I matched with someone who seemed really good, we had problems with the messaging, until after the conversation expired, CMB said there was a problem with the messaging and gave some beans to make up for it. Now I realise this was deliberate so you don’t end up with someone you match well with.

It’s in their interest to keep you on the app as long as possible and to get you to pay. Their algorithm is definitely to show you as little as possible so you still stay on the app but don’t find someone so you keep going back. Even their ‘good reviews’ here are probably fake. Reality of the world these days. Don’t waste your time here.
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Response from developer

We're so sorry you didn't have the experience you were looking for. If there is any other feedback you'd like to provide, feel free to email us at contact@coffeemeetsbagel.com.

Met my soon-to-be wife

About 18 months ago, I met my soon-to-be wife on CMB (August 2nd can’t come soon enough!) so, admittedly, I’m a bit bias. We had each been using the app for a while and enjoyed its features. Personally, I appreciated its simplicity. With other apps and sites (and I tried a number of them), there were always so many options: like, message, send a wink, etc. Every person thinks differently about how those features should be used. That was tiresome and frustrating. Not the case on CMB. Simple actions to take. Didn’t take a ton of time, and most importantly, there was not an overwhelming number of results every day. I found myself not even knowing where to start on some platforms. CMB made it simple and easy for me to just devote a few short minutes when I wanted to log in. Fast forward 18 months and I couldn’t be happier. I found someone who I can’t wait to be a partner for life with! We miiight have eventually met because we have a few mutual friends, but I’m thankful CMB sped up the process! After all, if I found someone with whom I can endure the stress of wedding planning in the midst of COVID, I think I found a good one! Thanks CMB!
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Response from developer

That's so great to hear! Thank you for using CMB :)

Far overdue but...

I haven’t used this app in nearly four years. Why? Because I met my husband through it. This app was a last ditch effort for me in the world of dating. My now husband was going to be my last first date before I became a cat lady. The other dating apps on the market at the time had led me down a path of bad dates, mixed messages, and the whole “I’m sorry I JUST realized I don’t want to have a relationship” matches. CMB was (and I’m assuming still is) different. It allows you to fill out useful information about yourself and encourages actual conversations other than “what’s up”. The 7 day feature is great because it sets up a sense of urgency and messages never really get lost.

I can’t say enough good things about this app. While it was my last ditch effort, I was my husband’s second date. We had a coffee and bagel bar at our wedding and four years and two beautiful kiddos later we are still glad to have met through this quirky app and recommend it to anyone we know that’s looking for a relationship.
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Response from developer

Thank you so much for the review and kind words!

Still unsure of the APP

I have only been on the app a week. After reading some of the reviews I have a better understanding of how the app works. I have never used a date app or tried online dating. Where is what I noticed so far. The first day I had a tone of likes. I am not sure if the was a gimmick to encourage app use but done since day one. It is possible no one has “liked” me. My discover and bagels are basically the same. If I wait a day they just switch back and forth from the different categories. I set my search filters, creating a board consideration base, trying to be open to the possibilities but haven’t seen much of a change in possible bagels. Day one, I connected with someone. Again, I don’t know if this was to continue app use or not. The bagel, didn’t remember the answers to his prompt and then didn’t really “conversate”. Again, it could have been an accident and they just weren’t interested. I’m hoping to see a change in bagels over the next week or I won’t stay with the app and just try the old fashion way.

I do like the limited bagel numbers and number of likes. It makes one stop and consider each person. However, you are forced to pass on a daily bagel instead of seeing all bagels for that day. There is no way to think through all the bagels and go back and like one.
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Response from developer

Thank you for the feedback! We take all of our members feedback into consideration.

Beware free trial!

I’m a woman who wanted to meet some kind and attractive people, so I tried this app for a few days. It was alright, I appreciate how user-friendly it is and how they try to focus on quality over quantity. However, I opted in for a free one week trial of their premium subscription just to see what it was like and when I went to cancel, I saw that if I hadn’t, they would have charged me $120 for a 6 month subscription automatically! That is insane. My opinion of this app went way down when I saw that. The point of free trials is to get people to want to subscribe, but apps usually make a lot of money off of people who signed up for a free trial and forgot to unsubscribe. I’m horrified at the thought that if I had forgotten to cancel, I’d be down 120 bucks. I’d understand if the automatic charge was like $15 or $20, that’s about what other apps will charge you I think. I’m just blown away. Not to mention I went through like 100 profiles and saw about 3 people I found attractive. Needless to say, I had no second guesses about deleting my profile and I would warn anyone who wants to try this app to be very careful.
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No good in Melbourne

I gave it a try for two weeks, and did not come across any profiles I was interested in. The app is a bit clunky to navigate and you can’t view many people in one day. I don’t mind the idea of slow swiping, but the concept doesn’t really work when there aren’t enough quality profiles. And that is the main problem with this app - at least in Melbourne. There are real lack of attractive men, and I felt the algorithm wasn’t really taking my preferences into account. The real takeaway for me is that it doesn’t really matter how good the concept is - if the people aren’t there, the app won’t work.

Also - I notice there are a few reviews from Asian users saying the app is racist as they are recommended mostly Asian bagels. I’m not Asian, but at least half the profiles I saw were Asian. I don’t think the app is racist - I think there are just a lot of Asian users on the app.
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