CatholicMatch Dating App User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience15.4% of reviews
Neutral8.3% of reviews
Negative experience76.3% of reviews

~ Based on 253 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is CatholicMatch Dating App Safe?

CatholicMatch Dating App appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for CatholicMatch Dating App is 78/100.

This assessment is based on 4,629 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.9/5.

Safety Analysis

68.6% of ratings point to a safe experience
10.0% of ratings suggest some concerns
21.4% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 4,629 App Store ratings for CatholicMatch Dating App.

Is CatholicMatch Dating App Legit?

CatholicMatch Dating App appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for CatholicMatch Dating App is 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Bad pricing structure

I appreciate the idea of this app but it has some huge flaws that make it unusable unless you're really lucky or live in an enormous city.
Two things it could do to fix this:
1. Lower the subscription price. $30 a month is absurd. People don't even pay that for their modern streaming services. Dating apps
literally don't work if not enough people use them. More people would join and you would make way more money if you charged $10-$15 a month instead. And no, this doesn't include bundles. People don't know if these apps work so they are reluctant to spend an even bigger sum of money on multimonth subscription even if its cheaper month to month.
2. If you must charge such a high premium then it needs to be a premium experience. Remove the free account option. All that does bloat the list of available people with accounts that will never see your message/like. Seeing "unread" messages is extremely discouraging and will cause people not to resubscribe (myself included).
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Weird..

Now I’m not saying I’m Stacy, but I am surprised I have not gotten a single match or like on this app. The inactivity is insane and I was only able to send 3 likes before I was asked to pay lol

Canceled & Still Got Charged

I was very happy to know about this Catholic app. I tried it but once I decided I did not want to continue, I cancelled my subscription but continued to get mysteriously charged without any trace on my iPhone. No charge history or receipts found on my phone. Just emailed customer services about it and I hope, of all apps, that they will do the right thing in refunded me my money. Very disappointed, makes me not want to use this app anymore. I will try and update what happens. If you use it and cancel, monitor your bank statements, not sure who’s running and charging after canceling subscription.
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Terrible app

Now they are requiring that we post 6 pictures lol. I don’t even want to post 1 let alone 6! I don’t care for pictures. 1 is fine. Also the men are just awful. Some 50 year olds still behave like they’re 25. Can’t be open and honest about anything. Ridiculous.

Bad pricing structure

I appreciate the idea of this app but it has some huge flaws make it unusable unless you're really lucky or live in an enormous city.
Two things it could do to fix this:
1. Lower the subscription price. $30 a month is absurd. People don't even pay that for their modern streaming services. Dating apps are economies of scale. They literally don't work if not enough people use them. More people would join and you would make way more money if you charged $10-$15 a month instead. And no, this doesn't include bundles. People don't know if these apps work so they are reluctant to spend an even bigger sum of money on multimonth subscription even if its cheaper month to month.
2. If you must charge such a high premium then it needs to be a premium experience. Remove the free account option. All that does bloat the list of available people with accounts that will never see your message/like. Seeing "unread" messages is extremely discouraging and will cause people not to resubscribe (myself included).
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a cheaper subscription

the app is fine but you should offer a subscription proportional to eqch country. in Brazil, for example, it’s too expensive to subscribe in US dollar

Police-like Control

It feels like I’m being horribly controlled by all the stupid restrictions on CatholicMatch. For instance, now they tell you how long your first message has to be (quite long) when you can send another message to the same person, or how many images you can upload. Also, you can’t see likes or who messaged you unless you're subscribed.
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Terrible app

You have to pay a very costly subscription per month to see who sent you a message or liked your profile. When you finally take a subscription and message the other person you realise they don’t have an active subscription to reply as it’s too costly to maintaina monthly subscription. App is out to fleece you just like the government.
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Don’t bother

Probably the worst dating app I’ve been on. It would be more appropriately called Autism Match. I don’t think many of the men on this app have ever spoken to a real life woman.

Success story

I met my husband within two hours of downloading the app and the rest is history. Been married for over two years now. :-)

Bad and glitchy

There’s a bug where it shows random pictures from people’s photo library. On the home page if you scroll down there’s a section that shows pictures of everyone’s profile. I’m seeing screenshots, selfies of women, memes, etc. but when you click on their profile, it doesn’t show those pictures. At least I can avoid the men who have selfies of women lol . Definitely time to delete this app
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Scam

So I understand that all dating apps make you pay to see who likes you. This app will tell you “$9.99 a month” but when you try to do it it wants full payment up front. No way to change it. I emailed them and they say “it’s a breakdown of the cost for the selected subscription term. The subscription is billed. As a single upfront. Payment at the start of the subscription period Rather than monthly installments. The monthly amount is provided for comparison purposes to show the equivalent cost per month over the full term.”

This is ridiculous, I really tried to match with a catholic woman and I couldn’t do that because of this cost. Don’t waste your time unless you want to pay hundreds of dollars up front
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Horrible app

I’ve easily messaged 50+ women, and have received less than half-a-dozen replies. Of the two that seemed like there was legitimate potential, one unmatched me with nary an explanation, and the other simply ghosted me (no wonder their 40-ish and single: they lack basic communication skills). Also, I am convinced that a sizable portion of the accounts are inactive, especially as I’ve seen this complaint elsewhere, across the interwebs.

Also, this app is more expensive than pretty much all other dating apps that I’ve seen, and you can practically do nothing unless if you fork over a minimum of $29.99 for a one-month subscription (they regularly advertise discounts, specifically advertising something like “9.99 a month”, but it’s only available for either a 6-month or 12-month subscription, which makes it reek of false advertising🙄). Seriously, you can’t send a message unless if you pay for a premium subscription; and, if someone messages you, without a membership, you have to wait NINE DAYS to even SEE the message.

Seriously, what a crock.
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Clunky, but worth it!

Their interface and design choices leave A LOT to be desired, but it does work, you just need to give it a chance. I just married my now wife over the weekend, who I met on Catholic Match!

All is money

It sucks you can’t see who sent you likes. If you want to check you have to pay

Greedy and restrictive app

I’ve been on this app for over a year. Out of all the dating apps it’s the one that has the worst ROI. It’s very difficult to match unless you both pay for it. The app is made to make money more than making matches. The amount of people on it is very low and engagement is even lower. Bumble is dying but a better app.
CatholicMatch denied my best photo, which is simply a side profile, for no apparent reason. This app is certainly the worst out of all of them, their aim is money not matches. Very disappointing considering the loneliness crisis the Catholic community is going through. There are much better and newer Catholic dating apps like Sacred Spark!
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Disappointing

You are unable to send likes or messages unless you pay for premium AND you have to wait 9 days to be able to see any messages that have been sent to you.

Awful, greedy money-pit

Decreased can’t do anything in the app unless you AT A MINIMUM $29.99/mo if you want to play monthly, it 6 mo for $60 or 12 for $120, but those you have to pay UP FRONT

I’m a 40 yr old teacher, and father too 3 amazing children ages 8, 6, 4

When I heard of Catholic march I was excited because I thought maybe there was a website that didn’t care about money as much as helping promote family, church-centered life, which starts by filling the gap of a mom which my kids badly need, and I would love to have a “best friend “ to call my wife who’s shared my Catholic values

Well, unfortunately, this cheap, bum of a single dad who happens to teach for a living and giant make a bunch of money, simply can’t afford a dating app like this, which doesn’t seem very Catholic to me

Also, I don’t expect anyone to see this because they don’t allow you to see critical reviews
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Too Many Inactive Accounts

Great concept and great execution with this app. By far the best design for an online dating experience. It removes many of the common grievances.

Still, there seems to be a massive amount of inactive accounts. This was something other reviews mentioned and I can confirm is accurate.

App is Garbage

Download and see for yourself how it’s a cash grab for both parties needing to pay to win