# Shapr - Business Networking — user reviews > 48 indexed App Store user reviews of Shapr by Shapr, rated 4.51/5 from 21,777 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shapr-business-networking/id859091569/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shapr-business-networking/id859091569.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 15,813 · 4★ 3,108 · 3★ 1,667 · 2★ 480 · 1★ 679 ## What do users think of Shapr? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Great networking tool - 👍 Simple and intuitive interface - 💡 Connects professionals with similar interests - 🚀 Efficient matching algorithm **Cons** - 🐛 Buggy and glitchy app - 💰 Overly restrictive free version - 🤖 Fake or irrelevant profiles - 🌍 Limited user base in certain areas **Commonly reported bugs** - Notification issues and bugs - Syncing problems when changing devices - Inconsistent swiping and matching **Most requested features** - Add location-based filtering - Improve search and discovery features - Allow users to undo swipes - Provide more detailed user profiles ## Newest reviews (13 of 48) ### 3/5 — Has its pros and cons *2021-09-15, version 5.1* This app is pretty good overall. I love that you can connect with other professionals, which makes it feel less fickle than say Tinder. It acts much like Tinder in that you can swipe left or right with people you’d like to connect with. The issue I’ve found is that I seem to connect with people that start to engage with me as if they want to get to know me, but then they quickly turn it into a sales pitch as if they’re trying to sell me their products. Didn’t know this app was for that. I end up unmatching them right away. This app needs more options in narrowing down what you’re looking for with other likeminded people to avoid that issue from always happening. ### 3/5 — Connections get deleted after a month *2019-07-01, version 4.9.3* Love the app for connecting me with people. If you don’t take your conversation offline quickly, the app will delete connections more than a month old. I have lost so many connections, and some told me to call them in two months as they were out of the country. Also no ability to search through your connections for a person. You have to scroll through all of your connections to find someone. I have the Pro version. ### 3/5 — We need more *2019-03-30, version 4.8.1* This app has wonderful potential, however, the in-app purchase is too forced. Having connections with professionals in the field is a wonderful thing and we shouldn’t have to pay $20/month (Which is absolutely absurd) just to send one message to a professional who swipes right on you. Also, you only get 12 swipes per 24 hours or so and you even count the X’ed swipes which is also bad. In a world where individuals are only trying to better themselves, you are forcing us to pay for this app when it’s inconveniencing us badly. Your UX/UI for Mobile is frustrating because it gives us no valuable inspiration aside from a quote that is way too large and then another forced ad to buy your PRO version. I want this app to succeed, but you need to fix a lot of things in order for that to happen. ### 4/5 — LinkedIn for 2019 *2019-03-19, version 4.8.1* It’s described to be like Tinder for Professionals. In essence, it’s a LinkedIn updated for 2019, encouraging connection and networking between peers in different industries with similar interests. I’m enjoying it so far, and recommend that you try it out. I’ve already started talking to several different people, and feel energized to network more actively, given that my primary experience doing so has been through conference events. Which I love, I do enjoy meeting new people, but I also have to recharge from for weeks after (introvert probs). This gives you 10-ish matches to look from per day, and you can connect or not. But it doesn’t overwhelm with choices, and sets you up to be able to grow your circle without the introvert exhaustion from peopling in quantity and sorting everything out yourself. Love it. ### 3/5 — App is sorta buggy and parallels Tinder *2019-03-10, version 4.8* No matter how many times I save my information, including bio (which I know works because it allows me to go through the swiping process and have gotten results so I know the profile is live), it makes me go through and save it all again every time I open the app. I think it walks a fine line between professional and dating/social focused app, and through the interface and types of selling points, often veers further into the dating/social side. This may work for some, but I think it could do better for professional networking. ### 3/5 — I like the concept, but noticed a few bugs *2019-02-21, version 4.7.2* Bugs #1 When I’m adding my interests, some of them float to the right and are not visible, making me unable to see or remove them. #2 Whenever I click on anything that brings up the pop up for buying the pro version, there is no way to close the pop up, forcing me to close the app. I’m disappointed that you cannot add your location with the free version. The app is basically non-functional if you cannot find people near you. 14/15 of my swipes today were people out of state, it’s not practical to drive that far or ask someone else to drive that far, and meeting in person is important to me as opposed to video chat. It would be awesome if you added some geolocation features to the free version, I understand that you need to incentivize the pro version, but maybe you could shoot for something like 3 people in my area per 15 swipes with the free version, and 10-15 for the paid version. Other than that, I love the concept and it will be a great tool for meeting others with similar interests, networking, and career building. -Christian ### 3/5 — Nothing yet *2019-01-12, version 4.6.2* So far it seems most individuals are wanting to sell me on a new job or trying to help kick start a work from home job. Makes it seem like most are here just to recruit people and not make a real connection. I’ve been on it 2 months and it’s the same message of “I am here to help others kick start a new opportunity working etc.” Would be interesting to know how we match since most I’ve matched with don’t have the selections I’ve put and the location too. Seems more of the profiles may be fake. I was excited to try since I just relocated and an article made it seem they connected with authentic individuals who want a meaningful connection and to gain new knowledge. Still will try but not going to pay for the upgrade again sadly. ### 3/5 — totally inaccessible to blind users *2018-12-20, version 4.6.1* No effort seems to have been made to make this app accessible using voiceOver which is what blind people use for access on an iPHone. There are apparently simple tools Apple provides to developers for accessibility support. At least it's developers who do support VoiceOver who tell me how easy it is. I was able to struggle through creating a profile but cannot do the swiping or other connection-making tasks for which this app exists. Creating and editing the profile was also a piece of work. I tried contacting the developer before posting this but could not find a way to do that. The web site seems to support only the problems they have already addressed. Good work putting up a barrier for the people who most need tools like this. ### 4/5 — Good app but a lot of fake profiles *2018-10-10, version 4.5* I like the idea of the app and have had several conversations with great people, but the matches the app comes up with on its own are awful. I’m not sure what their algorithm is but I find better matches when using the search feature. And, there are a lot of fake profiles that say “I love you and miss you” as the memo line or have a ... as if the info was brought in from LinkedIn. If they could rid the app of these profiles so I don’t have to waste time on swiping left, I’d give this 5 stars. ### 3/5 — Free version lost its mojo *2018-09-10, version 4.3.3* If you’re interested in this concept be ready to pay for the premium version because the free version is lacking at best. On the free version you occasionally find someone mildly interesting but most of the potential connections are looking to sell you something. I’m presuming Shapr runs an algorithm that weeds out the people you actually want to meet to get you to pay for the app so you can meet the people you do. This wasn’t always the case. In fact, I was an early user and met many great people. Now I’m lucky if I find a match worth following up with once every few weeks. I blindly hope they improve the algorithm for the free version but they probably won’t and I’ll likely stop using it. ### 3/5 — Experience probably based on area. *2018-05-28, version 4.0.2* I have been using Shapr for two months now and it has been a strange experience to say the least. Most of the profiles that I see in a day are incomprehensible. Sometimes I’m pretty sure I’m viewing fake profiles (when I see the same profile back to back with the same interests and same weirdly worded bio but with different names and different pics). I also get the impression that some profiles are fake because there are no links and a bio cuts off mid-word as though the folks at Shapr have been pulling data from LinkedIn. I am in Memphis, TN and most days there isn’t any Memphis resident whose profile I can check out. Usually I’m seeing Georgia or Chicago or somewhere in Canada. If the primary purpose was to actually meet people beyond the internet, that’s not helpful to me. I need to see my community first and then increasingly further out. I also don’t understand the logic of matching either. Maybe some days there just aren’t enough profiles to match my key words against, but there are many days where most of the profiles I’m given have no matching interests at all. I’ve matched with several folks in the past month. Most aren’t anywhere close to me. So it makes it very hard to get myself to use the app on a daily basis when it’s clear that my likelihood of interacting with someone in person is in the single digits. ### 3/5 — Needs Distance Limit Feature *2018-05-27, version 4.0.2* I guess the reason it does this is because the number of users in my area is not very large yet even though I live in one of the largest cities in the country. It gives me a couple of users close to me, and then users from Arizona, Nevada, South Dakota, Tennessee, etc. The notifications are pretty unreliable—when you match with someone, it’s almost impossible to make the badge app notification go away no matter him many times you open the app & look at your inbox. ### 3/5 — Great Idea but tech support and chat feature is lacking. *2018-03-14, version 4.0* I have enjoyed this app but have hit continued bugs as I have used this app on my iPhone, especially in the chat section not receiving responses until days after or not at all. In trying to reach someone regarding this, the website leads to only FAQ pages or Twitter links where my tweets have been unanswered. I was considering the premium option for this app but thought against it after my unanswered frustration with these aspects of this app. Hence, my finally writing this review. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Don’t Install App. Data mining App WITHOUT consent *2019-09-17, version 4.9.7* Shapr is far from a networking app. Often people whom you’ve matched with do not even know that you’ve matched. As a seasoned pro in the arts for over 45 years and counting. This app doesn’t even ‘nudge’, or notify the person that you are a business match. I’ve had people whom are far from the industry on this app that didn’t know we’ve connected. From a food services worker to ‘retired’ person which doesn’t fit the bill. When you attempt to remove a specific person by ‘unmatched’ category, it remains on your ‘say hello’ contact. When you actually paid for the app as well, the area needing tremendous work is ‘they swiped you right’. When 19 appeared on ‘they swiped you right’ and I’ve dismissed ALL of them. ALL of the same exact 19 people that have ‘swiped you right’ are still there. ****get rid of this app permanently**** Way too many bugs and glitches when you sync your LinkedIn profile with the app. This is just a glorified amped up Craigslist app that has no relevance in the algorithm it’s created. Nor any business association with LinkedIn. It’s obviously has nothing to begin with. So why does it use LinkedIn if it’s such a wonderful networking app...? It doesn’t and it won’t on my end. WOT. Major security breach. ### 1/5 — Great if looking for coffee shop company *2019-06-21, version 4.9.3* Everyone wants to meet up for no reason. You being the goal oriented individual that you are download shapr with a specific purpose in mind. You want to create X and you’re looking to build a team. Unfortunately everyone else using Shapr isn’t as goal oriented or strategic as you are and they match with you, have no interest or ability to contribute to X, but still try to set up a time to meet in real life and get coffee. Why? Is everyone on this app out of work? Why does everyone suggest meeting for coffee right off the back. Caliber of people using this app leaves much to be desired. ### 1/5 — Great networking until new phone *2018-09-29, version 4.4* So this app has been great on my old 6s Plus. Lots of great connections that led to many jobs for my freelance business and opportunities. That is until I upgraded and got a new phone. Now there’s no option to log in, just to create a new account? Seriously?? How is there no option at ALL to log in?! And of course, because there’s no other option, when I try to enter my info it says there’s already an acct from this email... sigh... Please fix. I have many I was in the middle of conversations with. Not the best impression to look flaky because you’re locked out of your account, ya know? I’ll adjust my review when it’s solved. ### 2/5 — Full of fake profiles and Bitcoin people. *2021-04-07, version 5.1* Shapr USED to be great. They are awful now. Don’t even bother. They do nothing to weed out fake profiles trying to take advantage of everyone and literally thousands of Bitcoin forex “people”trying to contact you with their fake profiles. Their company names aren’t capitalized, fake photos, their links to their social media or LinkedIn go nowhere. Shapr has done nothing to stop this. Sure you can “report” them but it goes nowhere since there are thousands of others to take their place. I don’t know trust anyone writing to me on this site and you shouldn’t either. If I don’t give at least two stars btw, they won’t let me post this review. 😂 ### 2/5 — Only works in established cities *2019-07-07, version 4.9.4* In Austin, there were three types of users on the app: 1) Dudes who thought they were on tinder (uh, your profile *said* you were looking to hire? Why did you change the subject from work after one sentence to what my weekend plans were, then send me your phone number and expect me to call you? Gross) 2) People scheming to recruit you into their pyramid scheme (tell-tale warning sign: any mention of “mentors,” “financial independence,” and retiring in their early 30’s 3) People who NEVER RESPOND to messages I’m in Austin. You’d think there’s be a decent user-base here. You only have a certain number of “swipes” a day with a free account, and sometimes, more than half of them would be folks who were in Houston, DFW, or even Mexico. I like the idea of the app, but the small handful of matches I got were all trying to take advantage of me. No thanks, I’ll stick with LinkedIn. ### 2/5 — Features hidden behind paywall *2019-04-17, version 4.8.2* So, it’s an interesting concept, except 90% of what you want to do with the app is hidden behind paying for a subscription. They’ll tell you that you can message your matches, but unless that person actually subscribed, they’re not going to be able to respond to your swipe. You’re better off using other networking methods unless you have the ability to pay for it. You can set up your account and interests, but if anyone swipes right on you, you are unable to respond unless you subscribe. Most of the users aren’t going to pay the $20/month just to maybe get a match that meets their standards. At least you can view their linked accounts, so if you do use the free version, make sure to link your third party accounts. ### 2/5 — A tease *2019-02-25, version 4.7.2* TLDR: the “matching” algorithm doesn’t “match”, then they ask for your money to make it “match.” The concept is great but it seems like nothing else but a money-making scheme for the developers. You get 15 random “matches” a day - and they do seem very random; more than half of them have nothing to do with my industry and the rest are other people in my industry who are looking for jobs just like me. Then the push notifications- “someone wants to hire you, give us $20 to find out who it is” is the gist of it. To actually *search* for people who may be valuable to network with, you also have to pay for that. I will give it some more time to see if the algorithm improves, but the manner in which they manipulate users has put me off of ever paying. ### 2/5 — Entry level functionality is too restrictive *2018-12-30, version 4.6.1* Unless your willing to shell out a monthly fee this app isn’t worth it. The only thing you can do for free is swipe on people they suggest for you and the algorithm they are using hasn’t been very helpful thus far in creating good matches at least for me. The devs need to at least unlock the search feature for free users. Currently the free version is so locked down I as the end user can’t even get a feel for what it would be like to be subscribing member. This should be more like linked in where you have lots of basic features and then they also give you glimpses of what the benefits of having a subscription could be. Not very impressed with this app because basically everything is behind the subscription wall. ### 2/5 — Don’t waste your time. *2018-12-16, version 4.6* they want you to pay that much for subscription? Just shows they have to up the price due to not that many downloads. why not make it 8$ optional on a month to month basis, instead of 100$ for 12 months. Also the same people pop up once you’ve declined them. The people you do want to work with, may have already deleted the app, 24 hours just to wait for new swipes? and lastly but many not listed, why give suggestions of someone in another state in the free version? i don’t live there. YALL ARE CRAZY! How about making it a quality app first and let it spread by word of mouth instead of trying to make quick money . ### 2/5 — Beware Of Pyramid Schemes... “Mentor” *2018-10-26, version 4.5.3* I think I have met some really cool people and some really inspiring travelers and photographers. What I really hate about this app is how many “friendly” people are on this app in hopes you get you to join their pyramid scheme (or similar) paid membership to join some crap scheme. People need to be very very aware of this. My mentor has blah blah blah... “made six figures Wall Street and got this side hustle where they were able to walk away!” Many many people will attempt to sell you on this. Just report them. World adventures, Building an E-commerce sure that scales by building an online community, or Amway, etc etc. These are businesses in hopes to get you to sell for them for free. You make little to nothing. More so in the US, but I’m guessing Europe has similar programs. “Get your family and friends to sign up for this awesome travel program”... it’s all crap. Hopefully people don’t fall for this. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Please fix *2021-07-30, version 5.1* I am a daily swiper on this app. I love this platform. I have met some amazing people on here. My problem is that I log in and no people to come up to swipe even with a perfect connection. I think it's a bug, if so please give us the next update asap. Keep up the great work. I give glowing reviews about Shapr to everyone. It's a big part of my life being on here and I would hate to leave after 4 years of making connections. ### 5/5 — Love the app do not love the glitches. *2020-10-09, version 5.1* I’ve been using the free and paid version off and on since 2016 and I’ve met all of my clients on it along with some super key people in my network. It’s an incredible app for networking. I’m excited for them to release a US version of the job finder they have in France. The only reason I didn’t give a five star review was because the app is super glitchy, ie; you swipe yes and come back into the app and it’s gives you those same profiles to swipe again. Or if I do a search, it often tends to glitch to an error page “Oops, something went wrong... our development team has been notified” Aside from the annoying glitches this is one of my favorite apps and I highly recommend it to anyone in business. ### 5/5 — In my opinion *2019-10-14, version 5.0* don’t like that the appi like the concept of the app but I hate the limit to the number of people you can swipe. And I wish you could just message people directly without having to match. only allows you to see a few people every day. If you are trying to build a large business fast then you need more people in front of your opportunity everyday! ### 5/5 — Amazing app for networking! *2019-02-11, version 4.7* As an introvert, it’s very hard for me to go out and actively talk to people and because of this I’ve started reaching out to more people via social media and things of the like. Shapr has alllowed me to explore a platform which enables me to meet new people who have similar goals and interests, and actually act upon our connection through voice calls, video calls, coffee meetups, etc. Everything is really simple, too. You fill out basic information about yourself and from there you can add goals and tags relating to your interests. From there, Shapr sends you a batch of people based on your goals and interests. You swipe right if you’d like to meet with a person, and left if you’d prefer not to. Think Tinder and LinkedIn in one app. ### 5/5 — Independent associate with ASEA, a bio-tech company *2018-07-23, version 4.2* SHAPR is an excellent resource for networking, especially for serious-minded entrepreneurs who are open minded to other business opportunities outside of what they are currenting doing. SHAPR presents me 15 or more new contacts EVERY 24 hours, free of charge...and for a nominal fee, I can increase that number by dozens every 24 hours. I so appreciate with SHAPR the opportunity to post a picture, list up to 10 profile descriptions, write a paragraph up to 250 words about my pursuits and/or interests, list preferred ways to connect with a match, and even be able to include computer links (including my own business website). WOW, and double WOW!! I have so much admiration and praise for this incredible opportunity and will be forever grateful to the person who introduced SHAPR to me. Thank you SHAPR!!!!!!!!!!!! ### 5/5 — How do you say..... *2018-04-26, version 4.0.2* I’ve only been on the app for a couple days now. It makes it easy to connect with people all around the world and locally as well. The kicker is being able to easily find people in your field, to build work opportunities and hopefully creates some relationships that will span further then attempting to find awesome people such as this organically. I am how do you say.... super hyped to continue building. ### 5/5 — Amazing app *2018-04-24, version 4.0.2* I’ve already met several professionals and am working with some. This is an amazing app. To the Shapr engineers, please fix the notification glitch; it shows I still have a new message even after I check and clear it off. I have to open the app again and click the message several times just for it to disappear. Thank you creators of the app. ### 5/5 — More then I dreamed of!! *2017-11-15, version 3.8.2* This app is full of people looking for all sorts of networking connections. And the great part is you never know if you are going to find a mentor, a peer or a potential investor that will hire you and work with you! So many great connections for the digital networking world! It’s a great approach to networking on demand. My ONLY desire is that i wish there was a web page so i could type on a keyboard my responses instead of my phone. I don’t want to quickly transfer the convo out of the app and I’m sure y’all don’t want that either bc churn is bad. Other than that, i just have a slight pet peeve that pop ups about a “new message” from a different person pops up while I’m replying to another and it’s just bothersome and unnecessary. If i am already in the app I’m going to check for any new messages before i leave it, plus the badge icon with numbers of unopened messages can tell you if you have new messages. Other than that keep it up! This is way more personable than LinkedIn as a relationship builder and I love that! The timer for limiting connections a day is GREAT and truly does what it’s intended to do! Hopefully i have other great updates from my connections soon! ### 5/5 — I can’t thank the developers of this app enough... *2017-11-01, version 3.8.2* About 6 months ago I matched and met up with a local tech entrepreneur because of this app. We immediately started working together on one of his previously sidelined ventures until about two months ago when Hurricane Harvey hit Texas. We shifted all focus onto his nonprofit, The Cajun Relief Foundation, and stood up the Texas Navy Facebook page to facilitate and organize citizen-led rescues in Texas. Since then my life has dramatically changed for the better and I would love the opportunity to speak to one of the developers to be able to tell my entire story because I could write a novel just about my last two months. Thank you again and I hope to hear from you soon! ### 5/5 — The Best of the Best *2017-10-07, version 3.8.2* Genius! It’s amazing App, someone that creates thinking about real people, real interest, real propose, and more,,, they give us some days to connect with the person based on our interests. Some people do not agree about the time to swipes each time they have but believe me, this is the best way to know people so, we have a break and a chance to know each other much better or if not we had another chance and keep going till find someone that matches,, Unfortunately some people don’t describe what they are looking for, waste my time on swipes!!!!!! Meet or not meeting it’s up to your needs and work developments, KEEP IN MIND THAT IT’S NOT A DATING APP !!!! Fabulous, thank you so much for give to us this brilliant idea! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*