Bumble dating reviews

Bumble is the dating app for women who want to be empowered, and men who want to let ladies make the first move. Bumble is the dating app that puts the power into the woman's hands. For a man to be able to contact a woman, she must first have shown interest in him, adding a layer of security that other services lack.

Created by one of the co-founders of Tinder, Bumble shares a lot of features with that popular app—specifically the concept of swiping to show your interest in a fellow user—but this app comes across much less like a meet market. If you are a guy who is happy to sit back and let the woman control the interactions, Bumble is your choice.

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And if you're a woman who wants to take the power back in the online dating sphere—and cut down on all of the unwanted "lol u up? Bumble is available as both an iOS app and an Android app. You can't log in via desktop—though the Bumble site is full of info about its philosophy, a blog called the Beehive, and a way to sign up to be a Bumble brand ambassador on your campus.

I used the Android app during my testing.

Like many other dating apps, Bumble really wants you to log in via Facebook, but in this post-Cambridge Analytica world, you also have the option to use just your phone number which is what I did. After inputting your digits and adding your confirmation code sent via text message, the profile-building begins.

First up, the app asks for a photo even before getting to things like name, sex, and age. Of course, Bumble handily prompts you to auto-fill from Facebook again—and you're given the option to add more photos right at the start. Unlike most other apps, rather than making you pick a gender, Bumble asks what you identify as. The only other service I tested that offers a similar feature is OkCupid , which lets you choose between a number of gender identities, including Hijra, genderfluid, and two-spirit.

From there, you're asked your name and birthday which, again, you are prompted to use Facebook to complete. This is one of the few apps that asks for an email specifically for recovery purposes. I like that you are given the option to opt out of updates about events and promotions, which most other apps sign you up for without bothering to ask.

After filling out those simple requests, you can further beef up your profile. Bumble gives you the option to answer questions like who your dream dinner guest is, play "two truths and a lie," or complete aspirational writing prompts like "Equality to me means You can also connect your Spotify and Instagram accounts, a feature that our Editors' Choice, Tinder , also offers. While the signup process is quick and easy, Bumble doesn't ask you the extensive list of personality questions that competitors such as Match another Editors' Choice and eharmony do.

That's good if you want to get in and matching quickly, but bad if you're looking to make a more data-driven connection. After your first sign-in, the app explains that Bumble is where you build your Hive which is its term for everyone you can meet on the app—love interests, new friends, and even business partners and promises to be "the easiest and safest way" to create connections. This is the first app I've seen that cares to set some ground rules at the get-go, even if this is the slimmest of requests.

Bumble is also the only app I've seen that offers you the option of finding not just dates, but also new friends called Bumble BFFs and even people to network with Bumble Bizz. It's equal parts dating app, friend finder, and pastel-colored LinkedIn. I can't really fathom utilizing Bumble for anything other than romantic connections, but if you choose to, you can make separate profiles for each mode.

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I did briefly experiment with Bizz and BFF. The business mode is mostly filled with one-person tech companies selling their side hustle or headhunting. Bumble BFF is a fine idea, but if you're a guy, it only serves up profiles of other men—assuming I couldn't be friends with women is strangely non-"woke" for this app although I appreciate the privacy and security concerns this negates. I picked the dating option, and again, Bumble surprised me with its inclusiveness, offering the option to be into not just men or women, but "everyone. Since I indicated a preference for women, Bumble now called Bumble Date lets me know that "in our hive, ladies make the first move.

This is the point in the process where Bumble asks you to open your wallet. I'll talk more about the cost of subscriptions and incremental extras below, but I opted for the free plan to start browsing right away. As mentioned, unless a woman expresses interest in you first, all you can do as a guy to show you like a fellow user is swipe right, tap the check mark icon in someone's profile, or tap a heart to show you're really, really into someone. In theory, once you've told Bumble that you're not interested in someone, they should no longer show up in your search results, but this doesn't always work.

Bumble really wants you to check out profiles in their entirety—the app prompts you to view all of a person's photos and read his or her bio before serving up the X you're not interested or check mark you are interested at the bottom of the screen. I had no notification via the app or via email that any payments were being made. I could not recognise the payment on my bank statement as it was not identified with their name. The withdrawal that they made this month in December did identify them as bumble which is when I realised something was wrong and put a stop to it.

They will not refund after being contacted and failure to identify themselves on withdrawals from your bank or send an email to confirm payment makes their intention pretty clear. My advice would be to not give any payments of payment details to them of any kind. I used Bumble for a brief period of time and found no reason to want to use it long term or pay for anything the app offers. The app is full of inactive profiles that Bumble wants to do nothing about removing and the pricing scheme is so absurdly overpriced and from a message sent to Bumble on Twitter they are very happy with their absurd pricing and have no intentions to change it.

The free version is totally useless and a con. If someone likes you there is no way of liking the person back. So no realistic prospect of a match. Don't put in your card details, everything you touch after will cost you money A subscription was purchased in error, refused to refund me even as a guesture of good will.

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I sent them multiple messages, even tried to contact apple but no one would help me. The worst experience ever! Please avoid this app. Very clever plot by Bumble who are thieves. I have since blocked Bumble. Literally daylight robbery. Very scary. Another waste of time for most users. You will receive a few matches at the start and then they will taper off and then the fake profiles will then appear.

Bumble advise to delete and reopen account but this hardly a solution to their dud system. If you do as they say and reopen your account you get sent the same profiles again, where again your likes will not be sent to the person you liked. It is designed to keep you on the site for as long as possible with as little dates as possible and to pay as much as possible and they will blame your profile, which is certainly not true. No matter how bad your profile is you should get lots of matches if the site was working in the interest of the user.

Really poor. You go in, like some guys I am f and then they send you a push notification mine said 66 likes and invite you for a membership. I paid for one week which is7. I asked for refund, they said no. Also, likes were 8. I have screenshots of everything. Stupid app go for Tinder. Worth a try. Some good catches but men are not treated equal. Maybe that is why they have a better quality of women. Awful company. Doesn't answer questions asked about the service, and took about a week to reply without answering the questions. Get to know your customers.