Bumble — Meet, Date & Network
- Inc.“Bumble's found a way to weed out jerks online.”
- Time “Bumble is redefining dating rules.”
- Cosmopolitan“Bumble is swiping the weirdness out of online dating.”
- Fast Company
CHANGING THE RULES OF THE GAMEFinding relationships online isn’t embarrassing anymore. Bumble has lifted the stigma of online dating by employing robust reporting and setting unprecedented standards for respectful behaviour.
The app has also successfully shaken up traditional gender roles in heteronormative dating. On Bumble, ladies always talk first. Bumble is also the first of its kind to bring friend-finding to social networking. Now you can swipe through potential dates and friends on the same platform.
In heterosexual matches, the woman has 24 hours to make the first move and the man has 24 hours to respond. In same sex matches, either person has 24 hours to make the first move and 24 hours to respond or the connection expires. Prompting conversation has lead Bumble to the highest post match chat rate in the industry.
Category : Lifestyle
Reviews (20)
At one point you could have a limited number of "advanced" filters without paying. They've removed that entirely now, so filtering results on something fundamental as religion or smoking is no longer an option. Why bother when you'll end up swiping left on most all options? Waste of time. [Edit after response from the developer] "in the meantime, you're always welcome to pick a short subscription term to try it out and see if you like it." Why in the world would I pay a ransom for features?
Can't get anything to load. I have 5G with full bars and bumble won't load. I tried to use the "contact us" feature in the app and even that won't load. I've uninstalled and reinstalled. I've rebooted my phone, I've cleared the apps cache, I've done everything. This is fully 100% on their end. Spoke with their support on Facebook and they were unaware and had no fix, so I guess I'm special
Sadly they only seem to care about how much they can charge you these days. Used to be a great little app, some free services, very reasonably priced upgrades (which they've now removed) but it's got just as bad as tinder with the excessive charges and how they've split services to charge you even more. Very disappointing 😞 **almost a year later and charges have got even worse, no longer interested in the customer, only interested in making as much profit as possible.
Not very good app. I think it is silly that the phone resets everytime on matches when it logs off sometimes automatically. I mean Tinder does the same thing. Like what are you suppose to not use your phone for 12 hours until it unlocks. To me that is the number one thing that is annoying. Also the matches the setup is just barely better than others, but not by much!
Has potential but this app is honestly too expensive. Some people may be really desperate but for casual use it's way too expensive. Sure, you swipe for free, but only matches lead to conversations. And seeing your matches costs money, a lot of money. Think €15-20 per week. This may not sound much, but for something casual and nonessential, it's a lot. Like 90% overpriced. Farewell my 12 matches, whoever you may be.
Not really sure how review this app? It works? Not really glitchy. Update: 5/31: They're the same as Tinder now in operations. The backtrack feature is now behind a pay wall. AND they've suddenly limited the total number of swipes per day. Update 5/10/22: They've now put filters behind the pay wall as well. It used to help you waste less time on the app but I'm sure that's the whole point of putting it behind a pay wall now. Lowering my score to 2 b/c of the constant free feature removals.
Love the interface and the profile questions, and just the overall feel of the app so far, but the seeing who likes/swipes right on you feature being premium was disappointing. I understand other things being premium like search options, and that the app needs to make money (though £14.99 for one week is super expensive). I just wish for the free version that the swipe right list at least showed you the first few profiles and then blurs out the rest, which could then be unlocked by premium.
Now as hard to use as Hinge due to issues with user interface. Getting likes that are outside of my preference settings. Message someone, and the app freezes and has to be shut down and reopened to be able to communicate with the next person. Then it freezes again! Original complaint was that the new beeline format makes it impossible to scroll through your likes without accidentally swiping right (at least if you swipe left, you can reverse the action) PLEASE FIX THIS! Cancelled subscription.
Unrealistic timetable I'm really only using this app because I randomly got kicked off of tinder. The 24-hour timeline is just ridiculous. I'm really bummed that I lose lots of good matches. It's fun to just spend a little time swiping through like a video game that could have a happy ending! LOL But now if I end up matching with a bunch of those people, I'm going to lose them because it takes way more than 24 hours for people to be able to chat sometimes. No one can check it every day. Bummed.
I downloaded this app 6 hours ago and have received 12 interested people. I'm going to delete this app now 7 hours in. It seems super lousy at introducing people-more like a bizarre waste of time. edit•i did delete it. It works. i had 20 interested people in 13 hours but i just don't get it. You have to both swipe on each other, but there are thousands of people in my area. The chances of matching a swipe are slim-unless you swipe 'yes' to every person on the app.
Like the concept and lifetime subscription is well worth it! Other apps don't even offer it. I find women don't like to message first, which is strange; that's the point of the app. Often, the timer runs out. However, when you do connect with someone, they tend to be more serious than with other apps because they're letting their guard down. Cheers
If you download the app please don't bother paying for the premium as I have, the travel mode which it offers doesn't work as it should and you won't get any match. You might see matches in the city you change it to but I doubt if they show your profile to them. The superwipe is a waste also. It is better to use the free account. I regret paying for a premium subscription
Not completely worthless, but close. Profiles are way too short to offer any meaningful information. I think I had one date from Bumble, several months ago. ... Definitely no reason to invest in a paid account. Overall just disappointing. Looks clean. Functions well. Just really shallow. It would be so easy for them to offer more text space.
Makes you wait 24 hours for likes to reset, which is too much altogether, essentially you can't use the app for a whole day if you go through all your likes. That can be looked over, I guess, but it's also split amongst the other modes, which is annoying. I know they're pushing to pay for the app, but it's a gamble and nothing is guaranteed with the algorithm.
The app works well. Just one problem with the swipe right feature. It is not forgiving if you accidentally swipe right in the wrong profile. The smallest accidental touch could get you in trouble. It also appears to throttle back the number of profiles delivered...most of which are not what you want to see. Makes you waste too much time on unwanted profiles.
A good app overall, but the new "Liked you" screen is a jaggedy disaster (on a high-end phone). Practically impossible to scroll through, often the wrong picture is shown for a profile (different person when profile is opened), the same profiles are shown multiple times, etc. How did this get through testing. It's so erratic I'm scared to use it, feels like I'll swipe people accidentally.
Terrible experience recently. This app has zero support, or chooses not to support. I've emailed them at least twice, and they haven't responded at all. I can't log in, and there is zero explanation for it, either through the app or through support. I had some success years ago, and would enjoy trying again.
It's a money grab system taking advantage of people trying to seek some sort of relationship. The application doesn't work most the time and lags. Can't put in new forms of payments to try and reach out to people. And typically the "Bumble Team" says we loved to help you like it's something you did wrong, but it's not. Had luck with this before in connecting with people but since you're limited to options at a cost, you'd probably have better luck saving your money.
I turned my date mode off, but people are still able to see my date profile when they should not be able to. I know this because I am still getting matches with people from date mode. I have contacted bumble multiple times to get this fixed, but each time I get an automated response that has nothing to do with what I'm asking. They're extremely unhelpful and don't care about any problems with the app. Also, you get a very limited (like 30) number of likes per day or something.
Nice design and generally user friendly and comfortable, with few bots. Good if people in your area use it. The trouble with all these Tinder-like apps though is you never know what you're actually paying for. Say you pay for a boost: was your profile actually being shown to anyone before you boosted? Was it shown to anyone after? How many more? There's no way of knowing. The algorithm that determines whose profile gets shown to whom is a black box you can throw money into like a wishing well.