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Grindr Reviews Summary

Grindr has a rating of 1.5 stars from 183 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Grindr most frequently mention customer service, drug dealers and fake profiles. Grindr ranks 20th among Gay Dating sites.

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Canada
1 review
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I did get some entertainment via this site, but it did not go further. Please do not expect much from Grindr. You can get a lot more on AFGay.com
There are very few real people who are up for meetups and relationship.

Date of experience: September 23, 24
New York
1 review
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Deadly
December 5, 2024

Grindr is dangerous. Met the wrong group of gays, who were using meth. So I fell prey. 6 years of he'll on earth. Went from snorting it to injecting it like that. You start to have sex for drugs. It is horrifying if you are under age and you are on, Grindr deleted immediately I've almost been killed. I've been catfish so many times. Or it's a trap and you get killed that way.

Date of experience: March 6, 2013
Connecticut
4 reviews
19 helpful votes
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Grindr banned me for a second time for doing nothing wrong. I am sick of the crap anyway. Many of the people are professional prostitutes who use the site to make money. Others are there just to pay them. Many are underage, so, you take a HUGE chance when you meet them. Many are paid to get you to join other dating sites that charge money. The pictures of most of the people who have joined are not theirs. You find out that when you do a meet. Many are into hard core drugs. I found that out the hard way. Many are married. Some admit to it. Most don't. Stay away from this site under all circumsatances or you will regret it.

Date of experience: October 24, 2024
Missouri
1 review
1 helpful vote
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No customer service
June 14, 2024

A couple months ago grindr gas had many bugs which they never fix and a few weeks ago I submitted a ticket for the app taking way too long to load everything I I received the automated response immediately saying they will reach out to me in a few days and that was may 31st with no response at all! I pay for premium and their customer service is trash. No help whatsoever! I've canceled for this reason and I'm deleting the app as well! Grindr is garbage. They don't care about their customers free or paying

Date of experience: June 14, 2024
Texas
3 reviews
3 helpful votes
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Glitchy App
March 26, 2024
Updated review

This App sucks! With all of the money that you make off of this App and you can't fix the damn thing from constantly locking up? A lot of people on the App complain about it.

Date of experience: March 26, 2024

Unfair profile editing
August 9, 2023
Previous review

How does this piece of crap app get away with allowing only certain people to post nude photos? I've filed complaints about nudity and nothing happens to the photos. I've tried to post similar photos and my photos get blocked.

Date of experience: August 9, 2023
Minnesota
1 review
2 helpful votes
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This app is horrible
March 14, 2024

You know your site sucks when the dmv is better ran then grindr I cannot believe this site went public and its trade on the market apparently people to sell this stock asap
You people failed miserably

Date of experience: March 14, 2024
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Grindr has gotten worse and worse. Now, I reach out to 1 person then endless commercials. Horrible s

Date of experience: February 17, 2024
Australia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Grindr isn't even a gay dating app anymore. It's now just trannies and straight homophobic men wishing to sleep with them and cheat on their wives.
Grindr supports this.
Their admin ban your account with no information on what you have done or how you have been falsely accused.
Grindr supports homophobic activity and do not care for the gay community.
It's the biggest sham app.
DONT DOWNLOAD OR SUBSCRIBE TO THIS HOMOPHOBIA SUPPORTING APP!

Date of experience: February 9, 2024
New York
1 review
2 helpful votes
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For years I've been trying to make another account you can't. It says phone number used too many times, of course they don't provide any support yet they want to charge $100's of dollars. I deleted one account that i managed to get working but I can't create a new one. To hell with them. That company needs to be investergated.

Date of experience: January 28, 2024
Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Subscription renewal
January 10, 2024

Grindr make it so difficult to in terms of subscription renewal or not.
Why the hell you need to sign up on one of those Google play applications. Could it be a simple yes or no if you want reoccurring renewal.
Grindr come.clean if you are getting some kickback for signing up in those applications.

Date of experience: January 10, 2024
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Grindr is the worst gay hookup sight on the internet, not that the others are much better. The problem with anything anywhere these days, not just on the internet, is it's all about somebody making money.
1. the fake spam conman profiles or con-whatever (because you never know who's on the other end of a con) are out of control and Grindr Admin does NOTHING about it.
2. ad's in general are TOTALLY OUT OF CONTROL! They freeze up your window and make you have to close the app and reopen it. I.e. I wouldn't buy an effin online Monopoly app if it where the last thing on earth and I was bored out of my mind! Freezes your window regardless if you are a paying subscriber or a free user so the other guy on the other end never knows if you are ghosting him or what? Great way to hook up! Way to go Grindr NOT!
3. most of the controls in the setting don't work consistently let alone work at all. I.e. I block the same guy 10 times a day and he reappears.
4. Profiles stay up long after you exit the app so other guys still think you are online.

Date of experience: December 29, 2023
Alabama
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Front for the scammers
December 27, 2023

I was just got booted off grinder, No reason given. Although I found legitimate people, in the grinder app. I was also being bombed by scammers. Mainly a lot of them claiming to be Chinese, their pictures look as tough they have been cut out of a GQ magazine. There are also a lot of white hustlers, selling their services. 90% of the contacts were from the individuals claiming to be Chinese, living hundreds of miles away from me. The rest were the masseurs selling their services. I wonder as to why the government stepped in,and shut down Craigslist, yet they continue to allow Grinder to get away with their crimes.

Date of experience: December 27, 2023
Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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After being dissapointed with the site for things like recommending people 600kms away and generally being a pretty ordnary site I cancelled my account. I can comfirm that because when I tried to log on as a test it bassically asked me to rejoin. Antwat after 3 weeks I just got a notification from google play that $32.00 was taken from my account to pay for another month. I wonder how much money they are making from deleted accounts?

Date of experience: December 14, 2023
South Carolina
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Management
December 7, 2023

Worst site, won't return emails, sent 3three no return, band me for no reason or explanation, all they do is cater to scammers getting number then ur accounts and they do nothing about it, I told one what I thought and grindr responded right off warning me, I'm sure this goes on deaf ears.

Date of experience: December 7, 2023
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I was on there website for just a few months. I went to sign on and it said my account was bad and suspended for NO REASON! I have email then many times asking why and all the say is they cant give out that information! I guess they pick random accounts and suspended or ban them. I have given them alot of money over the months and they treat you like this. IAM PAYING there damm salary for christ sake! WTH! Dont wast your money or give them your account number as well. NOT safe. Hope this helps others wanting to sign up. Thanks

Date of experience: October 4, 2023
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Grindr literally bans paid accounts for no reason and they refuse to refund paid subscribers they ban! You try to explain the situation but they literally don't see to reason and they just ignore you when you try to appeal! They literally ban you for telling someone the price of tickets to an event in NYC you're meeting someone at and they use the excuse as "soliciting sex". So you can't tell a group of friends you're attending a concert in NYC and how much money the tickets are because if you're talking about money, you must obviously be selling sex! Grindr is a $#*!ing joke! Sniffies.com is better... at least they see to reason!

Date of experience: October 1, 2023
Florida
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Horrible
September 14, 2023

You pay a hundred dollars for a subscription but that doesn't even allow you to see who visited your profile - they want you to pay even more for the basics that other sites have for free even after you already paid a hundred bucks - will not be renewing - snake oil salesmen - pond scum feeding off of the gay community

Date of experience: September 14, 2023
Georgia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Charges
August 13, 2023

They now want to minimize how many profiles you can view so you will be forced to pay money for membership. Even when you purchase one, they want you to purchase other memberships in addition to the first one for other services. This is a horrible tactic. I miss they way it was prior to this corporate change.

Date of experience: August 13, 2023
Georgia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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This new Grindr is not making anything easier it is making meeting much worse. The direction of the platform has changed from a place where men meet to a place where the rich can make money off of men not meeting. Going public. Almost their biggest mistake ever. Behind the charging out the butt just to see 600 profiles. Wow.

Date of experience: August 4, 2023
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Not So Great
August 4, 2023

1) there are a lot of chat bots (maybe 5-10%) from places like China and Azerbaijan; these are identifiable by their lack of a geolocation and professional photos. If you'd like to engage in unending sexy chat this might be a good app for you. These profiles became more prevalent after grindr became web-based.
2) there are a lot of prostitutes; these are identifiable by the phrases "lost chats" (because grindr deleted their profile for obvious criminal activity) and the word "visiting" - what they really mean is traveling prostitute.
3) there appears to be a substantial and homeless and criminal element. Maybe they intend to rob you in your own home or have you show up in a car, ("Car Fun") than stick a knife or a gun in your ribs and drive away in your car. Have fun explaining that to the police.
4) there are a lot of just plain old fake profiles. There are an even greater number of false profiles with guys claiming to be something that they are not, such as hosting or clean.
5) You don't get what you pay for: grindr has a lot of ads for children's games which you cannot bypass and if you upgrade you continue to get those same ads for games. As a result of this grindr is a very slow process. You might even spend more time looking at ads then being able to browse or search. In the end every time I clicked on a profile it was an ad for a paid upgrade which I'm not going to be willing to pay for for the reasons listed above. At that point I uninstalled grindr from my phone. It's

In a nutshell it's Not so Great.

If grindr mandated geolocation, blocked the phone numbers of prostitutes, got rid of the web-based grindr, insisted on one XXX non-portrait full frontal and one non-portrait XXX side photo it would cut out a lot of the fake, false and criminal profiles and allow grindr to charge a weekly or monthly subscription without any ads. This would also probably result in a greater number of actual & real people participating in the app but unfortunately this is not their business model.

Date of experience: August 4, 2023