Meetup: Social Events & Groups 앱 리뷰

I have tried several times to cancel my subscription and wasted too much time trying to cancel. Very irritating

If you pay for subscription it takes your money and then keeps telling you have to upgrade.

this implies either incompetence or malice. the app should not lock the ability to add events to your calendar behind full calendar access when the “Add events only” permission should be sufficient.

After trying so hard and time and money invested, I’m not really happy with the treatment I’m receiving ie lack of communication when someone acts maliciously at my event and the wrongful review stays on without any merit. Lack of support says a lot. I don’t think I will be renewing my membership if this is not resolved soon

I wanted to check a quick comment on the app, but it had 5 consecutive pop ups in a row to ask me about a previous event. By the time I got through those, I forgot what I wanted to search for. Also, comments do not update properly. I got a notification for a comment, but could not find the comment in the actual comment section. Please improve the comment section as discussions are important!

They constantly try to get people to spend more money! They charge each group to maintain a group, but then try and get members to spend more unnecessarily! Then trying to find where they have your credit card info is impossible!

It is really hard to find groups anymore

This app was 5 stars but now is 2 stars. You have to pay for everything now

What used to be a fun and easy way to network has turned into a meaningless cash grab. So sad…

Meetup needs money. It starts to limit important features that have kept their users. Problem is, it gets less people participating, then groups die. The current model is not sustainable. Look at the groups you follow, no coming up events, unless you subscribe. You cannot messaging people unless you pay, as a participant! Meetup’s prime time is over. Soon it is a history, sadly.

New owner Bending Spoons changed billing model. In addition of charging organizers they are now charging end users to be able to communicate $4.99 per 7 days. I think they mean per month. Even paying the messaging system is very restrictive. They took away messaging and membership rosters.

Why aren’t there more activities in Durham? And why can’t we view everyone that is going without paying for this advantage? Liz

App keeps crashing. Won’t allow me to create events, which is literally why it exists.

Seems like every button push results in a popup to sell you a subscription. The admin already pays a lot. Why do casual users have to pay too?

After its acquisition and the struggle and bankruptcy of its parent company, meetup has gone from good to bad to worse. They locked all features that used to be free behind a paywall with a ridiculously high price. The features in the app haven’t been updated in years. It’s a very sad cautionary tale for what happens when founders sell out.

An app with issues that were never resolved for years. At least 50% of the features will not work or show wrong information.

App and website are becoming useless now thanks to worsening paywalls and glitches. Worse, I kinda live in void, as I already knew. Hour minimum from either major city “near” me, assuming traffic. Continually little of interest if you are a single 30-something that doesn’t work 9-5, M-F, and doesn’t drink much. My area is simply dominated by the 55+ crowd and drinkers willing to drive long distances for meetups literally at times I often can’t go anyway. Uncommon 30s groups are rarely active for more than a year, too, and often have events far away from me. One group with my region in its title mostly has events on the other side of the world! Oh, and don’t even assume it’s possible to find someone here for a serious relationship! So, ugh…

This app started charging you for items it previously gave for free. For example, it charges you for sorting through an RSVP? Want to message someone? Pay for it. Want priority wait list? Pay for it. And this app is full of glitches. I started recommending to the groups I’m in to transition to other apps. Thankfully some have been listening. I can’t wait to stop using this greedy and glitchy app.

Best app ever

Keeps sending me to things I don’t want & wouldn’t let me comment on an even I was going to. Lots of junk poping up. The people are great though😊

Nothing will load after the recent update.

I really don’t like that meetup is charging to become a member now. It used to be free. I am an organizer and a member now and I’m already paying a lot to be an organizer. I also had to start charging members to help defray the cost to be an organizer. A lot of organizers are moving to FB because of this. I also think we are losing members b/c of having to pay to use the app and go to the groups. Really not fair. At least keep the members app free.

Buggy

4/1/25 update. More things broken with the latest update. Under ‘Going’ it shows my entire history of events instead of the upcoming ones. A message I sent was put into the string of a completely different person. Old: I was having the problem where events showed TBD for all locations, and the About was blank. Now that fixed, but the RSVP lists will only show 5 people, even when there’s 20 going. I see why everyone is moving over to Facebook instead. Phone: iPhone 15 pro max with latest iOS version.

The app not like the website.. on the app upcoming events I registered not showing!! Also any new events now shown !?

Since latest iOS update, there are no longer any notifications that I am receiving, as well as events are not popping up. I will click a group that I know has events and i am signed up for but everything is saying “no upcoming events” meetup please fix this. Also very pushy with meetup pro promoting you every single time.

Are you trying to scare everyone away?

They now don't show events in groups. It used to be a fun app before the greed took over.

I used to love this app. Met people with the same interests and and friends with some of them still long after the meetup disappeared. After a hiatus I downloaded the app and am unable to find anything relevant to my interests. Not only that, but the suggested events were all expensive spiritual retreat spa type activities when the keyword I was searching for was “calligraphy” What an absolutely horrible app now!

I am an organizer and many people in my community have enjoyed my events so I have persisted in being an active user. Unfortunately within the last quarter of 2025, I have noticed a gradual yet significant decline in the apps functionality. Currently, the photo icons of certain groups wont load in my feed, when I open my group under 'Upcoming Events' I am being shown events from well over a 8 months ago up to a year ago. Today, I am seeing that I am seeing that my RSVP for upcoming events from other groups well OVER a year ago are no present on my main page. With the addition of having a problem every time I open the app. I am considering moving away from the platform and engaging in some other form. I used to be able to tell people it was a great way to meet people, but it seems the focus has shifted away from that market base and onto improving subscription services. A great loss indeed.

Meetup more than doubled the fee for organizers. This is not feasible for small groups. Meetup needs to get advertisers and lower the fees for small groups where they cannot charged members a high fee.

Latest update causes group events from showing up on the group home page. When I click on one of my groups, it shows no upcoming events when I know there is one because there’s one on my calendar. It works fine on the website, but it’s broken on iOS with your latest app update!

All groups suddenly show “no upcoming events”, I can only see the ones I signed up for in the home tab. Can’t even see past events because of this

3/30/25 updated the app since it wouldn’t load events and gave notification my version of the app wasn’t supported anymore. Wow what a useless app after this update and shady business practices. Now every time you click on something you get an ad for Meetup+ asking you to pay, and now all their features are behind the paywall. I can’t even see people in groups I’m in and been in for years! It also has a bug that tells me groups have No Upcoming Events but when I look at my calendar on Home it shows me those same groups having events. Sad because now people will stop attending events which is what this app/site was supposed to be for in the first place. Meetup needs to fire the CEO and leadership making these changes because their decisions are killing the company. I’m a very unhappy customer, soon to be not a customer at all anymore.

Latest release has broken the app with all groups now display no upcoming events. Meetup use to be a great platform but has gone done hill over the years.

Meetup does not check to see if every APP update works. The last error as of 3/26/2025 (and there have been many) is that all group events CANNOT be seen in the app. This will take several days to fix with Meetup asking the same question multiple times, even when an explanation AND picture were submitted. ARGHH…….Someone adds a “ canned response” that makes no sense. Yes, the app is updated and submitted through their crazy feedback system THREE times since the issue appeared. Many others have commented on the same issue as well.

They send spam notifications without an obvious way to turn them off while still keeping the necessary notifications.

Used to be free or affordable. Not anymore. Meetup has sold out.

fire your new developer

Why would an app like this require all of your information? No thanks, sticking to the website for the very few things that are still scheduled through it.

When I log into my Meetup account it pops up with a Meetup Plus screen which I cannot get rid of. This makes it impossible to look at any activities going on?

I wish I could turn off the constant requests to review events. I enjoy the events but the constant barrage of insistent requests asking me to review makes me hate everything about them. Can you just leave me alone?

Most of the time I get a “oops something happened” or a comment that a group was deleted when I know it wasn’t. Use the website NOT the app. It doesn’t even work to sign in with my Google account. It is completely useless.

Was great, but no longer use this…

I’ve re-downloaded this twice now over the course of a week and both times when I try to log in via email or create an account no matter if it’s Apple Google email or whatever I get a “oops looks like there’s a problem” pop-up and it send me back to the login screen. Wish I could rate this app properly but it won’t even let me past the Home Screen…….

Not user friendly

I’m not able to see people’s info yet I get phishing emails regularly. Not as good as pre-COVID.

Completely useless you shell out for an overpriced subscription model. Oh, unless you are interested in reading spam posts from people giving away a “free 2023 MacBook”. Totally legit, I’m sure.

A lot of bugs, horrible interface and little activity. What little activity there is for events is filtered to provide the worst possible results. 👎