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Most reviewers were let down by their experience overall. Many people found the app unusable due to an overwhelming number of intrusive ads, often popping up mid-message or during basic functions. Customers also reported the app was filled with non-genuine profiles and automated accounts, making it difficult to connect with genuine users. The user experience was further hampered by glitches, frequent crashes, and issues with features like GPS and profile refreshing. Reviewers consistently criticized the pricing structure, finding the subscriptions expensive and the value for money poor, especially as features were removed or moved to higher-priced tiers. Some people also experienced random account bans without clear reasons, and found the customer support unresponsive to their inquiries.

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Absolutely awful. I wad bullied, abused, threatened ion a daily basis. Reporting it often ended up with no action taken. Grindr is allowing not just bad behaviour, but criminal behaviour. I had to rep... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

the app is unuseable, being filled with bots, scam accounts, Obvious onlyfans Ad-accounts, and very very intrusive Ads, ads pop up in the middle of writing a message, which opens the storefront to... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Crazy experience with Grindr: I let a friend use my phone 3 days, my account got permanently banned, then my twin’s — neither of us broke rules. They won’t explain why and apparently keep all your pho... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Almost every single tap in the app pops up an advertisement. You get multiple spam links every day. If you are somehow still able to use this app you will get banned randomly without a single reason a... See more


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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

What can I say about grinder AI runs…

What can I say about grinder AI runs the company you report underage kids on the site to have sex 15 of my friends reported these people to keep the site safe and people grindr blocked their account what does that telling you about this bad site stay away from it please

1 February 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

As a new user

As a new user, I can only agree with the one star review here. Grindr does not care about its users. It forces adverts, which causes me to force quit the app.. Why? Who is benefiting? The sad thing is that I only use Grindr to wind people up. no one takes it seriously.

2 February 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I've been on it a year and met one…

I've been on it a year and met one person. It's just constant ghosting/odd behaviour. They message you then disappear. I don't believe it's a people problem -- its an app problem. The other section of people are picture collectors. There has to be a scientific explanation, but the app brings out non-genuine attitudes in people.

1 February 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Awful app

Awful app. Your wasting your time. Too many adds and pop ups. Every message you are redirected to an add which has completely destroyed the app. I want to talk with fellow gay men and not have an advantage every 30 seconds or everytime I get a message.

27 January 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I don't think I'll be saying much more…

I don't think I'll be saying much more than others already have but: (1) The adverts and popups are so intrusive as to make the app almost unusable. (2) The app can't even determine my location without numerous attempts. (3) If you are not a subscriber, the app is worse than useless - you might get to view at most 3 profiles, but that's it. That's like window shopping with nothing in the window !!(4) Web access requires a subscription. (5) I thought grindr was for gay MEN. Apparently not. All sorts on there and that's not a problem but you can't exclude them. (6) You can't view taps unless you're a subscriber. Why allow them then ? Sorry - for something that could be of benefit to all users, this is just a money-grabbing exercise.

27 January 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Grindr is garbage these days

Grindr is garbage these days. Let's start with the outrageous pricing. For unlimited usage of the app they want $300 a year. I have paid in the past and canceled because it still wasn't good. Now I'm a non paying member with not even minimum access. I get error messages unable to determine your location when I click the online button to see who is local. They make it so you are forced to pay. Let's not even start with the fake profiles and robots. Such crap! Don't waste your money.

24 January 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Do not use!! Avoid downloading!

Should be rated worst app ever available for any user.
I've paid subscription and got banned for some made up reason nobody can explain. Getting any refund for being denied access to app is impossible.
Total rip off!
Should be banned by authorities for ripping people of their money!

23 January 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Terrible app adverts every message you…

Terrible app adverts every message you read, advert when you try to ammend your profile, over priced for what its offering and now its been trying to download virus software.
Be aware of the app its terrible, money grabbers run it, no customer service, fake accounts and guys that dont engage.
Really is bad

23 January 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

For us older gay guys

For us older gay guys, Grindr has too many very rude and arrogant younger users that think just because they are goodlooking, younger than us older ones, they can post very belittling comments to a message or compliment that is from older guys. If they are reported, nothing happens, they just keep on thinking they are better then anyone and well, hopefully there is a better app for older gay guys out there somewhere>

22 January 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

By far the worst sight

By far the worst sight. They post a few random, usually scary guys on your sight. Then post hundreds of handsome men that you can not even look at their profiles without paying more. I'd consider paying more for the ability contact if I felt the profile looked as one I might be interested in. But you can't even look at them. Excuse me, but Grindr Sucks

20 January 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

If I could give less than 1 star. for…

If I could give less than one star for customer service support...I would. Paid for subscription renewal Dec 6. Today is Dec 21 the problem has not been fixed and only response I've received are standard auto replies. No individual has contacted me. I'm afraid Grindr won this battle but it remains to be seen who will win this war.

6 December 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Terrible

Terrible, was looking for Trans girls but 90% of profiles are scammers or prostitutes. And Grindr promotes this as you can have 5 different profiles of 5 different people from one phone number

21 December 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This site is a load of rubbish keeps…

This site is a load of rubbish keeps crashing unable to pick up my location so can't use it properly I wil never upgrade as not worth the money this site is asking for think it's about time for this site to be scrapped

16 December 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Honestly I don’t know where to begin…

Honestly I don’t know where to begin with Grindr

Grindr has to be one of the most toxic disgusting app I’ve ever been on the app is full of women couples married men straight men Junkies Druggies people using it to buy & sell Drugs profiles asking for drugs with stuff like Looking for 420 or weed or they will put drug symbols etc

Grindr has now become full of Greed you can barely use the app not without being forced to buy memberships when you try to do something it will tell you you need to “ upgrade “ to a paying membership

Grindr Lacks basic security their is no safety or protection whatsoever anyone can create an account no age verification or anything given the amount of Fake profiles/Blank empty profiles it’s ridiculous

Grindr customer support is also nonexistent their is no help or customer support at Grindr whatsoever it’s now all AI you submit a report and you will get a AI generated response they won’t be any help at all
If your account gets suspended for literally no reason don’t expect a response or any help you will only get a ring around and go back n forth in circles then they won’t respond to you any further

Grindr has now made half of it behind a paywall you can barely use Grindr not without being forced to “ upgrade “ to over priced membership
Stuff that use to be free are now behind a paywall the age filter before you could select the age you wanted it’s now 3 Year age gap albums are now behind a paywall you can’t see all the albums you received from other users when you click on it it will be blurred out and it will say “ you need to upgrade to a paying membership to view this album “ So albums and XXX photos I’ve received I’ve now gotta pay Grindr to see it talk about pure Greed

Honestly some people on Grindr can Turn nasty when things don’t work out if you reject or you don’t respond to someone you’re not interested in they can complain to Grindr and your account can be banned honestly Grindrs way of banning people is insane suspending account because someone complains about you regardless if what they said was True or False Grindr will ban your account yep Grindr will suspended your account if someone does a revenge report against you Grindr are so Lazy they don’t even bother to check the chat history or do a proper investigation to find out if what that person said was actually true or not

11 December 2024
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