Coffee Meets Bagel Dating App App Reviews

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My favorite dating app; used to be cleaner. I used this app in early 2019 before they updated it to the scroll style, which is now more like Hinge in that all the photos are laid out vertically and you scroll down, with bio information interspersed. I find this to be a cluttered, ugly style and it’s why I hated Hinge. What I liked about CMB is that it had a clean layout, encourages you to fill out some basic but meaningful information about yourself, and prioritizes quality over quantity in a way other dating apps don’t. CMB is, I think, the best app for finding a relationship as opposed to a hookup, or at least for meeting nice people with whom you can have a conversation. Curating your selection of daily bagels encourages you to consider each potential match more carefully, while the explore section gives you more variety, and since it’s not a swipe style like other apps, you can spend more time engaging with each person’s profile and making a decision. In short, CMB is the only dating app I’ve ever really liked, and I had several good dates from it. I met my boyfriend (I’m female and was using the app to meet men) really quickly through CMB, so I only used the app for a few weeks. I kept it on my phone to keep our first conversation, and recently opened it to be disappointed with the way the profiles look now. But I haven’t tried it with this new style, and I’d still recommend the app on the strength of how good it was when I used it.

Single Guy Looking For Love. I got divorced about 15 years ago. Like most of us I had a lot of anxiety about going online to meet someone new. I have tried out a number of sites often coming up with very similar results. The women that seem to be the most interesting and attractive usually are often taken. There seemed to be a lot of ghosting an early game playing I guess to protect themselves from being hurt. On more than one occasion I have met some nice women on Coffee Meets Bagel. About four weeks ago I met one of the most interesting and beautiful women I’ve ever had the privilege of sharing some time with on Coffee Meets Bagel. So when you finally hit that low wondering why people aren’t calling you or messaging you on a dating site like this stick it out!! Because you never know who is right around the corner. It’s just like any other endeavor if you don’t put the time in you can’t expect to get to the gold! good luck and wishing you all well!

Interesting app but….. While it’s great and it seems the concept and programming has practically for the most part eliminated bot or scam accounts. There seems to be a lot more draw backs than benefits as well has the wording on what you get seem misleading for the subscription. Example message seem to be only available once you match with someone which can be double sided. Another is for subscribers called unlimited suggestion which kind of implies that there isn’t a daily set amount but there is what it should say is extended suggestion. As well as you also paying to extend a little bit of your profile and search parameters such is do you have kid or would be open to someone with kids. But maybe just my area that is limited in users which sure could be possible. Overall it’s interesting will I keep checking it until I find someone most likely will I do another subscription with the current ui or set up definitely not at least not until a multiple match’s or like if that requires a subscriptions which I can’t remember.

Too bad. Okay the 1st week from people like me tab, it gave a lot of people and I connected a few. Then the 2nd week in ‘like me’ it had much less people but well matched and learned my preference. However starting from 3rd week, in ‘like me’ I almost can’t choose anyone and it’s totally the opposite type of people from the 2nd week, and it continues now. (Guess what? Not algorithms 🙂 Really sarcastic right?) For the last 2 weeks, I almost can’t choose anyone from that lab. I really don’t understand it CMB. In 2nd week CMB already learned my preference. Why later in like me tab, full of(showed my profile to) people certain I’ll not choose. Want me to stay longer in the app? The algorithm seems very 👎🏻 and annoying of to which people it’s showing my profile to from the 3rd week which is so different from my preference. Today it annoyed me again not only because there’re no one I could connect back but also I passed every ‘ISTJ’ before and would connect back ‘NF or NT’ so in the 2nd week people liked me are ‘NF or NT’ but recently none are and I see these people are ‘ISTJ’ ! Why? I almost want to delete the app but already bought the membership for few months. Please give my money back CMB.

Pointless and convoluted.... Im not even allowed to give 0 stars. I have been using online dating on and off for years... and this has been the most mindless, convoluted, money-grubbing-app that ive ever seen... after 2-3 “freebies”, cmb removes your option to message “matches” and replaces it with an option to pay for a subscription! And the worst part: the subscription literally does NOTHING. It gives you one extra “match” per day... as well as a discount on their mindless currency to “match” with other users who ARENT suggected by cmb. In other words: youre limited entirely by cmbs algorithm, which is non existent, to talk to people. Otherwise its the luck of the draw to get matched with someone you wanna talk to. Otherwise, you gotta wait 24+ hours to talk to 5 potential matches... aka women who have no business being matched with you. Theres no innovation here, no smart-app, no customer service/feedback, and certainly no sense to double-charging their customers and STILL not letting them message anyone. This app runs on their popularity on sharktank and their ability to leech money from people before they get lucky enough to move off the app. Which is how EVERY dating app works... this one just runs on stupidity, which is far too common these days.

Very good app with minor issues. I’ve been using this app for just about a year now, and in my experience, it is one of the best. Admittedly, I only had one match so far, but that’s certainly not the app’s fault. That one Bagel was definitely a quality match, although we wouldn’t have worked out for other reasons. Again, not the app’s fault. The only thing holding back my review from 5 stars is that after awhile, Bagels get farther and farther away. Long distance is something I tend to avoid, and I’ve had it happen a few times where my daily Bagel selected for me lives in a different state. Yet, the Discover tab contains women much closer to me, but I lack the in-app “bean” currency to make a move. Maybe this could be remedied by allowing people to “convert” a daily Bagel into say, 75% of the 385 beans needed to take another Bagel from the Discover tab. Something like that would give people more Bagel options and another way to accumulate beans aside from the Photo Lab. Otherwise, great app. It’s slow-paced, but I’m optimistic it will work for me.

Expensive gambling. Yes i saw the thing on shark tank. Theres a reason why they partnered up. Its a great way to milk money out of people. Online dating is already expensive. Most services are reducing what free stuff they used to offer. It seemed like they wanted to charge and arm and a leg until now. Yes its free and there are free features. The more attractive ones are pay to play while the ugly ones are at the end of the daily rotation. With that said, its gambling if i need to pay extra for a chance to talk to someone vs other users. For all i know they are fake profiles since online is full of them. At least other sites you pay a flat rate to find out. This is done to maximize profits...and it’s unethical. I believe i read women use this for free while men are the ones that pay. This would be sexist in todays world so theres that let alone the gender discrimination factoring in there. Im sure women love that double standard. It also seems like you can click all day long on profiles and to cut the line you can send “flowers” that cost more beans. Right... now i have to question if my original request was sent and/or how long is it being delayed by because of this “cut the line” process. Theres too many shenanigans going on to placate any concerns. Also now features that used to be available are being taken away and a subscription is needed for access. And for those reasons, im out.

Declining Experience and Greed. I’ve used CMB several times over the years but now it really seems like the app has plateaued or is declining. Even though I pay for premium I’m still prompted to pay for priority views by someone I’m liking if they have a lot of likes (it could be 10 days before they see my profile? What?). It’s clear monetizing is getting in the way of the premium user experience. Also I have very specific relationship goals I’m looking for and a lot of the profiles I get don’t have whether or not someone wants kids or whether someone drinks or not. I thought this was a “serious” dating app? I won’t like someone’s profile if they don’t say in the affirmative what they want or about their lifestyle, which might mean I’m missing out but I don’t want to waste time figuring out something that would take someone 2 seconds to select. I’m also on Hinge which has been way better this time around whereas a couple years back I strongly preferred CMB. Like with Hinge I can get a couple matches in a week but CMB is mostly crickets or I’ll get one and it’s 80% that they’ll never respond or ghost after one exchange. Very different experience on Hinge! I’m not sure what’s going on… Ultimately I decided to delete my account a couple months before my premium subscription ends.

Seems like good concept, but as a free user it’s a waste of time. I’ve tried both CMB and hinge and have found way more success on hinge. The matches I get are consistently more attractive and if you are half way decent at messaging its easy to get an engaging conversation with someone who fits your “type”. I originally thought CMB would be better since on the surface it looked like you would only get selections of girls/guys that fit your “type” everyday. Unfortunately while they were my preference for religion, location, etc., they were just less desirable physically. I think this is because the matching algorithm allows paid users to get boosted on more desirable profiles. So those more attractive people that you may see in discover you will never see unless you also pay to get boosted. And if you are used to getting “liked” by attractive people on hinge or tinder you will seem to only get liked by those same users who have the beans to spend on discover. I could see how this concept could work if they rotated in more desirable profiles but as someone who is finding way more success on hinge without paying I say don’t waste your time with CMB because you can set the same filters on hinge for free.

Useless app full of scam profiles. I have yet to communicate with a “real” person on here who isn’t later flagged as a suspicious person. If you read most profiles, it’s clearly obvious by the grammar and punctuation used, that they are written by someone who is not English as first language = most likely a scammer. “I’m an honest man, nature loving man, gentle man, anything else listed followed by man”, Nice pictures, nice job, and if you look past the nonsensical profile, the education listed is even funnier to decipher. So, you’re a doctor and you got you Master’s degree from (fill-in-the-blank) High School? Don’t fall for buying beans to “like” people. It’s for amusement only. Like/dislike your daily matches and stockpile your beans. Chances are very likely that if you spend money buying beans and connect with someone, their profile will be flagged as a scam, or they copied a profile that makes sense, but when you start communicating with them, their grammar will quickly alert you that their profile is a scam. Save your money and don’t get your hopes up! Do yourself a favor and install the Veracity app, screen shot any potentials, and run their photos through the screener. Chances are, the photos are stolen/don’t belong to the profile. *For pure entertainment purposes and time wasting only

Not a Fan So Far. I find this app very confusing and annoying. I had a glitch with a message a bagel sent me. I got a notification that I got a message, and saw the preview, but when I went to the app it wasn’t there. It finally showed up later, but showed after my reply, which doesn’t make sense. Who knows when the bagel actually sent the message. The bagel left the chat room after, because he probably thought I replied super late or something. I tried to contact customer service, but when you go to Help and Support, you can only chat with a bot now. CMB sends annoying notifications telling users to send a message to our matches all day, and you can’t stop them unless you turn off notifications in general. I’ll send a message if I want to, sheesh. I don’t get what makes it suggest users for us. It is unclear what happens when we “like” or “take” someone. It is annoying to worry about how many beans we need in order to do anything. We should get some from using the app. We can get a bean if we pick which photo of a user is better in the Photo Lab, but it would take too long to get a good amount, and why would I want to be some kind of rating bot for the app?

Functions and Features getting worse than before. I used to love the app so much cause I found 2 of my great ex and here and I have been using it since 2020 when the pandemic started. But the latest version forced me to make a decision that I am gonna ban this app due to its poor functions and features. I think it’s something related to its financial or what, I can’t see anyone who likes me anymore. It used to show some likes in discover, recommended and the who likes me section even though just a few. Now it requires me to pay to look at them and if I don’t I never get a chance to know who likes me cause their algorithm filters those ppl out directly. I would never get a match. Again poor algorithm always pops up the ppl I already passed. I remember that there was a guy in the recommended section like for 6 times and I have to click the X for 6 times to go pass him. If I always see the ppl I don’t like how can I expect to find someone I want here? What’s the point of having the recommendation section? Anyway I suggest not using this app anymore since it’s a waste of time. Go use bumble or hinge I think that’s better

Great way to connect with people.. They send you a list of matches every day (10-12 people usually), which is nice but can make it difficult to really get to know the people you connect with if you are not too picky. The profile doesn’t require much so there isn't a lot to go on at times. On the other hand, the app will ask if you’re ready to meet a potential match as soon as you connect, even though you haven’t had a chance to message yet. Kinda counterproductive! I think if we could be a little more specific in our preferences of who we’re looking for it would help save time from being matched with too many people that you then have to close out communication with. Less and More focused better quality matches would be ideal. Note that the men *really* want your attention once you connect so it can be overwhelming at times. But If you have the time to wade through your daily list of matches every day in addition to Likes You and Discover and keep up with conversing with several (around 5) men at a time, then definitely go for it. You will not be sorry...because sometimes, a great guy is hiding behind a sparse profile. 😊 Just be patient, have faith and trust and don’t be afraid to keep saying no to the men that don’t feel right. Keep at it until the right guy comes and you’ll know when he comes. I know it sounds cliche, but you really will know. If you’re unsure most of the time, he’s not the one. Don’t settle!

Best of the Rest. Had this, Bumble and Tinder off and on for years. CMB is definitely the one with the people more serious about finding a relationship. I had these, like most people as a sort of side plan. Don’t put too much effort or reliance on these apps but don’t brush them off either! Eventually you are bound to finally match with someone who fits you perfectly. That’s what happened to me (after about 4 years... haha). Anyways, I like the setup because it prevents you from droning through a hundred profiles a day and instead tries to find a handful of people that match your preferences. Whenever I would hit a week where no bagels were found I’d just delete it for a couple months to let the pool of potential matches grow. Try and make your profile a little interesting with a funny picture or favorite movie line or something because maybe your match will recognize it and it’ll kick things off. Get rid of the party photos and ones with no smiles, no one actually likes those. It’s good to give your profile a make over now and then. I changed my profile around so much over the years. I recommend this app over others but remember you don’t necessarily want a fast connection. Take your time, decide what characteristics or values you like in a match and stick to them. Good luck!

Worst App seriously waste of time. Worse app, and I have tried them all. Only dating app that doesn’t have political party affiliation selection, seriously this is 2023 and it’s extremely important to many when choosing a partner, get with the times CMB. Why would I pay $35 a month where all the other apps have political party affiliations that are shown on people’s profiles. Maybe this is why you don’t have a lot of users. I don’t want to waste my time getting to know someone just to find out they hold opposite political views, I will just stick to other dating apps where this is visible. For an app owned by women it’s not too women friendly by not allowing women to filter out those who vote against abortion rights. I guess there is some truth to CMB catering to white men as the Facebook group “CMB is racist” suggests. That is the only reason I can think of for them not including political party affiliations because it would impact white men the most as they tend to be more conservative, which has become really unpopular in the dating scene due to the overturning of roe v wade. Maybe if they included this important selection they will have higher amount of users.

BEST BY FAR!. I have been on many other date apps in the past and in My honest opinion, “Coffee Meets Bagel” is the best dating app! It’s basic features allow you to go thrift profiles and send unlimited messages for free! I just signed up this week and met someone on my first day and we continue to chat outside of the app now, but my door is still open to more opportunities 😉 They screen their members really well, that I find a lot more “quality” people on there! And every day at 12 noon they release up to 20 people NEAR me. May I ask the developers why they don’t release ALL members near me? Sometimes I’m not compatible with ANY of the new matches 🙄🫤😩 so I have to wait 24 hours to be able to see the next batch, if there are any 🙄 Bit I still gave CMB=Coffee Meets Bagel 5 ⭐️ , though Infeel It should be 10 ⭐️ Can you allow members to have unlimited space to create their bio? And can you allow members to see their “likes” if you had to throw in having to “watch” advertisements, I’d be happy with that 🙏🏻 Mahalo 🤙🏻

Good job hope you get improving :). Very good app I like it very much, i mean so far I like almost every feature and how it system works it very smart to limit most to suggestions 7-8 or pay some $ for the points to discover more options that way it limits its population to people really want to meet and date, instead of overpopulated freaks that make serious people be so few that’s its rare a real date. I don’t give 5 stars for few things like it for some reason like there’s a little thing I don’t like and it’s that at the same time there’s so much guys that want to meet girls that it makes not that attractive guys to be kind felt apart unless they pry to you know be in more girls profile and the points are a bit expensive to use that means that for some maybe 20 more options you have to pay like 40$ or so. Hope some regulated price or some little more help on that. Tho I know it most likely won’t change but still good job, I am too one of the ones that hope to have atleast a chat soon xD hahahaha been a while on the app and well

Met my soon-to-be wife. About 18 months ago, I met my soon-to-be wife on CMB (August 2nd can’t come soon enough!) so, admittedly, I’m a bit bias. We had each been using the app for a while and enjoyed its features. Personally, I appreciated its simplicity. With other apps and sites (and I tried a number of them), there were always so many options: like, message, send a wink, etc. Every person thinks differently about how those features should be used. That was tiresome and frustrating. Not the case on CMB. Simple actions to take. Didn’t take a ton of time, and most importantly, there was not an overwhelming number of results every day. I found myself not even knowing where to start on some platforms. CMB made it simple and easy for me to just devote a few short minutes when I wanted to log in. Fast forward 18 months and I couldn’t be happier. I found someone who I can’t wait to be a partner for life with! We miiight have eventually met because we have a few mutual friends, but I’m thankful CMB sped up the process! After all, if I found someone with whom I can endure the stress of wedding planning in the midst of COVID, I think I found a good one! Thanks CMB!

Still unsure of the APP. I have only been on the app a week. After reading some of the reviews I have a better understanding of how the app works. I have never used a date app or tried online dating. Where is what I noticed so far. The first day I had a tone of likes. I am not sure if the was a gimmick to encourage app use but done since day one. It is possible no one has “liked” me. My discover and bagels are basically the same. If I wait a day they just switch back and forth from the different categories. I set my search filters, creating a board consideration base, trying to be open to the possibilities but haven’t seen much of a change in possible bagels. Day one, I connected with someone. Again, I don’t know if this was to continue app use or not. The bagel, didn’t remember the answers to his prompt and then didn’t really “conversate”. Again, it could have been an accident and they just weren’t interested. I’m hoping to see a change in bagels over the next week or I won’t stay with the app and just try the old fashion way. I do like the limited bagel numbers and number of likes. It makes one stop and consider each person. However, you are forced to pass on a daily bagel instead of seeing all bagels for that day. There is no way to think through all the bagels and go back and like one.

Too Many Fake Profiles. The app itself is ok. I agree with all the negative reviews. Been using it for a few months. I’ve been connected with multiple men, but the problem is most of them end up being marked unsafe. Most of these men that were marked unsafe were men claiming to be in the military. There was one match in particular that was marked unsafe and then a see the same man in the suggested section, but using a different profile. This site needs to do a better job of identifying fake profiles, especially if the same photo are being used for different profiles. Women, beware if a man you connect with claims to be in the military. Most like he is fake. Now any time I see military on the guy’s profile I immediately pass. The ones that I matched with that had no issues don’t respond. What is the point in liking me if you are not going to chat. In my experience, there is no good quality of men on this site. You are also limited on the number of bagels you get everyday. If I am interested in someone in the discovery section I have to pay money to get beans just to like them and hope that they like me back. There is no guarantee that he will even see me. So far I’ve had a bad experience with this site and have been very discouraged with on-line dating. I haven’t had any successful matches that lead to actually meeting up in person.

Coffeemeetsbagel is a terrible app. Coffeemeetsbagel is the worst app I have ever used. I have only used it for a week and then I cannot log in to it. After I sent an email to the customer service team, the team told me that I was incorrectly flagged by their system. So it was their system’s mistake that leads to my log-in problem. During this inquiry process, the customer service replied really slowly, they normally reply to your email after a week. They ask me to provide the email and the type of my phone, I fulfilled all of their requirements. Then here comes their new requirement. They ask me to send a new photo holding up three fingers to prove that I am the real user. What a strange requirement and this actually violates the privacy of users. However, I still do so. You know what? The customer service team then does not reply with any decision and just tell me they still need to verify my account after I send them the new private photo of myself. It has been a month and my log-in problem is still not fixed. The customer service team of Coffeemeetsbagel is the worst service I have ever experienced. They reply slowly and do not solve problems. This Coffeemeetsbagel app and their customer experience is so disappointing.

Glitchy and paid subscription is not worth it. So as a guy I have met some women on here, the pros are most of the women on here seem professional (a career etc) as opposed to a lot of other apps. I even dated a girl who later became my gf and no my ex from here using the free app. I thought I would improve my odds by doing the paid subscription and it’s totally not worth it, for the free one you get like 30 suggestions a day a handful of them being worthwhile. The paid one you get “unlimited” suggestions but 98 percent of them are people I feel like got passed over by everyone else and a lot of times whether you like or pass on them they still reappear as a suggestion. Also this is the most glitchiest bug filled app I have ever used, it’s gone down quite a bit and even got messages from the admin saying people sent me messages but they got lost etc so I’d say that’s the biggest down fall for the app. Again the free version is worth it but that’s about it. I had much better suggestions than I do on the paid membership

CMB is dope!. In my fairly experienced opinion, this is the best dating app out there. It doesn’t overload you with matches or info. It gives you fewer, but better, opportunities to swipe. This means that people give more thought to their swipes, you can live your life without spending all day swiping, no one gets overloaded with messages, and no one has to write hundreds of quirky ice-breakers to get one response. The fact that there is a bit less info available about your matches means that you get to know them more organically instead of having an algorithm rate your compatibility. Rather then writing essays about yourself, you can just type up a blurb, or do what I did and not write anything in the profile. I matched with people who were interested and I could tell them all they wanted to know over messenger. I’ve tried them all, and this app facilitated more good dates in no time than any of the others. CMB for the win!

New interface, same disappointment. I had high hopes based on reviews but I’m very disappointed with CMB. Theoretically it seems like a good app and I like the interface, but the “algorithm” leaves me with one suggested bagel a day (as a girl). None of those have liked me, and most definitely aren’t my type so I have no idea where this algorithm is coming from beyond basic filters. It’s not helped by the number of men who don’t fill out their profiles...but what was I expecting, as that’s a common feature of every dating app. Additionally, I like that you can’t see a bagel’s name unless you like each other, but capping conversation at one week? That alone makes me reconsider using it. I personally refuse to give out my number on dating apps prior to meeting as I’ve had guys use it to track me down on social media, but CMB backs you into a corner- pay extra for “beans”, give out identifying personal information to a stranger, or ghost- if it takes more than a week for your schedules to align. CMB, have you even considered the weight (some) girls give to handing out their number and the stalking it allows in the wrong hands?

Just a little odd. Personally, as I’ve been using this in conjunction with Hinge, it’s about the same, and maybe more for a free to play standpoint. Major filters are of course blocked behind a paywall, but functionality is great even without the premium. My complaint? I have 8-9 likes on me, I’ve seen when a like listed disappears when I’ve selected to match or move along. But it’s been a week. Most apps and sites tend to filter those likes into my choices, so that I can see those interested in me quickly. When apps don’t it’s usually because those likes, or at least a few of them, are fake. Now, in the Discover section, they seem to display maybe one person that had liked me, (I assume from their list for the day) but I also have no way of passing a person if they’re shown in that section. So that would also bolster the number of invisible likes that I can’t access unless I pay the premium. All in all, pretty average, my qualms about hidden likes aside, the basis seems good for anyone with a busy life, checking on their lunch break. And it’s mostly free, but would take forever to get through all potentials in any major city. Kinda a hobby esc dating app, rather than a serious search. TLDR 3 stars, minus 1 for hidden likes. Not the worst you could try.

Some issues, but decent app. CMB has been the first online dating app I tried, and I picked it based on the mostly favorable reviews I’ve seen on it. I have a visual impairment, so I did discover some accessibility issues with the app, and I got in touch with the support team, and I’m happy to say that these issues have greatly improved in the month since then. I haven’t totally clicked with anyone just yet, but the guys I’ve talked to seem genuine and interested— no bad experiences with the people on the app. The profiles give you a vibe for the person you’re talking to as long as it’s filled out, but a decent amount of people don’t fill it out so it’s a bit of sifting and waiting to find a fully complete profile: I kind of wish it were required to complete a profile, and that there were a way to refine the search more than just physical characteristics and religion. Other than this, I’ve mostly liked the app and I think it’s at least a good way to meet some good people you could really get along with.

Beware free trial!. I’m a woman who wanted to meet some kind and attractive people, so I tried this app for a few days. It was alright, I appreciate how user-friendly it is and how they try to focus on quality over quantity. However, I opted in for a free one week trial of their premium subscription just to see what it was like and when I went to cancel, I saw that if I hadn’t, they would have charged me $120 for a 6 month subscription automatically! That is insane. My opinion of this app went way down when I saw that. The point of free trials is to get people to want to subscribe, but apps usually make a lot of money off of people who signed up for a free trial and forgot to unsubscribe. I’m horrified at the thought that if I had forgotten to cancel, I’d be down 120 bucks. I’d understand if the automatic charge was like $15 or $20, that’s about what other apps will charge you I think. I’m just blown away. Not to mention I went through like 100 profiles and saw about 3 people I found attractive. Needless to say, I had no second guesses about deleting my profile and I would warn anyone who wants to try this app to be very careful.

Just like every other dating app. Maybe I set my hopes too high, thinking this app might be different than all the rest that I’ve tried but the end result was the same, single and disappointed with my experience on this app. I connected with one person the entire time, I had signed up for a month subscription. I opened the chat conversation with an ice breaker and she responded with an answer but never shared any ice breaker of her own so I could learn a little more about her. I then asked a question based on her profile and again no answer and then the connection expired (this needs to be made more clear that you only have 7 days to connect with a person). Growing disenchanted with this app, I cancelled my subscription before being charged for another month and one day after my subscription ends, I get a notification tonight that hey someone likes you but to find out who it might be, I’d have to renew my subscription just like every other app that I’ve tried. It’s par for the course! I hope this service works for some people but it’s not for me. Maybe you should offer a profile coaching feature for paid subscribers, to help them get the most of their experience, make it worth the $ they invested in your company because I don’t feel I got my money’s worth at all!

CMB bringing LFD!. This is RIDICULOUSLY premature, as I’ve only gone out on a single date with the extraordinary woman I met through the CMB app, but we’re both head over heels and amazed that it happened through a dating app. I’ve used several other apps in the past (OkCupid, Tinder, and Bumble), but their algorithms seemed to connect me with people who weren’t of much interest to me. I really like the opportunities CMB offers users to express aspects of themselves and what they’re looking for, without being overwhelming (like OkCupid and Match) or limited (like Tinder). The woman I met on CMB who has just blown me away said that she had a sense from my profile that there could be a very strong connection, which is exactly what I felt from reading hers—uncommon for me on dating sites, where people might seem interesting, but there isn’t this intense, mutually held interest. Anyway, a big thank you to CMB and please keep your fingers crossed for me! (The date was five hours long and very difficult to end, and we’ve been on the phone for hours and hours since).

Persistent Glitches are Ruining this App. In concept, I like Coffee Meets Bagel a lot. However, every time I come back to it, I run in to problems that make it virtually unusable. On this most recent foray, I got several matches, sent a hello and waited for the reply. And it came! A welcome notification on my phone that a match had messaged me back. So, I opened the app...the message wasn’t there. No updates to my chats since the last message I sent. Shutting the app down and restarting had no effect, so I tried reinstalling. The reinstall resulted in all of my chats but one disappearing. Not finding any more useful trouble shooting guidance online, I tried one more reinstall. Now all of my chats are gone. Based on previous experience, the conversations will eventually load in the app...three hours from now, or five or eight. There’s no way to really know. But these kinds of updating problems are pretty fundamental and the fact that they have not been fixed after months of problems for me and other users is frustrating. Perhaps there is an update in the works that will resolve these issues. One can hope, but in the meantime I think I’ll be putting this app aside.

sexist app, similar to bumble. I have used this app for several years since the inception of it. I have done long term relationships to hookups. What I’ve noticed is that a user can “report” someone for bad offline behavior. It seems the simp of an employee or feminist employee simply listens to whatever the reporting person says and doesn’t take into consideration what was being sent over the phone (either text messages, pictures, live conversation). For an app to pass judgment they need to see the entirety of any offline interaction and not just a single message or paragraph of a long conversation. Guys- beware of the users in this app as well as the employees of CMB. Always save your texts as they can be used in a court of law to defend yourself from baseless, harmful accusations that some twisted women will throw out nowadays. Buyer beware with the knowledge that cmb records and analyzes all your messages from within the app and saves them prob indefinitely. Any type of sensitive information should never be sent across the app as it is NOT in confidence. I wouldn’t be surprised if this app has a class action lawsuit like bumble did for the partial and biased treatment of men. I’m going to ask my corporate friends how they feel about this.

Eh. The app is fairly easy to use, but the guys are just like they are on any other dating app. Even though you both have to have liked each other to open up messaging, many of them won’t message you back. Which makes no sense because they already liked your profile. But then I read that the app gives men several more options every day than it gives women to simulate what it’s like for men vs. women. This basically devalues the women presented as matches to the men. As a woman I think a little harder about the like/pass I grant one of the 4 or 5 daily matches given to me—I look at the written profile, not just the pictures. Apparently guys just make a quick judgment on pictures, hit “like”, and then can’t answer a simple hello (or initiate communication) from someone whose profile they already liked because they don’t actually read it until they get a message from you. Of course some guys are fine. But if you give them too many choices then the women just sit around waiting for something to happen. The discover tab also frequently shows me more attractive matches who have already liked me, but of course they cost beans. I am done with this app.

Good but not without issues. I've been using CMB and a few other dating apps for a while and I personally like this app the best. I like that the app encourages you to fill out meaningful information about yourself (if the person obliges) and generally result in more genuine interactions with matches. I also like that you can personalize your bagel search to fit your preferences. Although you can pay for additional features, the app is still usable and effective with the basic free functionalities unlike some other apps. As for issues, in the past few months, it seems like the app has gotten a lot more buggy (i.e., the bagel wouldn't load, app freezing). I'm personally not a fan of the app removing the history feature. Even if some people aren't a fan of the feature, I feel like it should be an option for whether you want to get rid of it or not; otherwise, it feels like a feature was just removed without additional benefit. Perhaps a compromise would be good in which you can see a limited history, so you can at least see who you like today or share the bagel with a friend who you think would be a potential good match. Although I haven't met my special person yet, overall I still think this is still the best dating app but I think it could be better if some issues were addressed.

Awful! Horrible! Do not sign up!. I downloaded the app and signed up using my phone number instead of Facebook. After a few hours, I wasn’t really pleased with the men on the app. I tried deleting the app but it only gave me the option to “deactivate”. A few weeks later, I received an email from CMB stating that someone gained access to my account. I’m not sure how they got my email address since I used my phone number to sign up. Even weirder that the email they sent, went to an old email address that I don’t use anymore. I asked them to remove my phone profiles associated with both emails and my phone number. It took them almost a week to get back to me, only to say they were backed up and would get back to me later. After about two weeks, they got back to me and told me to login and delete the accounts myself. I tried. The desktop version had no way of logging in. So I downloaded the app again but that only gave me the option to signup. Not login as a current user. I tried Googling their phone number but they don’t have one listed. Finally, I had to send them a threatening email to sue them for posting an unwanted profile of me. Less than 24 hours later, they replied stating the accounts were removed. DO NOT SIGN UP WITH THIS APP!

Coffee found bagel. I had absolutely zero experience in dating, and very little desire to find a partner. However, out of sheer boredom and a vague hope to meet someone I could be friends with, I tried out Bumble BFF. Not much luck there. Then Bumble date. Bit better, but man there were so much jaded users, lol. Then I tried CMB. The design of the app is nice, because it makes users write an actual profile about themselves. Great if you care who you’re matching with! I liked the limited number of potential matches, since you’re not aimlessly swiping though photo after photo, you take time to really think about the person on the other end. In my experience, the people on CMB felt more genuinely interested in a conversation than other apps. I ended up meeting someone who was almost in the opposite fields, but we talked a lot and ended up going on a date...which lasted 12 hours. I asked them out shortly afterwards. So TLDR: this app found someone who was completely chill with dying alone their first partner. I adore the service, and my s.o both talk about how incredibly lucky this app exists. (*･ω･)ﾉ

The bagels are a gambling system. I already noticed that this app will calculate who gets liked more often and put them in the bagel section instead of the daily free rotation. I'm fine with that, it's business. But after buying extra bagels multiple times on top of my subscription I thought how am I going to know if these people will ever see me? Especially when there's naturally more men on dating apps then women, there's more clutter for them to go through. A bagel costs something like $4-$5, a little less with the discount, so it's a gamble to send someone a bagel not knowing AT ALL if they'll even see you. After a month of this I still have zero matches, I feel CMB delays when people see you as long as they see you stop paying for awhile. That's how I met someone on here last year, after a couple months of not paying attention to the notifications I matched with someone I must've like weeks or months ago. I'm just hoping people who paid up at least for awhile can actually get on the higher end of the algorithm, someday. Response: I understand the app can be used for free, but it's absolutely clear the more attractive choices are on the discover section in which you have to buy bagels to send to people than the daily free rotation of people. I spent money on bagels on multiple occasions never knowing the person I liked will ever see me. I'll also go days without liking a single person on the free rotations. 380 beans for a bagel to send to one person is ridiculous.

Meh... Competition is better. Interesting concept... But you can't really filter for who you'd like to meet, the active user pool is still small, and this app is just a profiteering exercise. First, there are certain things which are complete deal breakers that they don't address or let you filter out such as "has kids" or "doesn't have kids"... so you start chatting with someone, get all excited and then find out after a while that you two aren't compatible... Second, the user pool is either pretty limited (and I live in a major metropolis). so you get matched with people for free each day, but after a while the matches are not active users... expect weeks of silence once you're through the initial active users within a month of starting... Third, "beans" are required for EVERYTHING... initially you'd get them in compounding amounts for being active for x amount of days, helping to rate other users pics etc as an incentive to be on the app... yeah that magically disappeared... so now you have to rate literally 1 users pics for 1 bean and it takes 385 beans to do anything... so be prepared to pay money or have rating people's pictures as your second job.

Really great app with REALLY ANNOYING LIMITATIONS. Let me start by saying this is A GREAT APP FOR ITS ANTI SWIPING THEME AND MUCH NEEDED!! But there are certain limitations that should be very easily fixed but I’m not sure why they are kept in place... they are: 1. Why is skip the line (a reason to upgrade to premium) only available for bagels (people) in suggested BUT NOT IF YOU SEND A MESSAGE? People want to read messages! So if someone’s popular, you can send a like and a prompt comes up if you want to skip the line and send flowers... but if you send a message like... YOU WILL NEVER GET THIS OPTION!! It should be a really easy switch on the developer side not sure why they do it like this. 2. Why can you NOT send messages with discover likes? Only in suggested? 3. This is more of a bug... why is it when people like you that sometimes their like is in the likes category, but sometimes in the discover section, and other times if it’s coincidence and they’re in your suggested on the same day > the likes show up in there? Really confusing! 4. Why do the app devs MAKE YOU DO A VIDEO CALL? Other apps have options for voice calls or video calls, but this app MAKES you have to do video if you didn’t want to exchange numbers yet. THEN THEY PUT A 15 MIN LIMIT. I understand it’s good to keep it short but what if you want to do a longer call? It keeps ending the call on you and you can redial it again. CUSTOMERS WANT OPTIONS!! NOT LIMITATIONS!!

I found the love of my life on CMB. I deleted my app and my account just under a year ago, but for the best reason- I found the man I love using coffee meets bagel! And now we’re getting married in a month! In total I had found 2 serious, Christian, boyfriends from this app, including my fiancé. I seriously cannot recommend this app more for people looking for a serious relationship and that regular dating apps never worked for. I have ADHD and any other app I tried it never worked for me because it was too hard to motivate myself to write back men I had never met before, especially when the chat would never end. I would keep telling myself “I’ll respond to them tomorrow” until tomorrow became “you’ve ignored them too long, now you can’t respond”. That is why I loved that CMB restricts a chat to 7 days after you match. It helped increase my motivation to respond because if I didn’t then I may have missed out on a chance. The quality of matches you go on dates with is really dependent on you. On how picky you are with who you go on a date with, and what your profile says about you. I highly recommend being picky and describing your true self on your profile. That alone will increase the quality of matches you meet, and then CMB gives you the other tools to succeed! So this review is to anyone looking for love, but especially for those who other dating apps just aren’t working for. This app worked for my fiancé and I and we totally recommend it!

The App Helps Me To Meet Someone. It is a late review. It was my first dating app and I just used the app for 3 or 4 weeks then I meet my Mr. Right here. I didn’t find the app myself but one of my friend referred me to use it. I didn’t really interest in or trust the online dating app since I couldn’t really see those people. So, I hold an attitude of “give it a try.” I met two of the bagels in person , and the first and second “hang out” just two days apart. After meeting them, we kept in touch; while my first dating person asked if we would like to meet another day again; the second person told me he had deleted the app shortly; and I deleted mine since I already kept in touch with two. I was lucky that one of them has been my bf after a months or two. As I read some of the review, and I agree with them that as girls/females we received a lot of likes daily; however, when you like back to some that you are interested in, part of them never text you, while some do not respond even you take the initiative. As one of the reviewers points out, we girls usually see the profile pictures including the description that we don’t like or like back randomly. We respect and respond to all the conversations until we feel the offensive. In my opinion, the app is a platform for us to know more people and set up relationships; however, it is our job to maintain a relationship but not the app.

Been the best but now stopped to the worst. I’ve been a user for some time now and this used to be an amazing app when I first found out about it in 2022. They obviously became very expensive and also very greedy now since you won’t be able to do anything you used to back then. It’s all about paying. You gotta pay a ridiculous 35 bucks a month all the way to 90 bucks a year for anything to happen over here. You cannot message anymore and there is no way you’ll be able to see who likes you until you pay ridiculous subscription which almost matches my phone bill. As someone who works in finance industry and thinks about cost efficiency, there is no way this app is worth the cost because it doesn’t work. In the 2 years I’ve only ever matched like 7 to 8 times and all with horrible women who only seem to be interested in “doggy style” (her words, not mine). As an app that advertises serious relationships, I’m very insulted and now don’t intend to use this app ever. There are a lot of limitations and no way the cost it justified for a ridiculous subscription to match its own limitations, no offense.

Wasted 1 hour. Just wasted 1 hour to cherry pick the right photos and captions - totally normal ones - only to get suddenly kicked out and “unable to verify my account” with my regular phone number - for no reason whatsoever!!! I’ve literally just created my normal account and haven’t even got a chance to message or match with anyone. Good thing I didn’t buy any subscription yet as this seems to be happening an awful lot, according to other reviews. What a disappointing start. Shame on you CMB. Shame shame shame! If you help me fix this issue ASAP, I’ll update my review. UPDATE I was finally able to get back online and been using the app for a few weeks now. Think I’m about to delete it completely - I rarely get any men in suggested, liked or discover that I’m really attracted to. It’s like they don’t show my profile enough to the good looking men, and only show me some questionable men for free. I’m a gorgeous girl with a well filled out profile, and never had this issue before. Also, a huge bummer: I don’t see my new messages very often; somehow, they don’t show as new for days and weeks, and then of course the chat expires and I need to pay to reply. Blood sucking app that’s designed to nickel and dime you, not help you find meaningful connections.

Chat list. I wish the chat list had more options on how to categorize or label your chats so that you can keep track of all the matches. If either we can put them on different folders or have a way of highlighting or hiding certain chats without leaving the chats so the other person doesn’t feel rejected or confused or hurt by that notice, I think would be really helpful. Also, the “would you like to extend the chat” notice doesn’t help in keeping track of what type of conversations you’ve had w that person before the chat expired. It would be nice to have either their phone number easily visible on the chat list if they’ve provided it, or have a blank for chats that never had a conversation in it. These are all ways to keep track of a large volume of chats simultaneously. It’s hard to remember every match and all the conversations you’be had with each one of them, so having a way of organizing or labeling chats would be extremely helpful and efficient for this dating app.

Use HINGE instead. This app LITERALLY restricts you from matching unless you pay. The latest update to how the app works limits you from seeing who likes you to ONE view per day. Before this update, you would see one profile with a clear picture and able to view it and choose whether you want to match. If you have more than one person who like you, their profile is blurred and remains inaccessible. I thought this was fair for a free app. But now if you view the “likes you” screen and switch to another tab then go back to the “likes you” screen, you’re greeted with a message that says “You’ve reached your limits for viewing Likes today”. I’ve literally only switched to that tab once today and it said I already used up my 1 view (how can I do that if this is literally the first time I’m viewing my “likes” page today??? This update to the viewing “Likes” system now literally restricts you from having a match UNLESS YOU PAY. No other app is this restrictive to their free users. I recommend potential online daters go with another app — Hinge is free, gives you unlimited views of profiles, and doesn’t have dumb restrictions like only letting you view a screen ONCE PER DAY.

Classy and Quality App. I really enjoyed using this app. I used one of the other major dating sites about a year ago that I had to pay for, and had a bad experience, constantly getting approached by men I would never be interested in. This did not happen on Coffee Meets Bagel. First of all, the set-up is short and to the point. I don’t know how it is for men, but if you are a woman the app uses some sort of algorithm to send you what it believes are a few good, quality matches a day, based on men who have already paired with you. It gets rid of the endless swiping of Tinder, and I found that there were more profesional men in my age range. More than half of the paired matches I was sent were men I was attracted to both visually and on many other levels. It was very easy to use, and I felt safe using it. It even let me know if we were connect on FB. I found someone in less than two weeks to start dating. I highly recommend this app to professional women in their late 20’s to 40’s. I hope this review helps ladies!

Of All the Apps, CMB Wins. I have tried several apps including Tinder, Bumble, OKCupid, Hinge, and the Inner Circle over the past few years. This year, after a break from dating, my friend recommend CMB. I decided to give it a try because the other apps were either geared towards hookups or the guys wouldn’t make the first move/hold a conversation. There is something about having a limited amount of “matches” and “bagels” that help keep the app intended for its true purpose: dating and not just swiping. I matched with one of my bagels two weeks after getting the app and while I ignored his first message, he reached out again a week later. The conversation was about to expire so he really had to step up his game to get my number. A couple weeks later and we were official. A lot of people around us were surprised at how well matched we were (including myself!). My friends know I’ve done the dating apps for a while so they always ask me for recommendations. I think everyone has an app that suits them but I tell them: if you want genuine connections and guys who aren’t just into the “swiping game”, then CMB would be the app for you.

Banned, but I am a real person. If you are a woman that upsets a man or someone on CMB you will be banned. This happened to me. I am a real person- not a scammer- I’m a kind person, and the only thing wrong I did was apparently talk to the wrong man on CMB. After I decided (because he made me feel unsafe, was pushy, unkind, and brushed off my safety concerns) I no longer wanted to have any contact with him I was banned from CMB. A word advice- if anything goes wrong with someone from CMB block them immediately before they report you (I should have done so) or you will be banned too. I can easily prove I am a real person with identification, friends from CMB that I know in person, my work information/ID etc. it doesn’t matter. So I would suggest to definitely not pay for anything longer than month because even if you have a paid account you will still be banned. This man has also started sending me all sorts of scam text messages and emails. I am positive they are from him because before I stopped talking to him all I ever received was every once in awhile a scam email, but now I’ve started receiving a bunch of scam/not legitimate text messages as well as emails from someone that knows personal details of my life.

Far overdue but.... I haven’t used this app in nearly four years. Why? Because I met my husband through it. This app was a last ditch effort for me in the world of dating. My now husband was going to be my last first date before I became a cat lady. The other dating apps on the market at the time had led me down a path of bad dates, mixed messages, and the whole “I’m sorry I JUST realized I don’t want to have a relationship” matches. CMB was (and I’m assuming still is) different. It allows you to fill out useful information about yourself and encourages actual conversations other than “what’s up”. The 7 day feature is great because it sets up a sense of urgency and messages never really get lost. I can’t say enough good things about this app. While it was my last ditch effort, I was my husband’s second date. We had a coffee and bagel bar at our wedding and four years and two beautiful kiddos later we are still glad to have met through this quirky app and recommend it to anyone we know that’s looking for a relationship.

I always recommend CMB to friends looking for love. Back in November 2015 I joined Coffee Meets Bagel to find love. I had a few dates in the beginning and the guys were great. I have to mention that I was on a number of dating apps because going out just wasn't my thing. I met a great guy in February 2016, after taking a break with the app and moving back home to take care of my grandma. I matched with a guy who lived an hour from me and seven years older. But when we started talking, I could tell there was an instant connection. We met a few weeks after starting to talk. We moved in together a year after dating and after dating for a little over two years, we got engaged! We got married in June 2018 and are planning for our future! If it wasn't for this app, I probably wouldn't have met him, and I'm forever grateful! He is my soulmate and and he keeps me grounded and safe. Thank you Coffee Meets Bagel!! I always recommend this app to all my friends looking to get out there.

Rarely Get Seen by Any Bagels Starting These 3 Months.... I have used CMB for a year and it is currently my favorite apps as it did introduce me to a group of more genuine people of quality and I didn’t spend to boost my profile. However, starting these 3 months, I rarely get seen by the potential matches anymore; 90% of the bagels CMB sent to me are the ones that haven’t seen me before. And CMB keeps up-selling me the $1.99/$3.99 boost service, as if I don’t buy it, I will remain as this invisible person on CMB. I checked my preference and made sure that I was realistic — male, age 28 to 40, taller than 5’10, all ethnicity and religion are welcome, within 50 miles. And I also examine myself — 28 yrs old, 5’8, 125 lbs, non-smoker, with a master’s degree in a good university and a good job in Fortune 500, and I provide photos of good quality and a succinct, interesting bio. Still, CMB keeps sending me bagels that haven’t seen me and keeps inviting me to upgrade and pay. I had bought the boost service once but I don’t think I will again as if CMB is not going to let me be seen unless I pay. I couldn’t help but wonder — Why am I not being seen by guys on CMB any more? Can someone from CMB help me answer this? Thank you!

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Eh.. I’m a guy that lives in a major Australian city. My search radius is set to 80km and I only get one free like a day. First issue - women get six free likes vs men who only get one. Second issue - how does the algorithm work? One day I’ll get a decent-looking woman/supermodel who’ll have 50 people that liked her and the next day I’ll like an average girl that’s liked by less than 10 people. My discover is constantly full of Asian women (which isn’t my target audience) and there’ll maybe be one Western/Hispanic amongst them that gets a take from me. Fix the algorithm maybe. Randomise the daily bagel so it’s not consistently a good-looking woman with tons of likes. I haven’t matched anyone in months and I like most women on here. Third and biggest issue - beans are too expensive I’ve spent nearly ~$150 in the 4-5 months I’ve been on here to “take” women I like out and maybe one person matched with me in the end. This may be an app with quality women but is not man-friendly.

Potential partner. I have met 26 people from this site less than 3 weeks . The site has a strict picture policy your pictures have to be very recent . And matching . I also noticed the girls are not into one night stands which is good. Each time we had coffee There’s about 95% of Asian girls on here the other 5% are either an mixed nationality.

Great app! Needs more ppl on it. The filters are excellent! You don’t have to bother with people who don’t fit! Absolutely love how the app works. Downside is, there aren’t as many people on it as other apps. But what are the chances you and your future partner joined at exactly the same time?! A little patience will go a long way. Patience is key :).

Convoluted. All dating apps are largely only as good as the group of people you can meet using them. Not a problem in my city. However the mechanics and rules underlying cmb are just far too convoluted. Compared to any other dating app it just doesn’t quite seem worth it. It just doesn’t hang together as a very enjoyable experience.

Rotated profiles and not enough users. Don’t worry about signing this if ur from Melbourne city and looking for guys above age of 38 and above. Not enough users and after you’ve joined for a couple of months, bagels drop drastically.... cmb keeps repeating and rotating some dislike profiles into suggested page.... overall just disappointing with the quality of bagels

Was great... now awful. When this app first came out I met some great people on it! Now that you have to pay around $3-5 to “like” someone, no one seems to bother replying or liking you now. I spent $100 in one week “liking” people only to receive 1 reply...1 day before the “line closes” (oh yeah, now your chat only lasts 1 week!) Originally a great alternative to Tinder as it actually has some depth and is based on matching for a relationship rather than hook ups, but now they have changed their strategy and clearly got greedy it’s not worth your time (and money)

Buttons mistake. On the Discover page, the like button is on the very right side of the screen, making it very easy for the user to tap it by mistake while scrolling. Please fix the user interface!

Fake users. This app is flooded by Asian women. Not that it’s an issue but most of the users are fake. Either living overseas, looking to scam men, or looking for attention. The boosted feature is a scam as it doesn’t improve matches at all. The app IMO hides your profile so don’t get matches. This app is bordering fraudulent for the above issues and IMO it should be avoided unless they take the issues serious. But they won’t, I bet I’ll just get a token reply here but the scam will continue.

Success Story. Hey Coffee Meets Bagel! I downloaded this app in September 2017 and then met my now husband on the app 7 days later! He was the first person I met up and it was amazing 😀 We got married in Jan 2020 and are loving life. Thanks for the part you played! Big thanks, Samantha

The app needs to be improve. Sometimes it appears the same person in the discovery and then I press like one of those person and that person just disappear and I think it cost my money and waste my money at the same time. It seems like the app has a lot of Fake profile.!!

Greedy app. They charge for liking someone and even for messaging. I heard it used to be nice but they got greedy and ruined the app. Who would want to spend $100 liking girls when you could be out there having a nice dinner with a REAL girl. Deleted it after being charged $2 within my first 5 minutes of interaction with this app. Do not waste your time with this rubbish

Need more instructions. As a first time user, it is so hard to figure out how the app works other than realising things on your own which takes a long time given the limited suggestions. Because of the limited suggestion and differences from other dating apps, I would highly recommend a better instruction/manual/how to use CMB box to appear for first time users. A lot of things require payment and you don’t realise it. App takes many days to get use to. It’s been 3 days and I still don’t know how to start a chat or how it works.

Terrible app. As with all dating apps this is designed to keep you on as long as possible. I have had some likes under “my type” for over a week and they still do not appear on my daily selections. Some likes are very obviously fake as I widen the search criteria to as wide as possible and yet they never got reclassify into “my type”. The algorithm is not interested in getting you a match but to entice you to spend money on it.

Good quality matches. CMB has consistently provided great quality and real engaged people on the app. The profiles are great, well sourced and verified, the matches at 12pm I really like that, the overall design of the app is tidy and perfect. For the average man, I’ve found there is a low chance of ever getting a conversation going even if you initiate. The limited amount of likes does encourage you to tap like for everyone (just to even get a match), then be ignored on chat later. I have to say, for the conversations that do go well, they are worth it. I’ve met up with someone I am seeing now and I am very grateful to the team at CMB. I do believe, this is the best app for dating out there. Cheers, From Melbs Australia

No idea how it works. I used to be on CMB 3yrs ago. At that time, I was able to see certain amounts of LIKED profiles (received push notifications) where I can liked back and started the conversation. But now all the LIKES are locked and it keeps asking me to purchase or else it just keeps accumulating but I won’t be able to see anything. How is this gonna works if I can’t see at least one profile? I don’t see this mechanism working if it is designed to be one-way blocked.

Great idea, chat disappears. The idea of the app is great, the way it provides matches is unique however it’s essential function of chat is not functional at all. I receive notifications for messages but when I open the chat there’s nothing available. I’m not even able to send a message saying the chat’s bugged because none of my messages deliver. Reinstalling the app to see every new message really isn’t a solution, hope you’ll find a fix.

Does not delete accounts and uses them to make money. When you sign up you sign away your rights to your photos and information you use on this app. I've noticed that some people have been having problems deleting their account and their profile is still circulating even after "deletion". Their profile pictures and information is still up and they are being matched with people. It's a tactic used to fish for more users and also to milk money from people. I've contacted them asking about this issue a couple of times and they refused to answer my question on this matter. To "delete" your account should not be difficult yet they have made it so. This is an invasion of privacy and can cause complications for people that are already in relationships or people who are looking for a potential partner but discover that there's no one behind that account. I'm so disappointed in whoever is behind all this, you should be ashamed of yourselves.

Superb customer service team!. The support team is amazingly supportive! I’ve had a lot of interactions with them on email and found that they’re so friendly, kind and prompt in their reply. The matches can be a bit of a mix bag but I met some great people on here.

Inactivating your account doesn’t actually stop people seeing you!. The app is hard to use, I inactivated my account but kept getting matches in the discover section, so inactivating doesn’t stop people seeing your profile! Because there is no way to stop people seeing my account I ended up deleting it completely. Don’t bother with this app

Pretty promising so far. Decided to try this app out and was pleasantly surprised with the systems in place and how the app feels unique compared to others. However as an lgbtq+ user, I find that I only get about 2-3 users to possibly match with when noon hits and no one in my discover to choose from at all. Maybe it’s the smaller population of users within my demographic that use the app, but this is where most of my grievances lie.

Fraudulent App. They create fake profiles to keep you in the app. I paused my account, but next day got a like (fake), so I went back into the app. This time in the Discover section (putting filters) the profiles seemed higher quality. When I tried to like one of these profiles, it said I had to unpause my account first - after clicking ok, my account unpaused, it appeared to try to like the profile but came up with “Action Failed: ... Please check you internet connection and try again”, even though my internet was fine. After restarting the app, that profile couldn’t be found again. I got suspicious, so I repeated the process of pausing my account and going to discover, put filters, and the profile came back, and repeated the same process, tried to like, same popup of “Action Failed... Internet” etc came up. Previously when I matched with someone who seemed really good, we had problems with the messaging, until after the conversation expired, CMB said there was a problem with the messaging and gave some beans to make up for it. Now I realise this was deliberate so you don’t end up with someone you match well with. It’s in their interest to keep you on the app as long as possible and to get you to pay. Their algorithm is definitely to show you as little as possible so you still stay on the app but don’t find someone so you keep going back. Even their ‘good reviews’ here are probably fake. Reality of the world these days. Don’t waste your time here.

One of the worst out there. I didn’t like the fact you need beans to contact people, and once the free ones run out they are expensive to buy. I don’t like that if you loose your Discover people the next day. What if you’ve used your beans, and find someone you want to try contact. Unless you are prepared to pay for the beans, they’re gone. Not enough matches available. I got some sent through on Discover for the first three days, and then everyone that came through were not meeting the criteria I had selected at all. Not worth the effort - Account has been deactivated and app has been deleted. 👎👎👎

Phone number log in is stupid. Currently overseas with no reception, somehow the app logged me out when my phone was in my pocket (how my phone wasn’t locked I’m not sure) but now when I try to log in it’s either FB or phone and I didn’t use FB log in last time. Why is it that after I create an account using my number it still asks me for a phone log in verification and not a Touch ID log in???

Poor customer service, bans with no explanation. Got banned within two days of making an account with no explanation from customer service, without having even matched with anyone to be able to possibly violate the terms of service. Was told I had no photos on my account when I definitely had uploaded six or seven. Customer service often takes more than a day to respond by saying ‘please see our terms of service.’

Racist algorithm?. While the CMB app has some merits, I have been floored by the apparent racism of the algorithm used to suggest potential matches. As an Asian female, I found that I am being shown a disproportionately high number of Asian males - particularly in the “Discovery” section (20 out of 25 profiles today!) - when this isn’t even set up as my preference. It looks like I’m not the only person with this concern either, as I read a similar complaint in a review below mine. This needs to be fixed.

Do not use this app. Disappointed with the level of support. I subscribed to a premium member and purchased several beans in this app. The app has recently crashed a lot and I have lost the bagels that are matched and have log an issue with the support team. The level of support from the team are non existent. I have been emailing them several time and answering their questions but they are unable to restored the connections.

Does not delete accounts. I deleted my account permanently, but everyone can still see everything and it still exists. Steps I took when deleting account permanently. 1. I deleted my photos and description. 2. After following steps, clicked on permanently delete account. PROBLEM: my account is STILL visible to everyone so now everyone thinks I’ve ghosted them or may waste further beans trying to talk to me. My photos and description are still visible. Conclusion: Your account will be visible upon “permanent deletion” Very misleading perhaps done on purpose to compete with other dating apps...but ethics behind this????? ......

Patience is a virtue. Yes like every dating app it takes forever to get a match (unless you’re hot af) but CMB really works different especially with the people you meet who are genuinely interested in you. I’ve met alot of people through the app (wished i met a non asian at least once) and while some may not work. There were alot of them that was successful despite not working out. Tldr i met someone so this app do work. Just gotta put in some effort ;)

Pathetic. Used the app for a few days, then got an email from CMB that my account was “unapproved” and needed to be verified by sending a picture of myself holding up 3 fingers. I responded with the picture and sent follow up emails, but received no response at all. Meanwhile I can’t log into my account or communicate with people I had matched with. Spend all this time setting up my profile and have nothing to show for it. Pathetic, don’t bother downloading this app.

Tech issues. I ve only used the app for three days and already noticed two tech issues. 1) I set age preference between 30-38, but even two days after changing the setting, I was recommended with people outside of the age group. 2) when turning on cms notifications, new messages pop up as banner in the screen but are no longer saved in the chat history. I was occupied with other things and only got a glimpse of new messages from a match on the screen. When I opened the app, the chat history showed no trace of the new messages.

The new version is so bad. Before the latest update I would rate CMB 5stars for its efficiency, have all essential info in one glimpse, no need to swipe and scroll. However u changed it to sth as dumb as other apps. Seriously do u think like a specific session would help trigger the conversation? And that bigger profile photo frame with inappropriate blue shadow indeed makes ppl less attractive

Disappointed app update. Returning user on the app, just discovered they have deleted the feature of seeing 5 people who liked you Now you have to pay to just see who is interested is waste of time. Considering other dating apps out there with better features . I am not-recommending this app anymore nor I be using this

The App is a little Racist?. So I’ve been using CMB for a few months now and i like the concept I really do. There were some genuine matches and some conversations you can have. But I started to notice that, as an Asian male, I was only getting suggested partners who were Asian. Out of my 12 ex’s I’ve actually only dated 2 asians because let’s face it, I’m kind of a washed out Asian as in I’ve grown up surrounded with Caucasian people my whole life (moving internationally constantly since youth) so I actually have more personality compatibilities with people who have lived in similar environments and cultures away from asia - which is natural. So I looked in preferences because I was sure that I never put a ‘preference’ for matches. I was right, I never put a preference because I actually don’t have a preference. But all the suggested matches that I’ve been getting all these months I noticed were all Asian women. And not until I put a preference of Caucasian will I ever get Caucasian suggestions. So I feel like there’s something wrong with the match making - the fact that it could be basing suggested matches to your own ethnicity. Which is a little... bit morally right nor does it mean that only asians will gets long with asians, and so on so forth. So yeah a little disappointing at this front.

Used to be better. I would have given a 5 star a few years ago but I’m not sure about now. I am currently using the basic version where they used to release 2 people who like your profile everyday but now everyone is blurry. There was also a feature in the new bagel section where it also mentioned at the bottom of the photos if they like your profile that also seemed to have disappeared. I don’t know about anyone else but I am more likely to match with someone who has already like my profile. I wish these features would comeback. I gave this a 3 star because it still is one of the better dating apps with all photos in the same place and having an actual button to send a like or an X. Other apps require a swipe which I have accidentally swiped the wrong way so there have been a few oopsie daisies.

Outdated model for dating. CMB gets a lot of high praise - I’d say that’s to do with its app design and functionality. I wonder though if it ends there, and it’s only about the company making money but not delivering on an experience. The model for dating grossly is against males and these apps do not help. For all the money spent on non-responsive females (and yes that is a long running phenomenon), what are you actually paying for? A ‘chance’ to talk to someone or are you actually paying for her self validation while she simply ignores you? CMB, you should only be charging us if contact is made - stop charging us for the attempt. I have raised such issues with you before but you clearly do not take feedback seriously. And for me and other males, that means hundreds or thousands of dollars wasted with no outcome - including no conversation. Your greed is showing.

No good in Melbourne. I gave it a try for two weeks, and did not come across any profiles I was interested in. The app is a bit clunky to navigate and you can’t view many people in one day. I don’t mind the idea of slow swiping, but the concept doesn’t really work when there aren’t enough quality profiles. And that is the main problem with this app - at least in Melbourne. There are real lack of attractive men, and I felt the algorithm wasn’t really taking my preferences into account. The real takeaway for me is that it doesn’t really matter how good the concept is - if the people aren’t there, the app won’t work. Also - I notice there are a few reviews from Asian users saying the app is racist as they are recommended mostly Asian bagels. I’m not Asian, but at least half the profiles I saw were Asian. I don’t think the app is racist - I think there are just a lot of Asian users on the app.

No response from the support team. I downloaded this app a few days ago and half set up my profile with the two pictures I have of myself. I later got an email from the Coffee Meets Bagel support team saying my account had been flagged and that they needed to verify my account by sending a photo of myself holding up 3 fingers. I replied straight away with the photo. In response I got an email back that said the exact same thing the first email- that I needed to verify my account. I replied to the email and for the second time attached a photo of myself. It has been 4 days and I have still not had my account verified and meanwhile I am getting notifications from the app that people are liking my profile but I cannot login to the app or do anything about it. I sent an email yesterday expressing my frustration and asking for them to delete my account if they weren’t going to unblock it. I still have received no response, and I have no way of accessing my account to delete it.

Depends on country. in Thailand i had good quality matches with asian guys who is ready for LTR, found two there during 2 years or searching, but in Australia matches are so-so and acting weird xD so basically matches depends on a country audience. lots of fake accounts with ideal bloggers like pictures who immediately respond - just confront them and they will Unmatch because they scared to be blocked

Terrible app. Started off somewhat well, but had long stretches without a a single match. The vast majority of the few matches I did get seemed to loose interest very quickly and stopped replying. Some didn't even have the decency to reply to any messages sent. If the girl doesn't like you back after liking them then you have no way of connecting with them at all, even if you feel like they would be a suitable match. Go out into the real world to meet someone instead of wasting your time and killing your self esteem on this useless and pathetic app.

This Coffee got bitter. When I first started using the app, it came across as a really great concept; it had a personal feel and I like that matches are limited, so it doesn’t get overwhelming/time consuming. It felt like the app was a lot more genuine than others, and the interface was great 👌🏼but the whole beans system has become a bit of a let down, it’s very hard to earn them and expensive to buy them 😕 Online dating can be pretty fickle, for everyone 1 person that you talk to, there can be 5 or more matches that won’t talk (based on other dating apps). If I wanted to buy a subscription, I’d buy it from a more established app and if I wanted to gamble my money away(buying beans), I’d hit up a casino, not waste it on potentially getting a ‘like’ from someone. It seems you guys are chasing profits and not even bumping up the advertising, to get more people on. Your online support is pretty limited as well 👎🏼

False Advertising. App had notifications about matches and I could see through a blurry overlay there were a few matches. Purchased one month to have a look and there was no one in there. Pretty sure that under Australian Consumer Law this be might be a bit naughty. They give off a good vibe as developers but the deliver is designed to just get you to spend money.

My Review. Dear CMB, I have enjoyed using the dating service provided and I think that CMB is a more genuine and intentional way of meeting potential dates than other dating platforms. Thank you for the good work you are doing. However, I have observed that sometimes there are some lags and delays in the messaging service so perhaps there is room for improvement but in this area. But other than that, I really enjoy using the app!

Very disappointing. I felt as though this app wasn’t truly taking preferences into consideration, and may have been making suggestions based on racial profiling. Having been born in this country and being mixed European and Anglo Indian, my preference was set to White/Caucasian. However most of the guys that were shown on my profile and who I would get likes from were South Asian, despite the fact that I didn’t state that I was South Asian (I barely know anything about the culture and can hardly relate to the people anyhow). This was a truly disappointing experience and I wish the app actually did its job and showed you guys that you would actually be interested in, instead of guys who they think you’d be interested in by only showing those of similar ethnicity (a very flimsy thing to be basing a potential match or relationship off of).

Yep, use this one. CMB is the way to go if you’re looking for a slower, more manageable approach to finding a new someone with a better than usual chance of becoming something special. A pleasant alternative to the usual online meat-market apps.

You literally can’t do anything.. Here again to discourage you all from downloading this app, unless you like having things taken away from you. Midway through a convo with a really interesting guy my messages 1. Got lost in the chat 2. Refused to send 3. I got notification banners saying I received multiple replies but couldn’t find the banners in my notification centre nor could I see the new messages in the chat. Doesn’t help that the chat expires?? What is going on, guys?

50anddating. I’ve been on a few dating apps some 18 months ago, without any luck, and I was very hesitant going on here. I was only on here 2 weeks and the guys suggested to me we’re all very appropriate. I’ve really connected with someone and we will see what happens .

MISSED OUT MESSAGE MAYHEM. I would give 5 stars but you guys messed up. The chat I had with a girl had glitched out and we both didn’t receive each other’s messages so thought both sides were ghosting each other. If I hadn’t sent a hook message (?) to her after 3 days of absence, I would have lost the gem of my life!!!

Finally find my mr. right. I met my boyfriend through this app couple months ago and we have been getting along very well. People said online dating is not reliable. I just wanna say it’s nothing to do with online dating app, it is the person you met is not reliable. Thanks to coffee meets bagel. Wish everyone can find their true love, no matter by which way.

Frozen account for unknown reasons. My account has been frozen for more than X3 years. I’ve sent so many emails asking for assistance. Every time I was advised to update the APP which I did and still not working. It makes me frustrated and disappointed. They are not there to really help. Until recently, I was told my account was banned and they refused to explain why I violated their community guidelines. This is ridiculous. I have no idea why and when and how I violated their community guidelines. I give up on those people. Not worth it

Please bring back history. I have met some wonderful people and have had some great dates on here. I must say the amount of daily bagels offered has dropped significantly after I joined about 4 months ago. The history section is sorely missed as it allows me to track the number of matches vs likes, recommend a person to another and reconnect with a person if chat is accidentally deleted. Dear developers, please bring back history; it was not intrusive at all and did not slow down the app.

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Notifications don’t make sense. The app constantly sends notifications saying “someone liked you tap to see who”. Being a non-subscriber you would think it means you had a match. But no, if you click on it it opens a the page with masked profiles. I would have paid if there was a monthly or weekly option like the other apps, but I don’t want to pay $100+. Another thing - you can’t control who you see in “discover”, only in the 10 daily suggested matches.

Useless and confusing. I would say if you are looking for an Asian partner, then there is an abundance here, and very few of other ethnicities. But even at that, they give limited number of (mis)matches per day, which you can like all of them, but they are usually less than 10 per day. You can see more in suggested, but you can’t like those, you have to send them a flower of which you only get 8 per month, and that’s for a premium membership. So, a waste of money and time really.

Mediocre app - blatant cash grab. I bought the premium version a few days ago. Got a few matches but in order to continue swiping on people, you are constantly bombarded with appeals to buy “more beans.” $6.99 here, $30 here. This app is designed to squeeze as much money from you as it can. Even with a “premium subscription”, you’re only given a limited amount of swipes per day. Once you use them up, you better be ok with paying an exorbitant amount of money to continue to have the type of access to matches that Hinge and Bumble offer. Contrast this app to Hinge or even Bumble, where you’re less hounded for cash and it offers you more for your money. Stick with Hinge, Bumble, or even Tinder. This is by far the worst dating app I’ve ever used.

Low quality scams. App doesn’t let you like anyone, it suggests 30 accounts that basically look like copies of the same person over and over. Once you go through the pile it wants you to pay $50 for another pile of generic fake people.

Not great. Great if you like being matched with sub par looking people every day while the “Better” looking ones show up on your feed and can only match with them by buying ridiculously overpriced beans

Awesome app. Met someone amazing on CMB! Definitely a cut above other apps, very few to no spam accounts it seems and a great focus on making high potential dates happen as opposed to endless chatting.

A pay-what-you-got software. For man's account, you only get matched if you pay the subscribe. Otherwise, it is waste of time. Even matched with someone, the poor online behavior will not get you into a conversation.

Won’t use, collects “identifiers used to track you”. Won’t use this app until they stop collecting identifiers used to track you as reported on the privacy label on the app’s page.

Review. Horrible experience

False reporting. Anyone who reports you has no obligation to prove anything. Nonsense

Stuck in 90’s & Costs Too Much. From a strictly visual point of view this app feels like it’s stuck in the 90’s it’s not an easy viewing user friendly app in the slightest. And don’t expect to be able to anything at all unless you’re willing to pay an arm and a leg. This is by far the most expensive monthly dating app that at the very least $45 a month. I decided to try this app after an Instagram user did a sponsored add… it’s such a con for such a terrible app.

Worst Dating App Ever. Poor selection. Most of the men don’t even bother to fill out their profiles. The app doesn’t respect your parameters. Once you’ve seen the ten daily mismatches that the app sends your way, you have to wait 24 hours (or pay even more money) to see anyone else. Complete waste of time and money.

Terrible if you don’t pay. How is it possible that I have 99+ likes and yet I never match with anyone they show me?? Don’t waste your time on this app cause unless you pay you won’t match with more than 1 person every 2 weeks :/

Paywall after paywall. This app incessantly asks you to purchase products. On top of this the people you match with don’t even message you back. The simply just sit in your match list until the match expires. This app is just a ghosting app for girls to build up their egos. I was expecting so much more

A points based dating app?????. If you’re considering using this EA dating app lemme break what that title means. Every day you get suggested matches, you get one. You get ONE free swipe per DAY. All other right swipes/likes? These require the user to spend the in-app currency called “beans”. Liking someone costs the user 300 beans, and trying to get beans naturally is nearly impossible. Meaning if you intend to use this app legitimately, you will need to spend real money to purchase “beans”. The most you can buy is 3000 for $35. Running the math, that’s $35 out of your pocket for a rough estimate of TEN LIKES. TEN. 10. ONE-ZERO. This is a scam and it’s not worth your time, let alone your money.

Likes you tab empty after notification. I got notifications that someone liked me but when I went into the app there’s no one.

Nascar of dating apps (just turning left). Most left swipes Ive ever done this algorithm doesn’t even know what to do anymore lol Update: Deleted, hinge is literaly the only good one now.

Turned to trash over the years. I remember this app being good the last time I used it. Now everything is stuck behind a $45/month pay wall while all other apps offer it for free. You’re shown to people outside of your preference to pad the numbers. Why would I pay $45 just to go through hundreds of people who aren’t my type. You can clearly see all the numbers rise above 100 so you can guess when you’ve reached over 200 likes yet less than 10 are your type. The fact that so many of which are beyond the distance I’ve set is also very unappealing for me to waste my money. 1 person whose shown up was someone from across the border. Distance preference is there for a reason, I’m not interested in a long distance relationship.

Wait, what? Facebook?. You REQUIRE Facebook login? What? Ignoring the fact that Facebook is abusive, why would you force your users through an external party? Why would you give another company complete control over your entire userbase? Why would you force people to sign up with Facebook? Especially when the alternative is trivially easy. Just the pressure of apps like these alone to give up and submit your identity to the Facebook overlord is abusive. Stop.

Scam app to blackmail your personal information. Do yourself a favor avoid this app. It’s a total scam to blackmail your personal information. They locked my account immediately after I registered and claimed that they can not verify me despite the fact I have my email and phone number linked to the account. They demand more personal information to unlock my account, which is ridiculous for a dating app. They refused to delete my personal information unless I provide more of my personal information to them. What a joke!

Don’t waste your time. Since the new update, app is unusable without having to go premium. You cannot message people while sending a like and it doesn’t show you people who liked you either (forever blurred in your likes stack). What’s the point? Once a good app now turned garbage.

Booo. Cut messaging feature

Monetization is ruining the app. Removing the ‘intros’ feature for ‘send flowers’ was a cheap cash grab. Intros gave meaning to each like. Match & conversation quality will suffer. CMB is now just a tinder clone with likes & super likes.

Effective. Met my boyfriend

Worse than Tinder. Didn’t think I’d ever come across an app worse than tinder, but here we are. Fake profiles, and it’s all a money grab, even seeing your likes requires payment. I’m going to finally try hinge like people have suggested. Wish me luck y’all.

It is more money oriented now. And risk of scam. It is more money oriented now. And risk of scam

Disappointing and a scam. You can’t use it unless you pay. I got a match but literally cannot talk to them without paying. Don’t waste your time.

Bot email spam!!. After signing up and deleting my account from CMB, I started to get weird emails from bots saying stuff like “hello is it me” or “let’s chat” or “hello again this is Jennifer” or anything along those annoying weird bot scam emails Don’t download this app unless you want your data leaked or sold to third parties or scammers!!!

Great app to meet people that match your preferences. I met my boyfriend because of this app. We never would've known about each other otherwise! Thank you CMB 😊 Very cute yet effective app. It allows you to filter what you're looking for. I've tried other dating apps/sites but a lot of it is just noise. You never know if you don't try, I definitely wasn't expecting much from the get go but we connected through CMB within two weeks of me signing up and it changed my life, no joke! Good luck!

They don’t care about you, as they say they do. So I spent so much money buying their beans to like people, now in order to see who likes you, you have to subscribe and pay more. That greed is a little overtop now, it’s just such a turn off they try and take advantage of people’s money and emotions. I also owned this app for over for years and I completely regret using this

There are better dating app options. There are better dating app options than Coffee Meets Bagels. The way the app works is that everyday at Noontime, they send you about 7-8 different profiles to potentially match with. Now, their algorithm for matching is a zero or 1/5. Pretty much every profile I get sent as a “match” is not close to meeting the criteria I want (not only with looks but with career and a serious lack of maturity that comes across in their profile for those who say they want a life partner). Also, if you want to browse profiles that are not part of your daily matches, there are BARELY ANY profiles that show up in the search: it’s really a joke as I’ll have a filter for men age 37 to 52 for Toronto (a huge city mind you) and there will often be ZERO profiles pulled or maybe only 1-3 occasional profiles. It’s a pretty sad dating app and there are better options both for those looking for a life partner and also those looking for a casual fling.

Fake profiles, information mining. Bots or people with nothing better to do try to profile you for purposes of providing more “matches”, thereby enticing you to pay for membership or beans. Don’t waste your time falling for this.

Found love ❤️. Infinitely grateful for this app, the founder, and the team. Fate allowed me to find a beautiful real and genuine love. Online dating works to the degree of luck and preparation you have for a fateful and super-timely encounter with your right person

If you give it time, it’ll work out.. The free version of this app works great. Don’t let others opinion of this app stop you from taking a leap of faith. I say this without any prospects, but I am hopeful.

Waste of money. This app used to be good (met one of my long term significant others on it) but it’s become really useless. Everything is hidden behind fees and if you want to pay they lock you into three month periods for $95.99 USD. The mini which is cheaper is also useless because again…all the best features are in the premium tier. Annoyingly after you delete this app they’ll send you alerts and spam to get you back. Just overall a horrible dating app.

They start with less popular people. Unethical and misleading scamming system will make sure they get your money By revealing popular profiles after you have spend the free beans, and even after that most of the good ones are fakes... So disgusted by these kind of company.

Pay to view likes? NO WAY!!!. The recent update was really absurd! Now we need to pay the monthly subscription just for viewing who liked us? You can try to be more greedy, CMB. I understand we need to buy beans to send flowers. This still makes sense to me because you need to monetize. But paying monthly subscription to just view likes is totally stupid. Good luck with losing more users. Bye.

No longer able to send Bagels to friends. On the iOS app, one can no longer send Bagels to friends. That’s just one of the feature deletions, including removal of the history and the filters in Discover. The app is getting worse bit by bit. Look elsewhere.

Garbage. Guys, don’t fall for it. It’s a scam.

Terrible app, deceptive business practices. Do not bother with this app. Great for the first day, then all downhill from there. If you pay for a subscription tier, the app will break the features you pay for and thus not give you the features promised (hence deceptive business practices). Those other apps CMB claims to be better than? They ARE better than CMB.

Grateful. I didn’t think I’d meet my soulmate in the middle of a global pandemic, but I did earlier last year on CMB and am grateful for the opportunity. I appreciate that CMB provides a thoughtful approach to dating and while there is room for improvement, I feel the app is going in the right direction to facilitate creating meaningful relationships. A few tips I have for future daters reading this to make the best of your experience (for yourself and others): 1. After you’ve matched with someone that you really like, put your account on hold. This helps create time and space for a genuine one on one connection. You won’t be distracted by multiple conversations and you’ll be focused on getting to genuinely know each other. 2. If you don’t feel your match is working out after chatting, let them know. It can be as simple as saying “Hey, thanks for giving this a chance but I don’t think we’re a good match for each other.” This lets the other person know that you appreciate them putting themselves out there but they’re not what you’re looking for - which is totally okay! You’ll save each other time and energy and they’ll definitely appreciate the straightforwardness as well. Best of luck ✌️

Be cautious and the app will force you to provide government ID. This app flagged my account as a scam for nothing. The support team asked for a photo of mine with certain posture to verify my id and it took over a week. After I provided the photo they requested, they asked for my government ID. This is ridiculous and absurd. This verification process is included in the terms of services when I signed up but who actually read this??? and what kind of dating app requires government ID for account verification? Rather Use hinge or bumble. Thanks John from the support team for wasting my time :)

Trash. Horrible app to use after the new update. Need to pay to see any matches

Should have penalty for fake “Like”. Some people don’t reply to others after a match (I did not start with anything offensive). What’s the point of having a “match” then? If this app is aiming for building serious relationship. It should not allow users to random “like” each other.

Worst update ever. It’s either premium or zero free match now. Forcing users to pay is the worst service strategy ever

Used to be able to match for free after a wait.. Now they changed it to pay only. You’ll see people delete their apps after this!!!

False advertising???. The App Store gives it a 17+ rating but you have to be 18+? I don’t understand

Possible scam, or very bad design.. Been with them for a year. All other apps I always match at least once every couple weeks, and even went on a couple dates, but all this app did was trick me into wasting money all year. I think they may be fake. Other apps work, this one doesn’t. Continue at your own risk. I always find it funny when a dating app suddenly has a like for you when the subscription runs out. lol Right.

Can’t do much with a free profile anymore. CMB was great until they removed most features for free accounts. Now if you have a free account, you can’t see who’s liked you. And even if you send a like to someone, there’s no way to know if they’ve seen your profile and there’s no guarantee that you’ll match with someone. I decided to try premium for one month, but after the one month, I’m most likely going to close my account. It sucks because CMB became one of my favourite apps and I’ve recommended it to some of my friends. The app is useless if you can’t afford to use the premium features. I don’t know if CMB reads these kind of reviews, but if they do, I hope they bring back the original features free accounts had. Yes, it was limited, but at least with a free account, you could see 1-2 people who liked your profile.

Search Function Non-Functional. Not sure if it’s on purpose or not, but the app’s search function, in the Discover tab, doesn’t work. That is, every time I try to search using just *three* filters (age, race, religion) the search yields 0 results. However, when I view profiles in the discovery section without using the filters, there are definitely people in the list who fit my three criteria. But yet, somehow, these people get lost when I dare try to use filters that match their profiles. Go figure! 🤷🏾‍♀️ Part of me wonders if the app developers really even want a working search function, for fear that a working search function might make it apparent how few people are on the app that fit one’s mandatory criteria, thus disincentivizing the purchase of paid memberships.

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Lives up to its tagline. Disclaimer: this is the only dating app I have used for myself. Because of a recommendation of a relative in Singapore, I recommended this to another girlfriend of mine. The guys she met were so serious about dating they would even fly out to meet her! When I eventually started using it, I was only active for 24 hours and in those 24 hours, I met my future husband. I wish I could say it had been that easy for him but the algorithm really worked for me. I did meet a few other guys too, but because they really knew what they were looking for (I was in the US temporarily for a short-study program), they decided against carrying on the conversation. So my experience has been that guys on there are pretty intentional about dating towards something long-term.

Unimpressed so far. Maybe I should be used to it, but generally disappointed by yet another dating app. The dating pool is so slim, and about 95% of my “bagels” live outside of my state. I understand that bc I live near the border even with my mileage settings turned lower I still pick up New Yorkers… but for once I’d love to see an app with the option to select not by mileage but by state or something. I’m sorry but im never going into the city to meet someone, I abhor the city and its expensive to get into, I’m trying to meet someone local, but the app only pushes NYC people at me. Its just frustrating bc I’m sure there are other people in NJ on this app but I can’t see them bc just like Tinder and other apps, they push NYC users to the front and i dont understand why and the discover page is all messed up, I keep seeing women when i specifically put in my preferences that im gay and would like to see other gay men. its a neat concept, but im just tired of dealing with this same issue no matter what app i use.

Met my bagel!. I met my boyfriend on this app. We’ve been together for about a month more, and went on a several dates before becoming “official”. I chose CMB because I liked how it is much more private and that your profile is set up as you writing answers to icebreaker questions. Your name is only displayed as your first name but only until you match with someone. And you never even have to exchange information with someone (contact info) unless you choose to outside the app. I went on one date before meeting my now-boyfriend on the second. Yes, you’ll be matched with people you have no interest in. But I like the parameters you can set , including age, ethnicity, smoker/non smoker, wants kids or doesn’t or not sure. I stuck around on the app for a month until I found my match. I encourage anyone to try it out. You may just find your future partner and happiness 😊

Good Concept, but some touch ups needed. I like the concept of CMB, limiting the number of profiles to swipe on to 10-20 each day so that it increases the chances of matches happening. The other apps reduce their effectiveness by the endless swipes it seems, so CMB really emphasizes that you take your time and think through the 10-20 profiles they show you. They also show you right away if someone has liked you, so you have a chance to instant match. However, same struggles as with the other apps, you start off great, getting matches and responses, then all of a sudden no matches. Seems you are swiping each day to no avail. Not even the unattractive ones like you. Strange right? Well, just as with the other dating apps, no different, they do a poor job of deleting inactive profiles. If I had to guess it seems like 95% of these matching apps have inactive profiles. Would be a great improvement if they omitted any profiles that haven’t logged in in more than a week.

Solid Dating app that mostly avoids the hook up culture. So I’ve tried two dating apps - Hinge and CMB. I like the lay out of CMB more and the fact that there are less people to sort through each day. The fact that the app suggests people for you each day that it thinks are a good match meant that I actually had consistently decent recommendations after the first few days (it took a bit for the algorithm to figure out my preferences). People on the app also seem more inclined to progress things to a date sooner, since the chat on the app runs out after 7 days. At first I thought that feature might be stressful but I actually grew to really appreciate it. Anywho, found an awesome cute guy that I’m currently dating after only 2 weeks on the app. That’s pretty solid in my book. I’d definitely recommend this app to people looking for something more serious 🙂

Give it time!. I was skeptical at first since it was my first time using a dating app, but it worked out really well for me! When I began using it, I didn’t feel like the bagels weren’t really my type and I didn’t feel like the algorithm was working. However, after using the app every day for about two weeks, I could see that the algorithm was working really well and was recommending me people who were my type (looks, job, interests, etc.) The first date I went on through this app was a success and we have now been together for six months! This app is definitely more for people who are looking for something serious, which I find refreshing since you never have to be in a limbo period with someone who you are unsure what their future relationship goals are.

Utterly abysmal excuse of a pay-to-play dating app.. CMB is by far the worst dating app I’ve used out of the “top” ones. Your actions have a choke hold based on the in-app currency - Beans. To receive 200 beans, you can follow them on Instagram. To receive 500 beans, you have to act as THEIR marketer by spamming out referral links to your friends, hoping that they’ll bite. Other than that (unless you pay...), you receive 5 beans PER DAY for swiping through your daily bagels. In order to LIKE somebody on CMB through the discover tab, you need to cough up 385 beans. Three hundred eighty five. 385!!!!!! YOU GET 5 BEANS DAILY FOR FREE. I’m currently down to 50 beans. That means UNLESS I PAY, I have to wait 67 DAYS in order to accrue enough beans to like somebody in the discover tab!!! SIXTY SEVEN DAYS. When I first signed up, I was getting 10 bagels per day. I got an in-app offer for the premium subscription model with a free week. My daily bagels has now fallen to TWO. I am getting less bagels as a PAID user. While the discovery tab is nice in terms of filtering your preferences, the bean concept is absurd if you’re charging 385 to LIKE somebody. And two daily bagels is a joke. Horrible horrible overall app experience. NEXT!

Algorithm designed to get you to pay. The algorithm that determines your match suggestions is very clearly designed to get the user to purchase better match suggestions. You’re sent a limited amount of match suggestions every day at noon that you can match or pass for free. The free match suggestions have consistently been people who are overweight, have facial tattoos, piercings or other qualities that would attracted more “passes” than “matches” while the people you find under discover are consistently very attractive (the people who cost money to match with). This tells me that the profiles you have to pay to match with are either fake profiles or they are selected by an algorithm that picks people who have a higher percentage of “matches” over “passes”. In other words, the people who have been more desired by others cost money to match with and the people who are least desired are free to match with. That’s my observation

AVOID THIS APP FOR NOW!. The app makes you choose only from a handful of individuals which they say "quality over quantity" blah blah blah but the quality of my picks are terrible. The matching algorithm is awful. I do hit pass sometimes but I've also hit like and I've gotten NOTHING in several months. The app does CONSTANTLY encourage you to use "beans" to get more likes BUT at an expensive price. Now you can get them free by doing things within the app cool, but when you do them YOU DON'T GET THEM it's like they just want you to stay on the app as long as possible. You can also get them by signing on several days in a row which I did and at the higher bean count data I didn't get any when I got to day 3, 4 and 5 felt completely cheated but luckily I was asked to buy more beans using real money after.... Come on now! Fix the app where people can get more beans doing things, maybe like a fun game or something and make matches faster and maybe this will be a decent app. This can be a REALLY good app but it feels like they are money grabbing by delivering a less than mediocre app.

You eventually get matched, right?. I’ve been on multiple apps and this was by far the weakest concept. Most other apps just give you a pool, and you can select as much as you want until you run out. Here you are only given a handful of options unless you pay through the roof to get access to more. You can purchase the chance to unlock more using “beans”. If you use all your free “beans” to pay for an additional connection, it will literally take you 60 days to earn enough “beans” back to unlock just one additional match. Each match cost over 300 beans, and you only get 5 beans a day for looking through your bagels. Again unless you pay. As for the matches, I was averaging about 1 like out of every 4 options. Pretty common on most my apps. I’m pretty successful getting matches on other sites within days, however after almost 2 months and well over 100 likes selected I never received one connection. I have no idea what the algorithm for CMB is, but that seems extremely broken to me based on other app experience. I would never recommend this app to anyone.

Designed to benefit girls not guys. CMB is not fair by limiting the number of bagels but not limiting the number of matches. Popular girls get 30 likes easily in a day. Even they like back only half of them, they still cannot handle talking to 15 matches at the same time. While they definitely enjoy this feeling of being popular, they still suffer from the pain of not being able to commit to all the matches. Guys, on the other hand, only get 1 to 2 matches in a week or even 2 weeks, so they commit each single match they can have. This inevitably leads to guys being ghosted by girls. If CMB can limit the number of matches, this unfair situation can definitely be improved: guys are ghosted less and girls can decide more seriously which one to match because once they match, girls would cherish that match as they know it’s one of the few that they could match. Also set a 24 hour deadline for unmatch: if no response in 24 hours, then unmatched. We’re humans not ghosts. If no intent to chat, then why match?

Not enough beans. I honestly really liked this app in the beginning. Really. I was getting beans for logging in every day and doing the photo lab. But after the first week you stop getting beans every day for logging in. So from what ive experienced, you can get 5 beans a day from the suggested bagels. Then you have the photo lab. I think you can get 100 beans a day from that. Other than that your only option is to invite a bunch of your friends or pay money to earn more bagels... it costs 300 beans to like a bagel so you can like a bagel 1 time every 3 days if you do the photo lab (1 bean for every picture you choose)... this was kind of a disappointment to me. I can understand looking for the quality and not the quantity of bagels and really looking for the right ones to spend your beans on. But when you cant really even like 1 bagel every day or even every other day without spending money or inviting everyone on your contact list then i think something needs to change. Plus beans are not cheap. I think its like $2.00 for 200 beans... which still isnt enough to like someone... I want to like this app but im not having to much success here Edit: reply to the response Forgive me but i didnt realize that the suggested bagels were free. That is a mistake on my part. Thank you for telling me. Ill give the app another shot.

Great for racists. Great app if you have shallow biases in general. There is little room for personality, but loads of emphasis on superficial details like where you went to school, work, and your ethnicity, the latter of which is then used as an annoying filter. There is an “Arab” category that is apparently supposed to encompass all people of middle eastern descent, but it’s not like that detail matters. As long as it serves as a non-white filter. I have small amounts of almost every ethnicity. All my attractive, white potentials went away by morning after filling out this portion, and left 4 completely different defeated-looking people I didn’t have much in common with other than being tanned, unless they were below average looking white people I hate to say. The best match was 5 years younger than me even though my preference was set to my age or older. I have a good degree, job, etc, so either I'm hideous and people are fast to swipe left, the members filter by race, or the app filters by race in suspicious ways. After looking into it, apparently the latter at least is true for the algorithm. The result is an app that seems to be designed by sorority girls from 1982.

It’s completely changed. I used to love CMB because I liked the pace and had quality matches, but I downloaded the app again recently and noticed it’s completely changed. The profiles now look exactly like a profile from Hinge except worse. But the worst part is I thought the whole point of CMB was that women are only shown men who have already liked them so I’m not wasting my time with guys who don’t like me. But since the time I redownloaded, all my suggested bagels are guys that don’t/haven’t liked me. All the guys who like me are in my “likes you section” where I can only see 6 a day, and I had 99+ likes my first day so it seems like by the time I’ll get to see some guys, they might have already met someone else by then. I think the guys in “Likes You” should be the suggested bagels since they’ve already liked me. And the “Likes You” section should be removed altogether. You had a great thing going CMB, please switch the profiles and app layout back to how it was because now your basically just like any other app :/

Found an awesome bagel. I started communicating with a guy on here a couple of months ago. We were and still are a great match. We have a lot of things in common and we find ourselves laughing together daily. The prompts helped us to see what we have in common. He and I decided to delete the app this week and make it official! So thank you CMB for connecting me with a warm, kind, and funny man who makes me happy. I’m grateful💜💜. Oh and as far as the other stuff here’s the deal: The site is user friendly. They send you reminders daily to check your bagel which is great. They allow you to extend matches if needed. If folxs are interested in online dating, I recommend this site. Of course just like any other site, you will have to weed through folxs who can be a good fit and those who will not be.

CMB has really gone downhill. Boston based, I used CMB in 2016, and was really impressed by the number of eligible and interesting men on the app. When I went back to the app in 2018, expecting the same, I was sorely disappointed. The «daily selection » is either empty (« check back tomorrow »), or has one profile. About 50% of the time, the suggested profile is bogus. If I follow up, the guy makes no sense - he’s based in Boston, but his business is in San Diego, his 13 yo daughter is a student at Emerson College. And he makes mistakes in English that make it seem like « he » is actually some random call-center drone based in India. After recommending this app to friends for years, I now can only advise that you stay away. It is a joke. They have call center people posing as candidates looking for a match. Pathetic. (PS - I would have given the lowest stars possible. I tried several times. But the app keeps telling you that your user names is taken (no matter what you propose), as long as the star rating is too low for them. This site has become a total scam!)

Completely Underwhelmed. I’ve been using this for several months to give it a fair chance. I even bought extra beans so that I could use the discover option for other “bagels”. Well, I matched with 3 bagels in 4 months’ time. Three of which were fake trying to get their inheritance or antique shipment released from customs in another country. Of course they told me they loved me...right before asking for $5000. The app also says they provide you with a few (more than 1) bagels each day. I’ve never had more than 1 in a day. In fact, over the past 3 weeks I haven’t had one single bagel presented to me. No, not even one. I’m glad I didn’t waste an absurd amount of money on this app but I sure did waste time and space on my phone. I see several 4 & 5 star ratings saying this app is “dope” or they found love in a hopeless place. Well, I don’t know if those are fake reviews or if I’m just so unmatchable the app leaves me with giant Goose Eggs instead of bagels. I wish everyone using this good luck but I’ll find other ways to waste my time. I uninstalled it.

Okay for the most part, a lot of fake profiles. Disclaimer: I live in a big tech city. Being in a big city, I had higher hopes for CMB. There’s not a whole lot of people on here compared to other apps, and about 30-40% of profiles appear to be fake. If you see a software engineer, data scientist, or financial analyst that looks like a Chinese super model, is almost always 5’6”, their last picture is of random food or a fluffy cat (the one I see is always a fluffy white cat), they have no profile info or are really into “gardening” or scuba diving, and went to Duke or NYU, it’s most likely fake. Like, there’s a clear pattern and I get at least 5-10 of those every day on my bagels. They need to do better at detecting those accounts. Feels like I’m just waiting every day until noon to just ♥️ a fake profile. Pretty disappointing. But the real people you do meet on it are solid, which is why I gave the app 3 stars.

Neat idea, but definitely a cash grab. So I’ve been using this app for a few weeks now and I definitely have to agree with some of the negative reviews. I get that this app is a business but I feel that it definitely hides potential likes behind a pay wall. The people you are sent for free are usually not people you will probably like and the ones in discover are usually people you would like to match with but have to spend brand on. Now I understand that this is meant to make you think about each choice but eventually after about a week or so you run out of opportunities to earn free beans in any meaningful way. It costs 380 beans to like a person and you can only earn about 15 beans a day. They need to SERIOUSLY consider lowering the amount of beans it costs to like someone. I would say 100 beans would be fair and attainable within a week. You would still have to think about each like but you wouldn’t be limited to 1 discover every 2 months (unless you spend money). Probably won’t happen but hey may as well make the suggestion 🙂.

Could be better. Pros: it will cycle in people who have liked you instead of other apps that say they do but really you have to pay. Very good at finding people in your local area not just general area. Con: not enough active users. It also limits how many potential matches you can make a day. That’s nothing new to apps but it’s a really small chunk and other apps will at least time gate you so you can keep going later but CMB makes you wait the entire day. Suggestions, although this is better than a lot of other apps I would still say tinder and bumble are anybody’s best shot. They have a large user base and let you view a large amount of profiles in a day. They’re also actually free bc copy cat like OKC is awful unless you pay. Regardless of what app you use you will come into fake and or non active profiles. I wish apps would delete said profiles after a certain amount of time. Like a month with no activity should get booted.

I want to add specifics to multiple choice questions!. The app design is overall good but I have a suggestion: For example: race- “Asian/white” should have an option to type specifications beneath it like “Japanese/Irish” or for ex: Family Plans - “Not sure yet” you could type beneath it maybe, “I’m good with kids but it’s a big responsibility.” I think it’d be good to add this feature under every multi choice selection, in case one wants to elaborate. Maybe it could be hidden so it has to be clicked to get more details. Obviously it should be optional, but I want the option. Also: 1. on the discover tab my preferences always get reset. On the actual preferences tab (not on discover) it’s in tact, but I always end up adding it back every time I get on discover. 2. Sometimes my daily suggested Bagels are the same as the day before, when I’ve already passed on them. Sometimes it’s not a light pass that I need to come back to.. it’s a waste of one of my daily picks :/

Ladies Beware- CMB full of Catfish!. Catfishers...people who use fake orofiles to connect with women. This app is probably THE WORST dating app ive cone across. I seriously do not understand all the positive reviews… Either they're using a different app or their being paid to write these reviews or their friends of the developers… But trust me if you are serious person trying to connect with other serious people it's not gonna happen through this app. Dead giveaways are when a profile state that the person was educated outside the US. Most of the fake users have very generic occupations such as "engineer" or "petroleum engineer". And they were educated at the University of Stockholm or someplace down in Jamaica. Trust me I've connected with these people and when you connect with these folks the telltale sign is found in their grammar usage. Suddenly the perfectly written profile becomes fifth grade usage of the language during texting. And it's not due to someone being a hipster. I cannot be more emphatic in stating that whatever biometrics this app uses to catch fake users… It is not working! Not in the slightest! Terrible terrible terrible is my review.

Comes with a Dumb Catch. So I just picked up this app at the recommendation of my friend who uses it. Fast forward to yesterday when I’m maybe 2 days into this app, and I see a person I’m particularly interested in. I mean, checks off all the boxes. ;] That’s when I discover that I *can’t connect* because I *don’t have enough stupid coffee beans* 😳 I’m sorry- but when we’re on a platform to connect with another user, and we can’t because we don’t have enough frickin’ coffee beans - that’s SO STUPID. And on top of that, I saw no other way to acquire said beans. The very few ways I HaVe found are inaccurate, nonsensical, and not worth much. It ‘costs’ 385 beans to connect but congratulations, you get a whole 30 one time by _fill_in_the_blank_. I’m bummed that the guy I’d hoped to connect with is gone, but more so annoyed that I have to be SUPER picky about who I ‘spend my coffee beans’ on. If I’m missing something, by all means let me know - but if I’m right, this is ludicrous.

Wonderful app — I met my love on it. I never expected to meet someone I’d fall head over heels in love with on an app, but that’s exactly what happened thanks to Coffee Meets Bagel! My boyfriend and I have been together for over a year and I’ve never in my life been so grateful for an app (or for another person). When I was on it, I liked that CMB was so relaxed and you could only match with 5 people each day instead of matching endlessly. The matches seemed well thought-out and I like that the profiles included people’s religious beliefs, height, interests and conversation starters. I also enjoyed the whole vibe in the app. People generally seemed pretty chill, unlike the aggressive and somewhat desperate energy on Tinder, for instance. I ended up recommending CMB to a few of my friends and one of them met her boyfriend on there as well! I still wholeheartedly recommend this app and am so grateful to it for introducing me to the most wonderful person I’ve ever met.

Great App!. I’ve been impressed with CMB and overall like the approach and algorithm they have to online dating—it’s a fresh alternative to other dating platforms. I do wish on the discover settings that I wouldn’t have to set the filter settings to match my preferences every time, because I sometimes see someone, then it isn’t till I click on that person that I realize we share a different religion, which is important to me, and then am reminded that I need to set my filter settings all over again. Also, I do not prefer that the connections time out automatically after eight days, because you could be talking to someone at the time, and not be ready to talk to this new bagel, but nevertheless it seems like a potential great match that you would want access to down the line. With those two caveats, overall, great app, great UX, creative, fun, and an overall pleasant experience!

Worst dating app by far. These have to be fake reviews because this app is crap. You get like 20 profiles a day for free and as you know you might not be attracted to any of those girls. If you do not like the 20 girls you have to wait 24 hours to get another 20 profiles to view. Then there is a section called “Discover” and apparently CMB thinks those are the “quality” women but if you want to like them you hag to spend “beans” and you only get like 500 free and each like costs like 350. So basically if you don’t spend money to buy more beans you have to look at 25 women a day, it’s pathetic. Trust me when I say the best app to find quality women is Hinge. Second best is Bumble because women have to reach out to you. Update: The developers reached out and said it’s so that we can “really get to know our matches”. That’s complete B.S. Online connections start with a PHYSICAL ATTRACTION first and foremost. If I’m attracted to them I’ll take the next step by reviewing their profile. If you give me 25 women I’m not attracted to I waste a day where I’m waiting for the next batch of women. I’m guessing the makers of this app aren’t too attractive so they focus on “inner beauty”.

Beware. Beware the Asian men who have only a couple photos and don’t write anything about themselves on their profile. They will almost immediately ask to chat off the app so they can scam you somehow or show you lewd photos you didn’t ask for. The app is better than Tinder in that it has profiles of substance (except for the users mentioned above). But worse than POF and Okcupid because there are character limits. You can also only see 15 matches a day for free, but that can be good for people with limited time. Conversations expire after seven days if neither person keeps it going. CMB could improve by eliminating character limits and displaying more facts on profiles such as political affiliation and whether the user does drugs or drinks alcohol. Another improvement would be a search filter so you only see people who meet your criteria.

The worst kind of app. I’ve tried to like the app, but it’s just constantly trying to monetize, from every angle, and it just gets really old. It also always shows me women way too young, and intentionally provides a “filter” that must be reset literally every time I look at potential matches. I’ve set my age range many times, but somehow it always shows me women much younger than I am asking for. It’s pretty obvious why (because they’re trying to entice me to “take” one of these very attractive bagels for a fee). It’s been operating like this for a while, feels very intentional, and that just seems sleazy to me. Bumble has its problems, but overall it seems like a more honest approach than Coffee meets Bagel. A year later, and I tried it again for a month or so. Unfortunately, things have gotten worse. The daily matches are never anything close to what I’m looking for now, but curiously, the matches you must pay for are! Isn’t that strange? It’s almost like, I don’t know, they’re doing this intentionally! Bumble’s not perfect, but it’s much more honest than CMB, no question.

Revision. This app was awesome and I met a ton of great people; not all were dating compatible but definitely start up friendships. Then all of the sudden my account gets stopped and the link said I needed to validate. I have emailed eight times, sent the confirmation pictures they requested three times, email contacts were Ross at first the Monika (is the next ones going to chandler, phoebe, Joey, or Rachel: friends reference), and I'm still waiting. I had a few women I was talking to before this happened and now I'll never know if my potential match was promising. I'd say go elsewhere for apps until you see those of us complaining rewrite our reviews. This app was awesome and I loved meeting people on it, but the service is crap. Revision: I finally received a response and got my account reopened. I will see how things go now. I have had the best luck of actually meeting decent people on this app and I'm hoping I'll meet my dream friend!!!

A little skeptical at first... but turned out to be amazing. So I was a little skeptical about dating apps at first. Originally I didn’t even want to try dating apps because I didn’t want to be catfished. The other reason is that I didn’t want to try other dating apps like Tinder or Bumble because I’ve heard some not so great things about them. I did my research wanted to try CMB because it seemed like they cared about the person on the other end, and they made to where I was the one controlling who I wanted to be matched with. I ended up trying this app with my best friend (as a NY resolution I might add) I was on CMB for about 3 days and I ended up talking to one guy and from that point on, we’ve been inseparable. CMB really tries to make honest connections between two people. I have never been so happy to find someone that I have a complete connection with. Thank you so much CMB!

Deceptive. Others are better.. You don’t find out until it’s too late that even if you buy their subscription, it’s not really useful unless you also buy lots of “beans.” The bottom line is that depending on what package of beans you buy, it costs anywhere from $2.78 to $6.67 to send one like to a profile. That is absolutely ridiculous. Who wants to spend that much money just to send a single like? It’s a numbers game; you want to send lots of likes and maybe you get a few responses where there is mutual attraction. That is the way it works on all dating apps. They do give you 21 profiles that you can like for free each day. The problem is, those profiles tend to be totally unattractive; and they don’t have enough filters to give you any chance of suggestions that get anywhere near what you were looking for. So the whole thing is a big waste of time and frustrating. After finding that out, I no longer wanted my subscription but of course subscriptions are nonrefundable. My bad; I should have read all the fine print. But who does that these days?

Used to like this app, but now there are some problems. I recently reactivated after a year of not using this app. I really don't like the fact that they removed the bagel history. I liked being able to change my mind about bagels or undo a mistake; in the last two days I have accidentally passed on bagels I meant to connect with, and now I am worried I will not see them ever in my Discover tab. It would be great if History was an optional feature I could turn on, or there was a link to a site where I could log in and see it! In addition, as a straight woman, I don't see the point of only seeing bagels who liked me already because that just encourages straight men to "like" as many woman as they see in order to increase the chance of a connection. I used to enjoy only seeing 1 or 2 bagels a day, and putting thought into whether I liked them, and not thinking about dating the rest of my day, so now that the app shows like 8 a day, it is just too many. I still like the more detailed profile that CMB offers, but that is really the only advantage now.

Save your money and time. Clicked for one month..... all of the sudden I'm in it for six months ..... when I wrote CMB I was told there are no refunds and anyway that it must have been a glitch with Apple and I should complain to Apple ( no other app had blamed Apple) Anyway 99% are scammers ( sad widows with an Ivy League education looking for an exclusive long term relationship) I know this because I started to have fun with the months I couldn't get out of it . Shockingly when I told my matches that my bucket list travel destination was Nigeria I was immediately deleted as a match 😂😂😂 I also started to use Facecheck ID to confirm these fake profiles and scammers as well have reached out to several of the guys who's profiles have been stolen . Yes I have repeatedly ( every day ) sent CMB the fake profiles but what do they care since they have my money ?? So if you have time to waste and want to have some laughs Join. Consider this your warming. ( and yes MANY people have had the same experience....according to everyone I have talked to who has used this site ) Any one up for a class action suit ??

Lowers your self esteem. Okay so this app is supposedly one of the “best apps Bc it’s supposed to match you with people specifically for you...who would specifically like you. This app is terrible...I’ve had it for a couple of days and it basically matched me with no one which made me feel like sh**... because wow this app is basically saying there are 0 people in this whole app that would even consider you..id been constantly refreshing and checking to see if it had changed and nothing...it’s a terrible feeling. Especially if you already have pretty low confidence and self esteem issues...I wouldn’t recommend this app to anyone. You be better off just swiping your life away on Tinder. At least there you’d have a better chance of meeting people who may like you or who you may like back. I really thought this app would be different and fun Bc it really tries to get to know you to match you perfectly but all it did was make me feel worst about myself like I’m really not meant to match with someone special...don’t bother with this app. What a waste...

Waste of money it seems. This app makes no sense. I paid for the premium membership and regardless of how many times I try to change my preferences I never get suggestions that match my preferences. It’s just a bunch of randomness that makes no sense. I thought I was paying to meet people that fit what I’m looking for? also, when you go to settings, there is no customer service to reach out to. I did not want to write a review but here I am writing one because there is no customer service to reach out to. Which seems like a very simple thing to add to an app. I only gave it a two because there were some attractive women. even though I am attracted to Asian women it seems that 80% of this app is only Asian women. So if you like Asian women, this app is perfect but I happen to like all types of races and would like to see a variety. I still have no idea who to talk to, but I have a yearly membership now and I don’t know how to change the most basic things.

Probably one of the worst of the dating apps…. I paid for a year subscription in Phoenix, AZ. Very few women on this app. I would recommend Hinge and Bumble, Tinder has tons of people but it’s too much trash. No joke, I’m basically out of women to search within a few weeks. There’s a reason they only give you about 10 low quality matches per day - because there are no women on here. The only way to find good matches is discovery - which you have to pay for each match. Use as many dating apps as you want - but I wouldn’t pay for this app. I get more quality off of Hinge for free than paying the anual subscription on this. I guess I got tricked into thinking more quality / serious women would be on here. Maybe it’s true but there are so few. I would guess the dating pool is 15-20% the size of the other apps. Dating apps a always favor women that are attractive - so while there are a few of those on here - it’s just not worth paying anything for. Don’t be tricked.

Everything is slowly getting more expensive and less useable. Coffee meets bagel seems to have prioritized profits over experience. Don't get me wrong. I don't mind spending money for a quality product and I have made a purchase from time to time on CMB but it getting a little out of hand. A list of recent issues: - most bagels I like have a 10 day waiting period before they'll even see my like. Unless I pay $7ish dollars to skip the line. - also sometimes I can see which bagels like me and sometimes they make me pay. I have no idea why I can see some and some remain hidden. It's confusing. - current subscription is like 3x my Netflix subscription. That's crazy. Is CMB good? Yes. Three Netflix's a month good? Absolutely not. - Also, this is just funny, their "5 days of sales" is just laughable. Every "sale" has been at least $50. They make it seem like a sale by showing your how much you save (sometimes around $100) but I'm not calling for the marketing. Maybe have sales at lower entry points too? Bottom line is CMB is good. I have had two great relationships from it, BUT it's gotten to a point where using is for free is almost not possible unless you want to wait 10 to be seen OR you can use Hinge and be seen immediately, and premium is just too expensive. I really CMB needs to rethink how they can make themselves a great dating app again that prioritizes experience over profits or risk being left behind in the dating app market to superior products like Hinge.

Not as straight forward, but the pool of people is of high quality. Although the app is not as straight forward as the other dating apps out there, I highly recommend it. I have deleted the app more than a year ago as I met my boyfriend here. I am not sure if it's just the area I live in, but the pool of people that were suggested to me are all nice, decent men. It's so wholesome. The app kind of forces you to text each other because there's an "expiration" on the chat (I believe it's 7 days). In a way, that pretty much weeds out all the people you're not ready interested in. When I did my research, there was a finding that this app is tailor made for women, and I believe that, as I did not meet a single guy who tried to take advantage of me or who tried to get into things I didn't really want to get into. I highly recommend Coffee Meets Bagel... It might take a while to get used to, but it's worth it.

Shameful cash grab with superficial match settings. At first the app seems like it has potential because they claim to be a dating service that requires more than just a swipe left attitude. Once you see that the match parameters are superficial junk and you run out of beans then you begin to see the true motives of this service. It’s a cash grab. They tell you that the reason they limit you to only a certain amount of matches a day is so that you take more time get to know your matches. Okay I like that idea you say. Then you notice the parameters are very superficial with no real depth to them. No similar interests, key words or other deeper ways to match with people. Okay fine let’s say you use the discover feature and find someone who has similar interests with you. Congrats on your discovery! But wait there’s a catch. You have no beans left. No problem just pay us for more! Let people at least have one or two chances a day or heck even every other day to discover people. Don’t limit us on beans say it’s for our own good then throw up seasonal ads for discounts on beans.

Waste of Time & Money. Please whatever you do, don’t waste your time time and money on this app. I’ve been on here for more than a month. I get my daily matches which vary from 12 to 6 a day. I even pay to skip the line. There’s also no way I’m going to pay for extra beans to unlock matches in discover mode. That’s exactly how they get you to give you all your cash. In the entire time of having this app I’ve only had one match like me back. I’m sure the rest are either “fake” or “old accounts.” I have a good profile, well thought out, good pictures and I live in a heavy populated area. It’s funny because when I saw this app featured on talk shows and “Shark Tank” I was like finally a app that puts the daters first and not their own pockets. But sadly like all the other’s, once they start seeing the green come in, greed and respect for their clients stop. So if you want a app to just take up space on your phone, if you only want to chat with someone once a month, and put in a bunch of time with nothing to show for it, then go for it. This is the app for you. Otherwise don’t waste your time with CMB!

Very accessible for voiceover users and a fantastic concept for dating.. This app is, very accessible with Voiceover for blind Iphone users. Unlike other apps who focus solely on photos, being blind has not proven a huge issue when using this app both in terms of accessibility and the connections I have made. The customer service is also great. The only thing that isn't working for me is the uploading and editing of photos. The team is aware or the problem so hopefully they'll fix it. Edit: I have also run into the problem where, when selecting bagels, the screen isn’t refreshing automatically and moving to the next one. However, I’ve made several great connections through this app and I love the concept. These sisters have a fantastic idea going for them, I’ve stopped using the other popular dating apps because this one has actually given me results where the others have not.

Previously good, but that’s changed after 2023. I’m really disappointed with the direction this app has gone in as of December 2023. Previously, it seemed reasonable—free likes, the ability to send short written introductions to people you were interested in—fewer fake profiles/scam users than on other apps. Since the update, it appears that anyone who likes you is immediately placed behind a paywall, meaning matches can ONLY happen for paying subscribers. Given that many of the people I’ve been matched up with in the past have been fake accounts, the idea of paying for the “privilege” of connecting with someone who is only going to waste my time is not appealing. In the end, it looks like whomever is in charge of Coffee Meets Bagel is not remotely interested in helping singles connect. Their marketing emails claim that these changes are in the interest of improving the online experience, but the motive behind recent changes are clearly in the interest of increasing profits, and not providing any real value to the end user.

Men here are frauds. I spoke with 12 different men here. All but one was a widow and had a child/children. Every one of them either had their account banned (well at least CMB was trying) it eventually made it around to asking me for a large amount of money for a sob story. Every one of them wanted to talk outside of the app because CMB only allows you to use the app for free to chat for a short while (a week if I recall correct) and then you have to pay more or find another way to talk... so they all wanted to chat with me on another app... and they all professed to love me in mere days... not suspicious at all!!!! I held out help for several but was cautious... until they both asked for money. One asked for $2200 so he wouldn’t have to get deployed.. (I didn’t know the navy could be bribed?!?!!) another asked for $6500 for a business investment.. most of them are “military” or overseas for this, that or the other reason... asks to video with you but... oh, sorry my camera is broken, you won’t be able to see me... red flag after red flag, after red flag. I’m not saying it’s all the app’s fault... just my experience on THIS app. I’ve done better on OkCupid or bumble, POF or match.

CmB has changed, in a not so good way.. I recall when CmB was an awesome dating app to use. The overall concept and just simply the name was/is great. Fast forward to today and something tells me that a lot of these profiles of people/women are inactive profiles. This includes the profiles under the Discover tab. I know there's the Active within the last 72 hours function, but the effort of description in these profiles tell me that they're either fake profiles or inactive. The profile may be an actual user but they have been inactive on CmB for months. Maybe not even have the app on their phone any longer. Most likely they did not suspend or delete their account when coming off. I think CmB should have a system that filters out profiles where the user has not been active the least 2-3 weeks, and putting priority to the daily active profiles. Us active users shouldn't continue to pay for extra coffee beans or a premium subscription if a lot of the profiles have had zero activity for some weeks.

Reduced rating to 2 stars. Originally gave a 5/5, but I'm having serious questions about what's happening on the back-end of this app. Disclaimer: I've put some money into this app. It's not worth it. Here's why. As someone said earlier, this is beginning to seem like a cash-grab operation. I've spoken to customer support about this, (who are always very kind) and they don't seem to know what's up - They say "discover" bagels are people who don't really fit your filters or settings, but may be of interest. However over the last six months, this has become demonstrably false. The purchasable "discover" users are almost always perfectly in line with my filters, and are consistently more attractive than my daily bagels. A user may only be able to notice this if their filters are stringent enough, but it's painfully apparent that there is an algorithm keeping higher valued users behind a pay wall. I think customer support needs to talk with the back-end folks and PR and get something sorted out.

Not great. Not terrible.. Honestly the app is a bit annoying. There are many things you’ll end up having to pay for. The app has two main sections. One is a suggested which sends you a recommendation once everyday at 12 and the other is discover. The suggested section works pretty well actually. It gives you the option to send messages with a like, as well as the standard dislike and like buttons. The discover is where the app trips up a bit. In order to like a person on discover you must use “bagels” a form of currency on the app. For me this is not a terrible thing since I live in a small part of the US but if your in a large city, you’ll be annoyed. You get gifted some bagels each day you log in for about a week. Each person needs about 200 bagels or so to like. In a city you’d quickly run out of bagels and have to spend real money to keep matching With the discover section. It’s very pay to use at that point and not worth the money since there’s so few users.

Really don’t recommend it unless it’s your only option. This app has some good aspects (limited number of options per day, for instance, probably helps you to pay more attention to prospects). However, they made some recent changes that make it far less attractive. There was previously an option to send a comment with your like, which has been removed. You cannot see people who like you through “discover” mode (a mode that doesn’t really make sense to me) unless you or they are paying the premium subscription price (even if you’re paying for the first level of it). There are more fake accounts in this app than any other I use (although I’m not on tinder anymore, so maybe CMB clears at least that hurdle). If you’re kicked off other apps, use CMB. If you have other options, don’t - Hinge is superior in any way that I can think of. It’s a shame to have seen the app fall in quality - it was never my favorite, but it was at least better.

Thanks CMB. I had been on CMB for several months. I confess I was a bit frustrated w the app. I never really met anyone interesting and was on the verge of deleting the app. Then one morning I saw that a very beautiful lady had liked my profile. I didn’t recognize her at first but then I realized that she was someone I have known for a very long time but had not seen or heard from in over 10 years. She had just signed onto CMB at the urging of a friend; she had not recognized me but decided there was something about my profile she liked. I was literally the first person she clicked on. It has been wonderful reconnecting with her and we both think we are at the start of something very special. So I guess my advice to CMB users is that even if you think the process is not going anywhere hang in there. Great things can happen. Thanks CMB, I’m out.

Did assistance in regards to how I could optimize this application. I believe I had this application for about two weeks now, and I’ve made no effort or taken any action in regards to finding myself the ideal match. If you could kindly give me some instructions or suggestions in regards to how to go about it, and be more than appreciated. I don’t even know how I came across this app. I guess I found it when I was looking around for some of the most well-known online dating applications, and this one came up as a suggestion. I’ve had terrible experience while I was dealing with Bumble, Tinder, OKCupid. When I came across this one, since I’ve never heard of it, but yet I saw a lot of reviews, and I like the concept behind it, enticed me to give it a shot. I felt like taking it to leap of faith.

My match was a scammer. I liked this one woman, and was within proximity of my location, between 25 to 50 miles away. She asked to continue the convo via a social messaging app that I actually trust. Turns out, my match asked me to send photos of myself (you already know what I mean by that). I had to verify this person was real by asking to call “her.” My match never responded directly to my questions and felt they were too personal to ask. After that, I put “her” on blast and she just kept leaving me on Read status. I reported her on CMB and I deleted our conversation on the other app. Piece of advice for users: if someone takes it too far on any dating app you use, it’s time to say goodbye to them. They’re going to want to use scare tactics to get money from you. It’s so ridiculous because this happened to me several months ago on a different app. Report them by any means necessary. Good matches are hard to find these days 🙁