Upward: Christian Dating App App Reviews

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Don’t waste your $$, full of scammers. I give this dating app negative 5 stars. Save your money this app is full of fake / scammer profile. I’ve been on the app for a couple months now. And out of all the matches there was one guy who was who he said he was. Everyone on here seems to have the same story” deceased” wife, parents, etc. Are in service or serving and about to be deployed. They charm and use Christian jargon, almost always ask right away to go outside the app to chat, like WhatsApp or google chat. I have reached out in email have reported fake / double profiles and have not heard a peep from the anyone. It’s sad that they are using this as a Christian dating app. So false! This one guy after chatting with for like two weeks, starts with a message about how “bad of a day he has had “his aunt has been in a car accident and is locked out of his account.” He need help having a packed delivered to the states and can he use my email address to send me a tracking number so I can follow the package, in it would be expensive jewelry and shoes and watches and he was going to be “transferred 20,000 dollars”… needless to say I didn’t give it any more attention and reported him right away. But if you made it this far in my review please do your research this app needs a verification system to keep all these scammers off the app. Just keep your money.

CHASE AFTER GOD. At the time I was focusing mainly on God and work because I didn’t wanna get into another relationship. I hadn’t had the best experiences in the past; partly on my behalf because I was chasing after looks and worldly satisfactions. Upward kept popping up on my tik tok and I just ignored it. One day I was kind of thinking about it as it popped up again. I downloaded it. Matched with a good amount of guys started chatting, and even went on a few dates . Like every other dating app you’re gonna have those bots, fake Christian’s, and just people that wanna sleep with you. I ended up matching with this guy who was really cute and his bio/ pictures caught my attention. Went on our first date and he was sweet. Went on another date and the way he spoke about God and family I found really attractive. It was the first time I had the thought of “I could see myself marrying this guy” vs “wonder how good he is with kissing”. He ended up asking me to be his girlfriend and ever since then we’ve been chasing God together, praying together and separately, sending each other daily Bible verses. Advice: If you’re idolizing dating apps get off. Chase after God and dive into the word and your future spouse will come up running beside you. Trust Gods plan and be patient. Give it all to God and ask him to take things where he wants them to go. Not where you want them to go.

Used Free, Finally Worked. I’ve been on dating apps of some kind for about 5 years. I’m not an ugly guy, but I’m not everyone’s cup of tea, and I’m a Christian. I date to marry, but most of my life I’ve lived in Alaska which has a low female to male ratio. I started dating apps when I was living in England, and I used paid subscriptions on a couple older, more popular Christian dating apps. I got several matches, I had several dates. Nobody really meshed with me. That’s not the apps’ fault, I just didn’t feel like those women were exactly who I wanted. The problem was that those apps were super expensive. I decided to use other platforms. I downloaded Bumble, Tinder, and Hinge and intended to use them without subscriptions. Bumble was absolutely the worst. Women are supposed to initiate on that app, but so many don’t. The few conversations I had were shallow and short. Tinder had some girls that looked normal and innocent enough, but I never met up with them. Hinge was probably the second best app out of them all, and I had several good conversations and met up with a few women. But finally, I met my girlfriend using Upward. It still took a while for me; she said she was only on the app for a few days before we matched. We’re both dating to marry, and we share so many values. I’m happy we downloaded Upward.

Pretty clunky. Used for about 4 months. The actual mechanics of using the app are pretty clunky-you have to swipe through each individual picture of a person or you can skip to their info and bio at the bottom. Sometimes I can see info and bio with the pictures but more often I can’t. Compared to other apps where pictures and text are often mixed together on one page, this mechanic is cumbersome. Also, the matching process is not great, at least if you don’t pay. I was told that I had over 40 likes, but I only ever saw 2 of them, and only 1 person out of dozens that I liked matched with me. The other apps I use, which I also haven’t payed for, do a much better job of putting people who have liked me into my feed. Another problem is that some people will show up in your feed multiple times after you have disliked them. As many other reviews mention, the distance filter is pretty hit or miss. I live in a major metropolitan area and I still get options over 50 miles away maybe 1 out of every 5 choices. The tipping point for me was that I chose to hide my profile because I was traveling and was not able to turn it back on.

Ahh, another pay-to-play Christian opportunity. I’ll have likes, turn my distance up to unlimited and age(I’m 21), spam like everyone to test the theory, and will never get any matches despite the “9+\21” available. I’ve reached my “daily limit” every day for the last month and still have not matched with anyone nor the likes I have. I’ve also noticed that unlike other Christian Dating Apps, this app won’t remove a pending match if you don’t like their profile. This is misleading and further demonstrates their ambition to confuse you/manipulate you into buying their subscription, just to reveal most of those potential matches were on people you already swiped left on. They also show matches you unmatched with back in the pool of people to restart the whole process which is absurd. I or whoever unmatched for a reason, I don’t want to have to see their profile again. Very pay to play, the company has no Christian basis aside from trying to market an app TO Christians, and the app makes you pay for everything extra with some manipulative tactics in between if you don’t. I.E. Timer, not removing disliked profiles from “Likes” list, showing people you unmatched with back in the pool of people to swipe on, tries to get you to buy “super likes” on certain profiles where they have more likes to “incentivize”/manipulate you into feeling it’ll make any difference to the person you’re sending it to(it never does because your super like shows a regular like), and more.

They’re on to something great!. I think the app interface is simple and to the point which I love, I’m also someone who actually pays for “Elite”. One of the worst features is lack of location filter. It’s very frustrating when you’re reading a profile and you’re thinking “oh she seems like my type I would love to talk to her” only to find out that he’s 100+ miles away and you’re coming across way too many profiles of individuals who live 50+ miles away. This also leads to another issue because I’m noticing I’m spending more time than I would want to on the app because I come across maybe 5 profiles out of 20 who actually live in my area (I live in a metropolitan area). So outside of that I also wish there was a verification process like a photo to ensure you’re who you say you are. With that being said I think the developers are on to something great however after my current subscription end I’m not 100% sure I’m going to renew it because there’s another Christian dating app that apparently has a photo verification and location filter. I may just try it out after I’m done here however if you’re trying Upward for the first time I think you’ll enjoy it just keep in mind of the lack of location filter.

The good and the bad. It’s a great platform, great idea, the features that they have in the profile are excellent, concise to the point. Love that they have a bio and a spot to share about faith. That’s all good. Here’s the bad: Seems like people don’t get it. They give half-a answers, or just repeat themselves in both spaces. Maybe dating apps should come with tutorials on how to present oneself? Or like, here’s where you should be in maturity, emotional Development to function well on here. The people who occupy the space on this app, it’s rough. Like, just because it’s Christians doesn’t mean standards fly out the door… I nearly want to start a business in helping people create bios and choose photos. Those who have good profiles, don’t actually participate, it feels like there’s just good profiles you match with to keep you going. Just disheartening. Not the app creators fault. They’ve done wonderful advertising attractive men on the app to grab attractive women… but maybe they can market upward in all areas? It almost feels like, “I’m Christian that should be good enough to grab your interest.”

Met the love of my life & married him 9 months later! ❤️. I downloaded this app after looking at other online dating options. I honestly didn’t want to spend money on a subscription and I was hoping to find something for Christians. While I found there were a lot of guys on the app who were saying they were Christian without true faith and trust in Christ, I did actually chat with a handful of guys who seemed serious about their faith. When I started talking to my now-husband, we connected immediately and shared phone numbers. Two weeks later, we met in person. 4 months after that, he asked me to marry him! We have now been married for over a year and have a baby girl. We are grateful and feel so blessed that God used this app to bring us together. About the app itself- I liked that it was simple, easy to use, and didn’t have especially lengthy bios. You only chatted with people who were also interested in you and it felt like you could pretty quickly and easily get a sense for if it could go somewhere with that person. It worked for me, so I definitely have to recommend! ☺️

Suggestions. Could upward maybe add a feature that tells us when people were last on there profile? I feel like part of the problem of having no luck is we send likes to inactive profiles. The more mainstream dating apps tell you when the person last logged in so you know if it’s inactive and don’t waste your time liking them. Also can you put the town the person actually lives in and not where they are at the moment? I’ve had profiles that said they are only ten miles away but it turns out they live on the other side of the country or vice versa it says they are over a hundred miles away but they actually live much closer. And please stop recycling profiles. When I swipe left on someone they shouldn’t show back up in the list ten minutes later. I get you have limited members but come on. And please for the love of God get rid of the casual😉 option. There are way too many “Christian” men that just want to have sex and this goes against the word of God and shouldn’t be on a Christian dating app. Ps please stop with the ghost notifications. I get a notification that I got a like so I go on the app and I have no new likes. It feels scammy like they are trying to make you open the app. I don’t think it’s just a glitch as it happens several times a day and other users have said the same thing

This ruins an otherwise great app.. The desired distance slider does not function. If you select your distance and run out of profiles to see the app will ask once (and for all eternity) if you would like to see profiles outside of your desired distance. This could be a great feature for some users. However, there is no option to stop seeing these profiles once you have allowed it to look beyond your set distance. The desired distance selector becomes a nifty charm in your settings tab that does absolutely nothing in perpetuity. If a developer does reach out to reply, I would like this to be known I have read responses to reviews similar to mine (low starred for problems with distance) where a representative will explain that in an effort to continue to show you profiles it will “gradually” increase distance. I am aware and understand this. I am also aware the slider says something about showing profiles before your picks. This is not my issue. My issue is that I have no option but to see profiles 500 miles away no matter what it says on the slider. What I would recommend if I may is removing the distance setting altogether once you begin showing profiles beyond 60 miles (your highest available mileage below maximum distance)or allow users to revert back to only seeing profiles within their desired distance.

Not bad, but needs improvements. If you’re the kind of guy who’s struggling to get attention on other apps like Tinder or Bumble and you’re also a Christian, this one might be a little better for you. I find that the women on this app tend to be less entitled and don’t have such high standards, basically if you’re decently attractive, it’s not hard to find someone who genuinely wants to talk to you and doesn’t have 40 other guys messaging them. However, the main flaw that this app has is the lack of any kind of distance filter, it’s not a huge problem because it shows people’s distance whenever you view their profile, but it’s annoying because after using the app for a little while, like 3/4 of the people it shows are over 60 miles away. Another thing I like about this app is that it seems like you don’t have to swipe for that long for it to show you someone who’s liked your profile, however that may have changed in the most recent update which has adopted a Tinder style likes page which you need a subscription to see, and is actually more expensive than Tinder. So overall the app is pretty good but it needs a location filter(that you don’t have to pay for because on some apps you do) and just more users overall.

Disappointing. I used this app for years and have never had a date. It’s not that I’m not appealing, because I turn heads. It just happens that I have 50+ likes, rarely any matches when I swipe daily, and have to dig in my pocket to see what the like options are. And large chunk of the options I see and match with are 75+ miles away. Last time I paid to see likes, it was a bunch of tragically unattractive and overweight women miles and miles away. If I’m going to lower my standards, I don’t plan to drive 80 miles, too. If I set my preferences to 20-30 miles away, why am I constantly getting options triple or quadruple the distance away from my preferences? I do not want a long distance relationship. I have zero interest in being anybody’s pen pal. I see you in person or not at all. So, if I am see people miles and miles away, other people are, too. I am not willing to pay your membership and subscription just so I can see people who liked me that are so far away from me, I scratch my head as to how they even saw me. The distance preference needs to mean something. I do not want to see them and honestly they shouldn’t see me. If I’m going to pay to see who likes me, then I don’t want to see anyone outside of my range.

Started ok but keeps getting worse…. It’s basically a Christian Tinder…often with more of the Tinder aspects than would be good. You do meet some people but there really isn’t enough of a user base so quickly users are from 150+ miles away. After about a week of minimal swiping you’ll get back to square one being shown the same people again. You can tell it to only show you people in a range but they never adhere to that range. They force you to accept seeing people outside of that distance. There is no definite block to only see people in an area. They also weirdly don’t show people closest first. It’s completely random orders. The notifications have to be the worst part…half the notifications are just trying to get you back to the app literally…”(insert catchy phrase to get you back to swiping)” that’s not a filler that’s nearly word for word what some notifications say. One or two times it’s funny but regularly multiple times a day those and worse notifs get annoying. They also often will send out fake matches and likes and liked numbers. In the see who likes you paid part it’s shown me a number then I’d go into it and it’s at least 10-20% lower number usually. Then occasionally there’s a “You have a Match with ****!” Or “Somebody new likes you!” and there’s nothing there.

Mixed feelings tbh. Love and dislike it. I downloaded this during quarantine. Things ive noticed you can’t see who likes you unless you match. I wish there was a way to see who liked me. There may be people i skipped over or never saw there. I have matches but people barely message on there. So its a little discouraging maybe offer a video chat feature. Also i noticed that there are people on there that aren’t even Christian. It’s literally a Christian dating app. People are “ spiritual “ that don’t even consider themselves Christian... that’s weird to me. I would think on a Christian Dating app that people are actually doing on there to date not be casual. I’ve noticed some people are on there looking to get there freak on... like go on tinder or something. Sorry I’m sure the creators of the app have great intentions. I wish there was a way to be selective on the app i never know where people i match with are from. I’m african american and a women and barely see any men that are black. I don’t discriminate i love em all... but it would be nice to be shown some people like me. Most of the people i see are hunters, fishermen etc😭i love jesus but man im getting discouraged with who i see. To sum all that up Can there be a paid maybe 2.99 feature to see who liked you😫?please

Pretty good, but... The problem with this app is the lack of a distance filter. You see how far away they are when you click on the profile, but it’s cumbersome to click on the profile every single time you see someone attractive. Their location should be one of the first things you see, and should be on the main card. Additionally, there’s a problem with age as well, at least for me, being an 18 year old. The smallest age gap I can have is 18-24. That’s simply no good, because a vast majority of people 18 year olds do not want someone that much older than them. A smaller age gap would be much better for people who are younger. This app also gives less information about the person than other apps like Hinge. In some other apps, it shows their height, political beliefs, and a few things they’re into. This app has no such thing. Other than that, this app is great. Even as a non attractive male, I was able to get 7 likes in a short period of time, and even matched with 3 of them. The people on this app are much better people than the ones on Tinder. You get the feeling that they’re on the app for an actual relationship, and not just a hookup.

Is it really Christian?. I’ve only been on for a few days and already have people flat out admit that they aren’t Christian and there are others on the app from different religions. They just list as “Other” and in reality are Hindu or even just “Spiritual”. If I was okay with that, I would have used a different app. I expect Christians to be using it not the general population. I was not expecting many matches (if any) as I’m not the best looking (weight-wise), but definitely experienced the “shopping” that other reviewers had talked about - lots of likes but when matched there is no follow up. I’m pretty sure they just looked at the first pic and swiped. Also the Elite purchase is not worth it, I’m totally regretting it two days in. I liked the idea of seeing who matched with me because I don’t want to offend people by liking them while looking the way I do, but there is no way to filter it. I’m not interested in dating men that are up to 10 years my junior or 10+ years my senior. Or people who already have kids (unless a widower). I might give it a few more days but I’m not hopeful and it seems to be money wasted. I know what I’d need in a relationship and not going to settle for just anyone who is okay with my looks.

Looks good, has potential, needs time to grow. I’ve used the app for about half an hour, and for an app that’s 2 weeks old, I’m pretty impressed. Some things to consider though: First, because it’s a new app, there’s not a whole lot of profiles to swipe on, for me anyways. I live in a developing, midsize, college town in a semi rural area. I had 4 or 5 profiles within 10 miles away and 6 or 7 in the nearest big city an hour away. After that I started getting a bunch of profiles 100+ miles away. Second, a distance filter would be nice. I could see people in my area and not see people I’d never interact with in person. I’ll update my review once I use the app longer and hopefully get at least one match. Update: I’ve used the app for about a year and have had mixed results. Nice to see that they’ve added a likes screen and that the community has grown. On the other hand, I’ve only had 3 or 4 genuine conversations with my matches and have been unmatched/ghosted a lot, but that’s what happens on apps and what you get when you have a generation of very entitled women. Would be nice to have read receipts so I can tell if my match has seen my message. Overall the app works really well and maybe you’ll have better luck than me.

I’m Glad I Swiped Right!. The last two weeks of my life have been amazing! I was in a really low place in life, searching, wondering, hoping, and it seemed like there was no end in sight. One day I swiped on this incredible woman. I didn’t have any real hopes because I’d been rejected so much and I was used to putting in a ton of effort and not getting much response. The thing that struck me most about her at first was how much she talked. She didn’t send one line messages like a lot of girls, she sent long, comprehensive messages and asked questions and answered my questions. I led with theology and she pressed into that, rather than avoiding it. Our first date was a sporting event in the park and it was a huge success. The more I got to know her the more wonderful it became. Our theology aligned so well and she was so open to opening the Bible and being taught by me. Of course, that has more to do with the person I found than the app I found them on, but I’m extremely grateful Yahweh used this app to guide me towards such an amazing person. I already put a ring on it and hopefully soon family on the way!

I found my husband on this app!. I usually don’t write reviews but this app is the exception! I had tried different apps hoping to find my “one” to no avail. I had just about given up hope when I came across this app. I decided to give it another shot as this was a Christian app and I had never been on one before. Not even a week in I matched with this guy an hour away from me. We hit it off immediately and facetimed almost every day. He told me his cousin convinced him to get the app as he bad never tried online dating before. (Thank goodness he did!) On our first date we both had that “God moment” where a voice in our heads both told us “they’re the one” loud and clear. We continued dating and, a few months later, he proposed! Fast forward to almost a year from when we first met: we said “I do” in my childhood church. We have no doubt that God used this app to bring us together. We have been married for almost 6 months now and continue to have a blast every day. He is truly my best friend and I cannot thank the Lord or Upward enough for sending me the man of my dreams! We are so grateful for you and cannot wait to continue our journey together! -The Smiths.

Got my hopes up… Another disappointment. I’ve been on this app less than a day. I’ll come back later to write an updated review. So , far, however, it looks like all of the negative reviews are correct, unfortunately. This app is full of bots and shady profiles. In less than 24 hours I’ve had three matches. One was obviously a bot, one I haven’t reached out to yet, and one asked me to meet almost immediately (which is fine), but he insisted that I go to his place for the first meeting and unmatched when I suggested a public meeting first. I think that was a real person but I got a very bad vibe out of it, like there may have been something worse going on there that could seriously jeopardize someone’s safety. Be very cautious when using this app, even more so than you would any of the rest of them. I think I’ve figured out how to spot these fake profiles (their “faith” section is very vague, for one), so we’ll see. That said, as a Christian/Conservative in a Leftist city, it’s a nightmare trying to find a match on the mainstream dating apps like Bumble, Hinge, etc. I swipe right maybe 1 out of 500 times because most of the people on those apps are the Atheist/Liberal types or they are looking for hookups and polyamory. I’ll try this app out a little while longer, but am very disappointed. They just need to add a way to verify profiles.

Meh……Nuff said. Okay as a woman using this app I guess there are some positives and negatives. I tried this app for exactly 2 days and at first it was fun and exciting seeing the likes and watching them add up but I guess it depends on what kind of person you are. I’m the type where if I already know someone likes me I’m more willing to invest time into that, but I couldn’t see anyone who liked me and that became frustrating after the first couple days when you have like 100+ likes but barely any matches. Lol. It’s not even that I swipe left on someone because they are unattractive but you just don’t know who would be into you and I guess that’s something they could consider fixing. I also agree with another reviewer in that when you do get matches, many people ghost after…due to browsing and “shopping” to see more matches. In this way I feel as though it’s a bit tricky to truly find someone who isn’t consistently browsing for more matches. Or the person is just not taking it seriously. It’s like it becomes a habit that many can’t stop and no true matches follow through to go on into anything deeper beyond “How are you?” I do believe there are some real people on there looking for something but personally it’s too hard to find them and I would rather let God do his work without me trying to force it. It’s not for everyone, but when it works (IF IT WORKS) it can really lead to great things I guess.

Could be better. It’s a great app but could better Ive several issues regarding my subscriptions I’ve paid for not reflecting in the app. Such as my elite membership that I purchased 2 maybe 3 different times this month as well as the several premium memberships none of which bare giving me access to those level features. I’ve messaged him them several times asking if they could fix that or refund my money and they never email me back. I emailed them Friday and they said they would get back with me and never did, I even wrote a review yesterday and it didn’t get posted. 2. A i had to create a new account after my phone number changed because of their system signing me out and making me type in my number which had been changed so it made me create a new account. So that may be part of the issue. So upward needs a different sign in method because folks change their numbers all the time and shouldn’t have to create a new account or not be able to access features because they worried about fraud. It’s the same IP address and name on the account and debit cards it’s not fraud I’d like the money back I’ve spent on both accounts this month especially seeing as though my old account I lost access to it 2 days after I paid the elite membership and the premium. How can this be fixed or I’ll just delete my account and tell my friends not to join here.

Okay but too many glitches.. I would give more starts due to having had some good conversations that have led to some great connections and friendships. Probably more Christian men that have been serious about real dates than any other app I’ve used. Unfortunately there are too many glitches on this app that it actually makes an impact on the quality of the conversations. The app is supposed to be a safe introduction to meeting someone without having to give out your personal email or phone number quite yet but you can’t actually engage in a conversation without the app switching pictures and people, deleting messages, kicking you completely out of the app for hours or days making people think you ghosted them. The costumer service isn’t helpful even after months of it glitching so terribly. The matching system is also an issue. I swipe no on someone then they show up in the pile over and over again. So you end up eventually looking through the same people even though it shows pictures of people you’ve never actually seen in the pile in the “see who has liked you” advertisement. This is supposedly a “Christian” dating app but there are also other religions on here; Mormons, Catholics, Orthodox Jews, Muslims, etc. There should be a more in depth application process or something.

It’s not bad but questionable things on here.. Hey, so this is a pretty good app actually. It makes people stand out to me. Like they put in depth bios and knowledge or make their character stand out. The problem isn’t the people, it’s the like/match system. No, I can be wrong since this is my first time trying to use a dating app but, why does it cost a subscription to try to match with people that like you? Why are we forced to pay for the main component of the whole point of the dating; talking to a potential match? Like I understand if it’s for scam checks or stuff like that but that seems pretty weird to me or too much as I say. And like, I can’t even see who my matches are and I got to pay for that too with the matching system. So I’m not too sure if this could but I’m going to say this and maybe hopefully it can change. Instead of not seeing our matches, we instead can see them, we get to talk/text for an hour and then when the time is up, we can either keep talking/texting or just move on with our lives. But if we don’t get along or be compatible with each other, we can say no and move on early. But if it’s vice versa, then we can do that. But as I have stated, this is my only problem with the app is just the matching system and likes. But if that isn’t possible then oh well, I tried at least. Thank you for reading this if you did :)

NOT SAFE. I kept seeing the Upward advertisement on Instagram and was intrigued at the fact that it was Christian based. Once I decided to go ahead and give the app a try, I was extremely excited!I had been in chat rooms when I was like in high school, but I’ve never done a dating app or dating site. So I was looking forward to trying something different and new and upward seemed pretty popular on Instagram. I don’t know what the screening process is for this sites security but I was immediately catfished by the 2nd or 3rd person I spoke to. I’m typically very cautious but he was extremely convincing, I also trusted the app because of its “Christian” focus. But that meant nothing, they are all kinds of people on the app, and just because they joined a Christian dating app doesn’t mean they are. There’s this random stranger somewhere who knows my name and has my photo, they lied and I have absolutely no idea who I was talking to for weeks. I felt stupid, I felt violated, and at the thought of this person possibly having my info, I felt really afraid and have lost sleep over this. So I will suggest to any single seeking, stick to the legitimate dating apps with a more rigorous sign up process, but better security. These rinky-dink Instagram advertisement dating apps are honestly not worth the trouble. And to go with the legitimate dating websites that have credible reviews, the monthly fee is worth your peace of mind I promise!

Great app! Finally!. I love this app. It’s like a Christian version of Tinder. Mostly everyone here are looking for relationships & have a end game for marriage. The women seem really faith driven and traditional which I like, I haven’t gotten any matches yet because it’s my first day. But already liking the bios, and vibe from a lot of women on here. I have even seen girls that are from Tinder on here, but their bios are more in debt and they actually write something and explain what they are looking for as if maybe Tinder they just made it in hopes of finding something special other than guys who just wanted one night stands. Here those same girls are a lot more open. Unfortunately their aren’t many Christian women left in our society so there not a lot to choose from in most local areas your range runs out pretty quick. So if your ok with making a connection and feeling like it’s worth to travel to make such a great connection to meet someone if you have too. It’s not that bad of an app. I live in Arizona and it’s a party town would love to see a travel mode to see some women back in my hometown since I travel their often as well. Other than that great app for anyone who wants God at the center of their relationship. Can’t watch to see it grow. They should most definitely be promoting this in the church communities.

great app for putting yourself out there!!. I downloaded this app, matched with a few guys, and dated a guy I met on here for a month! Even though it didn’t end up working out, I was really impressed to meet such a godly man on a dating app!! As with any dating app, be cautious with profiles and meeting up (let other people know where you are even if you’re a hermit and don’t tell people where you’re usually going like me😂). But anyway, a friend told me I should give this app a rating so here I am! If you’re looking to put yourself out there and potentially meet someone who loves Jesus, this app could be for you! It didn’t work out for me, but hey, I am thankful to have known the guy for even a short while! We both were blessed by each other, but I knew I needed to end the pursuit of the relationship when I felt like God was not leading us together. With that, I leave a message to the ladies that I needed to hear too: BE HONEST. Tell the guy where you’re at, even if he seems like he’s head over heals for you and you’re not quite there. HOLD EACH OTHER WITH OPEN HANDS. Let the Lord lead you!!! SEEK THE LORD. Ask Him to show you His will regarding the guy in your life. If God directs away from him, don’t drag the guy on. Communicate, end well, and say farewell. Anyway, maybe someone needs to hear this advice and maybe someone just needs to hear part of it. Blessings on you as you hold your desire for a relationship before the Lord!!

I’ll enjoy it when I can. I would give this app a 4/5 but I put 5 because I think it will be a great app once I’m able to fully enjoy it. As for now, I can’t. I am a missionary in Brazil, but I am from the States. I signed up thinking I could maybe move my location to my home state, Florida, and match with people there. But then I found out I couldn’t choose my location, or put in my american address. As for now, I am still in Brazil. My app store is set to only download apps available in the States. So I think that’s why I was able to still download Upward even though I’m currently in Brazil. I’m hoping maybe in the future, we can be able to change our location. It would definitely help me find matches where I usually travel when I do go to the States. As for now, I have an empty match screen haha. Maybe God will bring someone in my area of Brazil who is in the same situation with using Upward here and we’ll match and it’ll turn into a whole hallmark perfect ending. A girl can dream 😂. I think also adding the location could help if you are about to travel to somewhere in the US, you could change your location to there and be able to maybe set up a date with someone before you go on your trip. Love it so far though! I pray that people find and meet their God given partner! God bless y’all!

WAS the best… Now just subpar.. Upward was my go-to dating app when I first joined in March of 2021! Today, however, wow. Just wow; lost it touch. I am writing this review because of my most recent experience. I matched with an individual, sent them a message later in the day, received a reply with a notification the next day… Within a minute of receiving the notification, I see the same individual I had previously matched with (that same individual that was also in the notification that I received stating they had replied) pop up in my swipes AND had the prompt of “Send a Super Like to A**** instead to increase your chances of a match”. Yet, we HAD already matched and sent each other a message ALREADY/moments before!!!!! Complete bonkers, if you ask me. This has in fact happened before and I did reach out to support then but was told the other person must have unmatched me. So, since I saw the notification was from “1 minute ago”, the little voice in my head said to open it and see what was said. Yet here comes Upward the cockblocker and said nope, spend money to match with this person, AGAIN!! Like I originally stated, Upward was great and to be geared to other like-minded Godly people is definitely a plus! However, this glitch is very frustrating and most likely I will not be getting back on, nor will I be recommending it to my pals anymore.

Confused and upset. I never write reviews, but I am so upset by this app. I got this app a few days ago, like today is the 4th day. Everything was great and I was really enjoying the experience with it. Had good matches and actually had guys texting and interacting which was not the case on the first app I tried. So I was in the middle of a conversation with a guy and my phone went to sleep and when I went to check my messages again my app logged out. I went to log back in and it’s saying my account is disabled! I have not violated any community standards, my pics and profile was all appropriate. Even if something was wrong the app doesn’t give you any warning and there is no response from customer service. There is no phone number and no reply’s come from the emails. I have sent many emails now because I paid money for this app and I have not done anything wrong so I would like to know why I cannot access my account. This is supposed to be for Christians but that seems really shady! I’m really disappointed especially since I had a great first day and 1/2. I would have given a 5 star if this was corrected but I’ve read another review where this happened and Upward would not give a reason and banned him permanently. So I am assuming that will happen to me, which is not fair especially not even giving a reason why you’re banned. 😠

Good luck getting verified. I will change this review to a 5 in a heartbeat if I can get verified. I like the concept and I understand the concept but the truth of the matter is the verification process is atrocious!! I uploaded my profile picture the same day I tried to get verified and it won’t let me verified. I followed the steps to a T and it still tells me to “please try again you are not in the oval” so instinctively you would think you would need to reframe yourself to be in line with the requirements that it is asking you right? Yeah… but you are wrong! I then proceeded to keep trying until I got it right. Fast forward a few days lately and I have found a solution. A solution that I do not want… I decided to delete a previous photo I had on my profile picture and upload a new one from real time. I select “open camera” on the app and take a photo to make it my profile picture and then I try to re-verify my account and wala it works! However I do not want that selfie I just took as my profile picture… so I delete that photo and then proceed to upload the photo I just took a few days prior and then the most magical thing happens… I lose my verification. Please help, Thanks 🙏🏼

Christian App but not really Christian. I never expected something for free daily but what I do expect is a better way to advertise. Do not state free but to see the people who obviously want to get to know you charge for them to communicate with you. Also you should be able to see a few people daily who like you. I’m not saying 45 a day but at least 3 a day you should be able to see. Can we make this a little more user friendly if I like someone I can’t go back and look at the ones I have liked. You can look back on the most basic and common dating apps. I believe there’s a need for a true Christian community and a true Christian dating app but let’s be Christ like when we’re doing modifications and updates on the app and add more Christianity to the app. Let’s bring the equally yoke together and stop having our hands out at every turn. God will always provide when we are doing his work. Before you make another update please pray and ask God where and how you can make this app more user friendly, more Christ like and how to connect more matches together without charging them a couple arms and a few legs. I really want to see this app evolve because the basis is really good it just needs some more love, attention, support and communication. I really hopes this helps a lot. I want to be able to send all my friends to this dating app.

Needs User Verification. I really want to love this app as the interface is really good and I’ve had some decent conversations with some girls on it. But this app REALLY needs some sort of user verification. The last match I got seemed really great at first. I gave her my number so we could talk easier. We seemed to have a lot in common and our conversation was really nice and everything seemed normal; at least, it did at first. All of a sudden, she sent me a completely unsolicited inappropriate photo of herself and later on, I got a phone call from her number, but it was a male voice on the other end of the call and he claimed he was her father and that his daughter is only 16 years old and that he was going to the police and would file criminal charges against me for child porn and solicitation of a minor. I now know it was a scam and the girl I thought I was talking to probably never existed and this person was just trying to scare me into sending money to avoid getting into some serious trouble. This really freaked me out, but luckily I just blocked the number and nothing more came from this horrible situation. But this was still an absolutely terrible situation and there really should be some sort of user verification to avoid this sort of thing. Please just fix this problem before someone really gets hurt and this app would be sooo much better.

Fairly Solid For A “Christian” App. Of all the Christian apps I’ve downloaded I’d say this is the second best. It’s got a large user base and is user friendly. It’s basically just like any of the other dating apps that are out there which also partly makes me think it is designed and owned by one of the major players like tinder or bumble or someone. I say that because there’s filters like “I’m here for 1. Friends 2. Casual 😉 3. Dating 4. Marriage” and it’s asks you to list if you smoke weed and how often. Now obviously Christians smoke week and hook up (casual) with people but if you’re truly and God honoring Christian who loves Jesus and attends church weekly, you’re probably not creating an app with those questions. So… if you’re looking for a serious Christian, this app probably isn’t your top choice but there’s still a vast number of Christian singles on here so it may be worth your time. Compared to the other app I’m thinking of though this one isn’t close. The other one asks a lot of questions to start but is legit a Christian app for Christians who are serious about Jesus and dating with intention. This is just tinder with a more specific user base.

LukeWarm. I love you but I hate you, no distance filter = all my time and efforts for a long distance relationship. I guess the least i could do is pray for them. Oh, and I cant even go back if i swiped left on accident? So what do I do? Restart my account?! And if it’s telling me someone likes me, hook a bother up?! & put that person in my list of swipes... Or tell me who it is at least. I have faith in the dark for Jesus not your dating app. Lol add super likes maybe? Instant like and people will immediately be aware of who it is? And to go back on swipes should be a must! I feel like i lost the love of my life. She couldve been someone that liked me! This bothers me a lot. Also please add a filter of which denomination we prefer. If this werent an issue, we all wouldnt be attending different churches lol. PERSON AUTHENTICATOR! Please! For all the fake catfish accounts! The idea of your app. Is great, but seriously, no offense... it clearly wasnt thought through. Let’s be real... It reminds me of a college assignment i held off till last minute and just did ENOUGH to pass. So please, as a teacher... take this assignment back! And bring me back your best! Especially during quarantine season. I’d like to go out soon, and meet a wonderful Proverbs lady to intertwine my soul with. Seriously hurry up my whole family’s asking when I’m gonna get married. Hahaha Thanks FTH <3

VERY FRUSTRATING!. I signed up for the most expensive elite level and they still limit the things we can do like only allowed 3 preferences in things we want from a person. STUPID. The worst is it’s SUPER easy to swipe away a person you really like when you are trying to scroll their photos. It’s happening to me all day today and there’s no way to go back. That’s idiots design flaw number 3 , I don’t have unlimited go backs even though I pay a lot of money. They block go backs for sale me stupid unknown reason. There’s also no place to go to ask questions or get answers to these kinds of common problems. I’m already tempted to go elsewhere. ALSO, you can’t search by location or anything else really. I’m just stuck scrolling through who they send me. I don’t date Catholics for example, and there’s no way to weed them out. I should be able to choose race , state , denomination or anything else and search by state if I wanted. So far this is a very weak app!! There’s a few interesting people. A lot seam like fake Christians but I guess that’s gonna be everywhere. I hope they listen to the complaints and improve. It’s not really worth the money so far. But I have to give it a full month before I decide to cancel.

Almost there. This is one of the better apps I’ve used, but it’s got a couple of glaring core issues. First of all, the proximity of the button to swipe left, and the super-like button. I have fat fingered the super like button on people I had no interest in. A simple “are you sure?” popup notification would go miles towards improving the app, because I now take super likes way less seriously than I would otherwise because for all I know it was accidental. Why pay to see who liked me when it was probably an accident? Second issue is the distance filtering. If someone lives 100 miles away from me, I should never be showing up on their feed, and I should have the option to hide myself from their feed. I have more likes from people out of state that people nearby I could feasibly meet. This is another factor that makes me say “heck no” to buying premium, because why would I pay to see a like from someone who is likely a 3 hour drive away?!? The distance sorting in preferences needs to be a dealbreaker, not a suggestion. Until then, I can’t justify paying money for this app and recommend others don’t either.

This App Changed for the Worse. Probably over a year ago, I remember Upward working like it was supposed to. Now, despite having plenty of “likes” showing up in the counter at the top of the screen, and the app showing me a little thumbnail preview of the girls I could match with right away “if I would just buy premium”, I literally never see those girls in my cards, and I get no matches at all. Apparently I even have a couple “super-likes” waiting on me. I should be able to see those profiles in my cards pretty quick, right? Well, after hundreds of swipes, still no luck. This makes literally no sense when back when I first used this app, matches were simple — the people who liked you would show up in your cards and vice versa. Not so, now. This is either an app-breaking bug or just blatant greed on the developers’ part to get people to buy premium. The latter seems more likely to me now, since every other swipe, they’re trying to get me to pay for extra super likes. This app used to be decent. Basic, and pretty surface level for a Christian dating app (I’m pretty convinced the developers aren’t Christians) but at least it worked. Everything is about money for them now. Really bad taste in my mouth from this app. Don’t think I’ll be using again.

Full of False Profiles and Scam Artists. I reported or deleted almost 10 in one day. The first guy I chatted with had at least two different profiles. I kept going and every one I matched with was a false profile. They have believable stories at first glance. Then they want you to communicate with them on their international WhatsApp. When you ask them why do you need WhatsApp if you are in the states they say theirs cell phone is somehow not working, or they use WhatsApp for Work. I have a Christian friend who has been caught up in this scam from Upward for half a year. The guy says he is in Germany and he used to live in this area and he is returning, but he never does. There’s always something that prevents him from moving back to the states. The scammers are familiar with a lot of Christian jargon. The last one I talked sounded real and when I mentioned the scammers he got real nasty and said I was a false prophetess and continued to say ugly things. Before that he was an educated successful Widow. Oh yes, they most often say they are widows. They may say they have a child too. It depends on the age. I have heard nothing back about the reports and I also have not heard back from customer service when I reported this problem! 😡 Is not use this app if I were you. I already paid and can not get my money back!

Badly needs distance, height, and education filters.. I wanted to like this app because dating as a Christian woman in your late twenties is hard y’all. Unfortunately, this app does not do it for me. I bought the premium version thinking it would have more features and save me time, but all of the important filters for me (distance, height, education) aren’t options! The app shows you people who are 150 miles away without letting you filter down the distance. How is that practically supposed to work? Also I don’t care who thinks it’s shallow, height is incredibly important! I’m 5’11” and it is uncomfortable for me to date someone who is shorter than me, and it’s uncomfortable for them too! If God wanted me to marry a short man, he would have made me a short woman! I put my height in my bio so that men can know how tall I am, but this really should be a filter because no one needs to waste their time flipping through profiles of people they are physically incompatible with or guessing how tall they are. Finally, being able to filter for education is also incredibly important! This goes back to basic compatibility, people with similar education levels are more compatible. Yes it’s possible to guess someone’s intelligence from their profile, but please save us time and improve your app by making this a filter. Why does this app have such high ratings? Who is this even working for???

Surprisingly Not The Worst. Dating apps are awful, let’s be honest. However, I am surprised by Upward for the most part. The interface is simple, the quality of potentials are some of the best of all the apps, messaging is made simple when you do get a match. Now the cons…perhaps this is just me but the application itself has glitches/defects, for instance, I can change all my preferences and it continuously resets them or shows potentials that aren’t within the parameters of my preferences. Not the end of the world but for every 1 person that was in my area it showed 10 that were like 300+ miles away. On the likes/subscription side, I have heard multiple people say including myself that it will show you have X amount of likes, but no matter the swiping you do will never come across many of them, and that you have to pay for premium to ever see them. Frustrating to say the least. Overall verdict: easy to use/people are transparent about what they want/quality of potentials is great but the bugs/fixes and subscription definitely makes it frustrating.

Notifications are driving me nuts. I’ll be honest I have not had a great on this app, some of it is my own stuff, but the app notification have been driving me nuts. I personally don’t have a ton of apps I let give me notifications anymore, but I let this one because I want to be able to get notifications for messages. I don’t have any social media so this app is the only way to communicate unless we exchange phone numbers, which I don’t always feel comfortable. I know other people don’t right away either. I get a notification to start swiping seemingly every few hours. I understand that this is how these apps work, but it’s a little annoying. I decided to pay for 3 months of premium so I could see who the likes are coming from. It seems to me like they push your profile to get a bunch of likes prior to paying for premium or whatever to see who it is. As soon as I payed for the app the likes went down to one every week or so. I might not be the kind of person that gets a lot of likes anyways but it was weird it went from 8 in the first week, then down to maybe 1 a week after I payed. The thing that drives me the most nuts is what I can only call the phantom like. It’s only happened 2 or 3 times since I started using the app. The app notifies me I got a like, but when I go to the app to check out the profile there isn’t a like. It’s great way to get me to open the app, but whatever. Idk, if it’s a glitch or what, but seems kinda fishy to me.

My account was disabled within 15 minutes. So I made an account and I was using it for first time for 15 minutes, with in trying to get my account set up it all of A sudden it logs me out right when I was adjusting the distance. Was it because I was a Christian creator on tiktok or did someone report me as a spam account because I wasn’t. Idk why it said it was disabled because I didnt violate and guidelines. And i know im not the only one who got there account disabled for no reason. And when it says it was disabled it doesn’t say why. And again I would never do anything that would violate the terms and conditions. Please fix this bug. Never using this app again, oh wait I cant always because I’m banned for no reason. Update: after reading so many of the reviews, Of people saying that there is so many people that are spam accounts and fake accounts there was probably someone that reported my account thinking it was fake. Also please consider taking the distance off profiles because when someone sees that it makes it easy for some to stalk people. And what do I take out of this, maby GOD did not want me on this app, so thank you for deleting it because honestly I would of probably deleted it the next day. Be carful and to say this was my first time using a dating and and never will again.

It’s a great app, for what it’s worth.. This is my second time on a Christian dating app, and it has been a great experience, but there are problems. One, the preferred distance filter is broken. No matter how many times you set it, it automatically filters matches in that are 1500+ miles away. Now, their suggestion would be to block these profiles, however, blocking counts as a swipe, and swipes are limited (as any app has limits). It’s daunting to have to swipe through so many profiles only for you to run out because none were close by. Two, the subscription service isn’t worth it. I paid for the week long subscription to get a feel for it and to get through my likes faster. It would be nice if there were other features that made the subscription worth it, like being able to view profiles inside the chat rooms and deciding if you want to like and message them. All in all, compared to other apps Upward is definitely one that is more broad and out there, for example, Holy is more modest than Upward is because it’s simple and they restrict what can go on your profile. Whereas, Upward is a little more lenient. I’d still recommend this app to anyone, but I do wish there was more to offer. Some things I think could make the subscription service better is the ability to use more than 3 filters and the ability to use a “travel mode”.

Great Concept, Could Be Executed Better. It would be great if FTH took a few more hints from other dating apps. Not only should distance filters be a bit better, but if someone likes you, the app should display them first so you can easily see who likes you and if you’re interested. Better that than occasionally seeing that someone has liked you but then swiping and swiping and never getting a match. Having a way to backtrack to the last person after an accidental swipe left would be super nice too. I love the concept because my faith is super important to me and I wouldn’t want to date someone who wasn’t a christian, but the whole app just feels a little clunky and hard to actually find matches on. Update: reducing it from 3 stars to 2 stars after the app lost a match I had with the same girl twice in a row in a period of about fifteen minutes. Unbelievable. If the app can’t even remember who matched with whom, what’s even the point? Update 2: dropping to 1 star after it did it a third time with the SAME girl in the course of another ten minutes. Y’all need to seriously work on your UI; it’s garbage

Disrespected from their customer service. Like many others I was excited to take dating serious and find someone that matched my religious level. I made my account, added 5 fun photos of me - family, an army picture, cycling, and one with my cat, added my prompts to show my personality, I kept it all fun and PG. One hour later I get back on the app and my account is disabled. I email the customer support team thinking that this could be a mistake and I get an email back saying I emailed the wrong department when they provided me the link to begin with. After they forwarded my polite email asking them why I was disabled, Then I get another email saying “ we cannot disclose specifics about any member account, including your own. Any new accounts created will be subject to review and will be immediately terminated. ” Not only can I know what I did wrong, but now I cannot recreate my profile to resolve any issues. I read through the terms and services and the only assumption is that a photo was deemed “offensive or to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person”. The only possible photo I can assume was me in my military uniform which is my JOB. I’m very disappointed that a Christian based dating app will not help me resolve this unknown issue. Very discouraging and downright disrespectful in my eyes. I guess I’ll have to look elsewhere for Christian based dating.

Filled with fake profiles. Terrible customer service.. I want to love this app. But it’s filled with fake profiles and catfishing scammers. My account was disabled for no apparent reason, and when I emailed customer service they told me I would hear back within 24 to 48 hours. It’s been nearly 3 weeks and I’ve heard nothing. I called and was told to just keep waiting, and was given no timeline. If I ran a business this way, I’d be out of business. Update June 12: The developer commented on this review with an apology, but no solutions. I haven’t violated any conditions and was told by customer service not to contact them again or I may annoy them (I called one time and emailed three times because there was no response to any emails - only an initial response email that said they would be in touch - but they haven’t been in touch.) It’s been over a month and there’s been no response or explanation from customer service - they say “just keep waiting.” The irony here is this app is loaded with scammers and they’re blocking the accounts of people who have legitimate accounts and are paying real money. From reading other reviews, I see I’m not alone here. It’s one thing to make a mistake, but it’s another to not do anything to fix this mistake.

There’s some problems. I was really excited to come across this app since its really difficult to find Christians on dating apps. But I started noticing that the profiles sound similar and there’s A LOT of fake profiles with model looking pictures. Once you start talking to these people you can quickly see their words don’t match their pictures and they don’t write like someone from the US. Then they want to talk on Whatsapp…. if you are sitting in the US, you can just regular text. I’ve done Google reverse image on some of the profiles and sure enough….. the pictures actually belong to a model or influencer or something like that. There needs to be a way to verify the profiles and set up a way for someone to get enough information without leaving the app until you are ready to chat off the app. And possibly have a way to video or voice call or just send a video or send voice messages within the app. It’s not a really big deal for me but most of the matches are at least 100 miles away. Chatting online used to be fun and a way to meet people to talk to or build a relationship with but I feel like this is just another way to get disappointed on apps. And people are using this app to prey on Christians who are good hearted.

Disappointed 👎🏽. So I gave this app a try for a year after seeing it advertised on Snapchat. As a Christian and someone who has been in the online dating business for awhile, I was excited trying Upward as it was advertised as “A Christian Dating Website.” Well not only I met my toxic ex on here and wasted 8 months of my life thinking he was the one turns out he had a dark past and an addiction, I also wasted more time coming back on here for another few months getting my time wasted by “Christian Men” who only wanted to have sex with me, don’t reply back, and just take advantage of me because they know I’m a good woman. Upward, what I have experienced as a user this whole year is not Christian like and you guys should consider doing background checks, verify the user is who they say they are, and should NOT have a casual selection as that is very hypocritical and is against Christian beliefs. I don’t even want to start on how my matches are too far out from me and I have gave you guys money after money and remained loyal the whole year thinking I was going to find someone. I even had been a loyal customer to the point I trusted you guy to the point when I deleted my account a few times I came back, never again this app is garbage and has been thrown together last minute I bet like las minute studying for a finals, yuck 🤢

It’s Alright. I’ve met some people solid Christians on this app, even if most of that are fairly distant from me geographically speaking. However, there’s a couple of key annoyances. First, the number of people who have already liked me never drops, and I can (and have) swiped in excess of 400 people on one sitting. Still 99+. Second (and this combines with the first one), it will repeatedly (and randomly) revert to my general geographic area, showing me the same faces I have seen countless times. If I swiped away on someone, I generally did that with intent. I don’t want to have to swipe past everyone again, and again, and again so that I can finally encounter those people who purportedly already liked me. Finally, excessive notifications (“WWJD? Prolly start swiping for singles” - yeah ... probably not. Ditch that notification). I appreciate it for what it is. Technically speaking, I’m not very impressed. Subscriptions are overly expensive, and (unlike Hinge) undos are behind a paywall. Could be worse, but could certainly be better. Edit: I bit the bullet and got a subscription, just to confirm my suspicions. The majority of the people who had already “liked” me were people that I recognized as having swiped away. App is poorly developed. Edit: advertisements for alcohol now.

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Pay to Play. Useless app. Free to create a profile, but they keep all your likes a secret unless you pay them. Greedy scam.

C3. I agree with Chrrisy@Elevation’s review. A lot of people on this app are confused between Catholicism and Christianity. Like there’s a huge difference and you can’t categorize a faith based relationship with God with someone who believes in a priest. You can clearly tell in their bio who is really christian and who’s not, but it’s so much work to have to filter through. It honestly just makes me question the people who made this app like do they even know the difference?? Also the distance thing like why is the radius so far?????

limited options. My biggest peeve is the lack of a distance filter. I’m at the point where I’m getting suggestions for people >250miles away 😩😩 Like that’s ever going to happen.. will probably delete soon

Hacked. Only rated the app 2 stars instead of 1 since I enjoyed the interface. The actual app itself is riddled with catfish/bots I’ve run into many in a short few weeks. My account got hacked sometime around 11 pm today I only noticed it when I got a notification saying that I had a new like on my profile (which is rare) so I looked and when I saw that a man liked my post I was kinda taken back. Then I went to my profile and saw that someone changed all my photos and my gender to female, I wanted to delete my profile but I payed for a subscription so it won’t allow me to delete my current account😩.

Pointless. When you hide then un hide your account, the app stops sending new likes. When you report a spam account, your next swipe is also a spam account, so you’re just swiping and reporting over and over again until you finally land on a real profile. When you set your filters, the system doesn’t show likes unless you leave it at maximum distance. Ultimately, I’d tried to get premium and it didn’t work until the third try. I had to get two refunds because profiles were still blurred out, and my second try, my subscription went to my deleted account somehow, which means, they don’t truly delete accounts from their database when you close your account. In addition, everyone is super far from me since this app is advertised as an American app! Why not just say the continent of the Americas rather than just advertising America? That way, we know that there will be Canadians on the app too. Thus, more Canadians will sign up, and they will in turn have more close matches. I’m going to get my third and final refund and delete my account.

Very buggy. It won’t let me log in. I try to put in my digits and it says invalid phone number. Bad start to the app.

Poor security with 0 customer service. Hijacked accounts aplenty. My account got hacked and I couldn’t access my account to delete my data. Tried calling customer service but only got an automated response with no working hours. I’d suggest using more established apps with tighter security and people who actually pick up the phone👎

can’t even use the app. i have downloaded, deleted, and redownloaded this app too many times. i can’t access the app. everytime it says to sign in (though i’ve never created an account), it says to input my phone number, and i never get an access code!!! what’s going on??

Good app, but needs country filters. It would be super helpful if you could filter by country. As a Canadian who lives near the border (which is most of us lol) and wanting to date other Canadians for simplicity, this feature would be so appreciated!!

??. So I have to pay first before I can see who liked me?

Doesn’t work. I set my distance and denomination preference to Baptist and within 20 miles. I’m in Canada and am being shown people in Rochester NY 150 miles away who are not baptists. What a waste of time. I may develop my own dating app. I will change this review if they make the app better. To the developers: there’s an app called Reddit. Go there and see how disappointed everyone is with upward and take notes. All the best

Don’t pay for it, just delete it. Too many bots, too many spam accounts. Not worth it. Literally only a handful of people in my city and no one in Canada uses it.

Trying to upgrade. Hi! I’m having a hard time trying to upgrade! I click on the continue button to upgrade but it just won’t upgrade and I can’t see any of my matches or interests 🥹

Used it for a day & deleted it. As many other reviews state the distance feature is outrageous. Majority of people were 200+ miles away. As a Canadian there are barely any profiles nearby. I have to pay $50 to unlock the list of people who liked me? That is a total cash grab. I would have happily paid $10-$15 just to see likes, but instead I go no satisfaction from the app, it became redundant and I deleted it.

Angel marriage. Why is there an angel marriage happening for a CrossFitter Christian stoner yogi?

Premium service is sub-standard. Bought “Elite” on Upward ( premium service) and I can’t change any of the preferences to have them come up in the swiping que. I’d like to zone in on a certain denomination but it isn’t providing that at all. Might as well not pay, save 40$ ( also very high price) cause your not gonna get the benefits you want.

No distance filter. There is only people over 350 miles and no distance filter. This is really frustrating. When I have a match it disappear

Full of scammers. I have never interacted with more scammers in my life than on this app. Having more profile requirements might be helpful, but overall it’s just not very good in Canada.

No distance filter and seeing same-sex options. Why is there no distance filter and I’m seeing women to swipe (I’m a female and am straight & yes I checked my settings) :S Please fix this and add a distance filter.

Don’t Bother. Don’t waste your time with this app. It’s a scam that targets honest, trusting people who will pay up to try to find someone decent. But $99 for six months? That’s ridiculous! The free version basically allows you to just set up your profile, and swipe left or right, but if you want to see anyone’s profile who has matched with you/likes you you have to pay. And there’s no other way of messaging them unless you pay up. Also, why can’t I change what age range I’m seeking, and the distance/location is way off. Save yourself the trouble and don’t even bother. You might as well go meet someone the good old fashion way

Not a real Christian dating app. Why does a “Christian” app encourage xlgbtqx relations? I have nothing against that but just don’t call it Christian app because Jesus Christ won’t approve of this. Thank you 🙏🏽🙏🏽

Glitchy app and my account was disabled with no explanation!. My account was terminated for no reason and why I inquired with the support team they said they can’t share this information with me! And I can’t create another account. All I was trying to was find my special person and hopefully get married one day. I don’t get it!

Very bad. This app just wants to take your money and that's it. Never use it and don't waste your precious time creating an account in this app

Upward Christian fellowship & dating. Great app for those who long for fellowship and wanting to make friends with brothers and sisters in Christ.You can sign up with your phone and it used to have the option for Canadians to use and now it’s only targeted towards Americans. I think this app should be opened to Canadians and Americans. The app is good and is solid for finding a potential spouse one day but the Catholics at E being mixed in with gospel believing Christian’s which must be removed.MAKE THE APP AVAILABLE IN CANADA TOO

Money focused. Seems like paying for a subscription is not enough, now I need to pay to see likes. Just a sly way to milk you a bit more to beware. There should be one subscription price so it’s not complicated. Also, obviously this company is not Christian, because they think catholics are the same as everyone else. There’s a huge difference. Also I can’t even filter out the catholics, which gets annoying. To make things worse, many times I swipe up to see more pictures it sends a like instead because it’s too sensitive. Finally, it is beyond me why they limit the filter to only three criteria. I need at least 4 to 5 minimum. Perhaps it’s to force people to see other people, but it only clutters the list. You’re not gonna force me to see other people I don’t want to. Speaks volumes for the type of people who build this app. Update: Bad accountability. Why do you delete the conversation when a person leaves? Spammers just leave and then there’s no way to report them. It’s getting quite tiring.

Poor. I was literally just adding my info and it singed me out and then when I tried to login it said my account was banned or something. I literally had just opened the account and it blocked me .I didn’t add anything inappropriate.

Frustrating, shame. I had my first account hacked and deleted. When I set up a new account and went to pay to payed subscription it wouldn’t upgrade and when I contacted them they said my account is deleted.

What the heck !. I got the app less than a week ago and figured I would try my first month with the subscription however for some reason my account got reported and they took my money however there was no way for me to contact them about either getting my money back or getting my account back since I only got to use the app for 2 days after paying 40$ CAD … super annoyed right now .

App seems decent, but better verification would be nice.. The app is pretty simple to use. And I like that you can only communicate with mutual matches. The one thing I’m disappointed in is that there seems to be no effort in verifying if the accounts created are real. I guess that’s pretty much the same as any app. Even having someone submit their licence or something would probably help reduce the number of fake/scam accounts. Of the three people I connected with so far, all three were scammers. I know it’s not the app’s job to help you make a match, but verifying users would be helpful and it would give me a bit more confidence in communicating with people. Just a suggestion.

Last update was bad.. First of all, we should have the option to filter out Mormons and Catholics and other non Christian religions. Secondly, I’ve had this app for a few months and it was working flawlessly before; however, after the last update it became very glitchy. When I’m listening to a podcast or music while swiping it will glitch out and my music will pause. I then have to go hit play and continue swiping. Two or three swipes later it’ll happen again. My usage of this app has diminished significantly. Please fix this. I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling and it did not work.

No reasonable filters?. It’s really odd how you can’t really filter people by religion or radius. I don’t have the elite version, so it’s hard to tell if people are legit swiping right on me when I got like 300+ likes in the first couple of days. Without the elite version and without filters, you could be swiping all day which can be a big waste of time and a poor user experience. I appreciate what the app currently is as it has great potential, but it’s definitely a struggle for me when I would like to meet someone from a specific religion.

Ads, limits on views, pay to play. Don't waste your time with this app. It's no better than any other typical dating app. You must pay to play which is not cheap. Spent 15 minutes using them deleted my profile and removed the app never to be installed again.

Took all my info and then disabled my account. Absolutely terrible service and more than likely a scam. I set up my account and uploaded all my personal information in an hour later went to login again and my account has been disabled.??? I’ve written three times to their current customer support with nothing. Their phone number doesn’t work. Definitely a scam and I’m going to report them. Do not use this app.

Distance. Is this only for people who live in the U.S?? Because I live in Quebec and everyone I bump into live over 200 miles away which makes it impossible to meet up

Successful match. I met my now husband on this app 3 years ago during the peak of the pandemic. We’re now happily married with a 3 month old baby. I’d say FTH (now Upward) deserves 5/5 stars from us!

Frustrating. This app went from annoying to extremely annoying after the update. The amount of unnecessary and unwanted prompts is unbelievable. I can’t imagine what the notifications are like I turned that off a while ago. The amount of compromise from the creators of the app makes me question if they have any Christian values themselves at all. Netflix and chill stickers on a Christian dating app? Really? Also, I understand the desire to make money off of an app you’ve created there’s nothing wrong with that, but greed has definitely taken over. They continue to remove more and more free features and lock them behind a paywall. I wouldn’t be surprised if they tweaked the algorithm to make sure you don’t see people that have liked you unless you pay. It’s a shame because this app definitely has potential. What can I expect though, they always end up being the same. The love of money is the root of all evil and this app is proving that to be true.

Not so great . POV of a woman living in Montreal. Similar to tinder or bumble or any other dating apps but I got like 300 likes from people who are just too far away from me. ( a few of them were up to 1800 miles away from me ) I mean you can set your settings up to only see profiles near your location . But it’s not the other way around. Every guy from I don’t know where ( USA) can see your profile. It’s a great app if you live in the US or near but here in Canada, not so much .

Distance. I think the app is a great idea and concept but it constantly gives me people over 100 miles away, I’m from canada, I put within 60 miles of me and I constantly get up to 350 miles away and usually only get above 90 miles. Please fix it

Not for christians or catholics / satanic. Terrible app, how is this a christian app and you know were in the end times and yet you make a pay walll to allow christians to find proper courtship this is a demonic app or greed took over good morals. Its hard to find proper courtship and you make a profit on your brothers in the body of Christ to make it harder shame on you, we all have to answer to God.

Atrocious, DO NOT USE. I can’t begin to explain how terrible this app is and to think that these developers are Christians or believers of God is outstanding. The interface sucks and is covered with promotion to go premium which is undeserving on their part. Everyone you find on the app is 150 miles away or more and the restrictions you put (distance especially) are ignored. The messaging system is garbage, the paid promotions aren’t worth it. You’d have better luck finding someone NOT using the app. Use bumble or something else because this sucks and they know it.

Beware of Scammers. This app has Scammers which is very disappointing for something that’s suppose to be Christian based. Beware ladies beware of people asking you to buy them Steam cards.

Do not join!. This app is not worth it. Most of the profiles are fake. I got disabled for reporting bad people. And I was a paying customer with a 6 month élite subscription. And if you need assistance and email them they don’t respond right away if at all. Upward dating app doesn’t care whether you pay or not they just take your personal information and use it to sell it.

Can’t sign in. It says that my phone number is invalid!

WORST APPLICATION THEY STEEL FROM YOU !!!!!!!. I paid over 60$ to get premium and l’été membership in less than 1 week . I can not see who likes me and ask me to upgrade again for elite. One star is too much !!!!

This app has potential. I’m a Canadian using this app. My first complaint is the swiping left and right. Sometimes, I’m just trying to swipe up and look through a person’s pictures, and the swipes left or right on the person (and if you don’t have the premium account, you can undo what you did). Second issue is if you’re in Canada, you’re not going to find a lot of people near you. So far, 15% of guys on here (or less) are actually in Canada. Except you don’t mind long distance. My last complaint is the price of the premium upgrade. BEWARE, THE PRICE IS IN USD. I thought it said $30 but I ended up paying almost $50, so keep that in mind.

Unorganized. I keep seeing Catholic and Islamic beliefs on here.. or even atheists. Do these people not know what Christianity is or who this app is geared to?! Also, need geographical parameters; over 80% of the people I see are American I’d say.

Happily ever after!. I never would have thought I would have met the love of my life on a dating app. It was so hard to find someone with the same faith and morals while also being someone I could fall in love with. Upward helped me find the man of my dreams 1.5 hours away in December of 2021. We are now engaged and planning a wedding. So grateful to Upward in helping with my happily ever after!!

Location issue. This app doesn’t let you set the location so you get matches near you and profiles from hundreds of miles away are what keep popping up. Even if you’ve passed on a profile it will continue to come up and it shows you profiles down very far away. Pretty disappointing app

Distance. I think there's a problem with filter.I don't get matches within my area. Often time I get far from my areas from 250 miles , 300 miles to 700 miles. Have tried to change filter still isn't working. Because of this I give 1 star Fix this

Money focussed App. This app is here just to make money, they don’t care about anything else. I have been on it for 2 years now and I only made a valid match ONE TIME only. Lots of fake accounts too

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Filters / preferences mean nothing. Not a single filter actually works. If you’re wanting to see people 800 miles away from you, with no working way to filter any of them, with a near-zero chance of matching with anyone without paying, this is the app for you. You will likely never see any of your “99+” likes (most of whom are presumably hundreds of miles away), and the list of likes does not go down after you’ve swiped left on that person yourself. So your hidden list keeps growing, filling with people you’ve already said “no” to, giving you false hope. I deleted this app once and came back 6 months later hoping it got fixed. There is zero change. Avoid this app. The developers repetitive replies that the filters work and that they will show you people outside of your radius only after you’ve already seen everyone within your radius is simply not true. The truth is that there is an undisclosed / unadvertised maximum number of local people that the app will show you a day. You’ll see repeats of people 600 miles away before you see all the locals once.

Torn. I’m torn on this app because on one hand it’s nice because it’s algorithm isn’t absolute garbage like tinder or bumble. The app is supposed to have Christian singles, which I see for the most part. My problems arise when I can’t find a girl within 200 miles of myself. Every other dating app gives you the ability to limit the distance at which you see other singles along with other filters. However upward only allows you to use the age filter. They just don’t have it, you don’t even have to upgrade to use it. Also, I have some likes, I’ve only come across 2 of them over the course of weeks. Overall, my biggest issue with this service is the fact there is no distance filter. I know upward is a smaller app, but I don’t even want to see a girl if she is more than 30 miles away. I know this is harsh, but I and many other people just don’t really care for a long distance relationship. I’m definitely not hating on the app, i like the app, I just want more options. This review is really just for the developers. Hope you guys are working, or will work, on these issues. Thanks for your time if you read this.

Bad app. I am not only very disappointed with the way I have been treated on this app, but am rather angry as well. I am bombarded with demotivational “motivational” reminders to use the app, when it never works. I am an elite member. I paid for an elite membership. Still can’t see my matches, not view their profiles! It thinks I’m still a basic member! I have tried calling Upward, and have tried emailing them MULTIPLE times! The first time I tried calling they hung up on me. I tried calling again later and all this lady could do is complain about an earache! I have emailed multiple times and have gotten no response. I will now warn this app that I WILL call the Internet Crimes Complaint Center for a criminal activity investigation. I WANT my money back! This is NOT okay and all I get from this blasted app is that I have no worth and that I am trash. That’s the way people treat me and that’s the way this terrible app treats me too. And before you go crying that I am being petty, you don’t know what’s going on in my life right now. I just simply want my money back, the problem fixed, or guess what? I will make sure this app gets shut down. I WILL report it. Simple.

Horrible Dating App. I joined Upward because it’s Christian-based, and I thought I could use this app to better my chances of actually finding a Christian partner. I’m completely disappointed with this app. Lots of inappropriate bios, fake bios, and inappropriate pictures. I understand that this kind of thing happens across all dating sites, but Upward seems to be almost entirely unfiltered. There are some people who use this app that I can tell want to serve God and find true love. But their efforts are being disrupted by having to filter through numerous fake bios in order to hopefully find one person they’re actually compatible with. Additionally, the number of matches in my area are very small. I live in a very populated and large metropolitan area. My matches shouldn’t be from 250 miles away. I can promise you that there are in fact plenty of Christians that live near me. This metropolitan area has millions of people and Upward shows me people from 250 miles away. Are we really really living in a day where Christians are so few? I don’t buy it. I think this app is poor in many ways, one of which is the absurdity of me having to filter out so many people who shouldn’t be able to use this app.

Overall very good!. This app has been slowly improving over the past year. MANY more people have been joining, which makes finding people close to your location a bit easier. The navigation is easy and you can use the app for free if you would like. If you’re seriously looking, the 6 month paid option is very reasonable and allows you to see who liked you. This feature is awesome, as it gets really old getting “like” notifications all day and not being able to see who’s interested. Note: the person who sends out push notifications is an absolute legend…download the app and you’ll see 😆 The best thing about the app is most women are very serious about their faith and have several pics; most even fill out the bio sections! My absolute pet peeve is when women only have one photo (of their face only) and only say “hi” in the bio. This leads to a lot of wasted time on people I’m not attracted to or don’t agree with on lifestyle or political issues. Nowdays I just swipe left on incomplete profiles, no matter how beautiful the girl is; however, this app has a very low instance of this happening, which I love. Ladies: busy guys looking for serious relationships need fully completed profiles and pics showing your body type (not just face selfies)! Saying something genuine about yourself aside from hobbies is a also a huge plus 😉🙏

A misleading disappointment.. It’s crazy that I kept seeing ads on Instagram for this app saying how it is free. Yes, it’s free to SIGN up but you’re not able to see anyone who’s liked you until after you’ve paid something. Being optimistic, I signed up for a month subscription for THIRTY DOLLARS, which is a bit much! But as a Christian, after having been on free dating sites to no avail I thought why not invest in an app with Christian’s. Well, I was wrong yet again. It’s crazy that AFTER I paid, I got LESS matches. I wish I could get my money back because I am so displeased with this app! STOP advertising as being a free dating app if you’re going to have to eventually pay to at least see those who have liked you! Not to mention when I’ve liked them back and even sent a message, they’re no where to be found. I know that’s on them more than y’all but still, the hype I’ve seen from the ads feel very misleading compared to my experience and apparently the experience of many others who have left reviews. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure that people have had success with it, but currently I have not!

Could be a lot better. The layout of this app is pretty good and normal compared to any other dating app. The ways you can customize your account is pretty good and I enjoy it. My only issue is that your filters on your preferences are just simply ignored after you swipe left on two people. This app will only then show you people from a different denomination entirely. If that’s your vibe then be my guest but honestly, it’s disappointing to see someone you may be interested in but then they don’t even have the same religious beliefs. On top of that, not only are your characteristic preferences ignored, but the DISTANCE too! You will be offered to match with someone 200 miles away, and that’s not an over exaggeration. I would understand if no one else fits the bill for your preferences but having a notice would be helpful before continuing to swipe. I matched with someone 173 miles away and I was majorly disappointed (no, long distance is not for me). Just know that this app can both be exciting and filled with disappointments simultaneously.

Basically flawed. I’m a paying user. You can only see likes of someone you have liked. You can only use 3 filters at a time on your searches ex. non-smoking, no-weed, and wants kids and that’s it. You have to de-select one of those to select “relationship” or “marriage” or another qualifier. There is no “maybe” option so you are forced to say yes or no to each profile and then you can never see that profile again unless they swipe yes the first time. If I have swiped no and then that person swipes yes, I’ll never know even though I might have reconsidered. What if they added something or changed something on their profile that I would like to see? There needs to be a button you can push to reset the likes / dislikes or to easily revisit profiles you’ve already looked at. You can only use 500 characters to share your faith and 500 characters to tell about yourself. Some of this stuff has already been brought up 1-2 yrs ago in reviews by customers so it doesn’t seem like Upward is that interested in improving the app.

No customer support. First off I need to express that this is a great idea and much better than the other dating apps like Tinder, Hinge, and Bumble. I will change my review if I can ever get actual customer support. I went to create my account and entered in my phone number incorrectly. I realized that and tried redoing it but was met with the message saying my phone number is permanently banned from the app and am now unable to ever make an account. I have reached out multiple times to customer support and receive the first automatic reply saying someone will get back to me in 24-48 hours. After this first email I received someone saying that due to the nature of the request, they need to elevate it to a higher level. This has been continuously where the help stops. At that point I never receive an email back and have done this at least three times. I would love to utilize the app but this is embarrassingly horrible customer support. If I can get this corrected I’d change my review in a heart beat. But the fact that I’ve reached out to get something simple like this changed and cannot get any help is making me review the app so negatively.

God can use online dating - texting platform/format needs work. Hiya :) I met the love of my life on this app:) We’re getting married in 18 days:) I had used other apps before and when I first downloaded Upward, I was doubtful that i would find someone who had the qualities and spiritual depth I was looking for. I set my range pretty high because of where I lived, but ended up meeting my fiancé, Sam, less than 2 weeks of being on it. (I didn’t pay for the app, we both had liked each other) This app is different from others that I had used in the past. I had really good conversations with guys before meeting him though! They all were really respectful and kind and engaged in the convo. The app itself isn’t the easiest to connect with, you can’t send links, gifs or images, so Sam and I quickly moved from the app to a normal texting platform because we felt comfortable sharing contact info. I’m not sure if they’ve changed that feature but it would’ve been nice to react to individual messages for the fluidity of conversation. But as a method of making that first interaction with someone- I highly recommend this app! I actually suggested the app to 3 of my friends and within 5-6 months they had met their partners with the help of Upward too:) Definitely take the time to pray while pursuing- but God can totally work through online dating! - Abby K.

GET MODERATORS IMMEDIATELY. The groupchats are literally the opposite of what the app is as a whole, groupchats filled with racial slurs, discrimination towards races, guys literally disrespecting certain races of women just because they’re not their types, Vile disgusting remarks to Women, The guys on there are sick and twisted, One guy shared a pic where he posed with a gun in his mouth in one of the “ Dating Advice” Group-chats and I’ve since been overly disturbed and quite scared to even look in any of the groupchats again because there are no moderators whatsoever, I flagged and reported so many disgusting pictures and comments that were sent in the group and no violation was given to any of them, Many people posing to be of different religions just to treat people horribly and to exchange nudity photos on snapchat. There are a good 10 percent of people who do try and steer the group the right way and get it to be positive but 90 percent of the group just basically overpowers us with so much disrespect, I’ve downloaded this app because I haven’t had as many as respectable people on a regular dating app, this app as a whole is just wagon mostly to prey on women disrespectfully and they act like animals. I’m truly dissatisfied

Great at first, then useless and redundant. App was great at first…. Until I noticed day after day I was seeing the same faces that I already said “no” and swiped left on. Honestly? It’s become a waste of time as about 3/4 of the people at one point or another I have said I wasn’t interested in. With seemingly an entire app of people, I have to think that it’s because I’m not a subscriber? I doubt I’ll be using this app much longer due to this… it’s just a waste of time. Two weeks after this review is written…. No response, no fix…. And same people over and over and over. It’s a total waste of time. Why would I pay for an app that I would get the same thing from? :( Response to developer- I appreciate the response, however this would mean blocking literally every profile to prevent this… surely this can’t be the fix you provide to your clients? With this issue- I would never consider subscribing, nor recommend the app… I hope the developers fix as I would like to subscribe at some point…. But I don’t want to see the same profiles of everyone I’ve said no to time and time day after day….

What Happened?. I’m not sure what changed on this app from the time I created my profile until now. It seems that there are no standards anymore to creating a profile. I thought there were moderators that approved and watched these things. There are now almost nothing but spam accounts or accounts of those who just want to bombard the platform with nonsense. I would expect more from an app that is garnered towards a specific group of people. I had hopes that more filtering options would come along as things progressed, but they have not. The elite and premium upgrades also seem silly and more garnered towards money. Speaking on filters, there aren’t any to help steer you in the direction of person you want to look for and it makes things more complicated than not. An age range is all that there is. I would much rather use bumble, but does not cater towards christians and it has also taken a turn in more of a cash grab than anything. Over the years I have had EVERY dating app and website there is and this one has now become another waste of my time. I have to delete my account, please fix these problems for future members.

Love it. They never put your match in the card swipe lineup cuz they want you to pay! I have all these matches but can’t seem to match on none when I swipe it’s obvious they left out your matches from the swipe lineup! Crooks Update: so I want to update my review and say I WAS WRONG!!! thank to the developer for responding after my first review I matched with the man of my DREAMS! We are talking now and everything has been going good so far he is so attentive to me he loves God he loves my kids he prays for me. I think I’m falling in love. He is so fine light skin pretty eyes and tall I’m 35 he’s 36! Thank you Jesus and Upward for sending me the man I have always prayed about. Upward please forgive my ignorant review I was lonely at the time and wanting everything to start happening right away but When God has the right man for you, you won’t match or even work out with anyone until he sends the right one. Thank you upward.

So Grateful. I never come on here to write reviews, but I am today because I’m so grateful for this app. My boyfriend and I started talking on the app about 6 months ago. Neither of us really cared for online dating before but felt like it was God’s timing. We matched on the app and started talking, had our first date, and the rest is history. I know without a shadow of a doubt this is the man I’m going to marry. One of my best friends wanted a Christian relationship, but was struggling to find a good Christian man. I told her about the app and told her she should download it. She was very skeptical at first, but she downloaded it and met an amazing guy! They’ve been dating for about 4-5 months and she told me that she thinks she found her forever person. All I’m saying is if you want a Christian relationship and you want to find someone genuine, use this app. The Lord has really blessed me through here and I am so grateful I took a chance ☺️

Bad customer service. I downloaded upward and honestly had nothing but good things to say. Then, out of no where my account was disabled. I tried for about a week to get in contact with someone to rectify this mistake. After about 8 days , i received a email stating , Upward was sorry for the delay and would forward my question to a different department. later on that day i received a second email my account was deleted by Upward and i was permanently banded . I was in such shock , i could not possibly fathom what i could have done . i read through the terms and conditions and to my knowledge did not violate any . I then sent a email asking for the reason Upward disabled my account . They replied that they don’t have to answer. I then asked that my question be forwarded to a supervisor. I still have not received a reply back . That was over a week ago. i have been on MULTIPLE dating apps and have NEVER had an issue like this . As a Christian male , i would NEVER do something that was violate the terms or act inappropriate in any manner. Overall extremely poor customer service and managing of this site . Very disappointed.

Not great. I don’t think I’ll be continuing to use this dating app. The interface is not easy to interact with and there’s also so little information that you are encouraged to enter most of the men only write one or two lines which isn’t helpful. They really should pull inspiration from bumble and how they have a bunch of preset questions that you can easily go in an answer from height to exercise preferences etc. They also don’t seem to have any verification protocols and so I’ve been catfished multiple times already by men who initially appear to be a reasonable number of miles away and once I matched with them it’s very clear that they are not based where they initially said they were, that they are not who they say they are and that all of a sudden they are thousands and thousands of miles away. It’s also very hard to figure out how to add more than one photo and so again most of the men you’re coming across only posted a single image which is not effective at all. I’m quite disappointed and was really hoping for a good Christian based dating app.

Hear me out…. So almost everyone is on dating apps for one reason—to go on dates. But there’s a problem. Getting from the match to an actual date is sometimes a rough communication nightmare. Have you ever wondered why he didn’t just ask you on the date already? Or wondered how soon is too soon to ask about a date? Enter new feature: The “I’m ready for a date ‘Switch’” Each party has the ability to toggle ‘on’ their ‘date ready’ switch. Once both are turned on, both are notified that the other person is ready for a date (whether in person or video chat.) Some people are ready to go on a date asap. Some need to feel out the vibe. Because we just matched, neither know that from the other person. Aren’t we all just trying to get off these apps? So what if it’s robotic. I’m here for more communication and less guessing. Going on dates is already a big enough hurdle. Let’s eliminate another door to going on dates 😎

It’s ok. It’s ok. Just be aware that guys (I’m sure females as well) will claim to be a Christian but then message you and ask for nudes or things of that nature lol. Started talking to a guy I thought was great until he started asking personal sex questions and requesting for me to send him pics. Then he unmatched me and hasn’t talked to me since even though I gave him my number and insta. I’m just coming out of a year of toxic relationships and I went into this app believing I could find a better guy. Don’t go into it expecting to find a guy that actually loves Jesus. It’s all a facade. They’re just using the app for easy and unsuspecting prey. You’re probably better off on Christian Mingle or Match tbh. On the plus side it’s free and simple enough to use. Just wish there was a way to go back to your last swipe or something like that. There are no distance filters or which denomination we prefer which would be nice. I’m ok with not seeing who liked me unless we match. But I’m not going out of my way to talk to a guy that lives hundreds of miles away lol. You can’t even see where they live. This app needs a lot of adjustments and I realize it’s fairly new but they should really work out those kinks.

Disappointed. Truthfully, I was really excited to discover that an app for serious Christians existed. However, the app seems to deprioritize preferences. Between the fact that I’m only seeing people over a hundred miles away and the lack of communication on the part of the matches it seems like the problem with dating in the modern world isn’t necessarily the apps themselves but the people. I honestly don’t think the majority of people I’ve come across on this app are actually devout Christians. Especially when you have them citing being pro choice, pro LGBT, and pro BLM/ANTIFA. Also, most of these women seem to have carbon copy bios. So my biggest qualms have to be the dishonesty of the platform, the dismissal of preferences, and the lack of communicative effort on the part of the women. It’s not like I’m looking for anything casual; I’m looking for someone to be with long term and hopefully marry and this app- nor do any other apps- seem to be able to do this job. Then again, how would any of these apps make money if people actually found someone to be serious with?

Good demographics but something is concerning. Love the demographics and denomination options, I just wish we could filter or search by them. Maybe make it mandatory to fill out more of the profile to avoid so many 1 picture profiles with just “ask me” in the description. Users would also benefit from a Last Active indicator to weed out abandoned profiles that are still circulating. What concerns me most has happened twice now as an off and on elite member for over a year. I wanted to take a break and my subscription was going to run out today, so I emptied out my profile and paused my profile yesterday. This morning before the subscription ran out I had 0 likes and 0 messages. The sub ran out and I looked at my profile and suddenly I have 52 likes! Even if they’re genuine likes I had my profile turned off! I panicked the first time it happened and resubbed only to not get any good or relevant matches from the lot, now it’s happened again 3 months later. Disappointing in that regard

Worked for me. First of all the glory belongs to Christ and Christ alone because we know that all good gifts come from above. Ultimately though,Upward was used to introduce me to one of those gifts. I downloaded Upward in late December of 2020 and I initially didn’t have high hopes. I didn’t depend on the app to filter out people who were serious about their faith so I prayed about my search and meticulously read bios before swiping left or right. Eventually started to chat with a few different dudes but those conversations faded out. I also got stood up once but that event was quickly overshadowed by a very successful series of dates. I say very successful because those dates resulted in an engagement and an engagement of course led to a marriage. So in summary: I downloaded Upward, met a man who aims to put God first, fell in love with him and got married to him in less than a year. Our timeline may be faster than yours but hopefully the results are similar. Thanks Upward ☺️

Lovely. After using Tinder, Bumble, and Plenty of Fish, I can confidently state that Upward is the best dating app I have used. I’ll be honest, when I first downloaded Upward I did not have any long-term intentions relationship wise, nor did I have a very Christ-centered mindset. However, my very first match helped me refocus my life, and we have been dating for a couple of months now. We push each other to grow stronger in our walks with God, set boundaries in our relationship, and I feel so blessed to have him. I am very thankful for Upward because without it, I likely would not have met my boyfriend as we live 5 hours apart. It’s tough, but we make it work, and we are looking forward to the future. I highly recommend this app to anyone who is looking for a long term, Christ-centered relationship, or to anyone who was struggling with their faith as I was. In my case specifically, I met a strong man of God whom I love deeply, and if that can happen for me, I’m sure it can happen for anyone else.

Great app but needs improvements. Like many had said on these reviews before this app is great, but like with any app it is not without its flaws. I like the fact that it is all Christians on this app and that you don’t have to filter through and wonder what their faith story is. On other dating apps they just put Christian on their profile but don’t tell their faith story. That is what I like the most about this app. Is that people can tell you their faith story, so that way you can know where they stand in their faith. The couple of things that I would change app would be to include a mileage filter and a travel mode. I don’t like the fact that I have to skip through a lot of women that are 100+ miles away. I would like to have a filter that would allow me to narrow my range closer to where I live. As for the travel mode that would help when I am out of town for work and would allow me to continue browsing my area instead of the area that I am currently in. This would allow me to not miss out on people in my area while I am out of town.

Needs a few changes. Most notifications are a waste of time, such as telling me to check out and swipe even when i have none left. I already have enough annoying pointless notifications, don’t need more. Condense notifications to matches and messages only or at least have it be an option. 2nd big issue for me is lack of sorting by race. I do not date outside of my race and do not want to waste my time swiping past people i am not attracted to. After swiping past 30 in a row, i just close the app and stop using it for a week or more. Major turn off. Update: the developer responded and told me i should buy their premium product to eliminate ads. Clearly they can’t read since i did not mention ads at all. I do not mind ads from something free, what I despise is pop ups and notifications. I keep notifications off now because your app is like the boy who cried wolf, distracting me with pointless notifications. Also the gen Z slang is really annoying. Stop pandering to the most useless generation ever produced in the history of humanity.

We are engaged!. Hey Upward! We haven’t had this app for a while but holy cow! I first started using the app and didn’t have too much hope. A lot of long distances, a lot of putting in time and effort, and just nothing to relate to. I deleted it for a while but then after a year or two I got it back. Not thinking I would’ve had any luck, I matched with the most beautiful girl I could ever have dreamed of! We relate so well, we love each other so much, but most importantly we both share a strong relationship with Christ together! Always going to church, staying involved with ministry outside of the church, and helping others to do the same! And just this weekend…WE ARE ENGAGED! I proposed to my now fiancé and we are ready to live the rest of our lives in the presence of God forever! Thank you Upward for making this happen for us and making our dreams come true!

Please don’t waste your money. This app is truly a gimmick! Read the other recent reviews, they are true. Please don’t waste your money paying for this app, it is totally not worth it. Before I became a paid member I was getting a lot of profiles of people I was interested in. Once I paid for the membership I only receive profiles of people I am not interested in. It appears that those other profiles were fake. Also, you are not able to search profiles on your own based on certain preferences. You are only able to see the profiles that the app feeds you. if you are not interested in any of those people, you have no real way of making a connection or sending likes to qualified people that you are interested in. Lastly, before I became a paid member it said I had 16 likes. After paying for the membership to view the likes, several of them were duplicates. there were three people in particular that appeared as a like about four times each. Those 3 people were 12 of the 16 likes. Again, this app is a gimmick & rip off. Don’t waste your money.

Soooo Dry and full of bugs. I just deleted this app after my one month subscription was over. It is so dry and full of bots and bugs. The matches are mostly bots and the verified feature doesn’t work. I had to verify three times because the app kept deleting my verification. Also the profile only allows 6 pictures. Even thought it says you can upload an unlimited amount, the app freezes eh you try to upload more than 6. I emailed the developer and they never fixed this. Also ADS!!! Even when you pay for the subscription, they will keep putting adds in your match feed. Sometimes every couple of swipes. They keep the ads running even when you pay so there’s no benefit to paying other than seeing your matches, which are mostly bots. This app is a waste of time and money and seriously needs to be updated. It’s basically a dolled up version of Craigslist classified. Also, it’s not Christian, people can select other religions or ‘not sure yet’ which means it’s open to all types of beliefs. Two stars because it’s a good effort but seriously falls short of expectations and is just really really dry.

It most certainly is not free to chat. Upward developers, I think the concept is great that you have going- but I already have several people wanting to connect (I downloaded the app and set up my profile this morning) and it says I have to be an elite member to even see the individual who matches with me. According to your response to a previous reviewer, it was stated that it is free to match and chat- it most certainly is not. This is aggravating and I understand the business aspect of it, but this app is pointless unless you pay for it. Even worse- if you are a Christian company you’re being deceitful to your customers! Please take time to reevaluate and provide your customers with a quality service that has both a free standard dating service where you can actually see matches and message them and a premium dating service. This premium service could include the ability to FaceTime or send pictures or videos or maybe a get to know you message game or something like that.

Most helpful Christian dating app. This is the best dating app I’ve ever used! I met my boyfriend on here, so that’s a big point in Upward’s favor :) It wasn’t all smooth sailing - despite Upward’s handy features like a section in your bio for specifying denomination and the statement of faith section, the first guy I met up with from Upward did not behave as a Christ-follower ought and that relationship ended quickly. But only a week later I matched with a kind young pastor, who is now my boyfriend. Today is the 1-year anniversary of our first date ❤️ and Lord willing, we’ll be engaged soon. My boyfriend told me the thing that made him swipe right on me was part of my statement of faith, so thanks Upward for including that section for each profile! Though my boyfriend and I started our relationship with differing opinions both theologically and politically, the more we grow in Christ, the more we are unified in our thinking and our beliefs. Through our long talks about God and theology and my joining the church where he pastors, I have grown in my love for Scripture, for God, and for solid Biblical teaching. My faith is so much stronger than it was a year ago and my trust and reverence for God are so much more. My boyfriend loves that I ask him hard questions that make him dig into Scripture and study to find answers. Thanks so much, Upward, for being God’s tool for bringing us together. All glory be to God.

Not so much christian. **UPDATE** 10/16 - THIS APP IS A MONEY SCAM. IF YOU DONT PAY FOR IT, IT’S WORTHLESS. They cycle the SAME people over and over again. Also, when you’re on the free version, of a sudden likes start pouring in to people you have never come across. Only to snag you up again. SCAM ARTIST. *original review* There are more cons than there are pros. The biggest of course being that the majority of women on here don’t seem to be God fearing women based off their pictures and some of their bios. honestly to me that’s the biggest red flag of it all, I wish the women on here were truly God-fearing women. Im in my 30s looking for something serious. Thus far the women I’ve interacted with dont seem too interested, more like they just want someone to talk to. Theology wise, for the brothers that care, it is A LOT of New Age theology/seeker friendly stuff. All in all you are really trying to find a needle in a haystack. this app would be better if it had more messaging features, and a better way to vet the women and men as far as their Christianity and really remove people who aren’t about that. That’s what yall got tinder for, stay over there 🙂

Frustrating distance parameters ruin it. Don’t mind the overall app format but it’s completely ruined by immediately switching every option to only people who are hundreds of miles away after just the first few swipes. At first I thought it was cause I had ran out of close people but later realized it was still giving me one close person for every like 100 far away people, even when I don’t set preferences, they’re still all a full state away. So the close people are there, the app just thinks you should travel 500 miles to god knows where as a better option. It’s basically hiding actual viable matches who are just a town over by dumping a 100 profiles of people across the country on top of them. Also I’ve had 8 likes forever and despite swiping right on every single person just to see if I’d get one by chance, I still have yet to match up with any of these 8 likes which likely means they’re bots tricking you into paying or they’re hiding them under all the far away accounts.

Best Christian Dating App!. I’ve tried almost everyone there is, but this one is by far the best. It’s a lot simpler and also there is plenty of people to match with unlike some. I met someone in less than a month that I’m talking to now. I got more matches on here than any other app as well. It’s basically like Tinder, just with all Christians. I saw their ad on TV so it’s the first one I downloaded. I feel like I was meant to meet the woman I did, so fingers crossed, hopefully things work out. If you’re serious about finding a Christian partner, this is the only app you should try. Sure they put a pay wall up to see who has liked you, but they have to make money too. I paid for a week but actually didn’t need it to get matched with the person I ended up deleting my profile for. As long as you both like each other you can message.

Good, but…. Great app to let Christians skip passed the nonsense of other apps with non-believers. This definitely makes it easier in that sense. The distance filtering needs to be fixed. It should show that no one is available in your preference and you need to change the filter instead of showing people who are 500 miles away. Also, the wait time for swiping is ridiculous. I downloaded for the first time and swiped through some people to check out the app and ran out and had to wait 10 hours to start looking again??? And then when the timer was up, swiped through 1 person and it added another 8 hours!! So the timer added up to 18 hours of no looking. Broken system, people are trying to find connections and it’s extremely limited with how much you can look through other peoples profiles. If you’re trying to market the premium feature, don’t be ridiculous, make the wait time 3 hours instead of a whole day.

Good App…BIG Paywall. The UI is great, the community is large, & the match algorithm is good at showing you a variety of people while usually staying fairly close to your preferences. The prompts and preferences are great & fun to read through. That being said, Upward has put certain functions behind a pay wall that I believe should be part of the built in experience. For example…you cannot view the people who have liked you unless you subscribe to Elite, which is $30/mo!!! I simply can’t imagine why it would be priced @ $30/mo. Without this subscription, the only way it appears that u can chat with people is if THEY like YOU & then YOU, throughout your swiping, run across one of the people’s profiles who’ve liked you, and you like THEIR profile back. THEN will you be able to chat, as far as I can tell. This seems like an essential feature to have a decent experience. Using the app feels like i’m being asked for money a little too often. Not to mention there’s already built in ads that appear while swiping through people.

7 days in. 2 days into that 7 days I got likes but I couldn’t see who liked me but just barely, well I have a good eye for these things and when I liked the blurred out picture when it popped up that I knew for a fact that they liked me based on the composition of the picture I didn’t get a match. It wasn’t until that I subscribed to the Elite subscription that those same likes popped up and when I liked them again then I got a match. Sad part is when I sent a message 4 days later and no reply I’m starting to think this app is just like the others. Where y’all have dormant profiles and your servers go in and randomly choose random people and like people to just get people to stay. So unless y’all can prove otherwise I’m going to go to Apple and get my money back. It’s a shame that folks will prey on people looking for a life long relationship with somebody by giving them fake likes from dormant profiles. And then people wait on a response hopefully waiting on a reply and get nothing. If y’all can’t prove such things then I will also be labeling your app as fraudulent. For lack of transparency.

Algorithm?. The general set up of this app is easy to navigate and use. I’ve spent a good amount of time swiping and entered all my preferences, but from what I can tell there is no real algorithm or pattern to who is being presented to me. I’m shown people that live 300 miles away and mostly people who don’t resemble anyone I’ve ever “liked” or swiped right on (which has been very few). So what’s wrong with the algorithm? I don’t pay for the subscription but can see I have a lot of “likes.” I’ll spend time on the app hoping to be presented with some of these likes in my general “stack” but they never come up and the number of likes never goes down. Is this to get me to pay for the subscription so I’ll only be presented with actual potential matches if I pay?? On Bumble even if I don’t pay, they still present profiles that have liked me in my general stack. I was hoping this app would work better but I’ve had way more luck finding Christian dates with people I’m actually interested in on Bumble and Hinge.

Good App but some thoughts. First off this is a very good app. It is very Christian based, the results are Christians looking for more than a fling, and the app itself is very user friendly, with a lot of good profile customization options. I gave it three stars because I have something to say to the devs. Devs, seriously? 1. I can’t really do anything when I haven’t paid a subscription. Sure I can like but can’t even seen my likes? Seriously? Hinge is charging less than you a month (or were), AND I can see my likes, PLUS message my likes without a subscription!! Come on Upward; be the better app. 2. Quit with the sleeze tactics to get me to open the app now and again! False likes, way too many notifications to just get me to open the app, and even blatant lying that I have likes when I haven’t paid the subscription again. Upward, Hinge is beating you by a mile, and you’re supposed to be the top Christian app? Quit with the sleeze tactics, act like a proper Christian app, and be the best app on the market! Everyone else? Judge the app for yourself. These are just my thoughts and comparisons. Have a good one!

So bad, I canceled my subscription after the first day!. Wished I could have given zero stars. I have never paid for a subscription before in my life, especially for a dating site. But it had been some time since I had tried to date, so I wanted to give it my all. I thought I would have a better chance, or cream of the crop so to speak. NOPE!!!! I could not have been more wrong. This site is not only a waste of money, but it’s a waste of time mostly. The people that are on this particular app/site are mostly fake for one. This site don’t screen you at all. And two, out of about two hundred or more, only 2 were close enough to date. Every other person was 300 to 2300 miles away. I changed my filter a few times to 20 miles away, and still got no one closer than 250 miles. This is the biggest joke of a dating site I have ever seen. And I have been on quite a few , and had success on them as well. But I could clearly see that this app was not going to produce any good prospects at all. And one more thing ladies. If you’re interested in anything other than dark chocolate, you will not find it here. More like downward!!! 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻

Pretty solid, but misses a crucial feature. I think the app is well-designed and works very well, it just needs some basic improvements. There is one feature, however, that is essential to the effective use of a dating app, that this one does not have. This missing feature is a Location/Distance Filter. This app allows the ability to filter by age, which of course is important to a lot of people, but does not have the ability to filter by distance. This means that I am making matches with people in entirely different states, and there really is no way to avoid that other than to view each individual profile’s entire details prior to liking or passing. This may not be an issue for some, but I do intend to meet those that I am interested in, and I am not interested in anything long-distance, so this inability to filter by distance and narrow my view to those within my area makes the app difficult to use and not feasible to finding someone. I think it’s an awesome app and has amazing potential, but this feature is essential, and without it, the app is not for me.

My account got disabled unjustly.. I downloaded the “Upwards” dating app last night, paid for the full membership (bells and whistles), today I engaged in a few regular “get to know you” conversations and then bam, I got kicked out of my own account. I proceeded to log back in thinking “this must be a glitch”, so I log back in and it says “Account Disabled 🔒”, “contact support if you think this is an error”. (Paraphrasing) So, I contact support and they said “due to our terms, we feel it is in the best interest of our community of members for your profile to be terminated.” What? I replied to them to ask why and they haven’t gotten back to me. I literally didn’t do anything on it that would even suggest violating terms. I honestly feel like I entered the Twilight Zone. Maybe this is God protecting me from something? Ultimately He is sovereign and if He wanted me to keep being on that app, I would be on that app. That’s the only thing that makes sense to me. I’m so annoyed and I don’t like this feeling because I feel like it was unjust for the team to collect my money, and then disable my account for no reason 😢

Some serious issues. Ok, my rating isn’t based on this but it should be noted, it glitched A LOT. I didn’t base my rating on this because it could 100% be my phone and not the apps fault, but it should be noted. My three biggest issues with the app are that 1) there is no way to set a distance. I’m only being shown men that are 150+ miles away from me, I’m never going to meet these people. I’d like to meet single likeminded people in my area, not really across the state. 2) there are a lot of people on here that treat it like tinder. I mean the amount of guys that seemed great through chat that ended up snapping me at 10am with unprompted *ahem* pictures, was astonishing. A lot of people are open that they aren’t Christian (but then why are they on a Christian dating app???). It would be nice if there was a way to select denomination preferences so that we could avoid that situation... 3) no one is ever on here and they frequently just recycle through the same people. I unmatched with someone and they popped up in like 3 seconds on swipe. Also there are a lot of guys who fish and hunt and it’s just annoying. That’s nothing on the app itself, just the people lack diversity.

Good start, but needs some improvements. I like the app so far largely because there’s a lot less scams or fake accounts than with other dating apps. Most of the people you swipe are real accounts made by real people. Still, it would be nice to see a camera verification algorithm added in similar to what bumble has. Also, the ability to see and display whether a user has been online recently (or if they even have the app installed still) would be very helpful. Maybe as a premium feature. What needs improvement though is the ability to select a distance to swipe in. I understand there aren’t a ton of people on this app, but the money from the newly added subscriptions can be used to pay for advertising to increase user count. Obviously this increases the chance of scam/fake accounts, but hopefully since this is a Christian dating app the attempts to take advantage of horny dudes won’t work as well. Other than that, so far so good! I hope to see it continue to improve since apps like tinder aren’t built for people wanting relationships or marriage like us.

Not traveling friendly.. I travel often for work, when I do is often when I have more free time during my evenings when I would browse the app. The app in general and the caliber of folks I see on it are good. I pay for the subscription happily to connect with the people that are interested in me as well. There’s just one, very big issue… I downloaded upward because I don’t want a fling, I want to find someone who shares my faith and values, not someone to hookup with. I don’t just want to be shown women that are currently within a certain radius of my phone, I want to be able to find women who live where I live. If I’m in FL for a week (I live in CO), I don’t want to find women to match with from where I’m visiting, there’s a reason I’m not on Tinder. You really need to change the settings so that people can tell the app where they live and allow them to search for people based off of that, just seeing people that are currently close geographically is a feature that’s only beneficial for hookup culture, which is not the type of people that download your app.

Just know what your about to enter.. I’m not gonna make a 5 paragraph essay on my life, but in short terms: high school sucked, and meeting women in college sucked. All my friends are finally getting relationships and I am stuck being single and tried for years to score a win with a girl. Close victory yet so far, because every time they wind up ghosting me for some stupid reason. That’s what this app is, a lot of ghosting because you slipped on something you might have said. Not really the devs, but the immature women who have no idea how to use the internet or online dating apps, yet spend hours a day on Snapchat and TikTok. Point is, guys like me, prepare for a lot of ghosters. Now let’s talk about the app; Upward should really have an upgraded chatting feature for people who actually spent the 30-60 dollars. People who are free to play, should still have something to see who likes you and chat somewhat. Honestly, I wish you could get a free Boost every 2-3 days and not a month (I believe that’s what it is). A boost should also last one hour and not 30 minutes as not many people use this app for too long at a time. Rewarding subscribers is the good way to go.

This app is filled with fake accounts. I’ve been using this app for a week now and I keep seeing different names and pictures with the exact same profile word for word . I also keep seeing people on here twice. One of them will be local and the other will say 400 miles away or so. When I do connect with someone they don’t seem like they are trying to get to know me at all. They just want me to download WhatsApp or telegram. The only real conversation I had on here was going good for a day and then she suddenly flipped out because one of my profile pictures is me at a table with a plate of oysters in front of me. She started saying I was trying to manipulate her into having sex because oysters are an aphrodisiac. I was so confused because I had never said anything remotely sexual to her, all I said was,” I like oysters,” which I’m guessing she took as I like sex. Then she started calling me a pervert. Over all my experience on this app has been horrible. I’m a genuinely good guy with a strong faith and to be accused of such things is beyond hurtful. That combined with the numerous fake people has made it almost unbearable. I wish I would have given it a few days before I payed a subscription.

Plagued with cat fishers, evil. This app is so full of fake profiles run by cat fishers it makes me wonder if cat fishing is the real business of the app creators. This practice is particularly evil as these people seek to take advantage of the kindness and goodness of Christians in a Christian dating app for their own financial gain, or to advance the cause of the enemy by sowing despair and praying on vulnerability. Here are the telltale signs that you may be matching with a cat fisher: they are located a long ways away from you, their profile is very short and doesn’t say anything meaningful about themselves, they act in a passive aggressive manner towards you, they offer their phone number quickly but insist on text messages only, they try and get you to switch to messaging on another app, they are unable to write grammatically correct English, they ignore your questions. In case you didn’t know, cat fishing is when somebody attempts to lure you into a text messaging based relationship and then asks you for money or for various things, and manipulates you into giving it, even though you’ve never actually met the person. Don’t fall for the scam.

Directionally better than some apps. When looking for someone who is serious about their walk with God, the app has provided more consistent options that align with my preferences. It would be nice to have more options - how often do they attend church? Or that I don’t have kids but am open to theirs? One disconnect is that the app is flawed in its ability to designate when a match is outside of my required preferences (e.g., location) Additionally, I’ve messaged with individuals who the app suggests are close but they advise that they live states away from me. Recommendation - please improve the miles away algorithm AND allow the option to lock the desired location (i.e., when I’m traveling I can’t use the app on my phone since it is tied to an uneditable settings location and I don’t want to see new options in other states). I will give high marks for the quality/caliber of options presented in comparison to several other apps.

Wouldn’t pay for this again.. This isn’t a particularly pricey app, but still not worth the paid version. If you wanna sign up and just “like” people hoping to randomly find a match than it works fine and let’s you chat for free with those matches. But after signing up for a paid version it barely changed anything. Still can’t message members unless they randomly happen to click me as a “like”. Still very few preferences to weed out some deal breakers or even just highlight preferred members, so you’re constantly seeing people who are too far away from you. Also no height or body type info or preference. Ended up chatting with a nice girl for about a week or so only to find out she was taller than me and she was looking for somebody on the taller side, I was looking for somebody on the shorter side, etc. these things may seem superficial but people are attracted to whom they are attracted to and that’s ok. Anyway, app could be improved, just stick with the free version as the paid gives you no extra benefit really

Not giving Upward anymore money. I am done with this app, leaving this for people to think before giving Upward money. Used the app for 3-5 months now. Maybe have had 2-3 dates. The real struggle with this app is Upward has refused to give us the option to lock in mileage in our searching. I know there are way more people in my area (live right next to a fairly large city), they end up liking me, but I never ever see them till they like me, so I know they are out there. Yet even when I pay, the app continues to show me people “just a little outside my search.” Even setting parameters to ONLY show me people no more than 50 miles away, they never keep that locked in. I’m not interested in getting likes from or giving likes to someone 150 miles away from me. But, upward refuses to remedy this issue. I’ve subscribed for 3 different months now, yet I have had 3x the amount of dates on Hinge and never paid them a dime. I hate to walk away from an app that is Christian focused, but I’m not into this format, things need fixed, otherwise it’s a waste of time and money.