BlackGentry: Black Dating App 17+

Has potential

I love blackGentry because black love is important to me however, this app is really slow and compared to other Dating apps I have tried they are not on the best. I wish it had more features such as audio and video call options, more features like if you don’t want anyone who smokes, languages a microphone option, so people don’t have to type all the time and green dot to say when they’ve been online. How long ago, and maybe even a website. blackGentry overall general update. Apart from that I feel like it’s a really good dating site.

Okay but needs for devloping

I will start with the positives

You do come across more quality men on here and i was exclusively dating someone off this app for months and they were a nice person but things happened unfortunately to why things ended, nothing to do with the app of course

Now the negatives are more surrounding the bugs and functionality of the app which i have listed below:

* sometimes i have to close the app and reopen to receive new message notifications because it doesnt consistently update in real time

* the app automatically matches me with people who i have never ever matched with so they just literally pop up in the ‘my matches’ area. This has happened over 6 times over a course of 2 years where i have been on and off the app. This causes awkwardness for both people because i did not choose them so i end up unmatching them which is sad as they clearly thought i was interested

*there is no free option for ‘pausing’ your profile so your having to delete your profile if you just needed a break and if you want to use the app again your having to set up a nee profile every single time which sometimes i just cant be bothered

All in all, while i still support the app. Hinge is definitely top contender as you can filter on race and you dont get the bug issues and you can pause your profile for free

Developer Response ,

Hi,
Thanks for providing feedback. We are happy you found connections and good candidates on the app and hope you continue to do so. The notification issue has been resolved. Please do feel free to email us if you experience any issues and we can look into it directly. Lastly, you can pause your profile from the settings page by turning off “Show my profile”. Please definitely email us if you have any questions and we can assist.

Can’t Stand the App

The direct messages feature has to be the worst by far. Basically, people can message you whether you’ve matched them or not and they go into a separate inbox, but I find it extremely inappropriate for someone like me, who’s only 24, getting literally 20, 30, 40 messages a day from creepy older men who are between the ages of 40-60 even though my settings specifically state I only want people between 23-29. It gives these guys an opportunity to pretty much harass me as much as they want and I can’t hide my account from them unless I block every single one of them.
They also recycle A LOT of profiles over and over even if I’ve left swiped a person 5 times in one go.
The app moves quite slowly, it drives me nuts, and just now my whole profile seems to have disappeared and the app won’t open properly. There’s a whole list of problems I can state about this app including the condescending responses from the Developers towards the other people rating this app low. Honestly a waste of time.

Developer Response ,

Hi there, thanks for writing a review. We are working on new features in the next release that will address your issue with DM messages and make it optional for users to allow it or disable it. Thanks for providing your feedback.