I will keep reiterating this, Taimi’s first concept of the social media style outlet for queer and lgbt folks was the game changer for them. The live-streaming service and group chats enabled a safe space for queer people to connect beside dating. As of currently, this app has excluded most, if not all of the features that made them most unique out of all their competitors. There has been a surge in lgbt and queer folks in the community using the platform “ Yubo” as a live streaming outlet, and as an alternative way to make friends. Unfortunately, Taimi has become very generic, ever dating app incl. tinder incorporates components of LGBT inclusivity with the advancements of setting your preferences, how you identify and finding others of similar match. This is what makes taimi unable to stand out from the rest. Again, the social media concept for your platform was incredible, and many users including influencers from other platforms had started using it due to its popularity. The popularity has completely disappeared now, 4 years later as a previous user, there’s not much that makes this app different to tinder, hinge, okcupid, bumble, grindr. Again great concept of this app, poorly executed in the end. Very unfortunate downfall.

As many others have experienced to get the full experience out of this app you need deep pockets. Best part of £18 a week for Gold membership is daylight robbery! It’s no way near as popular as they want you to believe, certainly not a tinder or a hinge so these prices are crazy high for the lack of traffic on the app. Don’t get me wrong, there are some great features on this app that don’t require a subscription however everything is gate kept behind the pay wall. Once you hit your limits for swiping that day, you always get shown someone popular/matches your likes and interests. As soon as you can swipe again that person is gone never to be seen again. My app now says there are no new profiles left for me to swipe on, I know that’s not true cos once I’ve subscribed to silver/gold a load more magically appear. They’ve ruined this app with paywalls, I’ve been a fan for about 5 years and it’s been great but time to look elsewhere guys. This isn’t it, lots of scammers on here now also so beware!

I've been on this app for all of about 10 or 15 minutes and cannot even fathom how you're supposed to use it at all. Besides the clutter and the sheer amount of stuff on screen that is completely unexplained, you go into likes to see who has liked you and see blurred and unblurred people, so you think, well, I should be able to do something with the unblurred one right? Wrong! You cannot send a message nor... do anything with the diamond button (???) without a subscription. Okay. Go to browse trending and you see loads of unblurred profiles. Click. Buy a subscription. Right. Go to People and click through 15 or so profiles. Buy a subscription. Uh-huh.... Oh, someone has sent a message? Oh wait, you can't read that without a subscription either. Pray tell, what can you actually do on this app without paying money if you get prompted to buy a subscription every step you take? It is the most visually cluttered, unintuitive, predatory dating app I have seen thus far - It's almost incredible just how poorly designed it seems to be, and a huge shame that the creators are seeking to disproportionately financially exploit the LGBT community so much in what is an already exploitative market. I've spent more time writing this review than using the app and frankly, it's for the better. I will not be using it any further.And maybe don't show people you can't interact with in any shape or form on the free version as unblurred, it is an utterly confounding UI decision that is obviously there to pressure you to buy in to the paid version. All of this together is a pretty terrible way of enticing new users to actually stick around.

I can't say how good the app is because every aspect of it brings up a prompt to feed it more money. I want to use it to meet local LGBTQIA+ folks but I can't indicate my own location beyond UK (if you try to indicate your city in a post, it gets deleted – pay up, pay up!) and I can't narrow the location field for the profiles I'm shown. So I'm sitting here in Scotland, fruitlessly flicking through people who live in Bristol and mourning the loss of the money I paid just to try it out. If you want to do dirty chatting with people you will never meet IRL, or if you want to throw lots of money at an app, this is probably fine for you. I want to find queer people I can eventually meet in person, and I *do not* want to sext with people in London, so this app isn't doing much for me. If you have money or are 'freaky' and want to 'chat', you may well love this app.Using the least expensive subscription I can open it, see a bunch of blurred out 'likes' I cannot access, flick through a bunch of people who live in towns I've never heard of and close it again. Even free Tinder let's you narrow your search location if desired, so please, developers, consider allowing that much.