Feeld: Open-Minded Dating App 17+

The community/focus I’m looking for, but SO SO SO buggy

Update - April 2022: Since my original rating, it seems as though developers have fixed the bugs that were causing the app to crash frequently. As that was my main issue with the app, I’m giving them another star. Now, my only real complaint is the lack of ability to “go back” to a skipped profile. I’m not paying for premium, so I’m not sure if that’s a feature with paid plans. Other major dating apps that charge for this feature will at least display the button for all users, so you know it’s an option if you want it.

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I first used Feeld about 3 years ago, and was really turned off by how buggy the app is. Constant crashes, frequent need to log back in using a link sent to my email, etc. These bugs annoyed me enough that I deleted my account. About a month ago I decided to join again, as it’s really difficult to use the typical dating apps to connect with others looking for the same things as I am. I thought, surely they had to have fixed these issues after all this time. Nope! Still a huge pain, and not much better than before. Yet here I am, a masochist enduring these frustrations for the hopes of meeting someone(s) special. Sigh. Please, Feeld, get better.

Developer Response ,

Hi there, thank you for your honest feedback. Our developers are working around the clock to fix the bugs that our members experience. In the meantime, we'll be able to help you with the issues you're having. Please, send us an email to support@feeld.co and we'll be happy to assist you. Thank you for your patience and understanding!

Still seems unpolished

The concept and amount of real users is phenomenal. Fake profiles are almost nonexistent which would almost be enough for a 5 star rating. If you’ve used pretty much any other “dating” app you know how annoying it is to cycle through 30 fakes to find one real human.
Why I can give it 5 stars is because there’s still glitches in messaging and if you set your search by activity. With messaging: you open the app up and it often glitches to a message but shows the older messages. So if you have a new message you can overlook it and might not actually see that that person replied to you. If you have many messages it becomes more pronounced.
What happens when you set the search settings by say active within a week. Yes it filters out someone that hasn’t been on in 3 months but you will only see people that are within 2-3 miles. The filter seems to completely disregard your distance perimeter. This means you can’t use it and have to flip through stale profiles.
My only other suggestion would be an undo in case you accidentally hit a pass on someone. Happens a little too easily if you have the who likes you feature. When scrolling you can easily hit the minutes button.

Developer Response ,

Hi derkafer, thank you for your honest feedback. Our developers are working around the clock to fix the bugs that our members experience. In the meantime, we may be able to help. Please, send us an email to support@feeld.co and we'll be happy to assist you. Thank you for your patience and understanding!

A decent app finally beset with scam profiles

As many recent reviews have mentioned, this is an otherwise fairly decent app that the scammer bots have finally discovered. Thankfully, they're easy to spot, because most are of the variety that don't seem to understand the nuances of the profiles on Feeld, instead treating their bios like any other dating app, with intentionally broken "I had a stroke" scammer-grammar in their bios, trying to coax you to go to their "Instaagraam"/"Snpcht" accounts, etc, and say a keyword to them.

Unfortunately, if you don't report them, they take up valuable space in the deck of profiles you can swipe through, and limit your ability to see legitimate accounts. I just spent the past hour as of writing this review testing that (and reporting well over 20 bot profiles), closing and reopening the app, and discovering there are far more legitimate accounts beyond where the stack was topping out previously.

I like recommending Feeld when I can, but honestly other than the scam-bot issue, given that Feeld is sort of a nexus between Tinder and FetLife, with seemingly a lot of couples dipping their toes in non-monogamy for the first time, I've started telling people to try either of those aforementioned resources over Feeld first—or at least not have it be the only tool in their utility belt for finding intimate connections of the nature that Feeld offers.