“gets WORSE. updated against settings :/ POOR ACCESSIBILITY. font size tiny, doesn't follow phone settings & no way to adjust in app. visually cluttered & bad display. scrolling glitchy. ADDED TO GROUPS WITHOUT CONSENT. event times unclear…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 1,019 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.3 ★508,067 ratings
10M+Downloads
12+Age rating
283 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Pursue your interests with people who share them, both online and in person. With over 60 million members, Meetup helps you build a career network, discover a tech community, create a personal brand, make time for your hobbies, and meet friends who share similar interests.
Easily meet people you know you’ll get along with and create groups of friends that will be as excited as you to embrace your hobbies, participate in online or local events or engage in discussions. Download the Meetup app and host your own events or join one of the 100,000 Meetup events with new people happening every week.
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Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
App Store
This analysis describes version 2026.9.25 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2026.9.25, updated 2026-09-28.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 2026.09.28.3063 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2026.09.28.3063, updated 2026-09-29.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
3 or more themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 6
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 15 distinct reviewers (2.8% of 539 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Tracking and data collection concerns
The app ships session-recording or a wide tracking stack, holds permissions that read personal data, or is reported by users to sell, leak or over-collect it. The evidence line says which of those was observed.
What we saw: Data & privacy concerns: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.1% of 539 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Hard to cancel
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Hard to cancel: raised by 10 distinct reviewers (1.9% of 539 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 13 distinct reviewers (2.4% of 539 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Price keeps rising
The price of the paid tier has been raised on existing users.
What we saw: Price keeps rising: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.1% of 539 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Upgrade prompts use guilt-trip wording
Declining an upgrade is written as a loss ('No thanks, I don't want to improve'), or users report being repeatedly pushed to subscribe during normal use.
What we saw: Constant upsell pressure: raised by 9 distinct reviewers (1.7% of 539 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Extremely obnoxious UI, convoluted and cramped. Constant notification spam unless completely turned off and then impossible to turn it back on or only for certain groups (some you can and most you can't for uncertain reasons) Paywalls for…”
“Navigation and UX are really challenging ant the constant ads are just a hassle. why not just make the premium offer more attractive?”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2026.9.25.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown7
Lowest$3.99
Highest$23.99
1-Month Unlimited Subscription$14.99
Member Subscription: 1 Month$3.99
Meetup Subscription: 1 month$23.99
Meetup Plus Subscription$4.99
Member Subscription$9.99
Show 2 more purchases
Meetup Plus Subscription$9.99
Standard Organizer$12.99
Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.