Analyzed automatically. Assessed 2026-10-06 from 1,019 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.
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 the analysis found
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
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.
What reviewers said
Verbatim excerpts from public store reviews, shown as corroborating user reports. They are not Appworthy audit evidence, and a quotation is not proof of the finding it sits under.
Aggressive ad load
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…
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?
Tracking and data collection concerns
be careful using meetup, they started using third party cookies and the link meetup provides you to opt out of selling your personal information leads you to a blank webpage
Just a different way to advertise and sell your data
They asked for my email and then tried to sign me up using a completely different email. Then when I tried to make a password they said it was incorrect. So I guess they have access to all of my emails. I would be surprised if they…
Hard to cancel
don't try to sign up or give them your information. they make it virtually impossible to cancel or get Refund and will ghost you when you try to ask for help through email. love this platform but you sold me a product that didn't work, I…
account deletion steps is hell.This up sends email notifications that is very hard to unsubscribe as they use several mail subscriptions listing it is quite annoying.
you made me sign up for paid subscription please cancel and making it impossible to cancel
Paywall blocks the basics
It's even worse now. They have updated the app to make it even more annoying. Try to get you to join every time by throwing a pop up at you. Terrible. New owners have ruined the Meetup experience. It just keeps trying to push you to pay…
You have to pay for anything and everything. Was not a good experience for a networking app.
The fact the app is now charging a subscription for features that used to be free now is silly. The subscription is also absolutely extortionate making this app a real let down. The app itself is slow and buggy and does not function as…
Price keeps rising
it has become more difficult to navigate - preferred the old format and the price to have a group keeps going up, as well people simply trying to join Meetup are confused by the request for payment on a FREE to join site.
Great way to meet people, price for organising seems to be going up and up with more and more fees. Considering finding an alternative
Increasingly unfunctional — It went downhill within 1.5 years, charged for previous basic functions, app was not doing what it said it would with organiser or pro function. Cost went up for nothing new. It was after 3.5 years, i decided…
Upgrade prompts use guilt-trip wording
One of worst app user experiences ever. Meetup originally fit for purpose: meet local people with similar interests for free. Gone dramatically downhill. Full of businesses now. Insanity: expects $20 per WEEK (not year or mth!) for same…
It's even worse now. They have updated the app to make it even more annoying. Try to get you to join every time by throwing a pop up at you. Terrible. New owners have ruined the Meetup experience. It just keeps trying to push you to pay…
I hadn't used this app for a while, and my return was very short-lived. The free version has become extremely frustrating, with frequent prompts on nearly every tap to subscribe for €10 per week (€45 per month), which feels unreasonable…
What this app sells
From the store listing. Billing terms are read from each purchase’s name — the stores don’t publish them — so treat them as a strong hint, not a disclosure.
Show 1 more purchase we couldn’t categorise
These are really on sale; we just can’t tell from the name whether they recur.
How the automated analysis works
This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
Several measurements above say “Not assessed” because no artefact we hold can answer them. A human review is what resolves those — and it can remove a favourable band as easily as add one.
Hands-on inspections are not yet open.