At first, I was very happy with my subscription, but after 30 minutes and a few responses to chats, it told me that I had to spend more money to continue chatting. What? Wasn't that what the subscription was for? Dumb! Then, like 30% of the profile accounts look fake. Picture's are either models, or they're all using AI apps to change what they look like because some of them say 50, and they look 20. One was 57, and she looked 27, another 42, but she looked like she wasn't even legal to drink.
Reviews for Once: Find your Perfect Match
Started off good, a little too good. This app is full of scammers and bots. Like a crazy amount of them! It is also very expensive. For example the smallest package deal for 50 credits (Coins) is $12.00 and I was only able to send 5 messages with that. They also misslead you in thinking you get unlimited messages if you perchance the trial membership, but you don't. I got suckered and I feel totally ripped off. Don't waste your time.
Terrible. Most of the profiles are not real. I wasted money on "coins" so I could chat, and every time you suggest texting or another way to communicate, they always want to stay on the platform, making you buy more coins. Then I looked at the Terms of Service more closely and it specifically says that they are operators that do the chats. So you would never be able to meet a real person. Stay far away!
Trash app. They don't tell you that you have to pay per message. They offered me a trial of the "Once Premium" when I went to delete the app, and it's supposed to give you unlimited messaging, but it's NOT unlimited. After I went through the 55 gems it gave me for free (which, by the way, it shouldn't have done either if messaging was supposed to be unlimited), it asked me to buy more gems. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY.
DO NOT DOWNLOAD, DO NOT BUY. The subscription is $19.99 per month, but you spend 5 "coins" per message chatting with popular users. Accounts that are not popular are free to chat with, but they don't seem to exist. This app is an outright scam. I even tried to get one of the users to message me on a different platform and they insisted on using the uDates app where you have to pay just to message. Still waiting on a refund for the "premium" package.
So this app is riddled with fake profiles. The locations are of the town you live in followed by "US". The profile photos are professional (ie models) and not your average girl next door snap shots. You get emails from women half your age or less who say "age doesn't matter", yeah, right. It is obvious that they are using a translator to write their profiles. If you are desperate and lonely get out of this app. If you got some common sense you might get lucky, but don't hold your breath.
They basically trick you into paying more and more, but the only people you can chat with are the "popular", and they make you think that you are getting great matches, and this people makes you keep the conversation going to get you to pay for the conversation eventually, but whenever you wanna talk to non-popular person the app tells you that your profile is been moderated and you need to wait (I don't know for how long). They definitely know how to trick you. My advise: try someone else.
I've only been on it a couple of days now. But I have enough to give a review. The UI is pretty. The problem I have with the app is that to chat for free, you need a subscription whic gives a few coins and new ones daily. But if you chat with popular members, it can cost 5 coins a message. Most if the people in my are are marked as popular. This greatly limits how much I can chat, even with one person. This feels like a grift and I can't wait to see if this becomes a class action suit.
This is the worst dating app I have ever tried to navigate. I ended up with a completely different area than I live in and cannot change it, number 1. Number 2 you cannot chat without either purchasing a premium membership or coins. False advertising. I tried to purchase the one month to try the unlimited chat feature but, that didn't happen. I paid $30 to be able to do absolutely nothing but look at the same group of profiles over and over. Waste of damn money. Fake App Not contacting Support!!
SCAM!!!! If you pay for premium, you can unlimited chat with regular accounts. There are no regular accounts. Only "popular member" accounts with models pictures. They chat and say very little to continue the chat to make you run out of coins (5 coins per message) and need to purchase more coins to continue. I can't prove it but I believe they work for the app. I have 1 pic and no bio, with over a 100% match rate. DO NOT USE OR BUY THIS APP.