Reviews for Upward: Christian Dating App

6/26 Update: Changed from three stars to one star. I paid for a week subscription, and just a couple hours later, they locked my account with no explanation. I can't sign in now. I emailed their support 3 days ago and still haven't gotten a response. I've used this app on and off for the past couple of years. It doesn't seem like they made any improvements. Their distance filters don't work, and it seems the only people who will try to match with you are 100 miles away.

Upward is a great app. Something annoying is that they recently updated "non-denominational" to "non-confessional" which makes zero sense unless maybe you're a Catholic. Please change it back. Protestants don't use this lingo and it doesn't translate well. Also, they changed the looking for "marriage" to "marriage and family". This should be changed or split into two options because some people are looking for marriage without having kids or without having more kids. That's not me, but still

This app is nothing more than a money grab! It's more expensive than most dating apps. I thought I'd try it for a month and it completely ignores my filters. And wants more money to be "platinum" to see who I want to see!?! Isn't that the entire point of having filters? I have my filter set for a certain age range and a certain distance and I keep getting selections that are hundreds of miles away unless I pay more? I do not recommend this app. Save your money; try a different dating app.

Another pay-to(not)-win Tinder copycat app. After about an hour, it kept showing me people 150+ miles away, even though my preferences were set to 50 miles, or less. Likes also don't go away once you've swiped left on someone who has liked you. Maybe these issues go away if you pay for an upgraded subscription, but that's hardly worth the price of admission for me. I'll go somewhere else.. ✌️

This app is HORRIBLE. You set your preferences and your distances and it shows you people from well over 100 miles + outside of your range. Pointless and a total waste of money. Ohhhhh.....and there's no where on my android for me to cancel my subscription. I contacted customer care the day before asking them to cancel my subscription but they did not and now I'm being charged for it again. Can't even log in through a web browser. Once they have your credit card #, they've got you.

I would not recommend the app to anybody. well, anybody that is looking to ACTUALLY meet somebody!! it seems like about 90% of the people I see on the app or at least over a hundred miles away. In addition, it will still feed you people that you are ready did not find a match with. I've seen the same people in my feed up to 10 times.

this is one of the worse app beside Match. I have blocked the same person a minimum of 10 times, and each day, that is the first person I see as a match. EVERYDAY!!! I tried blocks. i have tried swiping left, and this person is always the first person I see every day when I open the app. The number of ads is crazy as well as the distance function doesn't work. your preference doesn't matter because they are going to show you whoever they want no matter what you select.

I downloaded the app set up my profile. looked at the payment options. two different pay walls. Still waiting to get verified after a week. Now my app is not showing ages and distance that they are away from me. I still haven't paid anything because I am waiting to see if those problems get fixed. I contacted support and got a response back saying to make sure my app has permission to my location. it was working just fine for two days and now its not. This has been my experience.

This app is truly not worth it. The matches or whatever are all the same profiles repeating. If you click on one to look at the pictures and profile and go back, you have to scroll all over again. I started on my first day with 486 likes and every time, it was the same, after I get past 100 profiles who are all 400 miles away or absolutely the opposite of my type (this is not an app where you can filter other than age ), I have to scroll the 100 to get back to where I left off. It says no ads

App won't even open. Created an account last night via email, and subsequent profile. This morning, app just freezes when attempting to open on S24. Every so often, I'll get the "Log In with Email" button, but that still won't sign in after inputting my information. For the love of all that is holy, fix this app. 1 day! Just 1 day, and it doesn't work. SMH.

Absolute waste of money-- regardless if you're using the app for free or by subscription, the app COMPLETELY disregards your set radius for potential matches. And no, I've not 'run out of potentials in my area', because the following day it will then feed me people close by...only to then shoot out to 100+ miles after a handful of locals.

Stayed a few years hoping it would get better. You see the same people all the time. The distant settings don't work correctly. You constantly have to change it to see different people. It's almost as if you have to have your settings perfectly match the users settings to a T to get them to show up. People who like you likely won't show up. I at least enjoyed the app for the community chat, but they got rid of that. Even when they had the chat, I never saw the people outside of it.

This app is confusing and I'm very upset. I have paid $59.99 and I still can't talk to people in my inbox. why are the pricings separate in three different phases getting more and more money. why don't you just have one price and allow access to the total site. I'm thinking about getting my money back. first I paid $19.99 that didn't allow access then I paid 39.99. I still don't have access unless I pay another $59. I don't like that at all. no customer service to address this issue.

Ads, ads & more ads, even if you have a paid subscription, you will be interrupted with ads. To add to the offense, the ads are for non-Christian dating or hook up sites. The app is buggy, and there is no back button in case you accidentally swiped yes on a profile. The app also doesn't respect your age or distance parameters. They consistently show profiles many years younger than I'm interested in & up to 800+ miles away & also profiles from distant countries.

huge problems!! I've paid for the 3 month subscription and 2 days later i still don't have access to likes or messages... I know I signed up because they charged my card! everytime I try to email support i get rerouted back to my settings menu.. there is apparently no easy way to contact them over this issue which is a huge disappointment! got a notification from play store saying to log into the upward app within 3 days or my subscription will automatically be cancelled.. good grief!! 🙄

Scammy App vibes, not a lot of communication. The sliding features for distance do not work. It's totally a bunch of fake profiles, and you are not able to see your likes. You have to pay to message, when you do, you can not view that. The filter options do not work at all. It was 30$ for the elite, and it changed nothing about the functions of the app. The boosts do not work. Very Scammy, dnt recommended.

Age and distance constantly reset. You have to pay to see if messages are read. Always wanting you to pay for something. I had a profile like me, we matched but suddenly my message did not got responded to. I believe that person was no longer active on the app. It's giving scam to me. I saw a profile that stated when their membership ended...but it was still showing up as an active option. Once membership ends profile should become inactive!

Avoid this one. It had good word of mouth from friends, but I ignored other reviews at my own risk and had the same experience with the paid tiers. Payments and refunds don't process, the app will only partially load sometimes, and customer support is painfully slow and heavily scripted; so far, the response time takes about 1-2 days. I can't see how communication is supposed to happen without being able to see or talk to those who liked/ messaged you. It had potential, but needs lots of work.

Preferences and location settings mean nothing. Seeing men 300 miles away and outside of the ages I requested is about all I got. It was very misleading to subscribe to premium for $24/3 months.. I did not unlock much of anything outside of the free version. Pretty much just the 'go back' button on the swipe feature. I would have to upgrade again for elite for a total of $59.99. This is a 100% deceptive app.

I had some adware come up on my phone after downloading a couple of apps at the same time. I deleted those apps, and that went away. This was one of the apps. I deleted them quickly. one by one, redownloaded them with several days in between. When I downloaded this app last night and plugged my phone in after, the intrusive adware was back. Also, the packages you pay for are very misleading for what they allow you to do when purchasing one. You constantly have to keep purchasing things.