Chispa: Dating App for Latinos Reviews

I was expecting a little more with using Chispa but I know it's still in the early stages. I wish I could undo some of the right swipes on Chispa since I accidentally swipe right instead of being able to scroll through the pictures. I also wish there was a picture minimum instead of having just one picture posted with no bio since that makes it incredibly difficult to want to swipe on those profiles. I would love to see that a bio is required before posting your profile for the world to see since I'm only seeing just profiles with one picture and no content. I also wish that with upgrading, the likes that I saw didn't disappear unless I upgraded to the "Elite". I totally understand paying a little extra to gain access to more features, but honestly it doesn't make me want to continue Chispa if I can't see at least one of the profiles of those who like me at a time. I do like that they have a "Keeping Safe" article which I think is super helpful! Also can we link our Instagram and not just our Facebook? I would also love to have a feature where we can choose our preference and the distance as well. I also have Hinge and I guess I'm pretty used to their features, but I want to support my Raza and continue to use this dating app. I like how it has us choose our background which is a cool concept! The bugs also need fixing with notifications, showing that I have "likes" but they disappeared completely. Overall, it's a great start!

Chispa is mediocre at best. While the layout of Chispa is okay, there are some things that would really improve it. For example, one small thing is having the text wrap around when someone writes their education and occupation in, so you can see the full text they’ve written. Another small thing is making the “About Me” section you can write in the same as the one that gets presented to potential matches. The layout of the words isn’t consistent when switching between editing the profile and simply viewing the profile. It’d also be nice to add the feature of the “enter button” or ability to skip a line when writing an “about me”. Within the settings, there needs to be a way to turn off all notifications besides messages. Lastly, you should have the option to set your location to one place and select the maximum distance of which you would like to meet people. Not everyone is staying where they are in the current moment and sometimes want to meet someone close to where they live instead of where they currently are. A person’s city should be shown, not just the miles because you don’t know which direction the person might live in. If it’s a matter of privacy, maybe hide the person’s name until after they match, or have each person’s distance in relation to major cities instead. As a bonus, you could also consider asking prompt questions.

***My Review Before***/ Update Below**
I signed up for Chispa because I finally wanted to put myself out there and meet someone latino. I created my profile and browsed through some potentials. I was even starting to chat. The images that I posted were recent pictures of myself that were very decent and not lewd at all, I’m a mother and try to keep myself classy. Within maybe 2 hours after creating the account, I decide to sign up for a 1 month trial. Chispas then disabled my account out of nowhere. I sent them an email and after what seemed like a week, they replied back saying my account will be terminated without really explaining why, only to view “terms of use”. Now I’m out 20 bucks and didn’t get a chance to meet anyone in Chispa . Maybe it is a good app but I will never get that experience to find out. I signed up just because finally i was feeling brave and wanted to meet someone. I don’t do dating apps and Chispas just shattered that experience.

***Update***
After I wrote this review, I rep wrote back to me and finally help me resolve the issue. I’ve met someone from Chispa and so far we are doing great. I’m happy and definitely recommend Chispa !!

The idea is great, and as a latino i prefer Chispa over tinder because i prefer latin women. Its got so many bugs that i just can’t see this being useful. Fake accounts, prostitutes, and scammers don’t bother me because you find the same on other dating apps, although they should def monitor this more closely and do something about it even though i know its easier said then done. My biggest gripe is that i’m getting matches from 50-80 miles away for no reason, like 80% of profiles that i’m seeing are from two states away, which makes no sense to me because i live 10 mins from NYC and i’m surrounded by hispanic neighborhoods in every direction. This could just be some weird coincidence that no one around me is using this app but i find it hard to believe. Especially since i was using it a few months ago and it was fine, idk if maybe they screwed it up with some update but its pointless for me to match with people an hour away from me. Again concept is great, execution very poor.

I was talking to a couple people on my account. I had set it up with my most recent pictures and all my actual information. Out of no where one day Chispa is logged out & I’m notified that my account has been disabled. I have no idea why so I send in an inquiry to their customer support. I get a response back from someone who says he is unable to assist and has passed along my inquiry to the “correct department.” He also states someone should be with me in 48 hours. Not sure if that was a joke because i didn’t hear back for a month! One month. Well the next rep responds that she would love to help me but also my account has been terminated & if i try to make another account it will be immediately terminated. Very aggressive and not helpful but ok. She links me to their privacy policy & terms of use which has wide array of issues. I can’t exactly pinpoint what terms of use i’ve violated so i ask her for the factors used to determine i needed to be “terminated” and banned. This time she responds quickly to let me know she can’t tell me anything about any account not even my own??? And copy and pastes the generic paragraph about checking out the privacy policy & terms of conditions. Right. So I received no real help, have no idea what got me terminated and just have a snarky email from their rep. Great.

So I’m signed up for a month membership, and everyday you get 5 “super likes”. I don’t use them all the time, but they’re cool to have in case someone catches your eye. The thing is that this thing resets your swipe list. For example: let’s say I swiped on 15 people and exit Chispa . I’ll come back on later, and see the same 15 people I swiped on, which includes the person I super liked. However, the super like you used is gone, which is lame because you only get a limited amount. Whatever, out of the sake hoping to match with one person in particular, I bit the bullet a got a set of 5 extra likes for a couple bucks. Use it and think the problem is solves. Nope. Reset my likes again and lost out of the super likes I paid for. I reached out to customer support when this first happened a few months back and they replied with a generic response explaining the process of liking, without even mentioning my specific issue. I’ve met a couple people on here, and it’s cool because yo amo a mis latinas, but Chispa is so glitchy that I’m out as soon as my membership expires. It’s just annoying that you pay for something only for it to be shotty, and not have help from the company.

As an extremely proud Latina, I’m happy to say I finally found a dating app that met my needs! After moving to NJ from Miami, I figured that my dating life would be totally dull, because even though there are a lot of Latinos in the area (if you know where to find them), communicating with someone and approaching someone in real life is way more nerve wracking and can be a lot more intimidating than getting to know them if you already know they’re interested and you can ask what they’re looking for. Plus, having an app where you can find other Latin singles really facilitates everything for us, especially considering how neat and organized Chispa is! I just wish Chispa asked more questions like OKCupid does to see if you and your match are on the same page and aligned when it comes to your interests, thoughts, and beliefs, which is why I didn’t give them 5 stars, but everything else is wonderful! And I enjoy the Tragos questions. Like I said, I just wish they went a little deeper! I love Chispa! Just what I needed!

Always make sure if you’re going into the dating apps to always make it known what you’re looking for. If you’re not looking for something serious don’t lead people on ! I went in not making much of it. Never thought I’d meet anyone . I went on 3 dates . 1st date (Guy was suuuuch a jerk) Blocked for sure lol 2nd date ( Sweet genuine guy but had a little secret . Becoming a dad in April 2021!) A no for me. Now for my 3rd date . (Met halfway he is 3hrs away and we met at a city 1hr and 25mins away from each other took me to an amazing and fancy steak house ! I instantly new he was different . He stole my heart and he’s my boyfriend !) like i said hope is there ladies and gentlemen. You just gotta be honest and simply make it known that you’re not here to play games ! I deleted my profile and have zero regrets . Going on to 3 months of talking and 1 month of making it official .🥂❤️

I’ve been doing dating apps for some time now and although this app may not be the worst one out there it’s still leaves A LOT to be desired. The most significant and frustrating part of Chispa is the distance of the people shown are. I believe just about 10% of the people shown are within 10 miles. Normally on other apps I do no more than 7 or 8 miles and a broad range of other users are shown. 20 is the minimum on Chispa and even then it is very regular for it to show people 75, 100, and even 200 miles away. I live in Queens, NY and I regularly get users in NJ and PA. I have no desire to meet someone who lives that far and neither do they. Not even signing up for a subscription makes it any better. The algorithm needs a serious overhaul. I would encourage people to download other dating apps. As a Dominican I love the concept of a Latino dating app, in fact when other dating apps give me the option to look just for other Latinos I turn the preferences on to that. So it’s disappointing and feels like potential is wasted in what otherwise is a great concept.

I’m kind of a hood hippie girl so I didn’t find a lot of men I liked on Chispa. After a few months I tried to deleted it but Chispa wouldn’t let me until my monthly subscription was up and that’s the week I matched with my now man. We met up in person the last day of my subscription! Lol We hit it off instantly, now going on 5 months together. We live literally 10 mins away, share so much in common and our families are both from Jalisco, Mexico. I do live in LA so didn't have the problem of being matched with people far away unless I swiped way to much. It’s worth it to pay for the monthly subscription because you can see who likes you and also swipe back if you swipe to fast. It can use a little work and you will run into weirdos but I met a keeper so I’m happy 🥰 gracias this app!

I created an account, paid for a subscription, had 1 appropriate picture on there, and was getting matches. Then this app disabled my account within a few days. When I emailed them about why, they told me to see the terms of use. I read the entire terms of use and then asked why my account had been disabled because I had followed their community guidelines. They informed me that they cannot tell me why my account was disabled, but if I create another it will be immediately terminated.

I was excited to try their app, but their lack of transparency and unwillingness to explain why my account was deleted is a RED FLAG. I have never been disabled from their competitors like Bumble, Hinge, or Tinder. When I had questions on Bumble, their team was ready and able to help unlike the team at this app has been so far. I have reached out to this app again to seek answers, so perhaps they will be transparent moving forward. But at this moment, their app seems untrustworthy and their lack of transparency is alarming.

Loved Chispa- it’s a great way to meet and interact with people. I actually had ok dates with people I met, conversation ended if we didn’t have chemistry or vibes where not there.
Although all of a sudden my app got disabled without any email or reason or anything! I have tried over a month to contact or see what’s their reason for this and every time it’s the same reply !!! NONE!!! Only time I thought they actually cared or would have some sort of resolution, was a reply saying that it was sent to someone else since that wasn’t their Department!

If you ever have this issue, just try a different Dating app.. at least they interact and reply to you ! I was extremely disappointed the way this has ended!

The earlier versions of Chispa used to work fine for me.. When you have your list of people that liked your account of course you have to buy the elite membership to see any of those profiles .. so okay why not , I try it out. As soon as you get the premium membership it removes that list altogether .. what is the point of that ? Basically I paid for nothing ..

I also still don’t understand the point of having the distance filter when you still get profiles that are from hundreds of miles away that are way outside my distance settings.. it should just tell you that you ran out of profiles and ask the user to increase their distance settings .. looks like there needs to be some work done there .

Overall if you’re here as a free user I think it’s a great app . I definitely had met great people. On the bad side , there really is no point of getting any memberships unless they fix some of these bugs.

First off I wanted to clarify that I got on Chispa to look for a special girl to be into my life. I bought a 3 month membership and the first two days were great until the third and fourth day where my account got disabled for no reason. I looked through your rules and everything and I did nothing wrong at all. I just wanted to tell everyone that Chispa basically took my own money and disabled my account for no reason because I didn’t do anything wrong whatsoever. I tried emailing them multiple times but do to the fact that they have too much emails they won’t be replying to me anytime soon. I don’t suggest on getting membership for Chispa whatsoever and they will do the same thing to me to some of you. I looked the tough all their rules and I never broke any of them and I’m here still wasting membership of my disabled acc. If I could rate it zero stars I would and I can’t even get a refund with Chispa for disabled acc.

I joined as a joke with my friend and ended up meeting this guy who lived 30 minutes from me. I didn’t think much of it because I’d never think I’d take someone who didn’t live in my city. However, we went days talking back and forth and felt something different with him. He asked to hang out and I agree. Once he picked me up and opened the door for me I was in shock. No guy had ever done that for me. The date was amazing and we talked for 6 months before he made it official. Now it’s been 4 months since we’ve been together and I think he is the one. JOIN AS A JOKE AND MAYBE YOULL FIND YOUR BOO!

**UPDATE: SCAM ALERT! REPORTED TO BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU**
-As I stated in my previous statement, my PAID subscription was suddenly disabled with no explanation! When you try to login, a message appears saying you can send them an email if you think it was done by mistake. Obviously I sent them an email asking for an answer but instead was told, they cannot tell me and to just contact Apple in regards to any refund. This kind of business practice/customer service is on another level of lunacy...which is happening a lot lately in regards to censorship online! I just want other potential customers to know that you are also at risk of this and to beware. I encourage other users that this has happened to, to report to Apple as well as the BBB! What a waste of time!

First part of review below:
What is going on with Chispa?!?
I have been a paid and active subscriber for some time now and suddenly when I tried to login this morning, it said my account was disabled! I called the customer service number and was connected to a “People Media” company where I waited 40 min to talk to a person. I was then told to write an email to this app and it would be responded to within 24-48 hours...but no explanation was given to why! How is this acceptable?!? this app had no problem taking my money but now I am unable to sign on?!? What kind of business practice is this?? Please advise immediately!

***update*** February 2021
Still have not heard from support team and still can not get into my account. Horrible service.

***Update*** December 2020 still have not heard from this app support and I also messaged Chispa review people again and have heard nothing. I still cannot get into my account and that’s been since September. So sad because someone I was messaging probably thinks I ghosted them when I wanted to talk to them. So sad

**Update** October 2020 this app support has not emailed me back but Chispa review people answered me back but they said they will forward my issue to support team.... still has not contacted me and still can’t get in my account! Its been almost a month now. Very disappointing especially because I want to love Chispa. October

1st post September 2020
I have an account and I didn’t have a photo up, was trying to upload one and I tried different photos. I followed the photo guidelines as well as closing Chispa and uninstalling and reinstalling and still won’t let me upload a picture it’s say they are having a problem uploading the picture and won’t allow me to access anything else until I do, how very frustrating. I emailed this app support and have not heard back from them and I’ve been trying to upload a photo for 3 days now and nothing. I really want to love Chispa but only if I could get in to use it.

After signing up to Chispa which was my first ever dating app experience within a few weeks I started receiving spam robo text for sex services. I’ve done my best to block the source number in the robo group texts. It’s been six months I still receive these messages. My sub ends next week and I’m sure I’ll be stuck with these annoying robo texts. I should of used a burner email to sign up in retrospect. Also 80% of the time the options I was give were always 100s off miles away I’m not sure why, I would reset my preference and it’ll then show reasonable distant profiles and then boom back to people in other states I even got a profile from 1300 miles away really? My boy had Chispa and he said he didn’t experience that and I should him mine and he couldn’t figure why either. But any way I’m done with Chispa for good. Gonna stick to the old fashion way now that we’re in post covid life.

I was using the this app app, decided to delete my account because I thought I had something serious with someone. However that connection did not work out, so I wanted to go back into this app and find a new connection. When I logged in again from a previous profile, it was working until this app disabled my account. After, I decided to make another profile, and they disabled that one as well. Why penalize someone for making an account when you disable the first one? They will also take your money if you subscribe. This form of business in the long run will loose many subscribers and users. After I had contacted support multiple times they had replied back:

“Any new accounts created will be subject to review and terminated immediately.”

Look elsewhere for dating. Now my profiles and face are on some data cloud no where to be reached on my end. This is wrong.

My account was disabled for absolutely no reason. I was swiping at the time that my account was disabled and I literally have not sent a single message to anyone on the platform. They claimed that accounts are disabled due to violations of terms & conditions. That’s the same thing every company says and how could I violate that when just swiping looking for matches? Makes absolutely no sense. I emailed support right after the disabling of my account which was late Monday night and now it’s Friday still no response from them but the developer can make time to reply to review on here. Oh by the way my review was deleted which is a direct violation of Consumer Review Fairness Act to protect people's ability to share in any forum their honest opinions about a business' products, services, or conduct. Please do not delete my review again or else I’ll have to contact the proper authority of this. Thank you

I enjoy using Chispa especially since it is Latino based. What is annoying is the amount of notifications pressuring me to sign into Chispa and swipe. During the day I’m at work and don’t have time to be swiping through profiles. I don’t like the multiple notifications telling me to open Chispa and I also don’t like the addition of the red notification banner over Chispa as if I’ve missed a message or contact from someone but it’s only to get me to open Chispa and use it. The amount of notifications at inconvenient times is pushing me to just uninstall. I want the liberty of using it when I have time or when I feel like it and not feel so pressured.
Also same with radius adjustment. I’m not looking for long distance connections. This does not help neither individual.

I love Chispa and all BUT distance seems to be a big problem. I get people over 200 miles popping up to swipe on and there’s no way to filter it. I would understand if it was just a couple sliding through but it’s constant. And also I don’t know if it’s coding issues or what not but some people tend to keep coming across more than twice whether I have swiped right or left. Definitely a handful of bugs they could work on. I still like Chispa though.

I met my husband on this app October 14th from there we went on our first date November 3rd ... we hung out and had a great time getting to know each other on November 11th he asked me to be his girlfriend ... valentines he proposed and we’ve been happily married since April 14th ... never did I imagine that I would fine my forever best friend on a online dating site but I did and I will forever be grateful to this app for giving me the opportunity to find true love !!! Don’t ever forget you never know where you will find your media naranja !!! I strongly suggest you give this app a try !!!

Honestly; I like it. I think it can beat out Tinder easily especially since it caters to us Latinos and love the “roots” feature. Honestly I only have one suggestion that could make it my go-to app.

Why not add a feature that lets you swipe in a specific part of the World? Like it would work perfectly for people who work abroad such as myself, but would rather swipe on people who live back in their hometowns.

Do this and I will definitely give you my money for a premium subscription instead of giving it to the other guys :)

I hope the developer reads it
Chispa has been great I haven’t met a few girls and dated one but they have now focused on making money and not making Chispa better or fix the problems, they need to fix the radius of Chispa or let the user choose because I match with girls that are like 300miles away and that’s a no no other thing is that they should delete inactive users because that’s a waste of time I see a lot of profiles that they probably make an account and delete Chispa and that’s annoying when swiping on people and you come across with a lot of one picture profiles and they never are going to swipe or reply to you

I feel like I’m getting to know people better through this review section than in the actual app lol. It’s a good concept but it needs major updates.
For example:
•I’d like to see more people that are actually close to me and not 100 miles away. I want to be able to narrow it down.
•It should allow you to send messages to people before matching.
•it would be cool if it asked you a few questions to see who answered similarly and how much you match based on the questions.
•it needs to be promoted more because I don’t know of many Latinxs who know about it
•it needs to be more lgbtq inclusive. It’s 2019, there are lots of people who identify as non-binary and that should be an option.
•It should ask you what kind of relationship you are looking for and allow you to narrow your searches from there. For example “I’m only looking for friends”, “looking for hookups”, “looking for short term”, and “looking for long term relationship”

Also, all the pics they use to promote it are basically of white people. We are Latinxs! Where are the brown people??

Honestly, I have met up with more people through Chispa than Either Tinder or OKCupid. Not many people know about Chispa & theres fake accounts like other apps. Tinder as well has them and so does OKCupid so don't know why people give negative feedback because of that & it is also not as if it’s overwhelming fake accounts, a few here and there. Overall I dig Chispa over others... PS. Im not the type to write app reviews so when I do I really feel that Chispa deserves my time for more people to know about it!

Getting tired of using Chispa
I really don’t see the point of matching with other people and when you do there either not on Chispa anymore or they just forgot about it that they don’t reply when you do and the other reason why I don’t like Chispa as much because you can’t send a message to whoever you want to talk to Chispa needs a major update and yeah I am Latino myself and it is good to have a Latino app like this one with so many Latinos but it just needs some work on it too many spams and people trying to get other people I started talking to this girl that she gave me her WhatsApp sounded like she was an escort then Started getting threats from that person talking about money stuff so I’m a give Chispa one star for now

To whom it may concern, I would like to share my love testimony on this dating app.

I started using this app, as it was recommended from a couple friends. I liked it better than tinder as Tinder is more hook-up oriented.

I wasn’t looking for much but I knew I was looking for something a little more than just casual. I had matched with a girl who I thought was very cute and we surprisingly got along very well, so much in fact we agreed to hangout one day and go on a date. There was immediate Chemistry, a this app- if you will(no pun intended)

We met 4 months ago. Today we are very much happy with each other and looking very forward to our future as we both found loyalty, honesty, shared long term goals, we find humor in everything together... We were a this app waiting to happen. Thank you this app! For matching me with the love of my life! ❤️

Unfortunately it’s clear Chispa needs a lot of technical updates as well as an overhaul of customer support. There seems to be a major issue with being able to log in, or even signing up which from other reviews seems to be a reoccurring bug. When I clicked the Contact Us button as suggested when having trouble logging in, I’m only given an option to email. If there is a known issue I would expect some kind of automated response back at the very least. I was excited for a dating app for Latinos but it seems Match threw Latino on something without giving it any real support to have legs and gain respect among the community.

This application is almost worthless. They keep on showing women in the shuffle that are at extreme distances. I don’t want to drive 50 miles to go meet someone what makes them think that I am going to drive 250 miles. The reason why they show people from such distances is because there’s not enough people in the application in the surrounding areas so they show people that are far to make it seem like there’s hundreds of people to choose from. I figure that’s probably why they don’t put a distance filter on the application. Hopefully in the future more people get on it so that this can allow the creators of the application to improve Chispa .

To the creators of this app. Your app is good and it has allowed me to be able to talk to a pretty young lady. If there was a suggestion I could make, it would be to make a snap chat type feature to be able to snap pictures to create more of an interaction between both individuals. A pre-snapchat experience. I believe it would pay dividends to both parties 👌

NO PAGUES por esta app! El servicio es basura. Se cae la coneccion frecuentemente. Es mas lo que cobran que el provecho que le puedes sacar. Yo pague y ya luego no podia acceder a mi cuenta y nadie hizo nada para ayudarme o devolverme el dinero... Hijos de su maldita madre. Nunca pagues, usala gratis. No vale la pena. Lo que esta para ti sera para ti.

DONT PAY FOR Chispa! Chispa should be call dummy, I mean with all the crashing and glitches it has I’m surprise that’s not the name. Little boys charging big boy prices. If you must use Chispa just use it for free. There isn’t enough people in your area using it to get your money’s worth. And half the time matches don’t answer back anyway. Had an account and lost my membership and nothing was done to fix the problem. You’re better off using it for free.

I had Chispa a couple months ago before they added the (premium and Elite) options... and it was good I had the chance to meet some cool people. Now I’ve had Chispa for 2 weeks I have only matched with 4 people and hardly match with anyone and I am sure that is because I have not upgraded... in order to match and be able to talk to someone you have to pay which I would be more than happy to do because I like Chispa but I think the prices to upgrade are too high...