CatholicMatch Dating App Reviews

This is by far the worst attempt at a matchmaking app. The site has actively removed useful features like being able to see how recently someone was active. As a result, you could be writing a message to someone who has not been online in years. They also do not even require a Mutual like for sending messages. This means that if you’re a man, you just have to read every account and write bespike messages to someone who 1) May not even have been online in years and could be married by now and 2) someone who’s entirely uninterested in hearing from you This is internet dating. You can’t read body language and gauge how open someone is to you so the Mutual like is such a basic feature that would save men from wasting time and women from being messaged by literally everybody but Catholic Match does not care to be convenient or user friendly. There’s tons of fake accounts as well so have fun trying to figure out who’s real and who’s fake. You’d be better off literally driving to different churches around the country than spending a penny on this horrible garbage

Edit: they just responded with a bunch of excuses and massaged language. Absolute trash app. I hope they go out of business.

The idea behind CatholicMatchDatingApp is great, but poor execution. First of all, why are a bunch of people I’ve never matched with messaging me? Why are you showing my profile to people all over the country when I set my preference to 25 miles and said I’d never be willing to relocate and that I am not looking for a long distance relationship? On that note why am I seeing profiles from people all over the country? Why when I gave a particular age range preference are you showing my profile to people outside of that range? The age and distance are really the only preferences CatholicMatchDatingApp even offers and even then they aren’t honored at all. I don’t think those are negotiable things for most people. For the price you pay for CatholicMatchDatingApp, what you get is a huge let down. How do I get a refund?

I don’t know if standards are too high on here or I’m just dangerously below mid, but receiving a like on CatholicMatchDatingApp is impossible. Not sure what other men have experienced on here but I’m sure it’s not great. Wouldn’t be surprised if Joe six pack has a hard time getting likes on here. Honestly if you’re a guy on dating apps in general looking for matches you’re most likely liking/swiping on bot accounts, dead accounts, or delulus. Christian dating apps are just as bad as regular ones, this one is probably one of the worst. I’d recommend going to local church events around your area or become an active member in your parish, probably even multiple parishes. Maybe I’m terrible, maybe you should give CatholicMatchDatingApp a try. I wish you the best🙏🏽

Nice to see CM deleted my original review. What a complete rip off! As a woman, I believe that the man should always initiate conversations and pursue the woman. Mass majority of guys that liked my profile don’t even do that. Or if you reach out, they don’t even respond at all. You also have people that lie on their profiles. They say they believe in Al the teachings of the Church, but not really. You also have really rude a***holes who insult you and cal you broken when you tell them you’re just getting back into online dating after a break. Their newsletters from Kateri Bean are also tone deaf and slightly insulting at times. When my subscription ends, I’m not renewing. You guys made me feel so bad about myself to the point of hating myself. Y’all should be shut down!

Catholic Match is a great organization, but CatholicMatchDatingApp needs a serious upgrade. Frequently CatholicMatchDatingApp crashes — in fact, it crashes every time it asks me to rate it which is how I got here. It crashes when I’m trying to change my location (still won’t let me), it crashes when I’m trying to message someone, etc. Also, the finger tap response time really lags and makes navigating CatholicMatchDatingApp frustrating.

The design of CatholicMatchDatingApp is also super dated, adding to the stigma around it not being “cool” to be on Catholic Match. If you want young, normal, single Catholics to get on Catholic Match — make CatholicMatchDatingApp looks modern and sleek! Just hire an app developer who can replicate the more modern styles of Hinge or Bumble. By doing this, I guarantee more normal Catholic YAs will join.

It’s also annoying that you can’t see the profiles you’ve liked all in one place. So if you like someone’s profile, but haven’t messaged them yet, you have to dig through hundreds of profiles to find them again.

Also, for some reason whenever I upload hi-res photos, they still end up grainy and low quality on my profile. There’s also no way to crop photos if they upload in a way that cuts off your head. I’ve seen so many profiles with pictures of just torsos.

Like I said, I think Catholic Match is a great organization and that you can find your spouse on here. BUT the functionality and dated design of CatholicMatchDatingApp is really getting in the way of its own mission.

CatholicMatchDatingApp is okay for the most part. It would be nice if you could see someone’s activity. Has this person been online in days, weeks, months? You don’t know.

The online dating culture is much the same here as other sites for young adults. People send likes, but then don’t respond to messages or do you respond but ghost you. There aren’t many young adults on it either. A lot of the same profiles still on when I got CatholicMatchDatingApp 9 months ago.

In 9 months I went on 2 dates with one person. I think the biggest thing holding CatholicMatchDatingApp back is the very limited amount of young adults that are nearby. If you’re not interested in long distance maybe CatholicMatchDatingApp isn’t for you. Haven’t really talked to many people either because of the culture on here. You would think there would be a bit more charity and humility on a Catholic site which isn’t really CatholicMatches fault.

It’s hard enough to find faithful Catholics in the world, so I appreciate that CatholicMatchDatingApp even exists... that said, it doesn’t run very well. Messaging is sluggish, there are a TON of inactive profiles that just sit there.... etc.

Oh! And for the love of all that is holy, why oh why would you design a DATING APP where everyone’s pictures are weirdly cropped and zoomed when they appear on the profile (with no way to tap on it and open up the entire picture). The website shows pics in their true upload form- CatholicMatchDatingApp makes them practically unviewable. Idk man- just not good at all. They will mess with the pictures you choose if you try to upload one that doesn’t show your face the way they want it.

All in all, it just isn’t worth what it costs- like by a long shot. You’re actually way better off using hinge or bumble where you can set your filters to show only Catholics.

This is my second round trying CM. I woke up one morning to my account being suspended. I received an email saying they needed to verify my phone number. I found it odd for Faith based operation to invoke such tactics. After expressing concerns, they assured me I was not targeted but nonetheless they saw nothing wrong with their approach. Imagine the electric company cuts off your electricity because they need a piece of information or if the city cuts off your water on a Friday night until you provide a copy of driver license, and doing so after you had already been on there for few weeks. Some acts are flat out inappropriate and unprofessional. Now every day I wake up wondering if the account was suspended for any reason.

This review is only about CatholicMatchDatingApp —not the site. I deleted CatholicMatchDatingApp after only two days. In order to see who “viewed” my profile, it was unusable. I would receive an email indicating someone had viewed my profile, click on it end it would take me directly to a list of those who viewed my profile. After downloading CatholicMatchDatingApp it would go directly to CatholicMatchDatingApp and whatever page was last opened, and if CatholicMatchDatingApp was closed, it would take me to the home page which only showed me the newly joined, with the option to view all. While the help feature said go to the homepage and scroll to “views”, there was absolutely no such option on CatholicMatchDatingApp homepage. There is also no way to view those whom I had “liked” on CatholicMatchDatingApp , while on the website it was quite easy by clicking on “Messages, I would then see a feature showing me the option to view those whom I had previously liked. On neither site was I able to unlike someone I had already “liked❤️” which was unfortunate because I liked someone by mistake & broke the poor man’s heart.

CatholicMatchDatingApp works okay. I've been using it a few days and can tell that the messages glitch a bit. I regularly don't receive notifications and sometimes have to close and re-open CatholicMatchDatingApp to try to make new messages load, which slows down conversation some. The biggest issue with CatholicMatchDatingApp is that you can't filter potential matches by liturgical preference. I only want to date someone who attends the Traditional Latin Mass, so every one of the potential people shown to me through the 'match' setting hasn't been compatible. You can manually search people and filter those searches by liturgical preference, but it's disappointing the main match feature doesn't allow that.

I learned that the “take a break” option currently does nothing for users who have already viewed your profile, it only keeps you from showing up in new searches. There should at LEAST be a tag on your profile that says you’re on a break, or some other way to indicate to these other users that your status is temporarily inactive.

As a female in a large city, I also found the amount of activity to be a bit overwhelming at times (particularly in the first week or so, which I assume is due to the “New Users” feed). If there was a way to hide your profile from new searches but still chat with people who have already viewed/messaged you, that’d be great

Good UI, relevant search criteria for Catholics, lots of inactive accounts without a good method of parsing through them except for ‘new members’. New members include a lot of non-paying members, who cannot see who has liked their profile, and who cannot initiate a chat. Also they(free members) can only reply to a chat message once every ten days. Recommend the team include a tag for each account that indicates whether or not the account is active, how active, and whether or not they are a premium member. The number of inactive accounts on the site undermines user experience.

Also premium membership is a bit expensive, but could be worth it with some improvements like those mentioned above.

CatholicMatchDatingApp is okay, not great. Members who haven’t logged in for years are still listed. I had a friend get married and two years later his two profiles are still floating around and coming up in my search criteria. Terrible. More than anything else, the price point extremely expensive! Completely appropriate photos are frequently, edited and cropped, because heaven forbid someone see that you have an athletic or toned body. Cropping doesn’t even follow the thirds rule - they just hack off portions of the photo that some particular person didn’t like. My bio and info has been edited as well, and I am a rather conservative gal, so I’m not sure what warranted that. I am so bummed by this whole service. I wish there was something else out there that was more accessible and less censuring. Overall, I wish that it wasn’t so expensive!! Erg, so frustrating. Try your best to meet people in real life - or try Hinge. Jeez.

When I open a saved search, why aren’t the profiles from the preview at the top of the list? They’re why I clicked most of the time!

Profiles take too long to load, it signs me out a lot, there is still no place for me to see the profiles I’ve liked, when I click on a notification it takes me first to whatever I was looking at last and says “oops, you can’t send messages to yourself” (what?!) and then takes me to the right page a few seconds after I press “ok.”

I took a 6 month time period and found it to be easy to signup and not expensive. Like other sites they give you a personality test so you can get an idea of who will best match you. There are lots of questions about your lifestyle, beliefs, and education, etc., so its easier to choose someone close to your type. I met my match in a couple of weeks and we met in person within a month. We are now married and couldn’t be happier. A fairly safe way to meet someone and no bars or alcohol in the mix unless you would want that. Both of us recently had lost our spouses so we were a little wary of the “market” for dating. My new husband feels the same way about his experience with Catholic Match. So glad we found it.

Thanks to God through Catholic Match, I met my wife! To all the men out there—be patient and stay close to God. It doesn’t matter what has happened in the past; today is a new day. Trust in God's timing and stay patient no matter how many years it takes. The platform made it easy to connect with someone who shares my values and faith, and our relationship grew stronger because of that foundation. The site's user-friendly interface, helpful match suggestions, and focus on faith-based connections truly made the difference. I highly recommend Catholic Match to anyone serious about finding a faith-filled relationship. It's been a life-changing experience!

My husband and I met on CatholicMatch! This is the best app for Catholics to meet other Catholics. We were both over 45 years old and were starting to give up on love. We both wanted to find someone deeply grounded in the Catholic faith and found each other! CatholicMatchDatingApp helps search for not only superficial qualities like height or ethnicity, but also more meaningful qualities such as Catholic beliefs, number of children desired, divorce or annulment status, and much more. The membership is totally worth the price. I also enjoyed the forums for relevant discussions and help from others on your road to finding your match and your happily ever after!

CatholicMatchDatingApp is a good one to find your other half. Specially if you are looking for someone that shares your same values and faith. I like that when you create your account it has a lot of questions and “filters” to help information be more organized and specific, by the way you can do a more specific search and it makes it more difficult to be scammed or catfished, specially now that is so easy in this whole “internet era” and particularly in the online dating world.

A monthly membership is totally worth it! Within the first month, I “liked” and went on a first date with a guy who is now my current boyfriend.

You can search for specific criteria or view people living in your area without a membership. In order to view messages sent to you, you would need a membership.

CatholicMatchDatingApp doesn’t require both parties to necessarily “match” each other before being allowed to send a message. So this also means you may get a ton of messages, because you’re always visible to everyone that has CatholicMatchDatingApp . You can’t customize to be visible only to people living within your area. It didn’t take long to start getting to know a lot of great people. (Of course, be cautious and always meet someone in public in a place you’re familiar with and share your location with friends or family!)

CatholicMatchDatingApp works well and the subscription model is very reasonable. I think the layout and UI is nice too. I also had a great experience with the support team.

My only suggestion would be someway to encourage users to respond to messages rather than completely ignoring, blocking, or ghosting. I don’t think I’ll have any luck with CatholicMatchDatingApp, unfortunately. I’ve sent many messages and likes, but not had any mutual interest. But once again, that is a user and personal issue and not an app issue.

Praying that everyone else using CatholicMatchDatingApp has better fortune, and that the developers continue this great work.