Wink - Meet New People App Reviews

by BonBonsOverFire

I would say it’s five stars that is BEFORE Wink changed and got glitchy. Originally it was very easy and nice to use to make friends and meet people. You’d get 10 swipes or more every 24 hours. People would appear once in your page and if you accidentally swiped to the left you could reverse it and swipe it back to the left or to the right. It was easy to talk and use contact information. About two days ago I was looking at a profile and this app crashed on me. I could click out of the profile or do anything. So I deleted it, not only did I LOSE my account BUT my account is there inactive but still swipe-able and I can’t login to that account, also my face is on that account and I can’t even delete it or change it. Also people will now appear 3+ times every if you swiped no OR yes! There’s so many more issues! It worked fine before some update or something that changed this app which is why it’s a one star for me because I can’t even use Wink and it makes me so uncomfortable that my face is plastered on a account I can’t even use! this app please explain or help im sure this is happening to others! So don’t download it until this app fixes theses issues!!

by Mrcritic220

Please fix Wink it use to be running fine and I didn’t mind the update but the creators of Wink fix one problem and hen create another like it’s so stupid today it wouldn’t let anyone load into Wink at all and then after that I tried to get on Wink and it does that thing that it usually does where it says it’s in maintenance so I’m like oh cool there fixing it so after they fix the loading problem another pops up so people have been requesting my snap and I would give it to them and after I did that it would never save like there names would pop right back up in my request list and I would give it to them again hoping that it would save this time and then it won’t it would litterally pop up requests that I already excepted hours ago so I would back through and give my snaps to all those people again and again and again and again and they would always pop it back up in my request list this app your app use to be cool but you guys got to either go back to the old days or fix all the bugs and I mean ALL THE (BUGS)!!!!!!!!!!

by Jw6557360

Honestly it’s great meeting people but theirs many problems that over time have gotten worse.

I’ve had Wink for about a year. I enjoy it very much but the glitches I’m about done with. I go to add someone and it won’t open their add the name will disappear. Wink won’t let me change my profile pics after its up for a few weeks. I have to delete Wink and get it again to do that. The chats it says I get them never get to see them on the chat list. If I get so see it I will get 40 notifications about it. The games are a good add on but really slow and after a few days they get really boring. The interest menu is good but come on put more on their. We all have more interest then just a few that it gives you. A lot of bots. I get about 8 adds from bots daily no matter the account. I don’t want fake people adding me. Kids are another thing. Yeah theirs age restrictions no one will listen to it 🤷‍♂️ make it where you actually have to be a certain age and make sure the pics aren’t of kids. I get young people adding me and I’m not comfortable with that. Wink has all gone down hill over time the more they add in. I’d love all these to be fixed but no matter how many times it changes it just gets worse.

by Anonymous Unknown 7639

Hello I know I had Wink before and I want to make a review about this because this might be a theory or not I’m sorry if it doesn’t make sense but when Wink doesn’t work it’s probably the company trying to gain access of our old information and it could possibly resurface because I read the rules something about licensing worldwide licensing that we allowed the company to do that stuff and the company might use our old information for bad things I’m sorry that this doesn’t make sense or I’m sorry that I’m starting trouble but you have to hear me out on this and think about it you can’t trust companies like this because our old information could resurface anything is possible that’s why sometimes when the this app app it’s not working it’s probably the company trying to gain access to our information so don’t put your information out there because I had Wink before and I deleted it but but after when you deleted your information could resurface anything is possible so please I am warning you do not download it for a while I’ve been suspicious so I recommend for you not to download it because the company might steal your information read the rules I am warning you!!!!!

by TheRealAng3Lov3

I’m sorry but Wink is incredibly mind numbingly boring, it’s literally the same conversation with every single person. No substance nothing at all just the same shallow small talk from every single person that goes absolutely nowhere. I don’t understand how people can praise an app like this when it’s clearly full of Pakistani men trying to scam people out of money. One person tried to get me to send them $100 to prove that I wasn’t a cop. If you are on Wink make sure you ask where they are from first, because the scammers bounce off of what you say and will claim to be in the adjacent town and want to hook up. This is how they scam you. Don’t send anyone nudes, they will try to exploit you and threaten to go to the cops claiming to be a minor and if you don’t send them money you’ll get arrested. I’ve reported multiple people and Wink to the FBI, it seriously needs to be investigated because this is happening way too much to way too many people that I know. Unfortunately not everybody is as smart as me and they continue to get scammed all the time. The developers really need to find a way to monitor who is signing up for your service and also make a lot more authentication.

by Derek35

Wink is terrible. I’ve was on this app about 7 weeks and all I can say is scammers, catfishers, escorting. Every woman I became friends with tried to scam me out of money. This was with all unverified women. Not sure about the verified women. Be careful. There is no over site here. Verification is an option instead of a must. I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve seen the same woman over and over with a different name.

This is not a safe site for kids. No woman I was in contact with would verify their identity with me. It was always an excuse why they couldn’t video chat me and ones that I could get to talk on the phone had foreign accents. I only talked to Americans women. That’s another red flag. Plus the way they wrote in broken English saying stuff no Americans would say is another red flag. this app could have so much potential but they choose to ignore the major problems. this app creators get your act together and make this site safer. Make verification a must instead of an option. You need a lot better oversight. Anyway that’s my take on Wink. My experiences were terrible here. If your gonna try it. Don’t say you were not warned.

by Chrislmfao

there are a lot of things that i think should be changed, first off the swipe feature isn’t the best, you only get 100 gems every 24 hours and each time you swipe right on someone it costs you 10 gems for a total of only 10 adds for one day. While swiping i have swiped right or left on someone on accident and when i press the yellow undo button it takes me to the profile BEFORE the one i had swiped on accident which defeats the entire purpose of the button, also using the undo button costs 20 gems! ridiculous!! whenever i do receive a friend request the only options i have are to “chat now” or to “add on snap” instead of just having an option that says “accept” that after pressing will add the person to your friends list. Lastly there is a reoccurring bug in which i receive a message and when i enter Wink to see it the interface is blank, only showing the name on the profile and not the message, when this happens it happens to every other chat as well whether i have a new message or not. The feature where you can chat with a random person is not bad but sometimes when i decline someone they continue to pop up even after i have chatted with someone the same people i decline and even the ones that have declined me continue popping up instead of never doing so again after the first decline.

by Kaula.1234

When I first got this app it seemed super cool because I actually met more people some good some bad but it was better than Hoop in my opinion but I’m starting to hate Wink now. When I first got it, it was perfect no bugs or glitches sometimes just took a second to load but that was fine. Although it randomly started to act up and would say someone requested my snap yet when I checked it nothing I tried reloading it but it just took forever to load and did nothing. I then decided to delete Wink and reinstall it thinking it would’ve fixed the problem but it made it worse. It told me that I basically had seen everyone in my area for now and asked if I wanted to change to “Worldwide” so I did but it literally did nothing then I tried to delete and reinstall Wink and the same results. I would’ve given Wink four stars if they only had a few bugs but still worked. But I can’t even use Wink anymore so it was good while it lasted. I wished they would fix this problem so I can continue to use it.

by Drygummyworms

Wink itself is fun, the concept is fun, and I like the layout. My biggest problem though is the gems, once you run out you can’t swipe right until you get more. I don’t have money to spend on gems, and the worst part is, you don’t get your moneys worth. 100 gems will get you like 10 swipes, unless my app bugged out. I just went to collect my daily gems, and I was supposed to get 200 because it was my second day, but I only got 100. It literally said it was giving me 200, but I didn’t get it. Fine, I go to start swiping and I swipe about no more than 15 people and all my gems are gone smh, not the first time this happens either. It was my first time downloading so I got 500 gems, forgot what for, but I got it. I swipe no more than 5 people, and I’m down to like 200 gems. The. One time, my app glitched and almost gave me 500 gems for collecting daily gems 5 days in a row, even though I didn’t. My point is, that system really needs to get fixed. Give more gems, or fix how many gems are used when you swipe.

by VikeMike73

So like many matching or dating apps, you really have no idea who is real and which profiles are just phishing for porn subscriptions or girls pimping their pay adult Snapchat profiles. I will say this…there are TONS of beautiful big breasted female profiles and photos to look at. And there is a cool “verification” feature that supposedly verifies that the person behind the profile actually matches the photos being posted. But that is completely optional/voluntary. My rough estimate is that maybe 2-3% of the profiles are actually verified (based on my 100’s of swipes and counting the verification badges). And even then, some of those can still be nothing more than legit people only interested in selling you their adult photos. I have only connected with 1 person so far that I actually chat with on a regular basis that isn’t trying to get my money and I have swiped through more than a thousand profiles easily. So for that reason alone is why I give Wink 2 stars instead of 1.

by Jdidjdjndjdd

It gives off a tinder vibe. I get people asking if I want nudes or the exact opposite, kids putting please don’t ask for pics in their account description. It’s definitely a nice app but people are messed up 🤷‍♂️. Of course all apps are gonna be like this and some people are gonna be bad but the whole experience is just kinda lame. Your get to message like 10 people a day which might seem like a lot, but not when your new “friends” are all 40 year old me looking for dong pics. Another thing is people can pose as any age, from 13-18 and I think it’s weird to have your new teen son/daughter to be getting requests from 18yr old (it might have been 17yr olds) but still, it’s too much of a gap. (You can change the age setting though) Parents this isn’t an app for your kids, more like a dating app. I get the point was to make friends, but creeps turned it into this. Developers thanks for making a fun app, however for me and many others to enjoy it, please moderate more closely. There are kids.

by Devillition

I really love Wink a lot. It is everything that I have wanted. You get to make cool friends all the time and even fill up your snap map. Also I really enjoy how Wink is really easy to find parters of all races, sexualites, and ethnicities. I overall love it. Additionally I love how you can set an age range so you get more people around your age and the fact that Wink has awesome games makes it even cooler! Wink for sure tops Hoop. The one suggestion that I would like to see is the ability to customize which countries you want the people to be from. No I don’t mean an option to select which continent, I mean specific countries. You can pick all and as many countries as you want. The advantage I see to this is 1. Hoop doesn't do it 2. It could help people fill up there snap map in specific areas 3. You have the option to search for new friends in specific regions 4. Most importantly you get to look in regions to find a perfect match for you based on the looks you desire. For example, the blonde hair blue eye look os most common in countries like Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Poland, and so on. I thank you for reading my review if you do read it and thank you for the awesome experience.

by JJThePatriot

I’d say that Wink is good if you want to meet new people, although let’s face it, this is basically just tinder except less off putting. I don’t really know how I feel about kids that are about twelve years old using this, not to mention the creeps that are likely present on this platform. Wink is also riddled with fake/bot accounts. It is pretty easy to tell if an account is real or not, but this problem is still agitating nonetheless. Another issue I do point out is that the bugs are awful. Currently my app isn’t working. I’m not able to view other people’s profiles, no new messages and requests are present and for some reason random accounts are present in my messages even though there are no messages exchanged.
Despite these issues I have managed to meet some legitimately fun people off Wink which is its redeeming quality. In conclusion Wink is decently satisfying but has lots of problems.

by Gabito510

I feel that the first thing I should mention is that Wink is not for kids and should definitely not be used by minors. The whole “meet new people” slogan is only a deceptive way of saying it’s a regular dating app. That being said, Wink has an issue which I’m sure most if not all dating app user experience to a certain degree, and that is fake accounts. Wink is riddled with bots, potential catfish, and porn sellers. Before using Wink I was aware of all these potential dangers, but I was surprised to find that the majority of accounts on Wink are fake. Fortunately though, the fake accounts are fairly easily to recognize, especially once you get accustomed to Wink . Aside from this, I’d say Wink is decent. My word of advice to anyone who plans on using this is to be as creative and descriptive as possible when creating your account to ensure to others that you are real, and look for the same criteria when swiping through random profiles. I’ve used Wink for a little over a month and I’ve communicated with a handful of real people and made two friendships, and I haven’t had to pay a cent. If used safely and responsibly, Wink might give you the results you look for.

by Beccaboo35

i’ve had to delete and reinstall Wink like five times now. the last time i had it before i deleted it again like three weeks ago i had gotten zero adds when before i got maybe 20 per day. now i’ve reinstalled it today and i have possibly over 45 adds. and i hit the give snap button and it either hides the add or it goes to the bottom and then when i do it again it won’t go through. and i try and delete it out of my background but as soon as i get back on Wink the people i’ve already added are back on that page ( still at the top or have moved to the bottom of the list) and won’t let me add them again. please for christ sakes stop making changes to Wink and just fix the main problems. it bothers me so much how many times i’ve had to delete and reinstall just because somethings not working anymore. while that fixes some things it doesn’t stay for long at all. i’ve been trying to add these people for over an hour and it just keeps bugging out. i’ve deleted it from my background three times now.

by Snicker_poptart

it’s cool and all, I love that u guys pack so many features in here, but it could b better, first of all, it doesn’t allow u to change ur bio and as u grow up ur tastes change and other stuff so I usually change my bio, people are confused when I tell them something different than what my bio says. the second issue is that more than half the users that add, offer to send nudes, this app shouldn’t allow that, the ppl using these apps are very young. The last thing is that there should b a filter that allows u to choose what state or country u want to talk with, only one other app that I know of has that useful feature, if this app does this Than it will have less competition because ik a lot of ppl that enjoy this app but use a different app because if the location filter. other than that Wink is great and u should definitely get it

by Aaron/Erin

this app is a great app and I’ve made some friends from it and recently discovered that I share romantic feelings for someone I met via this app. It’s a great way to find and make friends as well as for someone who might be searching for more than friendship☺️. The only suggestions I’d have is making the bio bigger. I’ve had trouble with it getting cut off or not saving due to too many characters being used and I wasn’t aware of the limit, and my name on Wink always city’s off the last line or two. And adding a genderfluid and nonbinary option as genders because I myself am a nonbinary person and when I have to choose between female and male I know whichever I pick, if someone is set to not see guys, or to not see girls, then I know I won’t meet them even though I am neither🤕⛓ Anyways, it’s a wonderful app. And the people are really friendly 😌. I especially like the ability to chose what age group you’ll be in possible contact with.♡

by Rosarrhh

The apps good in all but it’s DEFINITELY NOT for twelve year olds. Nope! Why would parents even let kids be talking to strangers. The whole app is to make “friends”, even though half the time I was on there I had some weird and disturbing conversations that no twelve year old should be having. I even saw a very disturbing profile picture, which led me to deleting Wink . It’s a good idea, but for me it’s kind of like tinder. All I’m getting is ‘your pretty’ and ‘wanna date’. When clearly the whole point of Wink is to find FRIENDS. I don’t know why but all boys kept popping up when I clearly chose the opinion ‘everyone’ on Wink . Not saying that’s there fault, but it keeps on happening. All I’m saying is that they should change the age limit for Wink so that kids don’t think that it’s okay for them to download. And you could change a few things. Such as, you shouldn’t let people pit anything gross as there profile picture, and there should be a warning or consequence when they say something rude, disturbing, offensive, or anything of that sort. Thank you.

by Ahkyahk

Uugfc is that right there at all my homies hate kali and I’m finna knock on the other door I swear to him and I’m scared to do it I swear to him I’m so glad that you ain’t never ever ever do that to you and I wanna see you I ain’t got to you ain’t no reason for me you ain’t no I love him I love you don’t love him I don’t want him to sleep over him and I’m not gonna go get him sleep baby I don’t love me I don’t know what I’m doing but yeah I’m not gonna lie I don’t want him knowing I love you too buddy I’m sorry I love you don’t gotta be like a baby girl I don’t want nun so mf I’m just sayin go get my hair I’m gonna be on my phone and I’ll talk to you later love love mama baby mama mama baby baby love mama baby girl baby mama love mama mama baby girl love mama mama daddy baby baby girl baby baby boy mama baby baby mama baby girl love trghytuuyb ubaby buh baby girl mama baby gir good yu vu vivu baby mama mama baby baby mama u s uou the morning princess and I’m gonna be cool I don’t want you too baby girl I ain’t never mind baby girl I love you mama baby mama mama baby baby

by Cjiyt

This is not a four-star site. I have been trying to get verified since I opened up the account close to two weeks ago support has not verified my account nor contacted me back when I reported concerns On inappropriate behavior from scammer /hacker sending unsolicited pictures. I tired to unfriend, block and report her but her profile continues to pop up in my messages and request feed . Where is the safety? On this site that proclaims to be safe and offer real customer support & control? This glitch is a safety issue for us real users. hackers prey on this site sending viruses and stealing pictures I am not satisfied at all. Listen Please don’t waste your time it’s not worth it you have to purchase in app just to like a profile and to receive support help . It’s all a Scam

by PhenomenalGuru

I actually would give Wink 4 or 5 stars because it connected me with many nice people so far. However I discovered this massive issue within Wink , the procedure is as follows:

1) I deleted snap then deleted this app.

2) The next day I redownloaded this app then redownloaded snap.

3) I reconnected my this app account with my snap.

After these steps were taken, all of my initial contacts that reached out with their snaps to me were gone. I tried to refresh the page where you can accept snap contacts to only see a forever loading icon.

No problem, I’ll just get more friends then. Now I can’t see anyone from my country or even worldwide. Even if I play with the settings! Please fix this massive app breaking bug. I would be more than happy to write a more detailed procedure for how I found this bug if the above listed steps are not detailed enough.

Again, this is a great app but please fix this bug as soon as possible. Thank you.

by Qwesrtggrdxfgkeodi

good app and really fun to use until it started saying check your network and I have many times and I have tried to delete and redownload again and again but nothing works and random people give there snap to me even when I didn’t ask to have it which is weird. Also with the network issue it says that i have ran out of people in my area and to change to world wide and I have changed it to worldwide but nothing happened and I know I’m not as big as the world. please fix these things so I can give it a 5 star because Wink would be great if these problems weren’t there.

by Edderson23

It’s a great app for meeting new people, don’t get me wrong, and it was working fine for me for two days. Then every time I tried to claim my daily gems, it would have the pop up saying I’ve been rewarded, however my gem count would still be 0 and it’d say I need more gems. None of the other options work either, sending my friends a link, sharing it to Snapchat. I can no longer use Wink and I’m sad to say I’ll just have to delete it. Maybe if there’s an update fixing this bug, then I could use it how I wanted to.

by Ellieeeeeebeellie

I liked it a lot until one morning I went on and it completely stopped working. I thought it was just my phone but it’s not, I’m just irritated because no more skater boys:( but y’all definitely need to figure this out and fix it pls. Thanks. To add onto this, it works for a day or so then it logs me out and won’t let me do anything so I’d delete Wink and download it again to try and fix it and it still doesn’t work. I’m starting to get irritated even more. But it’s still a great app, if it actually works the whole time.

by SoimayaJay

Wink doesn’t load people’s accounts anymore, it told me to change my settings to “worldwide” to find more people so i did but it still doesn’t load anyone so i’m just stuck on that screen. I’ve tried deleting and reinstalling Wink and logging out and logging back in but nothing seems to work. I would’ve rated Wink five stars if it worked like how it did a few days ago. Is there anyway you could fix this? I wanna continue using Wink but it’s kinda annoying now

by Thean Allen

Wink is pretty great to start off, it works well, and does not have any ads. The reason I’m giving it 3 stars instead of 5 is because of one of the ways you can earn diamonds. It gives you 50 diamonds to text a friend the link, so I went through and texted like 60 of my contacts. Up until that point it worked fine. Then I tried to do it again and it adds 50, and then removes the 50 instantly after. I’ve tried logging out and back in, deleting and re installing, and nothing seems to fix it. Since this is one of the best ways to earn diamonds, it impacting Wink severely. I hope the developers can fix this.

by Kelgrim

So after you’ve gotten to the end of your potential snap buddies some how, you have the ability to go worldwide to see if you could get more out of state. It seemed interesting so I went worldwide. The screen didn’t load so I exited Wink and I reopened it later. Worked just fine until I got to the end again. This time when I reached the end of the US people, it would not update. I’ve tried everything from uninstalling to reinstalling, logging out and logging back in, and even going to the extreme and resetting my own phone. So now here I am, stuck in a screen that I don’t think I should be stuck on

by Jui-cy

this app is a great idea that has been executed quite well. The only problem is after using Wink for about a week I can no longer see other people’s profiles on my screen. It says that I have seen everybody for now and to enable making friends worldwide. I have already done this and I still get the same message. I can’t ask for anyone’s snap, I can only give people my snap who have asked for it. I’ve tried closing Wink , deleting it, and even restarting my phone and I still get the same message and can’t see anyone else. Great app just had lots of bugs

by Imtryingtohelp

It’s great with most of it it’s a little glitchy but works pretty fine pictures take a few to load. My main issue with Wink is that when people give you their snap and you accept it it doesn’t go away or your not able to delete it so I can’t look at all the other people that have given me their snap or asked for it Bc I have to many people that I’ve added on their that’s taking up the limited space of people on the notification screen. Would love if you would make it so u can delete the notification
Maybe a swipe to delete option or folders or tabs that show who requested you and who has given you your snap!

by Layton_Kiger

I’m not sure what to say these days! I’ve been using Wink for a little over three weeks now and Wink has proved to be genuine in finding new people add and talk to on Snapchat, but Wink itself is majorly flawed!
I cannot, for the life of me, find the patience to deal with the issues of the slow paced bug that continuously torments me. (Wink will still send me notifications of adds and accepted requests, though I cannot view them. When I go to my notification screen, I get nothing. Not even the past accepted requests! Then speaking about the swipe screen, it doesn’t show anything either. I can’t swipe nor can I find profiles.)

Wink is majorly flawed but for the first few days to weeks of using it, it was fine. I’ve tried clearing my cache, deleting Wink , restarting my phone, deleting Wink and restarting my phone, and I’ve tried deleting the cache deleting Wink and restarting my phone.. Nothing new!

I can’t even login anymore because it’ll just send me a notification saying “Sorry! We’re already working on this.”

by Woodeagle24

Good app all around for the most part! There is one major bug I have noticed and that is I receive a significant amount of people’s Snapchat that I never asked for. I’ll have 3-5 notifications saying “Someone gave you their snap” and when I open them none of them are from people I have actually requested their snap. Not sure why this is happening it’s just kind of annoying. Keep up the good work because Wink really has some potential👍

by Titi Villa

Wink is great and it does what it is intended for but people using Wink are annoying and it ruins the whole experience, because I am trying to meet new people and make new friends but most never respond , are dry asf texters, want more views or people on their map, or try to get people to buy their premium and I don’t know if I’m just unlucky or what but I can’t find a person to have a conversation with

by Tramposotrn

Met so many amazing people with Wink! Biggest issue has been gems. No matter who I text Wink to, I never get gems for it and it causes my app to crash, causing me to wait for my daily reward instead... forcing every one to just out their user in their bio. Get gems working better and your business would be boomin!

by Annabanana6600

I love making new friends! I also love how you can get more gems by doing easy things! If you’re looking for someone to talk to, You can easily download this app for free. All you have to do is connect your snap, use your favorite pictures of yourself, write a short description about yourself, and if you don’t know what to say it’s completely fine! You don’t have to write anything about yourself. Swipe left to pass the person, and swipe right to get their snap. You don’t have to date at all! You can make new friends, too:) I love using this app and adding new people. You get a notification when someone requests to add you. Then you can either pass or give them your snap. Then they can add you and BOOM! You got a new friend! I seriously love using Wink so much!