Once: The Love Match Maker Reviews

by Americoskid

Let me just tell you how freaking unbelievably greedy Once is. First off, they require you to purchase a subscription to be able to message other users and to see who liked you. That’s fine, if makes it sense since other apps do that as well. So I bought the subscription and immediately after making my profile I had about 5 likes within the first 5-10 minutes (a bit sus). The profiles that liked me sent me the most generic sounding messages, almost as if a computer was writing them. They also had the most commercial looking pictures, as if they weren’t real people but bots. Here’s where it gets even more insane: you have to pay $$$ to literally send a single message at a time with their in-app “coins”. Yes, it costs a whole 5 coins to send a single message! 40 coins cost $12! Imagine how much money you need just to have a simple conversation with someone, I mean it’s insane. This whole app is trash, I deleted my profile and got my refund. There’s other dating apps that are better out there that won’t steal all your money.

by BB2B0185

Bought into this site… costs a ton… set up another profile after vacation and same ladies just not in Hawaii but Arizona. Cheap garbage. Claim is cost is to support for keeping profiles real however profiles are same out in other states as in home state. Cost is used to fund creators app. Profiles are sketchy as almost every member has professional photos which real dating apps/sites warn against professional photos and suggest looking for real time pics and selfies. Responses are immediate and seem computer generated.
Developer has a response for everything except after reading numerous reviews it is clear this is nothing more than a money grubbing app. Once does NOT detect your location as stated above by creating in Hawaii then after returning home app would not adjust to locale people. Then created another account and many of the same ladies, fake, we’re in the locale area. Yet each bad review has some excuse given and statements about cost going to departments and keeping it safe and real. Real fake.

by Lord Halcron

Like I said Once is a money trap. Even though you pay for premium membership you still have to pay per message and depending on the size of the message the cost goes up. They say you only get charged for talking to popular profiles but that’s all there is… You cannot find a single profile that does not have that little flame symbol. That flame symbol means it will cost you a minimum of five coins for a message. I understand it is a way to deter scammers and fake profiles but there’s something not right with the profiles I have been chatting with because nobody in their right mind will be up on a Sunday night into Monday at three in the morning and still be sending a message. Especially since it looks like every single profile picture has been done by a professional photographer and the women and them look like models despite claiming to be in their 50s…
In all likelihood, this app my membership is done I will delete Once because it’s not worth it.

by Juan Ceviche

I would give zero stars if I could.
Once should be ashamed of itself. It’s just preying on people’s wallets. The amount of fake profiles on this is ridiculous. Just messaging with them you can tell they’re not the person in the picture. They constantly try to contact you and entice you to spend money on coins. They don’t even remember any of the conversations you’ve had. I told one about me only having two daughters and she asked about them. Then a couple of days later she asked me what I did that day and I told her that I spent the day with my sons. She asked me “what did we do?” If that’s not a red flag on these profiles I don’t know what is. It’s sad that people would prey on the feelings of other people trying to find happiness with someone out there. Another thing is how is every profile a popular member? This is another way to get you to spend money on coins to be able to chat with someone. Don’t waste your money on Once. No matter what dating app there can’t be that many popular members.

by Myquick2cents

I am in the tech and marketing industry. After using Once for 3 days here is my honest review. I do see the catch which is the Live Stream and the limited messages that a user can only send. After that a continuous barrage of upsell to get you to buy coins and its actually pretty expensive based on the coins per message. I do believe many of these women are fake too. The continuous auto response coming from allegedly people that viewed your profile to engage. But the catch comes in is you got to buy coins and this is where the barrage of upsell comes in...lol
I hope for the customer service and developers that would read this. I mean no disrespect, but if there is some sort of teaser period that might get it moving and have the people stay and come back. But the way its exactly coded on the upsell of coins you really will have an extremely quick turn around of users and the rate of people keeping Once will drop drastically. You are wasting money on ads if you can’t keep the users.
This is just my thoughts and hope this does not come sounding negative, but an honest business strategy review from someone thats been in the tech and currently semi retired guess you can assume I did something right 😊👍

by Loyaltyis Honest

I’ve been only in 2 dating site badoo and pof and I’ve never had to worry about talking on coins unless u become a member to get a extra things and you can talk every day all day. It lets you know who’s only line how far from you the live and you only put where you live area and it puts up only guys in that area if you only looking for someone to chat,date,seriously date,long-term relationship is asked age range is asked and how far distance are you looking for someone to date. If you wanna date just verify ppl you can if u want to let ppl know when you’re only line are off line you can private look at someone’s profile without them know it’s very easy and it’s the fact you can talk to that person everyday are even multiple ppl without coins that’s what I call a free dating site. If you want to run a dating site you should have to pay for coins just to continue talking to someone. Also if you can’t find someone in your area the expand you distance for you but on here they don’t give u a preference to choose a age range

by It's Flybye

I opened a profile on Once earlier this week and did connect with a couple of men. After a few quick pleasantries I realized that you cannot communicate any further with anyone unless you were paying member. I decided to take a chance and I purchased a three month subscription for $30. Ever since then I have not been able to communicate with anyone more than this app every 24 hours and it’s only one person at a time, other than that it keeps telling me that I have to purchase coins to communicate and supposedly the three month subscription meant that I had unlimited communication. I have sent several emails to customer service and I have tried the “restore purchases “option under the account settings and nothing happens. I’m beginning to think that most of the profiles are even fake set up by Once operations to lure people in. Either way I will be closing the account shortly. Do not spend money on Once stick to other dating apps that do allow communication and if you do pay for a subscription they uphold their end.

by DarnoC DooG

From reading other reviews, I am getting tired of this dating app! I wish I learned before from other dating apps like this one. It’s a scam/rip off. I wish I saw this from the beginning. Of course I ran out of coin and thinking I had to buy more to keep talking. 5 coin for each text?! I’ve gotten stuck into others that are cheaper. Yes a lot of the ladies are good looking but they will keep a way for you to keep spending money. It’s PATHETIC! Im trying to get a woman from my area but I doubt it’s true they are. I thought I may found a woman I liked, turns out I can’t get her number even though we talked a lot. this app I’m out of coin, they’ll keep on enticing you to get more, UGH! Oh one more thing I noticed. The person in charge for Once he/she says about the same thing to people who put out their reviews. “You seem to be a bit Confused.” Well close to that. Oh I did find a couple more, about half the woman say that their “About Me”, “Interest” has are “not specified”. And also half the them say in the beginning of their texts, “Why or What are you doing hereYou might as well not waste your time on here?” OF YOU KNOW WHY IM HERE!! You’ll get no where. If you do, good luck.

by Shadow4410

After downloading Once I noticed fresh new people. I thought it was the same coat as the others so I decided to sign up for the 3 month plan. this app I did I thought I should be able to chat with those I found attractive and interesting. I could not. Once kept telling me I needed to upgrade and sign up for a plan. It wasn’t until I signed up on the monthly plan, on top of the 3 month plan, that I was able to chat with people. But then, to my surprise, I could only chat for a few times then it is now saying I need to buy tokens on top of the 1 month plan and the 3 month plan to be able to chat with others. Don’t sign up for this. It’s just a way for them to steal your money. I figured and didn’t read anything that said differently that this app I signed up with a plan then I would be able to chat with anyone during that time. Not true. Don’t buy into Once until they get that fixed and the fact that you have to sign up for 1 month first at the higher rate then you can extend, possibly, if they allow you to at that time. I am needing to try and get at least one of my subscriptions canceled.

by KylieAxelBass

As soon as I signed up for Once I noticed something was off right away. I live in a very small town and normally when I sign up for random social and dating apps in Once Store I don’t get matches and stuff right away because I live in the middle of nowhere. And when I look around there’s not many people to talk to where I live. But I got two or three hits right away so I engaged with these “gentlemen” and I was alarmed by the speed in which all of these guys were replying all at this app. So I immediately stopped replying because I thought Once was a joke. The conversation with one of them flowed weird as if I confused the AI Bot. So it’s currently 5:30am upon writing this review and I wanted to confirm my suspicions of the guys and conversations being fake so I messaged a few of them and yet again I got immediate replies. I’m cute in all but I don’t expect any stranger to stop what they’re doing or wake up out their sleep to reply to me like that in record speed. Let alone 2 or 3 different guys. Once is foolish to think anyone wouldn’t notice they’re not talking to a real person. That said, I will be uninstalling it right now.

by JChatesjazz

Once is the MOST infuriating!! I paid for three months of membership and the very same day I get limited to my messaging. That same day I cancel my membership and continued to be reduced to LESS than one message a day. The prospects of people on there are promising but because of that I’m not even sure they’re real, and some usually have acted like bots avoiding certain questions or responding totally arbitrarily. WHAT DID I PAY 3 MONTHS FOR IF I AM STILL LIMITED?!?! I messaged the email customer service several times already and the canned message I have to fill out is what is my iOS and what version am I using. What a DAMNED JOKE!! I did however get one response back which simply said “your issue has been resolved” yada yada but said NOTHING about what the problem was or even what the RESOLUTION was! At least the twisted app Craigslist you knew you had real humans respond. So my hopefully ONE allowed response will be enough to find one person to talk to but i don’t have my hopes up. My only hope now is that this review will be seen by many other prospective users and dump it before they get jilted by it!!! DONT PAY FOR Once!!

by Austin Shrader

I was really hoping to have luck with Once. I can’t believe Once is advertised to meet and chat with local people when you have to pay for coins in order to send one message. I’ve had nothing but bad experiences and I hope you developers see this review and do something about it. What really gave it away was the women that messaged me from Tulsa, US. Every single one of them, I mean come on.. it was a total waste of the one month subscription to trust an app like this.. I’m not asking for anything back but this is truly ridiculous and should not be allowed to mess with people like this. I mean from the subscription, to paying for coins, $8?, to getting automated messages and asking you to please stay on Once and bribed me to buy more coins so they can talk to me… I can’t believe you guys would design an app and allow people to get bribed for money and their trust they put in Once to help them find someone important in their life… I really hate it came down to this but I had to be honest about it and tell my experience…. Please respect my honesty and do something about this… reach out to me if need be.

by Madsmartapple

My experience with Once was downloading it, swiping on some people, and then realizing about 5 messages or so in that I can’t chat anymore without “coins”. You don’t get coins daily or anything like that, so you have to pay just to chat AND it’s pretty expensive per message UNLESS you buy their “Premium”. In addition to all of this, the conversations I had were warranting oddly bland responses and after about 3 days of not being able to chat, I found out why; seems like the profiles that I matched with were mostly (if not all) bots. They kept sending really boilerplate messages like “Do you have some time for me?” Or “Finally can answer you, sorry I had some things to settle” when they had already sent several messages before that one for days and I never was able to reply since I had no coins. Makes no sense as to why someone would say they can “finally” answer if they were the only one sending messages for a while. Either bots or people hired to chat and make Once seem more legit lol.

by PleasantanLyles

I’ve tried pretty much all the other apps and I’ve gotten the most out of Once. It is by far the most populated and most active. Overall I’m happy with Once . That being said it is the most pay to win of the apps I’ve used. The use of coins to chat with people is really annoying. On top of that they aren’t cheap. Even premium accounts still requires coins to chat. You do get daily coins, but you get 10 per day for premium and each chat costs 5. There’s no way to get to know someone in 2 messages, I don’t care who you are. This is the best app for actually talking to singles, but the price is very steep.

by Lena Bryantmi

Breaking is so hard as they say and don’t I know it but especially when you’ve got kids and haven’t really dated in about 15 years! Meeting someone new is very daunting to say the least especially when my situation is complicated and I didn’t know who’d want me. There’s so many dating apps and there were hardly any at all not too long ago. But dating for real isn’t an option for me because I have work and kids so dating apps it had to be. I don’t know why but out of all the services I decided to try udates. Looking bank I guess it was to do with the fact it offered local dating and nothing too complicated for how I was feeling at the time. Fortunately it was easy to create an account and start chatting to people and I was surprised how many messages I got when I first started on it. I mean they just poured out at me. There are easy ways to meet people and it was good finding whose nearby because it made my choice easier. After a few days one guy just stood out and chatting with him was very easy and made me feel better. We met for our first date about 3 weeks after first chatting so it seemed amazing to me. It would have been sooner but I needed to arrange a sitter. Our date was so wonderful and we both felt the same and wanted to see each other more. Now we have been together just under 4 months. It’s just a dream that I found someone so quickly and think udates is great because it really works! Thank you!

by Janelle Henry

Once is doing ok for me overall and I’m happy I got it. However I wish it was free to use and that it has video chat but that doesn’t mean it’s not satisfying. On a good day it’s great and I can really meet some amazing matches. But on the flip side I get a lot of messages and wish there wer’ent so many. The features are best described as solid and they get the job done. Imo if you go into this negative then you’ll only get that vibe back because your chat won’t last long if you’re just horny or something. I try to stay upbeat so because of that I’ve generally had decent chat with people who mostly seemed genuine. It’s good to understand whether someone is living near although some precise info on this would be welcome because you don’t know exactly how many meters. Although the majority I chatted with are in my area. Bottom line is I’ve found more compatable people on udates than I seen on all the other apps I been on so I’d have to say that it’s the best on that bases

by Litzy Peck

I hated Once at first but then I found myself getting more into it. In case you’re interested I’ll tell you the list of things that eventually changed my mind about it and the last one is the real biggie at least for me personally. 1) there are so many people to meet. Normally on apps the same matches keep coming around and round but on udates you get a constant stream of new ones 2) most people i chatted to seem to live not far away which is amazing 3) good age range of people unlike on other apps where it seems all dead young which makes it hard to meet without looking sad (im 36 btw) 4) I met some really beautiful women and I mean really met on a proper date 5) features are pretty neat and easy and available 6) this is the most IMPORTANT !! The last but nowhere near least! I found my girlfriend on udates and we’ll get married in a month!!! So that’s obv why I changed my mind about this fabulous app!!! I never actuality thought I’d meet someone on Once in a million years!

by Athena Macdonald

The name is a bit rubbish but that’s where my criticism ends because what I’ve found is that udates makes it so easy to match and so fast to chat with people that there’s little they don’t get right. Firstly they focus on the important thing I always want when I date which is girls you can talk to who aren’t a gazillions miles away. That’s always so frustrating on other apps I used when you eventually find out all the hotties are in Timbuktoo! Finding someone you like who agrees with you and wants to do the same stuff AND who lives near you is like wining the lottery but then you get that quite a lot with Once. That’s really all you need to know so that’s why it’s really impressed me. But aside from making it easy to meet the right person it’s got a decent chat space and a few ways to match up. But now I’ve met my girlfriend I don’t tend to chat to many others on here now and don’t need any more matches. But I definitely recommend it to others looking for the right person and I think you have a good chance with it

by Christopher Stephensi

It’s a really nice dating app with lots of guys to meet up with and it’s been cool finding new matches especially when they aren’t far away. I’ve had good times although there were one or two suspicious types but I blocked them pronto. There’s quite a few different kind of guys on Once and want different stuff so you should undetstand what they want early on. I got Once to go on dates so it’s delivered for me personally although in my experience it can be a pretty causal place. I’ve had about 9 dates so far mostly in cafes and restaurants but in the park too and bizarrely one time we met in the supermarket!! It’s been quite easy to meet up because most are living locally and know what I’m talking about. I didn’t meet anyone perfect yet but it’s early days and I’m not going to give up on it. I recommend udates if you want to find someone near to without looking too hard and want an easy app to chat and get to know others. For me it’s a definite 100% and favorite of all the apps I tried because it’s simple and effective and doesn’t get too mad

by Hailie Miles

Yes I’m ready to tell my experience now of udates because it has really been a long time and many things to say. Everything that happened to me is worth mentioning so you can easily see how it goes. I joined about a year ago and it was summer when I first got it because I was in lockdown and couldn’t meet no one. Once is really well put together and straight away it helped me communicate with a lot of people. I wasn’t sure how many would be living close to me because you never know but it was great to see loads of users who were close to me and wanted to talk. It was really cool to find a few I got on with and get to know. Just a word of caution that at the start you shouldn’t ignore one person just because you talk to someone else too much because you never know who you might miss. That brings me to my final news that I found someone really special after about 5 months chatting on udates!!! Now we are together and getting close and it’s been easy because we both grew up in the same place. Thanks so much for helping us find each other!!!

by Brwnizs1974-GM

If you have money to throw away buying coins for dead end conversations, then this is your app. I joined less than 24 hours ago and it was a complete waste of time and money!! I demanded for my profile to be completely deleted and removed from site with a confirmation that it was done. Still waiting on it.

by MissBubbleChasr

I have been in other dating sites NONE of them charge you per chat that is sooooo stupid I have many of your members trying chat me but I can’t answer them . I am letting them know why I can’t answer their txt because not paying

by RedOne63

Can’t filter down to specific age range, ALL of the responses are automated. More safeguards should be in place to verify and authenticate users. I feel robbed already, and I’ve only been on this site for 10 minutes!

by Periadh90

Despite of subscription, you have to buy coins to chat; which is totally ridiculous!!!!!! Other apps are better than this.

by Appleoesss

If you don’t want to spend 15$ LITERALLY to talk to ANYONE at all don’t download Once it’s cheeks and they’re just money hungry like you actually can’t reply to anyone with out buying a subscription...

by Solongpeeps

I want to delete my account but there is no way to do so in Once so would you please tell me how to delete my account.......

by Larrion

Why should I pay just for a Conversation🤬🤬

by Rwycufc

I want all my money back now

by Mark 😍

Many active users. Love Once