Recon Reviews

It seems that Recon only works for European men. I constantly get messages and “cruises” from men in Berlin, London, Sweden and pretty much everywhere but on the continent that I live. I’ve made it clear in my profile what I’m looking for and the guys in Recon do not care. I got scammed by these 2 dudes and it’s scary how bad at communicating grown men are. This is a BDSM app and if you cannot communicate then the potential of anything stops right there. Communication is essential in the world of BDSM because of safety issues. I messaged a guy I had been chatting with for awhile and told him that the communication between us was not good and that I felt like I was the one who was carrying the conversations. I was very nice (nicer than I should’ve been) when I told him I was no longer interested due to his inability to communicate, his response was, “ok bye”. I wish I hadn’t spent money on the membership for Recon because I’ve had it since 2020 and I have not met a single person. No one is serious about making any kind of connections on Recon.

Recon is pure trash. They do nothing at all to update it. There are issues of their magazine on there from years ago that they promote that has not had an issue in years. They have tons of inactive profiles or profiles without photos. Their support team is the absolute worst, I’ve reported profiles from people who have harassed me because I was not into them at all and support does absolutely nothing about it. Recon is full of these so called “cash masters” which apparently they don’t allow but their admin team does nothing about.
Stay away from Recon, save the space on your phone and download literally anything else.

Apps like this are the reason people get hurt and have a negative opinion of the bdsm community. The fetish elitism forces people that are interested in exploring into dangerous situations because you’re either no limits hardcore or you shouldn’t bother trying. The latest “opinion” piece illustrates that “are you a ‘REAL’ slave or ‘JUST’ a sub?” Unlike what Recon would have people believe there is space for everyone in this community, from the the no limits human furniture to the fuzzy handcuffs enthusiast, the community needs to remember that.

By far the most outdated app i have on my phone. I’m not sure why… the this app team are very active in the community, it’s mind blowing that they haven’t invested in fixing all of the issues that people have complained about on here. Yes, i know the list is long but i’ve had Recon for years and there hasn’t been ANY improvement on the issues with Recon. It looks and feels like an app from 2012. And i’m a premium user!! Without a (costly) subscription Recon is completely unusable.

For one this app needs to stop trying to block pictures from being viewed on Recon the content you block saying Apple doesn’t allow is utterly untrue. The content they block in most pictures is basic just shirtless which is so silly and totally allowed it’s only nudities they are not allowed and as yet there has never ever been a single actual nudity photos this just wastes my time and effort cause it basically forces you to login to the website to see the pics of the few people on this crappy app. Then their profile view limit it’s so few that I can’t ever see or find anyone with whom I find interest before the next guy I try to view they block unless you pay a ridiculous amount for the few people that are on Recon. Stop being so greedy and lower the price and you’ll have more subscribers.

So now that Grindr has released their tag feature which includes LOTS of the fetishes Recon was designed for, what will you be doing to actually keep your this app community loyal? I hope its actually listening to your user base and not being greedy money chasers. I hate to say it but the Grindr tag feature almost outplays your app altogether. To be honest Recon fell off… HARD. It’s clunky, has too many “features” hidden behind a pay wall, has features that no one uses, hardly any active users (because Recon is terrible and hasn’t gotten a face lift or new feature in over 3 years), and can’t even accurately show you who is currently online. I want Recon to succeed, I want my communities to be happy on Recon, but it seems the dev’s are simply using Recon to make passive income and nothing more.

I downloaded Recon this week - April 1 - and as I was setting up my profile, literally I put only a few pieces of personal info, Recon for some reason out of a clear blue suspended my account. I contacted the technical support and they replied saying, “our system has flagged your profile as a spammer, therefore we have suspended your account.” This was the most ridiculous reasoning I ever heard. Instead of trying to solve the issue, that was clearly of a technical nature, they just reconfirmed the problem and suspension of the account. If I could, I’d give zero stars.

When you share your pics in chats with other users (direct messages), Recon put them in the folder named “Hidden” but all users can actually see that folder content. One of them messaged me and send the screenshots. I messaged technical support but just got unprofessional replies from them about the folder “Private Gallery” and how it works. You can have Private Gallery only when you pay for Recon . I even do not have private gallery folder there, just sent a couple pictures in direct. So, it looks like the support team actually does not know how their app works. Recon violates users privacy.

I feel like the PMs/devs at this app are still acting like mobile apps are a passing fad. There's no way to "unlock" galleries like every other gay dating app, forcing you to use the website to see any interesting pictures. Except that website is NOT RESPONSIVE OR OPTIMIZED for mobile browsers, you're scrolling all over the place tapping tiny buttons--basically unusable on a phone. It's very Web 1.0 and hasn't changed for many many years. Given the price of subscribing, this app needs to do better.

Do not update to this version.

Message alert stopped working for me. Now I must manually check which is near useless.

Took a good app and updated primarily to force everyone into a page of ads and random members that are incompatible and unmatched.

I prefer to set the opening page myself to messages or cruises or nearby. Do not like being forced to view irrelevant ads about a this app event in some far flung location. Forces me to have to reset every time. Give me the option

Please add 'relationship status.' I would like to know this before contact.

A match feature would be great if effective. Filter with major preferences (eg single /married/involved/poly and looking, top/bottom, body type, hairy/smooth, muscle/average/large, cut/uncut, kink interests, lookin to date/meet/NSA, butch/twink you get the idea etc)

At this point you push members that appear to be random and are often the opposite of a match

I don’t know why the notifications don’t work properly on Recon. All other apps show notifications on the icon itself except this one! I’ve updated numerous times and changed notification settings for Recon on my iPhone and still don’t work.
Secondly, it’s 2018 for goodness sake! Viewing XXX pics on the website?!? Really?!? What’s the purpose of this? None of the other apps have this silly setting!

this app must have thousands of inactive profiles. Recon should have a setting to sideline those profiles, or even better, this app should delete those profiles for good.
Recon should also have a setting to bypass profiles which have not been updated. Many of the active profiles haven’t been updated in years, many as much as 10 years or more.
But I don’t think that is in the interest of this app. At the end of the day it’s all about making money and not about bringing the community together. Because you need a paid membership just to work your way through all the dead or outdated profiles.

The mobile app on IOS will never stay operative. I keep it open on my iPhone a s every time I want to use it or get a message I want to see it locks up. I have to close it out, reopen it which it will take forever but not open, it just crashes again and then the second time I open it, Recon actually opens. Sent many notes to this app with nothing and this is nothing re as it’s been going on for years. I just figured they gave up on keeping Recon up to date. Which may be the case. If they want to stay relevant they need to get with it. There are loads more apps just burying this app in the dust.

I enjoy the purpose of Recon , but I honestly dislike that you have to pay to look at other profiles and that there is a daily limit if you don’t pay for the subscription. We should be able to at least view the people within a certain radius around us for free without getting the “sorry you’ve reached your daily limit of profile views” type of bs. Recon is a little difficult to navigate and I’m not quite sure if the purpose of the “friends” tab nobody adds you as a friend on there at least not from my experience. I think Recon is in a good direction for us kinksters but it’s poorly thought out for people who can’t pay up for a subscription, at least with Scruff, Grindr, etc we don’t have to pay to simply view nearby profiles. I think this app needs to stop being greedy.

I am having issues trying to save videos I like to my favorites in my profile.
It is not working on the laptop web version or the this app application on my iPad.
This is a recent issue going on now for about a week.
I have written this app Support, but have not received a response yet.
Anyone have a suggestion?

this app itself is actually good. Nice features. Agree with previous comments about the trxt box in messaging.

1) Big thing for me is when there is an issue, you can submit a question or a comment and it goes into thin air. They never answer. Support just does not exist.
2) Travel feature is useless because you cannot say you are traveling within your ssme state. i.e. if you live in northern CA - you cannot enter that you are travelling to Los Angeles. It tells you you cannot travel within the same region. This is because it only recognizes the STATE, rather than the city.
3) Yes to everything posted about the inability to search and sort easily

These are basic app features EVERY dating/hookup app has… except this app

Did I mention that support of any kind is non existent??? Baaaad… this app just wants your $$$
Then it’s .. see ya, don’t care..

Basically, the website is fully featured and works well. It also is able to show you x-rated photos, no small consideration for a sex-oriented service. So why use Recon version? Well, really only to be able to more easily use the messaging service, and to get notifications. Recon also has some bugs. Basically, i use the website primarily, and use Recon for messaging.

I have had zero issues with Recon since 2012, and have been very happy with it❤️. Does the job it advertised to do, and nothing more. Everyone else complaining about “issues” or it being “outdated” clearly have never used it on a computer desktop. They fail to realize this is a mobile extension of their existing website infrastructure. (Bonus points for that since it means Recon doesn’t BLOAT and take up space). It’s not an app like Grindr that was built ground-up only for mobile like all the kiddies on here are complaining about.

So I’ve used Recon and it’s been great with conversations and getting possible meetups in the near future….. but I don’t understand why when I logged in today that the screen went to your account got suspended I don’t know why exactly I did send an email to customer support anyway just figured I’d say it

For mlm trying to find a good kink meetup, Recon is really good! It lets you sort by age, distance, and interest without having to get the premium version, which is really nice for an app like this!
There are a few tweaks I would like to see, for instance, if your kink isn’t one listed as a selectable “interest,” then your only option for finding them is to get lucky, or search by name & hope they have it there. Tickling, for instance, is one I would like to see added. Also, once you have searched by name, the only order you can view them in is alphabetical; it would just be really nice to be able to sort by distance as well, or to filter out by age, etc.
For its usage, however, I find it 10x better than any other app for this specific job, A+!