Jack’d - Gay chat & dating Reviews

Why does Jack’d allow a person to have multiple profiles at one time?? I know of 12 men who each have at least 5-6 profiles, each one with altered faces, descriptions and when you talk to them they pretend to be other people. These men are dangerous and are targeting individuals and performing identity theft crimes with unknowing targets they meet on Jack’d. They work in teams, are vey good with technology and are able to hack into your home network within minutes. There is always a person outside usually in a car with a small portable computer. The person inside keeps the victim occupied, they even have sex. Once all of the information is gathered or the network has been hacked they send a signal, usually one car horn, as a text would be too obvious. The encounter ends and the victim has no idea. But it all starts and is organized on Jack’d. If something seems too good to be true, it ain’t true! Don’t let anyone use your Wi-Fi, hide your keys, don’t pay for anyones uber or Lyft, if they commit a crime somewhere else they can tie it back to you, as the Uber ride was scheduled from the crime scene back to your location. Jack’d knows about these issues but does nothing. Be smart, protect yourselves and share. Don’t be afraid to share if you see something wrong.

After using Jackd for maybe a month or two, I found that it’s quite useless. There’s no real way to filter out guys that you’re not interested in, and majority of the guys you may message are only trying to get sex from randoms or they just simply don’t reply. A lot of features within Jackd that should be quite basic they want to charge you for it... like yeah right... who in their RIGHT mind would pay to use any kind of feature of a dating/hookup service..? You can only hide/block so many people or customize certain settings within a limit before you would have to pay to do any further. I don’t necessarily recommend Jackd but I still don’t knock down those that are okay with it. Facebook, and other know social networks can be used for this type of stuff as well and they’re free completely! Additionally, there should be a requirement for all users to have profile photos of themselves! I really disliked it when blank profiles messaged me, and I have no clue who is messaging me because they’re fully hiding themselves. Being discreet/DL is perfectly fine, but hiding your identity and messaging people without letting them see who you are will not get you anywhere; that can be dangerous as well.

The new Jack’d is so restrictive there’s very limited things you get to have control over. You have to pay for Jack’d pro to have the most basic of controls... you have to be visible online to use Jackd or respond to messages. They have algorithms that filter your pictures that will say includes nudity even if there’s isn’t any... and you can’t do anything about it if the bots choose not to approve your picture. You aren’t even allowed to upload a shirtless pic if you have hair on your stomach because it’s considered pubic area... there’s more freedom in Instagram an app intended for all ages than there is on this one... you also can’t screenshot pictures at all, so if someone sends you a picture message if you screenshot it will show up blacked out. It’s just way too much policing going on to actually enjoy Jackd and that wasn’t the case 2-3 years ago. It was a much better app back then.

If they want to put someone who has their own business or masseur. this app doesn't care and. The this app will put your account suspend with the device ID number AND YOU WILL NOT ABLE T NEW CREATE ACCOUNT!!!! FYI Someone who wants to put profile who have anyone own business or any in general personal and business on the profile. They make jealous and report. They did not read their profiles. this app have no judge's and go-ahead suspend without letting them an account. I know that this app has to feel black hearts and don't care about other accounts. P.S. Someone try report abuse or whatever hearing people betray to deaf. they like put neagtive deaf or business. No one reason to threaeten or foul laugage to customer. I will not accept that. this app support does not care people and just ahead disabled thier mobile id supsend. Most the black hearing are very nasty and threaten to deaf. they did not respectful people. please watch out your back from hearing people.

Not sure what exactly is going on with Perry Street Applications and Development but apparently now depending on which application is used it is separated by Race and some other Filtering criteria. Service has not been great as not making connections as years prior which leads me to believe whatever was done or changed caused drastic changes in being able to obtain results to essentially get nothing but aggravation from the clunky disjointed functions to the constant confusion in instructions. To make matters worse the rhetoric, political anxt, and hateful comments being projected makes me want to give up as does not seem to be a safe space for like minded people to meet and develop friendships and relationships. Please either fix the issues or at least give an explanation on what has happened.

I am not understand why the block feature has restrictions...and safety comes at a cost that is called “an upgrade...?” People can easily make multiple profiles and harass you if they choose...even stalk you and put your life in serious danger...and I’m at risk because I refuse to pay for an upgrade to have an even more LIMITED block feature that will expire once I reach my limit. I understand the need to make a profit...and I’ve read your responses to respecting the safety and privacy of others in regards to screenshots and etc...but how is limiting how many people you can block even anywhere near safe? I need answers...and a valid explanation to this. I can care less for Grindr...but at least I know I can block as many people as I’d like...especially when safety is a concern.

People can freely steal your images and continuously make multiple accounts impersonating you without being reprimanded. Takes multiple days to get resolved by this app support and they do nothing about it but warn the person. Then creep freely goes right back to catfishing people using your images. this app Requires you take multiple images of yourself holding up a number to prolong the process and they don’t even have a system in place to prevent the impersonator from creating multiple accounts back to back nor respond to emails other than robotic redundant response without actually solving the case. Imagine some pervert smearing your identity through the mud for it to take an entire week for this app to TEMPORARILY remove your images off their profile and for catfish to easily create 5-6 accounts within a month. Horrible experience and extremely stressful.

Several issues/concerns to point for now:
1) It’s showing I have messages unread though all messages have clearly been read (notice has been saying 1 message unread since the new interface update)
2) Under the binoculars the 3 tabs Distance, Date and Last Online...Distance shows -> Last Online, Date shows -> Distance and Last Online shows -> Distance and What’s the point of Date if you have the option to see Last Online?
3) Why do users have to go “online” to read messages or even update your own profile?
4) Block feature doesn’t work...I’d clearly block users for various reasons (clear up people closest near me..etc) but once I log back on..within hours or next day, I’d see the same user that was previously blocked.

There really isn’t much to dislike about Jackd . You get half of grindr’s premium features for free and the community is more accepting of blpoc than the other 🏳️‍🌈 apps. As an asexual man i appreciate that there’s a no sex option and have found plenty of friends and partners off that feature alone. My ONLY critique would be to make an Asexual button so we can navigate finding each other on Jackd easier.

Orrrrr just make an asexual dating app all together since there’s clearly a demand for one and it’s non existent on the internet 😒

Okay, Jackd is bad, just know that. However, for ppl of color, what other options are there? And I’m not getting anywhere near Grindr *vomit*. The people on here are sassy, rude, annoying, and have no morals or decency. If you’re looking for a meaningless hookup with a black person, use Jackd. But what I hate about Jackd is that they made it impossible to screenshot anything and they gave ppl the power to send photos that disappear right after you open them. I mean, forming a connection is already difficult. People hide their faces, bodies, names, etc. Instead of making it easier to get to know someone, they’ve made it easier to play tricks and be even more shallow. Now, I can’t even remember which blank profile I’m talking to because the photo LITERALLY DISAPPEARS.

Jackd seems to have made significant changes, while mimicking the layout of certain competitors. However, though, you’ve made Jackd a complete 180 from the half decade old outdated catastrophe it’s been, you now have chosen to take measures for opening people up to uncomfortable and potentially stalker like situations by removing the block feature. We shouldn’t have to report a profile just to do something we can do ourselves with the click of a little button. If I’d known this I would’ve kept the old version and been quite pleased. This is a major safety and privacy concern. I’m sure by now you all have seen the Netflix show YOU...
Lets make this right before you’re the cause of something terrible happening.

So, I Like SOME of the update but hate MOST of it; Especially the fact that you now have to pay to do simple stuff like blocking offensive, harassing users. Yeah, they say "report" them but that never does anything and it's much easier and user-friendly to just block and keep it moving. Y'all must be going broke or something?? Rona hit y'all hard too!? Sheesh! Then they have the audacity to limit the amount of photos one can view/reveal and for whatever reason, I can no longer send photos and videos, I have to upload them to my private album just to share them..why? To coerce one into subscribing. Crazy thing is, I would rather subscribe to the older versions. Happy jacking homos!

I’m m giving a new review to Jackd. I know that Jackd is now owned by the same company than owns Scruff. I expected that all the issues would get resolved because Scruff is such a good app. I didn’t expect it to look exactly like Scruff but hey, at least the bugs will get worked out. The only thing I would say is to remember that this is not necessarily the same audience as scruff and I would treat it as such. Anyway so far so good but I would like to see a slightly different interface and features than Scruff. Cheers!

Where are the chat filters ? The swipe filters ? At this point, Grindr outshines you guys by milestones. I’m tired of scrolling through the same accounts, filled with the same 40 through 60 year old creeps. You need to add filters; that includes race, age, positions, what they are looking for, etc. Also, the limitation on blocked accounts is ridiculous. I do not want these creeps constantly messaging me, but I cant block them because I’m “at my limit”. If you would fix these two things, your app would be soaring. The only reason people prefer it over Grindr is because it’s a predominantly black users.

I usually never have any significant issue with Jackd until I recently realized there’s a limit on the amount of users we can block. To think a company who prides themselves on being an inclusive app would force their users to pick & choose which previously blocked users they have to unblock to block someone new is ludicrous. That is counterproductive of the feature which serves to restrict access to those we deem should not be in contact with us. That is not only a catalyst for future contact from these people but can also trigger feelings of feeling unsafe & being harassed. Please consider why this feature exists and why it’s not a wise decision to keep it active.

Just a update Jack’d is way better than before still a few small bugs here and there but one major feature I didn’t like that they’ve messed with is the blocking feature now you have to pay for pro to block people as many as enough pedophiles and people you may not like or even ex’s on there really jacks cmon gotta do better than that. I’ve been a this app user for years now and no many times how much I restart my phone (iphone8 plus) or update Jackd it still tends to crash wish the developer can figure out the problem grindr works better for me 🤷‍♂️

I’ve been a User of this app for a couple of years now. I understand as years how by things have to be changed and updated but my God! Trying to FORCE users to buy Pro just to have basic features like Blocking multiple people or browsing incognito is wild. The filters aren’t really of much service and the stipulations on the type of pictures you could upload is over the top now. I upload a beach picture a BEACH picture and it keeps getting denied for showing nudity when I literally have on shorts and a tank top. The dudes on here are also a different type of weird but that’s not Jack’d fault. It used to be more Lax back in the day but tbh Jackd has gone downhill since 2014.

Even for the free version, there should be no limit on the amount of people one can block. There are too many creeps, fetishizers, & pestering ppl you might not be into that hit the average user up after a certain amount of time on Jackd ...constantly. I shouldn’t have to pay extra just to feel safer on the app, and I shouldn’t have to anxiously go through and unblock past accounts (which should/could all possibly be blocked for valid reasons) for basic peace of mind on Jackd if/when someone that needs to be blocked comes around.

Jack'd has a new look, although it’s a clone of the owner's other app, Scruff, only in red. Unlike Scruff, the spam is out of control. Lol, as I am writing this, I received another notification from Jack'd that a new message was sent to me.... this message, like perhaps 10 others in the last 10 days contains a link to a sex procurement site. The Jack'd spam reporting feature thanks me for my submission but the spammers don’t seem to be banned; today's message was from an account I had reported before. Yes, I know I can block them, but I have stopped doing that so I have proof that Jack'd doesn’t care about spammers and scammers. Jack'd doesn’t care that people are being sent links to sex procurement sites. Perhaps that’s the real purpose of Jackd?

Black Lives Matter - Jack’d Doesn’t Care and Jackd is absolutely ridiculous!! - First off, they’ll send you through fire n brimstone to verify your OWN identity by sending a picture of yourself with a ticket number, D.O.B, and today’s date; but still suspend your account for impersonation. I had been using Jackd since its introduction - WHO THE HECK ELSE AM I!!

And since the new “update” you have to pay for unlimited blocking?!? Ok, so I have to pay to NOT be harassed by thirsty punks who keep sending me their disgusting nudes after being told not interested. Thanks a lot for caring about keeping a safe and healthy community. I didn’t even mention the pro$titution part lol - You can keep your services Jack’d.

As always with Jackd. It’s always 1 step forward 3 steps back. They decided to get rid of read receipts (which had been broken since jack’d 4.0 mind you) a feature they had had for years and years. They still keep the hideous white background theme which makes the screen stand out like a sore thumb in public, and they’ve made a mess of private pictures by adding confusing extra albums instead of just simply letting you upload extra pictures and keeping it simple.

On the plus side at least notifications finally work after 2 years of endless bugs.

I just don’t understand how it’s possible for one dating app to keep getting things SO consistently wrong after YEARS of the users literally telling the developer what it is that it’s user base wants. It’s not rocket science! And yet they keep screwing it up version after version. It’s pretty hopeless at this point.

There is a serious issue going on with the new version of Jackd . Because, half of the users are not updating the new app, it’s causing an altercation in communicating, and viewing of profile pictures if you haven’t updated your app. Jackd should either force ALL users to update Jackd once you log on, so that we are all on the same page, or be able to communicate with this e that haven’t upgraded in terms of picture sharing and viewing up public or private photos. As most users are still using the old version, and not being able to communicate well with those that have upgraded it doesn’t make sense.

Love the new update. It is VERY similar to how Scruff is setup but I’m not complaining. I like it wayyyy more than before. The old version would’ve gotten a 2 maybe 3 star rating. But with this update it’s got 5 star potential in my opinion.

It’s a 4 and not a 5 because even though it looks better it takes some getting used to.
1) I am still not entirely sure how to navigate Jackd with the update.
2) when using the Match feature (unless I just haven’t seen a button for it) you can’t view a persons profile to send a message. You can only swipe their profile left, down, or right.
3) The message read receipts are gone. Idk about other users but I liked that. Would like to have that one come back.

Other than those things so far this new update has done A TON of cleaning up and fixing Jackd .

Though the New Version looks a lot better, there are still issues, I am facing daily. Other users say my pictures aren’t visible on my profile or when I send them in a message.

First off, I love the new look. Definitely did a good job with that. However,
1) There’s no longer any read receipts for messages that you send.
2) I keep getting told that my public pics are not visible to some users. It’s almost like if they don’t have the new version they can’t see my pics at all. Even when I’ve sent a pic in a message they couldn’t see it.

These may seem like small issues but they make a big difference...these bugs need to be worked out quickly!

So we finally got a new version of Jack’d. Though it might function correctly it’s way too convoluted. It’s needs to be streamlined a lot. Discover Nearby and Search = too many. Nearby and Search should be one. Just filter those nearby. The match function is now ruined. Forcing people to have a public face pic just to use it is awful. A lot of people have justifiable reason for not posting one publicly. Also hard to tell how long ago someone was online or if your message was read. I’ll end there cause I’m tired of writing!

Keep trying youre not there yet.

So, the developers decide to change the layout, add some features, but then restrict everything unless you pay $10 for a month, $22 for 3 months, or $58 for a year. You can’t unlock your private photos anymore, you can’t see all of other’s private photos, you can’t see the list of who’s viewed your profile, and you can’t block unlimited people unless you pay for this garbage. What an absolute rip off. I’ll never pay for Jackd and I barely use it anymore because of these ridiculous restrictions. Shame on whoever thought this was a good idea. It’s just money grubbing at its best right here. Pathetic.

Bring back the read receipts and it’ll be on of the best out there.

UPDATE

I had given it five stars. However, after using it- I changed my mind. That first page with a bunch of random stuff needs to go. The match section is a mess. If you want to block people -after a certain amount, you have to pay. If you want to unlock your pictures for someone -after you’ve unlocked for a certain amount, you have to pay. Oh.. and I swear I saw an add.

So I like the new interface of Jackd but there are too many bugs. And I feel that they are trying to make people buy into the pro. You can’t open private pics for someone because it states that you are not a pro member and the limit of recent sent pics are also locked under “pro”!

Use to you watch a 30 second video to get more matches with local people. Now you have to wait 12 hours to match with others. The new app is just messy and unnecessary. So far haven’t had any luck meeting anyone who can keep an interesting conversation going. There is no customer service at all, I ve reported someone bullying me. And nothing happened, also not many guys have face pictures up, or they’ll post a picture of a celebrity or something.

I’ve been a FAITHFUL Jack'd user since 2011. I absolutely love Jackd and how it brings queer people of color together! With that said, I HATE THIS NEW UPDATE. I dislike how juvenile the interface and design looks. I don’t like how the message section looks now, and the list goes on and on.

I think you guys should do like Gmail does and update your services but also update the previous one and allow users to choose which version they’d like to be using Jack'd through. Cuz this new update...its making me NOT want to use Jackd anymore!

It’s just Scruff now. Also, you can’t log off anymore. Or see your old chats. Or unlock your pictures for more than a handful of people. Or keep your old profile text from before the update.

The developer responses to the critical reviews are like, “connect with Jack’d support”—but I did that and my ticket was filed as a “translation error”. Oh and you can only have one ticket in their support system at a time, so I’d have to delete my criticism in order to report an actual bug 🙄