Christian Mingle: Dating App Reviews

by Seekingbelievablecharacters

Ive been a paying (female) member for two months now and have spent more time dealing with glitches,billing problems , site crashing, scammers, and had my account hacked than actually meeting anyone! Getting hacked Has been a nightmare. They had to shut my account down and i was forced to get a new email I didn’t need or want in order to get my account back up. But to get it back up has been a nightmare too. Now ChristianMingle won’t recognize me no matter what i do but i can get on the desktop site. Unfortunately when i was hacked the hacker sent out mail to hundreds of female clients so now my site is still choked with women responding to me as though I’m a lesbian!!! Which, i am NOT! My profile clearly states I am looking for men yet i keep getting women as choices to pick from! What I would say at this point is DON’T BOTHER with Christian Mingle until they use some of that money they are getting from us to provide a quality product, an app that works and a better, customer service department!

by Ans2714

Please do not waste your money on this horrible app!! I'd give zero stars if I could. I tried ChristianMingle for a few days, received a bunch of messages, so figured I'd give it a try and pay for a months subscription so I could communicate with people. The second I signed up to pay for the subscription, I was immediately logged out of my account and couldn't get back in. After going back and forth for 2 WEEKS with their AWFUL customer service team, I was finally able to log back in. HOWEVER, I still couldn't see any of the messages I had because it didn't recognize that I paid for a membership. I sent in my receipt, confirmation of the paid subscription, and their customer service dept still refuses to do anything because they say they can't see my purchase on their end. I have PROOF of the purchase and they won't do anything about it. They won't even entertain the idea that there is possibly a glitch in their system. I have never encountered such awful customer service before. Until they can figure out their app and make some MAJOR upgrades, please do yourself a favor and save your money.

by Jejeeeeeeej

If someone does not have a premium account and sent me a smile I cannot even check their profile. Premium package is way too expensive! I’m sure that 80% of users don’t pay that. Also for some reason when I click on my profile sometimes my picture just disappears. Also if I click at “home” and I try to scroll down to see more users it just came back to the beginning without my permission so I get stuck with the people that I liked or visited. I would like to see more people but ChristianMingle get stuck if you try to scroll down more than 2 times. They should honestly work on some IT because these are huge concerns for an app in 2020. I like that ChristianMingle is worldwide but they (Christians mingle app) chose my matches everyday based on the percentage of accuracy and I honestly don’t like any of them. I would love to have a section for best friends because sometimes people might prefer meet their potentially lovers as friends before considering this is a “Christian” app.

by Hbsfnkjcxcbj

I wouldn’t necessarily blame ChristianMingle /website as much as I would the people on the site. On other websites I had loads of success with men interested in me that I was actually quite attracted to, just didn’t work out because we had different beliefs. So, I tried Christian Mingle since I was looking for someone with the same beliefs as I did. I don’t know if the men on this website are stuck up or they aren’t seeing my profile because I have liked 10+ people, have had ChristianMingle for over a month, yet have no mutual likes yet. Even the men I matched with at 99% and liked will view me and that’s it. No response or likes from there. Wouldn’t recommend to people looking for something specific because you likely won’t get any responses from any people you’re interested in. Now for the website. The subscription is way over priced, definitely for people who make decent money, not college students. Without the subscription you cannot view messages unless the other person has a subscription. Honestly no point in being on this website unless you are willing to pay a lot of money for it. Have tried to give this website a chance since I am seriously looking for a relationship that is centered around Christ, but will most likely delete because of the lack of success I’ve found with ChristianMingle.

by Bruce MacFergus

This may be something that only happened to me, I don’t know! But, on more than one occasion, in the single month that I subscribed here, my account was hacked, TWICE!!!!!! I had finished all of my settings, and, maybe two weeks later, I not only see some lousy unknown mans photo where mine was, but I’m discovering that all of my inputted settings about everything, from my short bio, to my occupation, about kids, education, you name it, were all changed to someone else’s! And my woman choices were changed from 20-45 years of age, to a bunch of ugly old wrinkled dowagers and battleaxes up into their 80’s!!!!!! After a phone call and finding I had to reset everything myself, plus, one-by-one, delete all of the Viewed Me, and, that I supposedly, Liked or Smiled At, I steadily set out and deleted them all, even tho there were more than 2000 of them altogether! Well, I come back on here now, the day before my single month subscription ends, and find the same theft/robbery is occurring, so, my decision is made, AND I WOULD SUGGEST THAT EVERYONE, TO BE SAFE,AND NOT GET HACKED TOO, DO NOT USE THIS DATING SITE, UNTIL THEY MOST VASTLY IMPROVE THE SECURITY OF THIS DATING SITE!!!!!!!! At least I may have found my Wife on here, tho I won’t know for two weeks yet! But, if not, I don’t know what site I’ll use, anymore!

by Ryanflucas

I had a long dormant account randomly activated in the past few days. Not by me. I requested a password reset. I then changed the password. Someone had hacked into the account. They changed my info, added their own photos and a location in NY. I'm assuming to scam other members. As I changed info back to me, in minutes it changed back to that of the hacker. The hacker was still in my account. Why didn't Christian Mingle log everyone out of the account when I changed the password? Changing the password again did nothing. I have no issues with any other service but they offer two factor authentication. Christian Mingle does not. Support responses were boiler plate canned replies. Then they suspended me due to suspicion of fraud. I replied back re-explaining the situation. Somehow after suspension the account was again reactivated. I received more email notifications regarding name, location, age, bio changes. Support suggested I make a new email address, ignoring the fact a hacker was still in my account. I had to plead with them to delete my account. I hope it's actually done now. I didn't spend any money thankfully. This service is highly unsecure and "Christian" in name only, not operation.

by Alesya94

Firstly, $50/month is way too expensive to have someone pay when they’re new to ChristianMingle . And the 6 month subscription although cheaper ($25/month) HAS TO BE PREPAID! And if I'm a new user and don’t know if I will even like ChristianMingle and pay the $100+ for the 6month subscription cuz I wanted a cheaper monthly rate but ended up hating it, I’d be losing so much money for nothing! Or if I find someone I actually want to date in that one month and then I still have to pay for 5more months of subscription? For what? They should offer a lower per month subscription rate that doesn’t have to be paid ahead otherwise this service isn’t worth the price. That is just unreasonable. If the monthly rate (at least for new users) was cheaper I would consider subscribing, but $50 per month is just ridiculous.
Secondly, ChristianMingle broke. It signed me out after I logged in on my computer and I cannot re-sign in. When I attempt to sign in (using fb because that is how I created my account) it makes me create a whole new account, so now I can’t even use ChristianMingle which is pretty messed up if I had actually paid the $50 subscription fee.
If the service was less expensive for per month rate I can see myself giving it more stars even with the broken app, but at the moment the price does not reflect services rendered.

by Real Female

This site is totally full of scammers. No real people. It’s disappointing. And it’s absolutely impossible to delete your profile. Even on the actual website. To stop the auto renew, you have to go to your financial institution directly to get them to stop taking payment. Their phone number has an automatic message that says the call center is down. This message has been there for the 3 months I attempted the site. They don’t answer e-mails, and their messaging system just asks for your phone number and won’t talk to you at after, and they never call you. Once I joined this site, my junk email box exploded with junk. I went from getting about 10 junk emails a day to several hundred immediately upon joining. I got tired of fake people that immediately wanted my phone number and email or they wouldn’t talk to me. About 50 people contacted me during 2 1/2 months, and with one exception, they were all scammers. The one real person was an absolute weirdo. Please save yourself a headache and don’t join this site.

by GracefulExpressions

This is a graveyard (DEAD) site and a nightmare to waste money on. The intentions to connect Christians was what drew me in of course. I’d hate to say that but all of the weirdos contact you or harass you, and DO NOT do like I did and make the mistake of paying all of your money so soon just to not meet anyone :( I’ll be honest I’m a very pretty young lady. After being burnt out with reaching out to guys who never logged into the site, I hadn’t logged on in for 2 months because I gave up on this site. When I returned, I got 3 poor candidates who were interested and made the conclusion that this was a poor decision to join. I have had more great conversations with people from the free app (although beware scammers are everywhere in cyber world trying to use others). There is a possibility it could turn around, but I doubt it 3 months later when I’m halfway into my membership which I will not be renewing. Good luck to all who try this but you would be better off paying a bill with the money. I suggest only using for free. Don’t get robbed due to these sites preying on us as Christians desiring true love. Pray before you do things and he will order your steps and give you the desires of your heart. Be patient. God bless.

by ♪♫♪♫♪♫♪

Christian Mingle is a scam. ChristianMingle is so buggy it’s unbelievable. The worst part is there are guys who are way outside of my preferences (divorced, single dads, incompatible denominations, way too old, ethnicities I didn’t click on) EVERYWHERE. In fact, ChristianMingle acts like no one exists in my preferences when I’ve sporadically seen them. Why include the option for discovery preferences if ChristianMingle and website completely ignores ALL of them? How we can search and browse for only those who meet our preferences? At least one tab should be everyone who fits all of our preferences, even if there are none. The results should be blank and refer to the other tabs that don’t fit our preferences. Furthermore, smiles are more annoying than anything. Is there a way to filter these out to only show real messages? Such a waste of money on ChristianMingle.

What’s even worse is NO ONE is active on ChristianMingle, and I’m convinced everyone is actually a bot or a fake profile because of how dead ChristianMingle is. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY!!! Don’t even bother downloading ChristianMingle.

by MrLegoElite

Well designed, God focused set up is definitely a plus, beats out any of the other dating apps especially Tinder. The biggest caveat is the expensive price tag. $50 a month is a lot, the free version leaves little to no opportunity to do anything more than look at potential matches. Making text communication a premium only feature makes it where you have to pay for it to do any actual good for finding a relationship. My experience in my area probably isn’t the same across the board, but almost all my top matches were not active in the past 1-2 months. I couldn’t find anyone in my area that were a high percentage of comparability that were online in the last month. Dead user base due to expensive price? No one viewed my profile, maybe I’m boring idk, but I at least expected one, maybe two, hopefully 3, Gotta have options right? Not knowing how long the search could take, I don’t want to commit to buying it monthly just to get a chance. $5-$15 would be more fair. I’m recently divorced at 21 and looking to move forward with my life. Looks like I will be doing it the old fashioned way. Carrier pigeons...

by Mlowery3

I’ve tried a few dating apps over the years. This is by far the worst. Unless you are willing to pay for premium which is $50 a month or pay for several months ($100+), ChristianMingle is basically useless. You can look at profiles and send likes or winks but that’s it. No messages, no even seeing any pictures but the first one they have. Other apps I’ve tried have upgrades to elite or premium but they’re far more affordable and ChristianMingle is still pretty functional even without paying, you just generally can’t see who likes you. ChristianMingle feels very money driven with no interest in actually helping you meet someone. The fact that pictures and the About Me section has to be approved before it can be viewed feels unnecessary and very overprotective. Additionally the layout of it is clunky and not particularly user friendly or easy to navigate. And did I mention it’s slow? I’ve had it take several minutes to load which is just not worth it. I would recommend checking out other dating apps and steer clear of this one. There are more affordable, more interactive, and more easily used ones out there.

by Mr.Nuke

I almost never write reviews unless something is very great or very terrible and this is just playing with your emotions and money. I thought it was way to expensive to pay for the premium but it was the only way to get anything done so I bought it and oh boy am I disappointed. At first I got only a few matches at all. I widened my search criteria to as far a I would allow and there are still only a few dozen people. All of the people my age haven’t been active in months and the very few who are active don’t respond. Most of the incoming “requests” are from people who are 40-60 years old. I’m 24. When I talked to support about this their response is to be more open. I don’t know what would they live in but last I checked it is not normal to date someone who is as old as my grandparents or even my parents. ChristianMingle may be fine if your older but there is no one active below 40 likely due to the outrageous prices. If I see real activity, I change my rating. Until then, this rating is a solid 1/5 stars

Edit: I found out that my birthday was changed so that my age was 50 but I did not do this. I changed it back to 24. I am still getting requests from people much older than me though. I was able to spark up at least 1 conversation so far so I’ll give it 2 stars for than but most people my age already passed me by as they saw my age was 50 so they ignored me. I feel like ChristianMingle has the right idea but has problems.

by DManBand10

My first attempt at online dating. It drew me in because I wanted to find someone who followed Biblical beliefs like I do. However, the hype fell down quickly. The site will treat you great as long as you opt-in to automatically renew your subscription when the old expires. Otherwise you will see all the bugs and flaws it has. States in ChristianMingle that you can move and scale your profile pictures.....you can't. Free accounts can't view the profiles of people who sent you messages. Just hope they showed up in the "Viewed You" section. Using ChristianMingle ? Well then get ready for lag unlike anything else. Sending "likes" and "smiles" will take a minute each to process. Hope your phone doesn't freeze and crash ChristianMingle . "F-words" are a common site to see on people's profiles. The terms and service doesn't allow them, but the customer service agents that review the profile don't pay enough attention to care. Speaking of customer service: it's just mediocre at best. They can't really help you. One admitted to me that she didn't know the terms of service. She made up the rule on the spot. Had high hopes going in, but they faded quickly. At least I was able to get a couple of dates out of it. That's the only reason for the two stars. One for each date.

by AssassinCreederJ

I had tried the premium membership to have the ability to communicate with those who didn’t want to pay the ridiculous price for a premium membership. I’ve always found that ChristianMingle is really slow to start up and load. Navigating through the different tabs also takes a bit of time. Some of the settings I had were ignored within search results. On an overwhelming amount of profiles the account hadn’t been active for a considerable amount of time. Quite a few that haven’t been active in months. The price for the memberships is quite steep for the quality and content of ChristianMingle . It makes me sad as I feel a lot of people think “If only I had premium then I could find someone.” I didn’t have that exact mindset but it wasn’t worth even half as much as the top premium membership for a single month. Roughly $50 for a single month on a slow, mostly vacant app. Definitely hoping some serious changes are put into ChristianMingle and I really won’t purchase anything further until the content is worth it. Prices that are reasonable for what is being offered for starters.

by (LoneSurvivor)

Like everyone else, I believe the prices are far too high for what you get. But you almost literally cannot use ChristianMingle without paying. Even if you do pay, the majority of the profiles say things like “Last active a month ago.” No one is active because no one will pay because no one is active because no one will pay and so on and so forth. Give incentives to stay active. Something like you get a certain number of messages you can send a day. This encourages people to stay active because it allows them to actually use ChristianMingle . You can keep everything else pay-for, just let us message at least a bit without spending $50+.

And do it quick — meaning within a week or two — because I found a wonderful woman who matched with and liked me, but isn’t active because of the above reasons. I paid $50 to message this woman specifically, so you better earn it.

by Crucifide2013

I don’t know what you have done with ChristianMingle in the last several months, but I am having issues (I’m not the only one). First of all, I was chatting with someone when ChristianMingle began to freeze. She noticed it, too. We both had to close ChristianMingle and restart it several times during the course of our chat.

Also, what is the deal with the profiles on ChristianMingle and their About Me section being cut off? Mine is cut off, too. I can’t even see the complete bio on my preview page. There is nowhere to click on the About Me field to see more of what people wrote. You can on the website, but not ChristianMingle . I know as a modern day person that folks prefer apps to mobile websites. That being said, if I find that I cannot learn more about a person I’m interested in (and believe me, it’s especially hard when they cut out mid-sentence and I cannot read the rest) when using ChristianMingle , then I’m going to move onto the next profile. Since all profiles have the same format, then I know that I may be less able to meet that special someone.

I noticed recently updated your app. Updates to your app should IMPROVE the experience, not make it WORSE! If I’m going to spend between $105-$150 of my hard-earned money on a 3-6 month subscription, I should have a great app experience.

This needs fixing immediately if you want to continue receiving my business.

by Cakester Frank

I’m happy that an app like this exists but there are definitely problems with it that prevents it from being good, mainly the layout of ChristianMingle and how it runs can only be described as clunky, like driving a car with a bad steering column. It takes forever to learn were things are in ChristianMingle , some things are accessed by buttons in places you wouldn’t expect.
and everything seems to take a long time to load, while anything else on my phone takes almost no time at all
And this would all be forgiven if the price for the services where reasonably priced, but the free parts can barely go anywhere and FIFTY DOLLARS FOR ONE MONTH?!?! I have tried the premium version and it was not worth it for me!
Also last thing, I live near the US/ Canada border and the fact there is no way to have matches not in the same country as you show up is a real annoying thing. It’s not a serious issue but a small annoyance, but also most dating sites I’ve been on don’t have this function either but still

by XXWillbossXx

Spent $150 on a 6 month membership. Had 1 connection where we talked for 2 weeks and it ended because she lived a couple of hours away and the conversation was getting dry. The lack of connections was probably due to me living in a small, college town, not being very attractive, and age range. The large towns are an hour or two away and most matches lived there. I’m 22 and there’s not a whole lot of options. Most women in my age range have their filter set to 18-20 or 23-35. ChristianMingle worked well for the most part, but it crashed once or twice and wouldn’t let me log in for a day or two. If you’re 18-20, or an older guy looking for a younger woman, and live in a big town, you should have plenty of options. Otherwise you don’t have a lot to work with and hope for a miracle on Bumble.

by Corbin_Paddock

I think ChristianMingle works great. The only thing that sets it apart from competition is that it is solely dedicated to Christians and is well advertised

Problem is, it costs so much. And honestly I'm looking for a Christian woman but I'm not that desperate. Like I questioned even using ChristianMingle because it feels like rushing God's plans for me. But my mind was made up when it costs so much just for the chance to talk to someone. Besides advertising, I don't how else you'd make money. But honestly I think you'd make a good profit by advertising and letting users send messages or see who likes their profile for free. You can still keep all those other benefits exclusive but your charging a lot just for a conversation. A resourceful person would just avoid your app and use Facebook's new dating system to find someone for free

by J66photography

In my opinion..(male) This site is for old desperate people who would settle for anyone, and has 3 years to wait for someone “maybe” to show up in which time you would have most likely spent over $2,000 just to get noticed. I’ve hade two meaningful connections to people who were soooo far away the relationship could only work with a teleportation device or a nasty case of codependency. On top of that there were fake profiles, and even one case of warnings of fraud on a banned profile all in the small timeframe I’ve been on. The Value was not here for me gentlemen, I would caution you in thinking “oh I’m spending more money the results should be better” Because I never write Reviews and the awful experience coupled with the price tag left me upset and self conscious, unlike any other dating sites which I’ve had much more successful meaningful relationships. Try it for a month and see what I mean

by S.TobyWebb

Seemed like a fit for me. I really only want to date Christian women. The problem is that the women I try to communicate with seem to rarely check in or respond. I think it’s due to the way they go about trying to get members. When I originally signed up I didn’t pay fees. I would get emails saying someone was interested, but in order to view them I would have to pay fees/join up, which I understand, so I eventually joined up. I think the problem is that now the women I message, don’t respond because when they go to view me they have to join (pay fees)and decide against it. I think most everyone on this site is in this category, and I didn’t realize that at first. It appears that their is a decent selection, but it’s all these people that haven’t really joined up your viewing and can’t respond without joining. I understand they need to make money, and when I did join up I paid for the six month deal. I’ve been a paying member for a couple months with very little interaction, and feel like I wasted my money.

by Bnf0716

The way this new update is set up doesn’t make ChristianMingle any better. It’s really frustrating how your “matches” are nothing what I had put for my preference. It will have maybe one or two things in common and possibly one preference and say that it’s a 91% match. Super inaccurate. Also, with this new update I try to go to ChristianMingle but it just pops up saying update ChristianMingle in ChristianMingle Store and takes me to ChristianMingle Store (even though I did the update) just to open ChristianMingle . Also, I enjoyed reading one’s profile and the way it is set up now, as someone mentioned before, it’s like a knock off version of tinder, and I don’t like that. I definitely wish I would have saved my money and not purchased it. There are other dating sites that are more affordable and functional. I haven’t been on many (meaning I haven’t paid for them but looked into it) and chose CM because I was hoping to find some like minded people in their faith. If you’re considering CM it’s better to wait when they have a promotional going on rather than wasting your money.

by Michael David Co

Let me say I'm going to stick directly to ChristianMingle itself... for the most part! People want a seamless experience. ChristianMingle has very little to me. Side note half the time I can't even log in on the iPhone version as it continues to not recognize my password most of the time when my desktop will! I have run out of password resets! Just has a unpolished feel, content controls clumsy, not to mention the content itself is poor. Not at all close to performing like other dating apps! Match app is much better as far as design and performance, content is a better too! Seems cheap to me in comparison to other dating apps! I would avoid, using the safe word "Christian" in the title is suppose to engender a sense safety I think! There are a number of Christian's on the site but ChristianMingle itself leaves little doubt that its more Christian in name only! Maybe a marketing strategy! Ironically, if I had to guess, I think Jesus himself would probably use the match app instead of this one. "You mean even though His name is in the title?" Better believe it!

by Jollyronny

I got my account hacked. First somebody changed my email address and then deleted my pics and uploaded Godly themed pics but they left my profile pic up. Then they changed my age. I also lost my match I was talking to and it’s probably because of whoever hacked my account. Think about how terrifying it is when somebody is posing as yourself with your picture and it’s a dating app. Think about the damage somebody can do to you especially in your local community amongst people you may know. It’s not worth it. Christian or not we all deserve to have an app that protects us and lets us be who we are really are. That’s foremost. I don’t want to deal with hurtful stuff all because I got hacked. It’s not worth grief in life. I’m here on a Saturday trying to reach out to them to delete my account before more damage is done and they aren’t available because it’s not during Mon-Fri business hours. :(

by MCMC4Lyfe

DO NOT purchase ChristianMingle at all. I made a good profile with pictures and spoke about myself briefly. Completed pretty much 90% of my profile. I received emails on females that winked at me before I purchased the subscription. I was hesitant on going forward with the subscription. After, I started using it to respond to the winks sent to me I haven’t received a response in over 24 hours. If they were real they would of gotten a notification like I have and responded within a time frame of me messaging them. I spoke to customer service about this already. I’m yet to hear a response back regarding this matter.