Taimi
Taimi, a social networking app for the LGBTQ+ community, is overwhelmingly criticized in recent reviews for its aggressive monetization, with nearly all core features locked behind expensive paywalls and subscriptions, leading many users to call it a "scam" and a "money grab" despite its positive lifetime rating.
Taimi is a social networking and dating app marketed towards the LGBTQ+ community, offering features like group chats and matching. While it boasts a high lifetime rating, recent reviews are overwhelmingly negative, focusing on extensive paywalls and issues with profile filtering and customer support.
What users like
What users complain about
- Nearly all core features, including liking, messaging, and seeing matches, are behind expensive paywalls or subscriptionsR1R3R5R6
- Users report issues with filters not working, showing profiles outside their preferences (e.g., men to trans men attracted to men, or women to those seeking only women)R7R25R32R38
- Many users suspect a high number of fake profiles, bots, or scammers, with some reporting zero real human interactionsR2R12R26R28
- Difficulty canceling subscriptions and reports of being charged even after cancellation or during a 'free trial'R57R60R64R74
- Customer support is described as unhelpful, unresponsive, or providing generic responses, with some users reporting false bans or inability to delete accounts/photosR40R59R66R67
- Notifications are often spammy, random, or misleading, sometimes showing activity that isn't visible in the app or persisting even with settings adjustedR16R42R78R80
- The app's advertising is seen as misleading, particularly regarding free features and the promise of 'no blurred likes'R11R14R17R70
- Users report losing purchased features or having swipe limits imposed even after paying for subscriptionsR40R41R43
- Concerns about the app's target demographic due to 'weird ads' that feel targeted to fetishizers rather than queer peopleR4R24
- Technical issues include music pausing when the app opens, glitches with message delivery, and repeated requests for face verificationR22R75R81
- Some users report a small user base or lack of people in their area, making matches difficultR53R64R70R90
- Recent update notes claimed 'no more blurred Likes' but users still report seeing blurred likes and paywallsR14R17
Latest update · v5.1.415
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
Summer's heating up, and so is Taimi. This update brings performance improvements and bug fixes to keep things running as smoothly as your summer plans (whatever — or whoever — those involve). Keep the feedback coming, it shapes everything we build.
Recurring themes
Who it's for
Taimi is for LGBTQ+ individuals who are willing to pay a significant amount for a dating and social networking app, and who prioritize group chat features and a perceived bully-free environment R71R73. It is NOT for users seeking a free or affordable dating experience, those who expect accurate filtering of profiles, or individuals who value responsive customer support and clear billing practices R1R3R7R12.
Evidence note: The recent reviews are overwhelmingly negative (77% negative), strongly contrasting with the app's high lifetime rating. This indicates a significant negative trajectory in user sentiment, likely due to recent changes in monetization or app functionality. The positive reviews are generally short and lack specific details, while negative reviews are detailed and consistent across multiple points. Therefore, the consensus is heavily weighted by the recent negative feedback.
Frequently asked
Is Taimi free to use?
Are there many fake profiles or bots on Taimi?
Does Taimi's filtering work effectively?
What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 100 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R71] Love: Love the option to chat in so many group chats. I really like there are clean options
- [R73] No bullies: No bullying here.
- [R55] Excellency: Perfect honest reliable trustworthy dating app that I ever used 😍
- [R79] Engaging app: One of the most engaging, fun and socials apps around.
- [R84] Its actually really good: This actually works everything it’s is well done so many great guys
- [R100] Easy to log in: Able to sync with Snapchat
- [R1] Everything costs money: To like or msg costs money. Wasted my time. 30% of lgbtq youth are homeless statistically btw. Maybe try like 1-3$/month. But you have no reputation as an app so why would anyone pay what ur asking?
- [R3] Money grab: They just want your money don’t bother with this app
- [R5] Its a capitalistic game: I was on taimi when i was younger and enjoyed my experience but now, the app is not as enjoyable because the app curates people for you who match your interest but force you to pay in order to contact them . Whats the point of matching me with someone compatible yet not making it accessible to contact them ? Isn’t the whole point of the app is to meet people who align with
- [R6] Just bad: You really can’t do anything on this app without paying money. It’s that a bad app and probably my least favourite that I’ve tried.
- [R7] Makes you pay for anything and everything: Can’t even use the app without them taking your money and I don’t wanna see men on my gay app?
- [R25] Hates its target demographic: The developers of this app must hate trans people because this is literally the worst app ever. Money hungry, bad features disguised as "free preview" (the second chance swipes). If you are trans and looking to date might as well deal with the ignorance on tinder, you will be shown people within your taste unlike here. (The app forces you to swipe thru people out
- [R32] Rip off and poorly moderated: They do not review any profiles, so many (ugly guys mostly) are listed under all of the following categories: “gay, straight, trans, feminine, non-binary” so it doesn’t matter what filters you apply, you still have to wade through all of them that you don’t want to see. They also have perfected the art of charging you for absolutely everything, and yet delivering so v
- [R38] Should Be Better: Given how many ads I’ve seen I assumed Taimi would be full of potential matches, but the filtering function doesn’t filter out profiles you’re not looking for. Took less than 10 minutes for my swipes to start showing people opposite to my filters. The tumblr of dating apps.
- [R2] SCAM!!: Pay to chat with bots. Shame on you
- [R12] Scam: Half of the people on the site that are within my area are considered not free to talk to, are “curated” for a cost to actually talk to people. The site is filled with bots and scammers and the owners know this and don’t care. All a money grab with no actual results. Talking to a lawyer about a lawsuit because of false advertising and fraud on the company’s side.
- [R26] Zero Human Interaction / Bot Nags Daily: I’ve been on this app for a while and I’ve had ZERO real human interactions. Not even sure what that would look like. The apps chat bot nags me daily though like some petulant teenager. Deleting naggy App.
- [R28] Too many fakes: The app itself works well and is easy to use. I just had only fake profiles. A way to certify profiles must be found. Deleted in the meantime.
- [R57] I hate it: How do I get rid of this app,I don’t want it and I keep being charged the instruction on the app once I dissble it don’t work there is no subscription option
- [R60] How to cancel subscription: Hi team members Last two weeks ago I have cancelled my subscription.. the management still charging me.. please advise how to stop the payment.. it’s urgent.. Thank you
- [R64] They are not honest: I subscribed the 3 days free trial and cancelled it on the second day cause no one was in my area, and the they charged me eventhought I canceling it before the 3th day. Totally unfair
- [R74] Not worth it!!: Do not use this app. It took $700 from my card within two weeks of trying it and that was when I was on the ‘free trial’ period. Seriously hurt me that they finally made an app for LGBTQ dating and it’s a scam. You’d be better off using Tinder
- [R40] Theft: This company will steal your money do not pay for premium feature. I woke up. Couldnt use any of my premium features? I reach out and they tell me. Sorry there’s nothing we can. Do you have to Luz the day that you paid for. But you can use your account now until the end of your subscription. And then the guy proceeds to give me a bogus email saying if you want a supervisor that’s where you
- [R59] My account got stopped falsely: My account got stopped I don’t like it
- [R66] False account: I have not used this app before but someone has made an account using my photos, when trying to contact support it was responded with how to delete the app and I had no help. I had a relationship that thought I was on a dating app and I had absolutely no help taking it down.
- [R67] Slimey: Uses dark patterns in the account deletion process to try & trick users into keeping their accounts alive. So they think they’ve deleted their info, when they haven’t.
- [R16] They do everything to have your money.: You see a nice profile but it happens to be one curated for you? Sorry, you can’t like unless you pay gold and even then, you get 3 curated likes. You get 20 ish likes per 24h. If you want more you need to pay regardless of your plan. Verified profiles can just change their profile picture so scammers roam free. The app will send you notification about me
- [R42] Random Notifications, No Profiles: At least once a day I’m getting notifications that people are nearby, then I open the app, adjust the filters every which way, and no profiles show up. Also had people that live nearby tell me in person that they’ve swiped on me, yet I haven’t seen their profile at all.
- [R78] Too spammy: Way too many notifications by default trying to hook you into reopening.
- [R80] Lack of respect: Doesn’t respect its own push notification options, sending me spammy notifications several times a day even with only new message notifications enabled. If they can’t respect basic notification decency then I don’t have high hopes they respect their users otherwise.
- [R11] worst dating app ever!!!: first of all you have to pay to see people in your area exclusively. second the ads ive gotten for this app border spam and are very misleading. DO NOT INSTALL
- [R14] Confused about the update summary: You said “No more blurred Likes, we mean it! Now you can see every Like in real time, for a full 24 hours. No paywalls, no hassle.” But all I see are blurred likes. And a paywall. What am I missing?
- [R17] Too much greed with dating apps: I had to delete this app, even though I just downloaded it as soon as I seen premium and it costs money, I deleted it Yeah, imagine telling the people don’t worry there’s no blurry photos. There’s no blurry profiles. Actually there is if you don’t want blurry photos and blurry profiles you have to pay for premium which is $100 a month which I do not have 90% of Ca
- [R70] Waste of time: Crazy expensive, useless app. No one is using it so it’s essentially pointless. They’ve tried to mash tinder and Grindr together and failed. They also use ads worded very similar to other apps to trick you into subscribing to a free trial that isn’t a free trial...
- [R41] non-stop pay restrictions: Even after paying for the app, it limits what you can do to a ridiculous extent. Paid for a month of “silver” and a few swipes, I had to wait 24 hours unless I wanted to pay even more for “unlimted activity”. Full on scam.
- [R43] I lost features after I purchased: Purchased gold. My swipe counter thing went from 59 to 100. Now I have to wait. Then, I got a counter where I have to wait 15 hours to swipe. It says to skip that I need to pay another 19.99 so I attempted. It didn’t try to charge me 19.99 it tried to charge he 48.99 lol.
- [R4] Weird ads make me feel unsafe: I’ve used this app multiple times and it’s been ok, but the recent ads feel targeted to chasers & make me concerned about what demographic this app is trying to appeal to: actual queer people or those who fetishize us? I’m not sure I feel comfortable redownloading because of it.
- [R24] Kinda gross: Advertises ‘meeting trans women’ as their value proposition on Instagram, for which, they receive nothing in return. As others have noted, the app is excessively monetized and has a small pool of people (mostly low quality). Despite years of on and off use, I have only ever met one person from it
- [R22] Money scape goat: The doesn’t allow you to align people that you actually like. They keep showing profiles that you’ve already skipped in the guise of “second chance” so you’d have to buy the in app purchases to actually have access to see who you can match with. It’s also extremely glitchy with messages taking forever to deliver them. Not a great app. 👎👎👎
- [R75] Music: When I’m listening to music, and I open the app my music always pauses. Why? Other than this one issue it’s a pretty good app
- [R81] It looks good but glitchy: I’ve been asked to do face vertification about 3 times now... and keeps getting stuck on select free trial for so long. Shame, pretty girls on there!
- [R53] I guess I’m unlucky.: I would live to know how so many people seem to have have so much success. After nearly a year on the app I didn’t even have one person hold down a full conversation. I also feel like there is no one in my area so I don’t know why I still bother
- [R90] More users: Needs more users
Synthesized from 100 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store