Meetup: Social Events & Groups

Meetup

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About this app

Pursue your interests with people who share them, both online and in person. With over 60 million members, Meetup helps you build a career network, discover a tech community, create a personal brand, make time for your hobbies, and meet friends who share similar interests.

Easily meet people you know you’ll get along with and create groups of friends that will be as excited as you to embrace your hobbies, participate in online or local events or engage in discussions. Download the Meetup app and host your own events or join one of the 100,000 Meetup events with new people happening every week.

Discover local and online events

👥 Meet new people and get matched with over 330,000 groups and friends based on your network of interests, from tech conferences to free yoga and everything in-between
🗺 Explore online or local events by category, search by keyword, or see what’s popular in your area with a map
👍 Save events you’re interested in and come back to them later. Pick and choose the people and friends you want to meet at all the events that you like
🗣 Have discussions with the people you meet and use direct messaging to stay in touch with your new friends
🎈 Meet people who are interested in the same local or online events, create new groups of friends and expand your online network

Start a group

👋 Host your own events online and in person by creating a group on your favorite topic, and meet friends who wants to participate
👤 Watch your community of friends and network of people grow as your group is recommended to interested people and potential new friends to meet
🗓 Easily personalize and schedule events on-the-go, and manage your group from anywhere
💬 Keep the momentum going between events by sharing photos and using discussions and instant messaging to connect with the people and friends in your group that you are keen to meet

Get in touch with questions or suggestions: [e-mail]

In order to recommend Meetup events that are hosted by local groups, we use your device's precise location (GPS and network-based).

Ratings and reviews

I've been using Meetup for over 10 years. It's truly made my social life so much better. But, the app has many bugs and it's impossible to reach their tech support or get their Tech Support to fix long-standing bugs and glitches in the system. In 2024 their corporate has decided to raise fees over 70% for the hosts. They started to charge every user a monthly fee for basic features that have always been free. You can still use it for free, but, more features are going behind paywall

I like the idea of Meetup, but the app has gotten worse and worse over the years. Bugs, slow performance and putting more and more features behind a paywall, and now, the final indignity: Every time you try to look at event RSVPs, it forces up an add for premium. Every. Single. Time. I'm an event host and need to check who's coming, and I now have a pop-up every time I do. Honestly, I'd delete the app if I weren't a host: I already have the events I go to, so I don't need to use the app.

Awful. A lot of basic features have been removed from the free accounts, and the constant popups begging you to subscribe are making the app borderline unusable. Most recently, they stopped allowing you to see the attendees list of events you're a member of, which makes it impossible for people to safely identify who to look out for when arriving at the event. Most of my local groups have left the platform because of the constant drastic pricing increases. It's becoming a paywalled ghost town

What's new

We've made some under-the-hood improvements to keep things running smoothly.

App feedback is always welcome: [e-mail]