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

The app sends way too many notifications and it's difficult to turn off the ones you don't want while keeping relevant ones. Personally, I don't want event suggestions or a notification that a group added an event. But in order to get rid of those, I end up having to shut off all notifications and missing the ones involving chat responses. It's really frustrating honestly. I love most of the core features of the app though.

Decent interface. Barely better than their website. Notifications suck though. Constantly sending nags to drive engagement. They've programmed in all the different categories of notifications so it seems like you can manage which notifications you get, but they all actually come across in the "other notifications" category, so you're stuck getting all the nag-ifications of you want to receive any of the ones you actually want like new events or messages. App also fails to load fairly frequently.

Way too much of a pain to end or delete groups you created. No automatic end. First, you have to dig through the app on some crazy scavenger hunt to remove yourself as Organizer. I had to keep bouncing between this app and the Organizers app. Then it'll keep the group open for a month to see if someone else will take over after you step down. I assumed that it would cancel future events I had scheduled, but apparently, I should have canceled everything else first.

What's new

We have made it easier to search for events using the map. Give it a try on Explore.

We also fixed some bugs to make the experience smoother and easier.

App feedback is always welcome: [e-mail]