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 ability to create and find local meetups is awesome and worth 2+ stars. But the app itself is buggy, frequently freezes or doesn't load, and they recently put many features behind paywall: seeing new ppl attending events (makes new ppl/events awkward not knowing name/face, maybe even dangerous), seeing groups ppl are in (makes discovery difficult). The paid user ad pops up Every.Single.Time you look at attendees and many other things. After 2min on the app I just got the popup 6 times.

Update 01/2025: going to the group page no longer shows "about this group." It's just a tiny arrow to open the section. Going to an event, the same thing happens with the description. Leading to unnecessary questions, or unprepared event participants. OP: I've tried to be patient through the changes, but this app is barely functional. Comments cannot be replied to; the map just puts in whatever address it wants. And I'm paying to organize so that the app can get my members lost. Top notch.

Extremely slow, & buggy at times. For being mostly a text based app with few graphics, Meetup is annoyingly slow. Group pages & events take too long to load even when connected to strong wifi. Sometimes events dated for 2 days way say "happening tomorrow". In the past year, it started adding annoying pop up ads after you RSVP to an event, as well as popups to rate previously attended events. I've not found a way to turn off any of these options. Overall it seems updates don't make improvements

What’s new

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

App feedback is always welcome: [e-mail]