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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: iossupport@meetup.com
In order to recommend Meetup events that are hosted by local groups, we use your device's precise location (GPS and network-based).
EULA:
https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy:
https://www.meetup.com/privacy/
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Deep-Dive FAQs
What is Meetup: Social Events & Groups?
Meetup: Social Events & Groups is a digital product or tool described as: Meetup LLC
Where did Meetup: Social Events & Groups originate?
Data for Meetup: Social Events & Groups was aggregated directly from the Apple App Store community ecosystem, representing raw developer and early-adopter sentiment.
When was Meetup: Social Events & Groups publicly launched?
The initial public indexing or launch date for Meetup: Social Events & Groups within our tracked developer communities was recorded on June 13, 2010.
How popular is Meetup: Social Events & Groups?
Meetup: Social Events & Groups has achieved measurable traction, logging over 272,641 reviews and facilitating 5 recorded discussions or engagements.
Which technical categories define Meetup: Social Events & Groups?
Based on metadata extraction, Meetup: Social Events & Groups is categorized under topics such as: Social Networking, Lifestyle.
What are some commercial alternatives to Meetup: Social Events & Groups?
Our semantic intelligence engine identifies potential commercial alternatives in the SaaS space, such as YAGNI, which offers overlapping value propositions.
How does the creator describe Meetup: Social Events & Groups?
The original author or development team describes the product as follows: "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 bran..."
Community Voice & Feedback
CHARGE TF out of you without giving you an advanced warning. GOOD LUCK meeting nothing but DUDES at these meetups anyway
Honestly a good app and I’ve found good community.
However, they gotta figure out how to get rid of all these weird spam job posts that keep cropping up advertising “Quick and easy cash!”
The app/Meet-Up does seem to shut the posts down pretty quickly but the notifications are annoying.
However, they gotta figure out how to get rid of all these weird spam job posts that keep cropping up advertising “Quick and easy cash!”
The app/Meet-Up does seem to shut the posts down pretty quickly but the notifications are annoying.
Every new version says “under the hood improvements” to make things run smoother. Nowhere does it say “moving previously free features behind a paywall” that will cost $4.99 a week to get back.
Improvements to your bottom line, maybe, but not improvements for the user.
Updated Jun 15, 2026: Bye bye Meetup. You took away functionality, then started hounding me for money to join. $9.99 per WEEK⁉️ Are you nuts! For ONE group that I belong to? Now I can’t RSVP without a donation or comment.
Here’s my comment… Account deleted. App deleted.
Improvements to your bottom line, maybe, but not improvements for the user.
Updated Jun 15, 2026: Bye bye Meetup. You took away functionality, then started hounding me for money to join. $9.99 per WEEK⁉️ Are you nuts! For ONE group that I belong to? Now I can’t RSVP without a donation or comment.
Here’s my comment… Account deleted. App deleted.
Unwanted charge
Automatically signed me up for a subscription
Do not try the free trial they’ll charge you anyway as soon as you start the trial
Meetup was and remains a great concept for bringing together peeps with shared interests. New ownership/management is making a huge push to monetize users which is turning off many resulting in them moving to new platforms/venues. Meetup has now become much less active, less activities and less active users. Constant screens pushing monthly use fee also reduce app user experience. New “updates” have also decreased user experience. Keep it simple, shouldn’t be complicated (or expensive to maintain), think of what’s best for users. Craigslist is a great model to follow.
It seems like every other day I get a notification about a advertising position that is available to anybody. These spam notifications finally force me to leave.
After the last automatic update the app logged me out (on my iPad - it still works fine on my phone). And it won’t allow me to use my account credentials to log back in. Wanna know why? Because the damn keyboard isn’t there! I can’t type in my email address and password! Please fix this - it’s a stupid problem to have. Sidebar: $9.99 A WEEK or $40/$50 A MONTH is too much! What exactly is the value? You have to pay to see the people who’ve signed up for an event you’re attending? Bananas! I can’t see myself using this platform much longer.
Can’t use it, timing out and waiting for page
The money push on this app is insane. The amount of pop up adds and intentional misleading to pay for the plus membership makes this unusable.
Too expensive for what’s offered
Please fix the app so it responds to the Per-App settings in Settings -> Accessibility. The font is too small and impossible to read for anyone over 45.
I remember the Meetup website and I thought it world be fun to try it again. I saw $9.99 a WEEK and I deleted the app before even trying it. I’d be in the fence at $9.99 a year. They’re so far removed from what the value is. They’re not in the same universe
What’s funny is that the last 20 or so reviews are all terrible but when you research the app the default is most relevant which only shows positive reviews.
What’s funny is that the last 20 or so reviews are all terrible but when you research the app the default is most relevant which only shows positive reviews.
Discovery Source
Apple App Store Aggregated via automated community intelligence tracking.
Tech Stack Dependencies
No direct open-source NPM package mentions detected in the product documentation.
Media Tractions & Mentions
No mainstream media stories specifically mentioning this product name have been intercepted yet.
Deep Research & Science
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There are no instructions on how to join a group
It’s like a club where everyone in it already knows how it works and if you don’t know how it works, then they don’t want you