Once: Find your Perfect Match
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Information
- Category: Dating
- Price: $0
- Age Rating: 17+
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Rating:
4.0
- Developer: Xeanco Ltd
- Version: 2.14.0
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Features
Once (formerly known as uDates) is a dating and chat mobile app that offers a range of features to help users connect and find potential matches. Some of the key features of the app include a user-friendly interface, advanced search filters, real-time chat messaging, video calling, and the ability to send virtual gifts to other users. The app also uses a unique matching algorithm that provides users with one handpicked match per day, based on their preferences and behavior on the app.
Additionally, Once offers a safe and secure platform for users to interact, with features such as photo verification and the ability to report and block suspicious or inappropriate behavior. The app also has a premium subscription option that unlocks additional features, such as unlimited likes and the ability to see who has liked your profile.
How to Use
Using Once (ex-uDates) is simple and straightforward. After downloading the app, users can create a profile by providing some basic information about themselves and uploading photos. Once the profile is set up, users can start browsing potential matches and swiping through profiles. When a match is made, users can start chatting in real-time and getting to know each other. The app also offers the option to video call and send virtual gifts to other users to enhance the interaction.
Once also provides advanced search filters that allow users to narrow down their preferences and find the most compatible matches. The app's unique matching algorithm provides users with one handpicked match per day, simplifying the process of finding potential partners.
Pros & Cons
Pros of Once (ex-uDates) include a user-friendly interface, advanced search filters, and a unique matching algorithm that provides one handpicked match per day. The app also offers real-time chat messaging, video calling, and the ability to send virtual gifts to other users. Additionally, Once provides a safe and secure platform for users to interact, with features such as photo verification and the ability to report and block suspicious behavior.
Cons of Once (ex-uDates) include the limitation of one handpicked match per day, which may be seen as restrictive for some users who prefer a wider selection of potential matches. The app also offers a premium subscription option, which may not appeal to users who prefer to use dating apps for free. Additionally, while the app aims to provide a safe and secure platform, there is always a risk of encountering inappropriate behavior from other users.
User Reviews
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It is a very easy to use app. I'm actually seeing a lot of traffic. But I have a feeling that the vast majority of those "users" are fake. I don't like how I paid for a membership and then I have to pay to talk to "premium" users. They're all premium users! If you must charge, at least make it to where you can send free daily messages to the SAME person for no extra cost! That way at least some kind of connection can form. Or else give 3 free messages when you first match with someone.
I like the idea of the app and it's potential. The issues I have is that it isn't free to message most people. I signed up for a premium subscription, so I believe I should get free and unlimited messaging no matter who I'm chatting with. Also, there's no distance filter, so that's disappointing. The app needs to incorporate more editing features.
I've only been on it a couple of days now. But I have enough to give a review. The UI is pretty. The problem I have with the app is that to chat for free, you need a subscription whic gives a few coins and new ones daily. But if you chat with popular members, it can cost 5 coins a message. Most if the people in my are are marked as popular. This greatly limits how much I can chat, even with one person. This feels like a grift and I can't wait to see if this becomes a class action suit.
Terrible! Even with a premium subscription you still have to buy more coins to chat. And it costs 5 coins per message and the message can only be so long. Their "free to use" advertisement is BS. If you subscribe. You should be able to have unlimited chat, as it claims, with the ones you were already chatting with, before you subscribed. Nope. Have to buy more coins and only allow 10 free per day! Absolute BS.
Started off good, a little too good. This app is full of scammers and bots. Like a crazy amount of them! It is also very expensive. For example the smallest package deal for 50 credits (Coins) is $12.00 and I was only able to send 5 messages with that. They also misslead you in thinking you get unlimited messages if you perchance the trial membership, but you don't. I got suckered and I feel totally ripped off. Don't waste your time.
Terrible. Most of the profiles are not real. I wasted money on "coins" so I could chat, and every time you suggest texting or another way to communicate, they always want to stay on the platform, making you buy more coins. Then I looked at the Terms of Service more closely and it specifically says that they are operators that do the chats. So you would never be able to meet a real person. Stay far away!
Trash app. They don't tell you that you have to pay per message. They offered me a trial of the "Once Premium" when I went to delete the app, and it's supposed to give you unlimited messaging, but it's NOT unlimited. After I went through the 55 gems it gave me for free (which, by the way, it shouldn't have done either if messaging was supposed to be unlimited), it asked me to buy more gems. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY.
DO NOT DOWNLOAD, DO NOT BUY. The subscription is $19.99 per month, but you spend 5 "coins" per message chatting with popular users. Accounts that are not popular are free to chat with, but they don't seem to exist. This app is an outright scam. I even tried to get one of the users to message me on a different platform and they insisted on using the uDates app where you have to pay just to message. Still waiting on a refund for the "premium" package.
So this app is riddled with fake profiles. The locations are of the town you live in followed by "US". The profile photos are professional (ie models) and not your average girl next door snap shots. You get emails from women half your age or less who say "age doesn't matter", yeah, right. It is obvious that they are using a translator to write their profiles. If you are desperate and lonely get out of this app. If you got some common sense you might get lucky, but don't hold your breath.
This is the worst dating app I have ever tried to navigate. I ended up with a completely different area than I live in and cannot change it, number 1. Number 2 you cannot chat without either purchasing a premium membership or coins. False advertising. I tried to purchase the one month to try the unlimited chat feature but, that didn't happen. I paid $30 to be able to do absolutely nothing but look at the same group of profiles over and over. Waste of damn money. Fake App Not contacting Support!!
SCAM!!!! If you pay for premium, you can unlimited chat with regular accounts. There are no regular accounts. Only "popular member" accounts with models pictures. They chat and say very little to continue the chat to make you run out of coins (5 coins per message) and need to purchase more coins to continue. I can't prove it but I believe they work for the app. I have 1 pic and no bio, with over a 100% match rate. DO NOT USE OR BUY THIS APP.
They basically trick you into paying more and more, but the only people you can chat with are the "popular", and they make you think that you are getting great matches, and this people makes you keep the conversation going to get you to pay for the conversation eventually, but whenever you wanna talk to non-popular person the app tells you that your profile is been moderated and you need to wait (I don't know for how long). They definitely know how to trick you. My advise: try someone else.
This app sucks. Everyone you talk to says, "Let's chat here." Presumably all bot profiles. Even if you have premium, there's a limited number of messages you can send before the app tries to make you pay for "gems" to keep messaging. Edit: In their response, they say it's free to chat with regular members. I've only seen "popular member" profiles. Every single female.
Update: Seems like when you rate this app only one star they take away a subscription if you paid for it... because mine is gone all of a sudden. I have am email from them earlier stating when it is supposed to be up and I should still have over 20 days left... Old: Purchased a sub, and still had to purchase "coins" in order to talk to people. Not to mention each message you send costs 10 coins. Don't waste your time.
This is probably the worst I have ever used in the history of smartphone apps. 95% of the accounts seemed like they were bots. Everyone looks too perfect. Additionally, everything costs you to do stuff. Even if you've paid for a subscription! I foolishly paid for a 3 month subscription so as to have access to all the conversations I'd already started. Only to find out that you're charged by the message too! Tried contacting customer service to get a refund. No response. 0 ⭐ if I could.
The grammar in the app isn't always correct, especially plural forms of words or extra words in sentences that you just wouldn't use; Like it's written by a non native English speaker. It gives me red flags. The location is no where near accurate, the closest ppl I saw were from a town 120+ miles away 😂 there's no way to edit a location, it also doesnt use your GPS location. It's just a poorly developed app. Glootie, you should not have developed this app. It sucks as bad as Jerry.
App is a scam, you have to use gems to send messages, it cost one per message. And none of the people that I was able to briefly message seemed to know that, and brush me off whenever I tried to move the conversations to an app where it doesn't cost to message, like instagram. Also, anytime I would bring up the fact that I was almost out of gems, the damn "person" I was texting with would say "let's not worry about that right now" and then change the subject. Wouldn't let me put socials in bio🙄
Can't speak on whether or not bots a present for majority of conversations or not. But forcing people to pay for the ability to simply chat with "other members" is basically extortion. I understand pushing for a "premium" or "VIP" style account with monthly charges. but on other apps, the perks are usually centered around profile visibility only. I.E.: seeing those who've viewed your profile, being featured on the front page of suggested potential matches, etc..
It seems like a great app and very user-friendly at first, but then you find out that you have to pay per message even with a premium subscription. That's ridiculous. And it seems like the profiles are bots that try to push keeping the conversation going on the app rather than texting. This app is a waste of time and money. I want my money back.
Here's the deal. You can start chatting, but after awhile in your chat with someone, it won't let your message go through unless you subscribe. So, gullible me, I subscribed. I was back chatting again, then again it won't let your message go through without buying coins or something like that. They cost almost as much as I just paid to subscribe. Scam!
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