Meetup
Meetup connects over 60 million users worldwide, offering tools to create, manage, and join interest-based groups and events. Explore both local and online gatherings by category, keyword, or location. Features include event personalization, direct messaging, and community building.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Subscription)
- Proprietary
EUPlatforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
Features
- Community events
- Event management
- Community-based
- Meeting
Meetup News & Activities
Recent News
- Maoholguin published news article about Meetup
Meetup enhances messaging with delivery status, new interface & real-time updatesMeetup has recently upgraded its direct messaging system to enhance speed, reliability, and user ex...
- Maoholguin published news article about Meetup
Bending Spoons, Evernote's parent company, has acquired events management platform MeetupBending Spoons has signed an acquisition deal with the renowned platform for community event manage...
Recent activities
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POX added Meetup as alternative to Convide.Online
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Maoholguin added Meetup as alternative to Apple Invites
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What is Meetup?
Meetup is a platform used by millions worldwide to connect with others who share similar interests. It allows users to start, manage, and organize groups and events. With over 60 million members, it supports the creation of career networks, tech communities, personal brands, and hobby groups. The platform features the discovery of local and online events and matches users with over 330,000 groups based on their interests. Events can be explored by category, keyword, or location. Users can save events, select people they want to meet, engage in discussions, direct message, and create their own groups. Event personalization, scheduling, and group management can be done on-the-go.
Meetup information
Developed by
Bending Spoons S.p.A. Licensing
Proprietary and Freemium product.Pricing
Subscription that costs up to $30 per month + free version with limited functionality.Alternatives
75 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
- Dutch
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Spanish
- Turkish
AlternativeTo Categories
Social & Communications, Office & ProductivityApple AppStore
- Updated
- 4.72 avg rating
Comments and Reviews
Meetup is good because it promotes your group to other users. It finds and recruits a lot of members for you.
The problem is they now charge $360/year! That is obscenely expensive. They encourage you to charge your members an annual or per-meeting fee. I've tried that. For the most part it doesn't work. People don't want to pay to participate. That means that you the organizer have to eat most or all of that fee. That is unacceptable. Meetups are supposed to be hobby events. I can't spend $360/year on my hobby.
As startup, it was very good and promising. But it seems not able to make it international.
Switched to very expensive subscription fees which are very high for small groups. May be good only for group with sponsors.
Platform is Not for international users or groups. Front-end is very limited to couple languages. And towns list is not complete for most countries except western league, so its search feature is useless (forced to use town not yours, no close-by town to select, not allowed to select country wide search)
Used to be great, but unfortunately, it didn't evolve as it should. 🥲
Does anyone know if any of these Meetup.com alternatives (particularly the self-hosted ones) have, or are working on having, a cryptocurrency element?
Meetup used to be a great site. It was easy to use and had great functionality. Years of poor updates have reduced both the features and the usability. It's been almost two years since they released a half-baked "refresh" of the site design, and still half the pages are on the old design, making the site very awkward to use.
Fortunately, now there is a decent competitor- uGetTogether
My experience as an Organizer with uGetTogether after a few weeks: Very frustrating! uGT offers a promising alternative to Meetup; however, it is underdeveloped and does not seem to be making progress fixing obvious issues, although the email support is forthcoming and has given 1 or 2 helpful directions.
Issues:
Major uGT plus: Organizer fees were automatically suspended until at least July (2020) due to the covid-19 pandemic, as we aren't actually meeting.
*Originally my group has been a Meetup since early 2013. It took MUCH hassle to be given a suspension of Organizer fees until September (2020), with an increase from $60 to $100 after that time, according to what I saw. Both issues prompted me to wish to leave M'up, in addition to long-term dissatisfaction with negative changes there, and this has been generally supported by members.
But it is hard to say at this point whether we will actually continue with uGT, as it is disappointing so far. I'd like to be able to recommend it, but the issues really must be fixed! Which does not mean we will remain with Meetup.
We are currently working on a free Meetup.com alternative. Anyone can create and join events, completely free -- without any service fees! You can check us out here: https://aphinityapp.com/