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Meetup

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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.

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License model

  • FreemiumProprietary

Platforms

  • Online
  • Android
  • iPhone
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  • iPad
1.5 / 5 Avg rating (4)
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Features

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  1.  Community events
  2.  Event management
  3.  Community-based
  4.  Meeting

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    borgoat added Meetup as alternative to GRUP
    2 days ago
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    Maoholguin added Meetup as alternative to Apple Invites
    11 days ago
  • Danilo_Venom updated Meetup
    2 months ago
  • Sneetsher reviewed Meetup  
    2 months ago

    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...

  • Sneetsher replied to a comment / review on Meetup
    2 months ago
  • Mojosam reviewed Meetup  
    3 months ago

    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...

  • cmngoalcom reviewed Meetup  
    3 months ago

    Used to be great, but unfortunately, it didn't evolve as it should. 🥲

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    CypherJack added Meetup as alternative to Flockstr
    6 months ago
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    Ivipop added Meetup as alternative to Ivipop
    6 months ago
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    Maoholguin added Meetup as alternative to Partiful
    7 months ago
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Comments and Reviews

   
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Mojosam
  
Top negative commentNov 10, 2024

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.

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Sneetsher
  
Negative commentDec 4, 2024

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)

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cmngoalcom
  
Negative commentMay 18, 2024

Used to be great, but unfortunately, it didn't evolve as it should. 🥲

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James Deus
CommentMar 12, 2020

Does anyone know if any of these Meetup.com alternatives (particularly the self-hosted ones) have, or are working on having, a cryptocurrency element?

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Eric Kassan
  
Negative commentApr 24, 2019

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

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tifunolam

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:

  1. uGetTogether is clearly California-based; I'm in Arizona and I don't think potential members will be using it to find my new uGT group's activities unless its range is broadened.
  2. Although my new group is now registered with uGT, searching for it by name after 2 weeks: still "0 groups found."
  3. The Interest Category of "Arts/Culture-Theater/Plays" was added, but when the interest Theater is searched for it is still "not supported." Therefore, my group cannot be found either way!
  4. No notification to me as Organizer when people joined my group.
  5. Editing the group's information has been confusing, requiring much trial & error.
  6. A photo to illustrate a planned event was unable to be uploaded despite this ostensible feature being shown, although personal profile photos were able to be, for some people who just joined. All are members of our original Meetup.*

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.

Reply written May 3, 2020

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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/

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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.

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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.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 1.5
  • Alternatives

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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Dutch
    • French
    • German
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Russian
    • Spanish
    • Turkish

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Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about Meetup, and it has gotten 29 likes

Meetup was added to AlternativeTo by columbus on Feb 19, 2011 and this page was last updated Dec 9, 2024.