Badoo Dating: Meet New People

52 of 100 · reviews
4.6of 5 · store
145,735ratings on the App Store
500reviews read

An editorial reading of the saved reviews

Basic messaging is available without a paid plan and video verification reduces the share of fakes, but most active profiles come from other countries with faked locations.

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What people use it for

Those willing to filter patiently and comfortable with international conversations. Not suitable for people who strictly want local matches.

What reviews praise

Video and photo verification reduces the number of obvious fakes.
You can communicate without an extra plan.
The audience is diverse.

What reviews complain about

Most active profiles are from distant countries with fake locations.
Crypto-scheme scammers appear regularly.
The same profiles keep cycling around.

What users experience

1 excerpt from the breakdown. These are individual cases, not a verdict on all users.

It was good before as a free app for the most part. You just had to deal with the not legit fake people. Now may 2026 for about a year now I'm getting more then half of my match are people from outside the USA but there bio shows them livin