BlackPeopleMeet Review (2026)

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BlackPeopleMeet is a dating app that caters to singles of color who want to meet others that understand their cultural background and way of life. Many black singles (or singles of color in general), say that standard dating sites are often wrought with bigots or fetishists, making the experience unpleasant.

While we do know that using a dating app with great moderators can prevent these issues, it is still wonderful to see niche apps like BlackPeopleMeet where singles can feel comfortable and safe on their digital dating journey. But is BlackPeopleMeet doing a good job of filling this hole in the market?

Today, we are taking a look at everything BPM has to offer to see if it is worth it or a waste of time. If you’re wondering if this is the right app for you we’re confident our BlackPeopleMeet review will help you make that decision today.

Is BlackPeopleMeet Worth It? – The Bottom Line Up Front

BlackPeopleMeet’s large membership base, options for serious and casual dating, and low number of bots and fakers make it one of the better dating apps for black singles on the market. Still, it doesn’t stand up to many of the top mainstream dating sites. In short, it may be worth a try if you want to meet Black singles, but we recommend using it alongside other dating apps for the best results.

So, what makes BlackPeopleMeet good but not great? Let’s start our BlackPeopleMeet review with one of the biggest problems we encountered – limited free accounts. With our free account, we were able to:

• Send unlimited likes
• Choose basic match preferences
• Sort search results
• Message one Top Pick a day

We sent one free message a day for a week and didn’t get a single response. Two members initiated contact with us and both of those messages were hidden behind a paywall.

At that point, we realized we needed to upgrade to premium if we wanted to connect on the app

We had a lot more success when using a premium account with the “Reply for Free” add-on. Over the course of a week, we sent 20 messages to members and received seven replies. That’s less than half, but still, a pretty good response rate overall. We were especially happy that all those responses were from legit people instead of bots or catfish trying to get us over to WhatsApp.

That being said, premium BlackPeopleMeet accounts are far from perfect.

The matching system is a big miss for premium and free members. You can set basic preferences, including “Dealbreakers”. However, profiles that didn’t fit our preferences still showed up in our results. Also, the search filters don’t address personality traits, and the profiles are pretty basic and limited, so it’s hard to know if someone’s really worth your time.

Who BlackPeopleMeet Is Good For

• Black singles who are looking to find singles that understand their cultural background. 
• Singles of color who are tired of dealing with bigots that exist on non-niche dating sites. 
• Singles who are willing to pay for necessary features and functionality when online dating. 

Who BlackPeopleMeet Might Not Be Best For

• Singles that aren’t interested in dating a person of color. 
• Those who want a larger dating site with high-end algorithmic matching or more substantive free features.
• Singles looking for a dating site with a huge user base filled with people of all backgrounds and ethnicities.

Our Overall BlackPeopleMeet Rating

6.65/10.0

Pros and Cons of the BlackPeopleMeet Dating App

Our Testing Data from BlackPeopleMeet

Learn more about how we test and score here.

The Safety Testing Score came in at 7.0 (20%).

BlackPeopleMeet Redesign (Happened in 2023)

If you keep up with BlackPeopleMeet app updates you will notice something they say a lot is, “We’ve completely redesigned our App with our members at top of mind”, and at the time of this review we do actually have a pretty nice design change to cover.

When looking at features and functionality, BlackPeopleMeet is still very much the same app it was a year ago, but this new design has definitely added a lot of modern polish and professionalism to their product. In reality it’s not altogether that new though. In fact, BPM is now almost an exact replica of it’s sister site Match.com.

Since Match.com has been very successful this can be seen as a good thing or a bad thing, but as we said the core of this site is still the same, it just has a new skin. One thing we did notice was that this new design seems to show less ads than the old one, and I think that’s something we can all get behind.

BlackPeopleMeet Features Breakdown

BlackPeopleMeet is a pretty basic dating site, so you won’t find a ton of features here. However, we did encounter a few surprises when preparing our BlackPeopleMeet review. Check out the unique features and get our thoughts on each one.

Message a “Top Pick” – Available to Free and Premium Subscribers

Previously called “our picks”, this feature picks 8 daily matches for anyone and everyone using the BlackPeopleMeet app and allows them to start messaging for free! But this isn’t one of those now you have to pay situations. Messages sent using “top picks” will then show up under a “Free” tab in the messaging area.

While premium members have unlimited messaging, free account holders can message one Top Pick a day. As nice as it is to get a free message, we didn’t have any luck getting replies with this feature. After all, online dating is often a numbers game, and sending a single daily message isn’t going to generate a lot of responses.

As with most things this feature now looks better, but has seen very little change beyond a new color scheme. It’s still certainly a nice perk of free BlackPeopleMeet membership, but we can’t ignore the downside that premium members don’t seem to respond to free accounts very much making it very hit or miss.

Topics – Available to Free and Premium Subscribers

While BlackPeopleMeet doesn’t focus much on personality, it does offer Topics. You can choose a few to add to your profile, such as what your ideal first date looks like and your pet peeves.

Unfortunately, the answers tend to be on the short side, so you can’t learn much about people by reading the topics.

Still, topics do provide some insight into the people who use the site. We recommend taking your time when filling out the answers if you want to increase your responses.

Dealbreakers – Available to Free and Premium Subscribers

So, we noticed that a lot of user reviews of BlackPeopleMeet mention the same problem. According to members, their search results are full of profiles that don’t meet their criteria or preferences.  

BlackPeopleMeet’s Dealbreaker filter is designed to address this issue. You can set your preferences as Dealbreakers, meaning people who don’t meet that particular preference won’t show up in your searches. Problem solved, right?

Wrong… It’s true, setting Dealbreakers weeded out some people who didn’t meet our criteria, but we quickly discovered it isn’t as powerful as we first thought. See, most members don’t answer all the questions when setting up their accounts, allowing them to sneak into our search results.

With that in mind, we’re lukewarm on Dealbreakers. Still, we recommend setting them up since they do help a little bit.

Mutual and Reverse Search – Available to Free and Premium Subscribers

We also tried to improve our matches by using Mutual Search and Reverse Search. Let’s start with Mutual Search. You can click on this tab to find people who meet your criteria, and vice versa. This is a good concept, with a major flaw. The web and app versions are completely different.

When we logged into the website, we had zero mutual searches, with the recommendation to change our criteria. However, we had 915 mutual searches on the app. Pretty odd, huh?  

We tested it with Reverse Search, too, which means we meet their criteria, but they don’t meet ours. This time, the number of matches on the app and website lined up. Unfortunately, the quality of the matches was subpar at best. Our biggest problem was distance. Most of our matches were way too far away to consider starting anything up.

Look, we like the idea of Mutual and Reverse Searches, but we know it can be done better. Take BlackCupid, for instance. Now, you do have to pay for a premium account to unlock Mutual and Reverse Matches, but they are on point and worth the money.

Lots of Search Filters – Available to Free and Premium Subscribers

Looking to refine your search process? BlackPeopleMeet offers a TON of search filters (which seems to be the norm for Match Group apps). Here’s a look at the options you’ll have:

Unfortunately, what we found with this was similar to the Mutual and Reverse Search features in that just because you set the filters doesn’t mean they’ll yield the results you want (especially if you’re using the app on your computer).

Boost Your Profile (Formerly “Promote Me”) – Available to Free and Premium Subscribers

This is another feature with a new name and a new look, but is still virtually the same.

Available as an a la carte purchase, this BlackPeopleMeet feature allows you to push your profile to the top of others’ search results for 60 minutes. They claim this will get you four times as many views as you normally would.

Here are the biggest changes from “boost” to “promote me”

• They used to claim promote me would double your matches, now they claim you’ll see “4x more views”
• Feature is no longer purchased with tokens (which have been discontinued). It used to cost 20 tokens (or about $1), but can now be purchased in packs of 1, 5, or 10 boosts ranging from $1.49 to $2.49 each depending on the deal.

Connect Me – Available to Premium Subscribers

Now it’s time to discuss our favorite feature – ConnectMe. Sadly, as much as we love this feature it’s only available to those who pay.

Premium Subscribers can use this service to get an anonymous phone number to use for communication on the site. It allows you to call your matches while keeping your real phone number hidden and protected. Like a normal phone it also has a built in Voicemail feature so your matches can leave messages when you’re away.

We checked this feature out, and it’s legit. However, it’s just one step you need to take to stay safe online. We encourage you to learn more by reading about online dating safety and security.

Price | How Much Does BlackPeopleMeet Cost?

Above we showed you a quick breakdown of all the potential costs of BlackPeopleMeet, but we imagine you still might have some questions. In this section we’ll be further breaking down the different features available for purchase and how much they will cost you.

Standard vs Premium

The two main membership plans available on the BlackPeopleMeet app are Standard ($9.99/month) and Premium ($10.25/month)

At its base level of one month the Standard membership starts at $20.64, but while this can be purchased it is largely for demonstrative purposes (Percentage savings on all other plans are based on this base cost).

Here’s a quick rundown of the benefits of each membership:

Overall we feel that standard membership offers plenty of bang for the buck without breaking the bank. It gets you core features like unlocking conversation and unlimited messaging. Beyond that there are a few extra perks that you can unlock by paying a bit more monthly for premium of activating profile powerups with your purchase, but we don’t really see them as being essential to success on the BlackPeopleMeet app.

Profile Power Ups (Membership Add-Ons)

Once you’ve selected to purchase a BlackPeopleMeet membership you will then see a new screen prompting you to consider some add-ons. These profile powerups are each about $5 per month and will span the duration of the membership you’ve selected.

Now it’s worth noting that not all of these add-ons will be available with all memberships. Message read alerts for example are included with all Premium membership packages (so it’s worth considering an upgrade to BlackPeopleMeet premium if this is a feature that you’re looking for). The Private Mode power up on the other hand is available with all membership plans.

Expert Tip – If you can get a sale on your membership the prices of these add-ons will be cut equally with the sale. (So during a 50% of membership sale these will be about $2.50 each.)

Boost Packs

Looking to get more eyes on your profile? Boosts are exactly what you need.

By activating a boost you push your profile to the top of your potential matches search results for an hour. According to the app this can increase engagement with your profile by up to 4 times.

But you have to time it right. Your first boost session starts as soon as you complete your purchase. At between $2.49 and $1.49 per boost pack it may not be the end of the world, but you don’t want to waste your money on boosting when not many users are online. Keep an eye out for “rush hour” notifications in the app to help you time BlackPeopleMeet boost purchases (or activations). They should look something like this:

(Very) Random Sales – Memberships for 50% Off

While confirming BlackPeopleMeet prices for this post, we noticed a strange quirk in the membership purchasing process. Get this, sales up to 50% off can come and go in the blink of an eye (or more accurately the refresh of an app). As we would opt in and back out of purchases or refresh the page we would have sales offered and then pulled away by what seemed to be completely random chance.

During our testing we confirmed this quirk for all purchases except Boost packs (Which unfortunately always maintained their original prices even during “rush hour”). So, why do we mention this? To save you money of course!

If you’re looking to buy anything on BlackPeopleMeet we would strongly recommend refreshing or closing out the app a few times to see if you can trigger one of these sales and get whatever you wanted for half off.

Does BlackPeopleMeet still use tokens?

No. In the past tokens were sold in packs of 50, 110, and 280 ranging in price from $0.99 to $9.99 respectively (or about 4 cents per token). With the recent redesign the use of these tokens has been discontinued.

Do BlackPeopleMeet purchases auto-renew?

Yes. It’s really important to note that at the end of any subscription’s term you will automatically be charged whatever it costs to renew that plan. The app has done their best to make sure this is a well known. You should see something like this before purchasing any BlackPeopleMeet membership package.

In some instances, this repeat charge could be over $100 so you’ll want to keep an eye on the end date or cancel preemptively to avoid unwanted charges to your credit card.

What’s in the Fine Print? – 4 things you should know

Let’s be real, no one has time to read the 13,933 word, 27 page document that is the complete BPM terms of use… That is, no one but the Healthy Framework team. In a few quick points here’s the fine print details you’ll need to know about the cost of BlackPeopleMeet, purchasing, refunds, and anything else money related:

All subscriptions auto-renew until you cancel

Sections 8, 8a, and 8b of the BPM terms make it pretty clear that once you make any BlackPeopleMeet purchase your membership “will automatically renew – and you will be charged – until you cancel.”.

And here’s another important note from section 8 (screenshot below) – if you don’t cancel “timely” enough (meaning before the purchase reneawl date) you will automatically be recharged for whatever you previously bought.

So, cancelling too late could cost you between $20.64 to $123 that you weren’t planning on spending. But is there any chance of a refund? Let’s see…

Does BlackPeopleMeet issue refunds? It’s unlikely…

According to their Terms of Use (which you automatically agree to by making any purchase), all purchases are generally seen as final and non-refundable. This is something they seem to be pretty strict on as well as you can see in this BPM terms screenshot:

In fact – the phrase “non-refundable” shows up 5 separate times concerning any and all types of BlackPeopleMeet purchases. In short, getting any sort of refund from BlackPeopleMeet is unlikely.

There is however a small amount of grace (3 days) given on the “timely cancellation” clause we mentioned earlier is you live in one of these states:

• Arizona,
• California,
• Colorado,
• Connecticut,
• Illinois,
• Iowa,
• Minnesota,
• New York,
• North Carolina,
• Ohio,
• Rhode Island,
• or Wisconsin

If you would like to try and get the cost of your BlackPeopleMeet membership refunded you can do so by contacting PeopleMedia Customer Service via their Help Center. We wish you luck!

Do BlackPeopleMeet prices change?

Absolutely they do! However, this is not an uncommon practice in the online dating industry. Dating app prices may change for special occasions or promotions, on a yearly, monthly, or even daily basis. But, how do these price changes impact existing BlackPeopleMeet users?

Sadly, BPM users will not lock in their original subscription rates. When prices change you will however receieve an email asking if you choose to agree to the new rates or if you would rather cancel. Here’s a screenshot from the app’s terms of use for exact details:

Is money tight? You don’t have to pay all at once…

If for whatever reason you are unable to pay the full cost of your BlackPeopleMeet membership upfront, the company has created an option to pay in four installments. And even better, there are no additional interest fees or finance charges if you go this route.

However, while we were pleased to see this, there is one thing many of our users have wished they knew in advance…

In short, just because you break up the payments this doesn’t break up the membership length… As you’ll see in the cancellation policy screenshot below, even if you choose to cancel after the first payment you will still owe BPM the 3 remaining installments:

So, while this is an excellent way to make the cost of BlackPeopleMeet more accessible to users, it’s important to note that you will be subject to some additional terms and conditions.

The BlackPeopleMeet free trial comes with limited features but some messaging

Yes, BPM does come with some form of a free trial account if you’re not ready to pay for a membership yet (and want to try it out yourself). Let’s take a look at it. To start, here are the things you get for free vs. the things you’ll need to pay for.

You may get to send some messages with the free trial

Anytime we see the ability to send messages to members during a free trial, we have to give kudos. While we’re not mad when this doesn’t happen (dating apps are businesses, not charities), props still go out when it’s available.

According to the screenshot posted below, you are able to send messages to your Top Picks only during your BlackPeopleMeet free trial. But there may be a catch…(keep reading).

What’s strange is that the next feature listed below ‘Message your Top Picks’ is ‘Unlock conversations with matches. Is there a difference between sending a message and unlocking a conversation?

This led us to do some digging and everything that we see seems to say that you can’t have conversations unless you pay for a premium subscription. So, does this mean that you can only send a message, but in order for them to respond and/or read the message, you both need to upgrade?

Well, it’s hard to say for sure, but based on our research, that looks to be the case. And, in case you’re new here, we never send messages to real users when we’re testing (out of courtesy and respect), so we’re unable to confirm this ourselves. But it looks like you’re able to send messages, but in order for that single message to turn into a conversation, you might need to upgrade.

If that’s truly the case (and we fully admit we don’t know for sure), but if that’s the case, that is super shady to list it this way.

Disadvantaged when you don’t pay is par for the course with a Match Group app

Match Group (who owns apps like Tinder, Hinge, Match.com, etc.) has had a tendency over the past few years to turn all of the apps they own (which is like most of the industry) into relatively the same thing.

One of the themes that reigns true with this is giving people the chance to pay for an advantage and more visibility over the other users of the app. While this is great when you have the money to shell out, if you’re only able to afford the free trial, it’s a big bummer.

As you can see in the above screenshot from BlackPeopleMeet, free trial users aren’t going to get monthly boosts or weekly Super Likes that they can use to bring more attention to themselves. Does this mean you can’t get attention without upgrading from the free trial? No. But it does mean, as we’ve come to be accustomed to with Match Group apps, you will be at a disadvantage.

The 7-day free membership is no longer available

In the past, BlackPeopleMeet used to offer a free trial that was 7 days long and included all of the available features. As far as we can tell, this has been fully discontinued and wiped clean from the site or any pages. Some other dating advice articles still say that this exists, but we can confirm for you that is not the case.

BlackPeopleMeet occasionally sends out full free trials

While the 7-day BlackPeopleMeet free trial has sailed away, there are still opportunities to get a free trial account. According to the company’s website (pictured below), they occasionally send out free trial and promotional offers to people who are already signed up for the site.

We haven’t seen any sent to us during testing, but that doesn’t mean they don’t send them to other people or didn’t send some outside of our testing windows. If you’re interested, go ahead and create an account, kick your feet up, and wait to see if they send you any offers.