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REVIEW
MeetMe on Android survives on live streams and tip economies, not actual meeting.
The myYearbook descendant has long since pivoted from social network to livestream-and-tip platform. The 3.85 rating reflects the friction of a product whose business model isn't the one its name advertises.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
MeetMe: Go Live & Stream Now
MEETME.COM
OUR SCORE
5.7
GOOGLE PLAY
★ 3.8
PRICE
Free
In-app purchases
MeetMe is one of those apps whose package name tells the story better than the App Store listing does. com.myyearbook.m — myYearbook, the 2005 teen social network that started as a high-school yearbook clone, got bought by Quepasa in 2011, rebranded to MeetMe, and over the following decade pivoted away from social-networking-for-teens into adult livestreaming-and-tipping under The Meet Group umbrella. The name stuck. The product underneath is now something quite different.
What MeetMe is in 2026 is a livestream platform with a swipe-deck appendage. Users open the app, see a grid of live broadcasters, drop into a stream, chat, and tip the host with diamonds bought with real money. The dating-app surfaces — Match tab, Nearby, message inbox — exist, but the engineering attention and the monetisation flow both point at the video side. Diamonds in, payouts out, ads layered on top of the free tier, MeetMe+ subscription bolted to the side.
The 3.85 Play Store rating across 254,000 reviews isn’t an accident. It’s what happens when the product name promises one thing — “MeetMe”, a dating app — and the actual experience is another. People who knew what they were downloading rate it higher. People who came looking for Hinge-with-livestreams rate it lower. The app isn’t broken so much as it’s wearing the wrong jacket.
MeetMe is what happens when a 2008 teen social network keeps the name and rebuilds the business around live video, virtual gifts, and the people willing to pay for both.
FEATURES
MeetMe on Android is a livestream-and-meet app from The Meet Group (also behind Skout, Tagged, and Growlr) — the package name com.myyearbook.m is the giveaway that this started life as myYearbook, the 2005 teen social network that pivoted into the adult-meeting space after the Quepasa acquisition in 2011.
The current product is built around live video. Users open the app to a stream grid, tap into a host's broadcast, send chat messages, and tip with "diamonds" — the in-app virtual currency bought with real money. Hosts cash diamonds out at a fixed rate. There's a Match-style swipe surface ("Match", "Feed", and "Nearby" tabs) and a text-chat inbox, but the gravitational center of the app is the livestream economy.
Free to install, ad-supported on the free tier, with a "MeetMe+" subscription that removes ads, surfaces who liked you, and adds boost mechanics. In-app purchases stack on top — diamond packages run from a few dollars to triple-digit "VIP" tiers.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The livestream pipeline works. Stream discovery is fast, video joins in under a second on a decent connection, and the chat overlay handles the volume of concurrent messages a popular host generates without dropping frames. For a 15-year-old codebase that's been retrofitted into a different product category, the core video experience is more stable than it has any right to be.
Moderation is more present than it used to be. Streams have explicit content rules, AI-flagged broadcasts get reviewed faster than they did in the Tagged-era days, and reports actually generate visible action. It's not perfect — see below — but it's no longer the Wild West.
For the use case it actually serves — people who want to perform on camera for a tipping audience, or who want to watch and tip — MeetMe is a working platform with a real liquidity advantage over newer entrants.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The 3.85 Play Store rating is the product talking. Recent reviews cluster around the same complaints: shadow-banned accounts with no explanation, diamond purchases that don't credit, hosts whose payouts get held, ban appeals that go unanswered. The Meet Group's customer service throughput hasn't scaled with the platform's monetisation pressure.
Discovery still mixes signals badly. The swipe deck pulls from a different pool than the livestream grid, which means a user expecting a dating app sees livestream prompts they didn't ask for, and a user looking for streams gets profile cards they don't want. The product hasn't decided which thing it is, and the UI reflects that.
And the name is misleading on purpose. "MeetMe: Go Live & Stream Now" is the current Play Store title, but the brand equity is still in the dating-app interpretation of "MeetMe" — which the app fulfils glancingly at best. New users churn fast when they realise what they actually downloaded.
CONCLUSION
Install MeetMe if you specifically want a livestream tipping platform and don't mind a 15-year-old social-app substrate underneath. Skip it if you came for a dating app — Hinge, Bumble, and Tinder do that job, and MeetMe doesn't really try anymore. The 3.85 rating is the honest signal: the product works for the audience that knows what it is, and frustrates everyone else.