Active Audience | 93% |
Quality Matches | 90% |
Popular Age | 20-30 |
Profiles | 1 453 000 |
Reply Rate | 90% |
Ease of Use | 6.1 |
Popularity | 9.2 |
Fraud | Very Rarely |
Rating |
9.3
|
Registration | Free |
To put it short, Tastebuds is a website with an iOS app developed and designed to meet new friends or romantic partners. What Tastebuds has that stands apart from the rest of dating sites is that you will find people with a similar taste in music. That’s right: you will get matches based on your musical profile. Awesome for music dating, right?
Tastebuds exists since 2010 and has consolidated as one of the best niche dating websites. The founders and employees, in general, have put their efforts into making the best experience for any music passionate.
Their goal is to connect people who like the same kind of music. There are different ways for that to happen. Maybe you can find someone and become a long-distance friend. You can also find a friend to go to a gig with you; one of those bands your friends don’t know or don’t care about. Or you can meet someone you will fall in love with and start dating. Tastebuds offers lots of possibilities for music enthusiasts.
The site lets people from all around the world create an account and start looking for people with similar tastes in music. Do you like jazz? Hip-hop? Heavy metal? It doesn’t matter if you even like some very niche styles like progressive metalcore, you will surely find someone. The site is aimed at making people meet and form lasting bonds. After all, music is something very strong in our culture (humans make music since the Paleolithic!).
Registering is free and very easy. After that, you can explore the site and look for people to talk to. You can also press ‘Get Lucky’ to try your luck and find someone new.
To add your favorite artists, you can import from other sites such as Facebook, Spotify, or Last.fm. Or you can simply enter what artists you like.
Tastebuds is the site made both for casual users or those who are looking to find someone special. That means you can use it for free or you can pay for additional features.
Registration at this site is one of the easiest on the planet. It does not play any tricks. You simply have to go to Tastebuds.fm (yes, that is their address), and you will see all information required to register.
All you need to enter consists of:
After you enter all this info about yourself, you will need to agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. There is also a captcha to confirm you are not a robot. Then you are all set up and can enjoy the site.
If you want, you can simply connect your Facebook account and skip all the procedures described above. On Tastebuds’ home page, there is a button, ‘Quick sign-up with Facebook.’
Overall, the site is well designed in all aspects. Its appearance is not too different from other well-known social media and dating sites. What you will notice is that music-related imagery is everywhere, which pleases the users. Since it is well designed, its loading is also fast. If you have good internet access, you won’t have any trouble with pages taking forever to load. All functionalities are very intuitive for the users, and tools offered are easy to grasp.
There is certainly room for improvement as the site already looks a bit old in design, but that will in no way muddle your experience. Even looking old, it is still beautiful in its own way. And it is not clunky in any way possible, allowing for an enjoyable experience for all users.
Making your own profile and also visiting other people’s profiles is very easy. Tastebuds take good care of their base of users and try to make sure all profiles are legit. Employees frequently review profiles that look suspicious – profiles that seem fake or created to promote hate speech, per example.
Some bad profiles may go unnoticed by the Tastebuds team, and if you notice them, you can report them yourself. Once you report a profile, their team will try to verify it as soon as possible.
Now, you must be wondering how you can build a good profile, aren’t you? The site gives you a lot of tools for building a profile that looks just like you.
The basics are adding the artists you like so you can find people with similar tastes. After that, you can add photos. That is very important so that the employees of the site can verify you are a real person.
You can also add a description of yourself. That can be short or very detailed, as it is up to you to choose.
The site also offers a timeline where you can write and post anything that comes to your mind. You can see the timeline of other members too, and interact with them.
If you have an iPhone, you can download the Tastebuds app from the App Store. If you only have a phone with Android or Windows Phone, you won’t be able to download it. If you are really fond of the site and want it in your pocket, you might want to consider changing to an iPhone.
Even though the app has the disadvantage of being available only to iOS, it has advantages to compensate. These advantages are as follows:
If you have an iPhone, we highly recommend you log into Tastebuds through it. That way, you won’t lose any time adding your favorite bands and singers manually.
Tastebuds is pretty much one of the safest dating sites out there. The site has been around for ten years now, and its team put a high effort into making it a safe place for users.
Employees always check for fake profiles and also read reports. You can feel very safe at the site.
Another reason that makes the site very safe is that you don’t even have to put lots of information about yourself in there. It is good to have a nice profile, and the site doesn’t require lots of personal details about that. You are much protected in that way.
As it happens with all dating sites, you can access Tastebuds totally for free, or you can pay for some extra features. If you are looking to invest in more features on the site, you will be paying to ‘go backstage.’
The paid membership for Tastebuds is called Backstage Pass, and you can access it through the main page. There will be a ‘go backstage’ option in the drop-down menu on your profile pic.
The Backstage Pass grants you unlimited messaging and the incognito mode. With the first feature, you will be able to send and receive private messages and remove ads. With the second, you will be able to hide your status online and visit profiles anonymously.
The price of the Backstage Pass goes as follows:
The support team at Tastebuds is available at any time to help customers who are having any kind of issue with the platform. However, even without contacting the support team, users can have their way around issues or questions they have.
One question many may ask beforehand is if they can cancel their subscription at any moment. Since Tastebuds has the best interests for their users, they offer the option of canceling subscriptions. If you want to cancel your subscription, you have to follow the steps:
When you cancel your subscription, it will end on the last day of your paid membership. This means it will simply not be automatically renewed.
If what you want from canceling your subscription is to have your money back, you will have to contact the support team. There are times when you subscribed to the wrong monthly membership, and that can be fixed. Or if you didn’t access your benefits and want your money back, the team can help you out.
Tastebuds gives plenty of support concerning profiles. If you see any suspicious profile, you should report it as their team will work to verify whether the profile is legit.
In any case that you have a question and need to email Tastebuds, you can do it and wait for an answer. Their team will probably answer within hours. It will take maybe a day if they are having a busy day, but you will be answered. This dating site never let any users feel unaided.
To put it shortly: yes. We already talked about how their support team is always working to answer questions and help all users. You will also be much protected using their site. It is very unlikely that any information you share will be leaked, for example. Creating an account at Tastebuds is always safe, so giving it a try is no issue.
The site was founded in 2010 and has been growing every year with more and more active members. It is not even close to a scam or a duplicate of another famous site. The site is 100% legit, and you can feel secure when signing up for a membership.
It can be accessed from anywhere. You don’t have to live in an English-speaking country to be able to create an account and access it. People from all around the world can access the site and feel at home. It will always help you find music lovers around you, so you don’t have to worry about where you reside.
And you can also access the site from any device. You can enter the site from your computer, be it a desktop or a laptop. Or you can access it from your smartphone or tablet. Other devices that have access to the internet can grant you access to Tastebuds as well.
If you have an iPhone, you can even download the app from the iTunes store. The experience should be improved that way.
This is one dating site where you are freely allowed to choose if you want to pay for a membership or not. The free features are very nice and make for an overall good experience.
If you want to have more features that might improve your experience, you can try the Backstage Pass. It adds some nice things and is not even that expensive. But the choice is all on you. Tastebuds is not designed in a way to force you to acquire a paid membership.
There are real people at Tastebuds looking for real connections with people who love the same music as they do. With that in mind, the answer here is obvious. You can chat with different people who have different interests and want different things from the site.
Whether you are looking for a friend or a romantic partner, Tastebuds will be a very good place to find someone.
We think that Tastebuds is the definition of fun when it comes to dating sites. We had fun trying it out in order to write this review. Why? Because it is a site that connects you to people with similar tastes in music. Once you find someone who likes the same band or singer as you do, you immediately have something to chat about. This is already very worth anyone’s time. You don’t have to search endlessly for a profile that only maybe matches your preferences.
All of that being said, we completely recommend any music passionate who is looking for a partner to try Tastebuds. It is a great investment of your time and fun is granted.