Reviews of Badi – Rooms & Flats for rent
List of user reviews and ratings for Badi – Rooms & Flats for rent
Total ratings
4.38
(Rating count:
27,024)Review summary
Badi offers a nice user interface and detailed profiles, useful for casual browsing especially in Europe. However, multiple users complain about the app forcing payments to access essential features, poor location and filter accuracy, frequent bugs, a prevalence of scammers and agents, and inefficient, non-responsive communication. These issues significantly reduce usability and trust, making the paid version more valuable but still imperfect. The app needs improvements in verification, filtering, and user communication to better serve renters and landlords.
Pros
- Nice user interface and detailed profile setup, allowing users to outline their personalities.
- The app remembers previous contact messages, making communication easier.
- Useful for casual browsing for rooms or roommates, especially in the UK and Europe.
- The paid version (Badi Plus) offers more useful features like unlimited matches.
Cons
- Mandatory payment to access key features like multiple matches and answering queries, making it almost unusable without paying.
- Poor location detection and filtering, with users receiving matches from wrong countries and no effective way to filter results (e.g., by gender, bills, or location).
- Glitches and bugs such as issues with profile creation, inability to upload or delete pictures and ads.
- Heavy presence of scammers and real estate agents pretending to be flatmates; lack of verified users and poor moderation.
- Non-responsive users and poor communication system; no clear feedback on message status; inefficient messaging interface.
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Recent rating average:
1.40
All time rating average:
4.38
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-12-09 |  | | Terrible scam really. When they first launched it was a brilliant service for finding and matching rooms and tenants. As soon as enough users migrated there they now force you to pay for 'Gold' (€20) to get more than 1x match, then they tell you your listing is being 'hidden' to protect quality as you aren't responding to messages...even though they only let you have one match themselves so they push you to spend a further €5 to boost your listing that times out after 24hrs. Leeches. |
| 2024-12-03 |  | | Very bad experience you need to add all profile details for chat and after adding all detail there is no save options without save details will not save nd u can't chat to other for house very bad wasted my 1 hr |
| 2024-11-07 |  | | Worst app done try or take any kind of my membership I paid £25 almost no enquire or call neither you can search for tenants as per our requirement. Don't download or buy any and location I m try to advertise its automatic detect Australia instead of UK. So annoying app to use. Not worth it using it. |
| 2024-10-25 |  | | You have to pay to make any matches, and most of the matches are scammers. Not worth the download. |
| 2024-07-31 |  | | Nice UI and criteria choices but no listings located outside of UK at the time of me writing this review. Hope you get more users! |
| 2024-07-25 |  | | A horrible app. Super bad UX. The profile creation is so bad. I spent 30 mins creating a profile and it still did not allow me to complete the process. Horrible UX. Don't use this app. |
| 2024-06-06 |  | | I hade a bad experience with Badi. Badi is not posting my pictures even if it is in album now I can't upload it.. And I also have another complain that when we put an ad with very trouble after a week we delete it and it is not deleting. So please it's a humble request if you solve this problems. I shall be very thankful to you. Regards |
| 2024-02-21 |  | | thieves! you charged me twice for the Gold subscription and buried the listing. I received 1 message in 48 hours. you won't reply to any email. Give me my money back you bunch of scammers! fyi I have used this app several times in the past so I know that you have changed the way ads are pushed. you took 40 euros from me and the ad hasn't been seen by anyone. Refund me immediately for service not provided and for double charging me now! |
| 2024-02-15 |  | | Probably useful, not in my case. I've gotten multiple offers for rooms through this app. Unfortunately they're all from countries that I don't live in. Despite my location and all my searches being in London UK. People in Barcelona seem to think I'm looking for a room there. I've checked and double checked for a setting that says where I am. I can't find one. So if it exists then it's hidden and not obvious. I like that the app remembers your previous contact message, but that's all. |
| 2023-05-09 |  | | I am in a big US city and cannot get anyone to respond to me on the app. These rooms can be time sensitive for many people, including transplant workers like myself. This app is great for people who are casually browsing for a roommate as if to not actually fill or find a room. Adults are allowed to simply post and forget about it for weeks and months with no follow-up from the app. |
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