BiggerCity Review (2024) – Is It Worth Visiting?

In today’s review, we are taking an in-depth look at BiggerCity.

This is an online dating website for gay men who identify themselves as chubs primarily or chasers who want to date them.

But you’ll also find bears on this dating app too.

Our review of the Bigger City Gay dating service will help you to assess the site as we analyze everything about it.

And if you’ve ever wondered if you should start a profile here, this article will help to confirm whether that’s a good idea or not.

During our review, we will highlight everything you should know about the site but particularly:

So if you want to know the ins and outs of this site and the overall strengths and weaknesses, be sure to read on in this BiggerCity review. 

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Ratings

• Ease of Use 4.5/5
• Effectiveness – 3/5
• Key Features – 4.5/5
• Pricing – 5/5

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Well-design, simple to use site for gay chubs, chasers and bears
• Includes calling and video calling options
• Limited free messaging
• Tons of member features
• Excellent pricing
• Has a dating app

Cons

• The user base could be bigger

Who’s It For/Demographics?

So to clarify, this is a dating site aimed at a particularly kink in gay dating. 

It’s filled primarily with chubs and those who want to date them (including other chubs of course but also chasers).

Just as in real life, you’ll find those looking for long-term relationships (like eHarmony or Tinder), as well as those who just want to hook up for more casual dating (like BeNaughty or Ashley Madison). 

But what about user numbers?

Just how many people have signed up for profiles on BiggerCiti?

Well, the overall number of users wasn’t forthcoming but the bigger user base is found in the United Kingdom and the United States.

I would guess that overall, this niche dating site has around 500000 users.

Here are some other stats and facts I found out about BiggerCity. 

• 300000 are from the United States
• Around 10000 are active on the site each day
• That’s 70000 a week and 300000 each month
• The Bigger City app has been downloaded over 100000 for Android devices
• It has a star rating of 4.5 on the App Store

In terms of a breakdown of user types, surveys done by Bigger City show that:

• 33% of users label themselves as chubs
• 28% of users label themselves as chasers
• 19% of users label themselves as bears

Assigning a label is not compulsory, however, but at least this indicates more or less who is using the BiggerCity app and website. 

As for age range, well the site’s popular age is 35 to 50 so yes, there is a fair range of middle-aged to older guys on the site.

Ease Of Use

If you prefer to use a mobile application, BiggerCity has you covered on both Android and IOS devices, or you can start your journey through the website.

That has no social media login and the process itself is relatively simple.

This is the information you will need to provide:

• Username
• Password
• Location
• An optional community tag  (your options are chub, chaser, chub4chub, bear or no tag)
• Age
• Height
• Weight
• A verified email address

Following this, you will need to input a code sent to your email address and finally complete a captcha check 

Your BiggerCity profile

Once you gain access to the site, you are immediately taken to your profile page.

Other than your user name,  your age and location, nothing is complete here.

In fact, a profile completion indicator will show a big round 0% competition rate.

Obviously, those behind the site want users to get their profile out of the way as soon as possible, otherwise, you wouldn’t have started here.

And while you can move away, I would suggest getting it done.

To behind, start with your profile picture and move on from there.

So what kind of information do you need to add to your profile?

Well, there are a few sections including:

• About me: Let people know exactly what you are like and what you are looking for by filling in this section
• Travel plan: Here you can add where you intend on traveling to in the next few months. This is a member-only feature.
• Prefer contacts: Here you can list who you want to contact you, for example, only those near your location to anywhere in the world)
• Personality: Here you can select various keywords that you would attribute to your personality. They include words like confident, easy-going, clean-cut, romantic and more
• Interests: Again, these are keywords so you can give other users an idea about things you are into, for example, travel, sports, cooking and dancing. 
• About: This is not like the About Me section, instead it contains various other bits of information, for example, appearance parameters, your relationship status, what you are looking for, your preferred role and lifestyle habits. 

And that’s it although you can upload more photos and videos if you’d like to. 

Finding your way around the site

BiggerCity has recently undergone a site design and the new one is fantastic.

It’s a joy to navigate, that’s for sure and the colors, mostly grey and blue just work so well. 

You will notice two separate sections to the site.

On the left-hand side of the screen, you will find the menu system which takes up about a fifth in total.

The right-hand side of the screen acts as the viewing pane for the particular part of the site that you are on.

Let’s quickly talk about the menu system as this is how you will navigate your way around the site:

• Home: This is the home page of Bigger City. Here you can view matchups the site assigns to you based on your preferences. You can also see users nearby, new users near your location and around the globe as well as launching searches of your own. Finally, you can see if you have any fans, followers or likes. 
• Upgrade: Click here if you want to become a member of BiggerCity
• Messages: Find all your message by clicking here 
• Flirts: Click here to see who has flirted with you
• Fans: Click here to see who has viewed your profile, followed you, liked your profile or unlocked their profiles for you.
• Manage: Click here to see who you have unlocked your profile for, your favorites and who you have blocked.

A few things about unlocked profiles.

All this means is that you have given someone access to your private photos or vice versa. 

That’s not the only menus, however.

There are more below that as well in the Citizen section.

These are:

• Global: Here you can see users from all over the world 
• Nearby: Here you can see users near your location
• The Buzz: This is a social networking side of the site. You can see when users have uploaded new photos or posted in the BiggerCity forums. 
• Discover: Here you have access to new users, those who are celebrating their birthdays, the most followed, those with the most likes and the most viewed. 

And the menus don’t end there because there is still the Community Features section:

These menus are: 

• Chat: Acces the chat rooms here
• Events: Click here to find social gatherings organized by BiggerCity 
• Forums: A host of forums can be found here including travel and events, general discussions and health and well-being. 
• Galleries: In the galleries, you can see pictures of users from around the globe. Note this is adult content only. These are displayed as thumbnails and if you want to see more, simply click on them. 
• Polls: Take part in various polls posted  by other users or post your own here
• Settings: Change site settings here

While I am never a fan of sites with more menus than are necessary, the way the Bigger City has don’t theirs does work and isn’t to the detriment of navigation.

But that said, there still overlapping menus in each section which I don’t think is necessary.

It’s important to note that this is a bandwidth-heavy site, so take that into account if you have limited data. 

Effectiveness

From my perspective, one of the strengths of BiggerCity is the sheer amount of options you have when looking for a potential matchup.

From matchups suggest by the site to the various search options to finding users on the forums that you’d like to get to know better, there is plenty of variety when you compare your options here to other sites.

I am going to take you through the two that you are going to use the most often.

Those are matchups the site suggests for you and those that you search for yourself.

The easiest way to see the matchups that the site suggests for you is by clicking on the homepage.

There will be users from around the world shown on the first screen you see so if you are into making new friends, this is a good place to start. 

If you want to find a local person to date, you can click on the Online and Nearby or New and Nearby options.

Both of these pretty self-explanatory and will provide you with users that are near your location. 

Searching for your own matchups

On the home page, you will also notice a Search option. 

This gives you access to an excellent search engine with several parameters that you can change, even for a regular user.

So what parameters can you change?

Well, 16 in total and they are:

• Location
• Community tag (chub, chaser, chub4chub, bear or no tag)
• Relationship status
• Looking for
• Role
• Language
• Physical and appearance stats (age, weight, height, build, ethnicity)
• If the returned profiles should include a photo
• If the returned profiles should include a video
• Search for only new members
• Search for only traveling members
• Online status

As there are plenty of things you can change here, it’s nice to see that the admin team of Biggercity has also given you the option to save your various searches. 

Reaching out to others on the site

The site really exceeded my expectations when it comes to ways to contact other users.

Yes, you can message them but you can also call or video call them as well using your webcam.

That won’t be for all users, however, because a privacy setting on everyone’s profile allows them to disallow video or regular calling if they’d prefer to.

You can also send a flirt to someone or add them as a favorite.

If you’d like to see their private photos, you will have to request that they unlock them for you. 

Messaging for regular users is possible but limited.

Strangely enough, voice and video calls are not limited at all. 

Key Features

Without a doubt, as a free user of BiggerCity, there are many features that you can make use of on the site.

For example:

• You can send limited messages
• You can send flirts
• You can call and video call others
• You can use the chat rooms
• You can view community events
• You can take part in the on-site monthly raffle 
• ​Read forum posts
• And more

But what about those who pay for membership on the site?

Well, these are the extras that you can expect.

1. Unlimted messaging

Yes, that’s right. 

Those with a paid membership can send as many messages as they like, there is no limit at all on this. 

2. Extra pictures, videos, favorites, blocks and unlocks

Members can upload extra pictures and videos, add more favorites, block more users and also can unlock their profile for others more times than regular users.

3. More profiles per listing

Whenever premium members search or if you look for potential matchups, they will receive far more profiles per listing than a regular user.

And that can only be a good thing.

4. Incognito browsing

With extra privacy options, you can now hide the fact that you have been browsing other user profiles. 

You can also set your profile to appear offline to others.

5. Post of forums

While regular users can view the forums, they cannot post any topics of their own or reply to those posted by other users.

Only those users with membership can do that. 

6. Message read receipts

Nothing is more annoying than sending a message to a user and not receiving a reply.

As a member, you can see if your messages are read, however, and if someone isn’t responding, they probably not that into you then and you can move on. 

That’s just an example of some of the extra for members, there are even more relating to making polls, disabling flirts and seeing who has followed your profile, for example.

Pricing

Now that we know that you know a little more about what those with premium accounts can do on the site, let’s look at the cost.

I am not going to lie, I really thought that with so much offered in terms of key features to members, the price to become one was going to be extremely high.

But I can clarify that it only 7.99 USD per month to sign up.

How well priced is that, right?

Clearly, those behind the site understand that making prices so competitive means people will sign up for membership.

Many other dating sites could learn from that approach. 

If you do sign up for membership, the easiest way to make payments with your credit card. 

Conclusion and Overall Rating

That’s it for our review of BiggerCity.com.

No doubt, this is an excellent site for chubs, chasers of chubs or chubs looking for chubs.

​And throw in bears as well into that mix.

It really has so many positives.

While I loved the overall design of the website and how easy it is to find your way around, for those who prefer dating apps, well BiggerCity has you covered in that regard as well.

And that’s both for Android and IOS devices.

Another plus is the fact that BiggerCity gives you a range of options when it comes to finding matchups.

For me, the search engine is the best, however, because even for regular users, there are so many parameters that you can search for, including the type of relationship.

And for many, that’s the most important parameter when it comes to finding what you want on a dating site.

The other great thing about this site is that you will find users looking for all kinds of relationships.

I would say the majority are looking for hookups but many are out to find love too.

As for a user base, well it’s not like your more commercial gay dating sites but you have to remember, this is a niche within that dating community.

The biggest plus when it comes to BiggerCity, however, is the membership pricing.

It’s not only cheap but gives one access to so many features, many more when you compare it to other sites, that’s for sure. 

But onto a rating for BiggerCity. 

It gets a well-deserved 4.25 out of 5. 

Methodology

Our OnlineForLove dating expert registered for a profile on BiggerCity, making use of both the website and app for a period of a month.

This review is about their experience while using BiggerCity which includes providing a star rating via which we rank various dating sites.

This star rating is based on certain criteria through which we judge all datings sites and apps.

Those criteria include membership pricing, the effectiveness of matchmaking on the site, ease of use, key features and the number of users frequenting the site.

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