KF.SocialGroupvibe and Timeleft both match you into a small group of people you have not met and book the venue for you, and that is roughly where the resemblance ends. Timeleft is mostly an evening product, dinners, drinks and runs, sold by subscription in more than 200 cities. Groupvibe is a daytime one, brunch and coffee in a café, in about 40 cities. If you know whether you want a Sunday brunch or a weeknight dinner, you already know which of the two to look at first.
This page is published by KF.Social, which also runs matched dinners in London, so it is not an independent review. Every fact about Groupvibe and Timeleft below is taken from their own public pages, read on 25 September 2026, and we say where each of them does something better than we do.
How Groupvibe works
You sign up and fill in a form about yourself. Groupvibe's FAQ says it uses those answers to match you "with 4 to 6 people who live in the same city", on personality fit and shared or similar interests, and then invites you to a meetup "in a cozy café (or another place)". Its homepage describes the format as meeting "over brunch & coffee", and the FAQ adds that a group is 4 to 6 people, "sometimes up to 8", with icebreaker questions sent to help the conversation along.
A few details are more specific than most services in this category publish. You can bring a friend, which Groupvibe says it fully supports. Location details arrive the night before or the morning of the meetup. Everyone pays their own bill. And within 24 hours afterwards you get a link to connect with the rest of your group, so exchanging contacts does not depend on somebody being brave at the end.
The rules on money and cancelling are also stated plainly. Refunds are issued only if Groupvibe cancels the meetup or cannot form a suitable group. You can cancel in its web app, but cancelling on the day counts as a no-show and may get your account suspended. We did not find a price on the homepage, the FAQ or the cities page, so we do not quote one. The company was formerly called Vibend and lists offices in Amsterdam and San Francisco.
Its cities page lists 40 cities across 15 countries. In the UK those are London, Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow; elsewhere in Europe they include Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, The Hague, Eindhoven, Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne and Dublin, alongside cities in the United States and Canada.
How Timeleft works
Timeleft asks you to pick your city, language and availability, then matches you into a group and books the venue. Its homepage offers three formats, dinners with "five new faces over good food", drinks in a bar, and runs, and it says it mixes people on "age range, personality, and language preferences". Its summary is "No bios. No swiping. No planning." On timing it says "We reveal the location and your group just before", and you pay for your own food and drinks at the venue.
The model is a subscription. Timeleft's help centre lists periods of one, three and six months, says the options vary by region and are displayed during sign-up, and says a subscription lets you book as many events as you like in your city. No figure is published on those pages, so we do not quote one. Its homepage puts it in 52 countries and more than 200 cities, London among them.
The differences that actually decide it
- Daytime or evening. Groupvibe is brunch and coffee. Timeleft is dinner, drinks or a run. This is the biggest difference and it is about your week, not about the products.
- How you pay. Timeleft is a subscription, which is better value the more often you go. Groupvibe does not publish its pricing on the pages we read.
- Notice. Groupvibe sends the location the night before or the morning of. Timeleft reveals it just before.
- Coming with someone. Groupvibe says you can bring a friend. We found nothing on Timeleft's pages either way, so we make no claim about it.
- Reach. Timeleft is far larger. Groupvibe is in about 40 cities, but those include several that matter to a UK reader outside London: Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow.
- After the event. Groupvibe sends a link to connect with your group within a day. Timeleft's homepage does not describe an equivalent.
Which one to pick
Pick Groupvibe if your evenings are spoken for and a weekend morning is the time you actually have, if you would find it easier to go with a friend the first time, or if you live in one of its UK cities outside London. Pick Timeleft if you want an evening, would like the option of drinks or a run as well as dinner, expect to go often enough for a subscription to pay for itself, or live somewhere Groupvibe does not reach.
Where KF.Social fits
KF.Social is the evening shape again, narrowed to one city. We run matched dinners in London only, on weeknight evenings at 7pm London time, and the London page lists the dates on sale with the night and the area for each. You book one dinner at a time rather than a membership: 15 pounds for the seat, shown before you pay, which covers the matching and not the meal. You pay the restaurant for your own food and drink.
A table is six people. The restaurant lands about six hours before, and who you are sitting with about an hour before, when the group chat opens. Booking closes six hours before. Cancel 72 hours or more ahead and the 15 pounds goes back to your card; inside 72 hours it does not come back. If the table does not run, everyone is refunded in full. Booking gates on two things only: being 18 or over, and having paid.
Where the other two beat us: both run in far more cities than our one, Groupvibe does daytime where we only do dinner, Timeleft offers drinks and runs, and Groupvibe tells you where you are going the night before or that morning, which can be more notice than our six hours. What we are better at is the narrow case: an evening in London, paid for one night at a time, with the price and the timings published. Book a London seat as a guest or see what is running in London.
Sources, read 25 September 2026: groupvibe.com and its FAQ, groupvibe.com/cities, timeleft.com, and Timeleft's subscription plans article.