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Pornographic ads.
BeReal is such a great app. I suggest it to all of my friends. I love it’s simplicity; however, the ads I’m getting are pretty inappropriate and I don’t understand why. I can’t dismiss them, nor do I have an option to click don’t show this type of content. That’s honestly the most frustrating part. I keep getting ads for lingerie and other things that give me partially naked photos of women or any other suggestive content. Im now uncomfortable using the app. I don’t mind ads in all honesty. I understand its necessity in keeping the app running, but what can I do about this unwanted content from popping up on my phone. It’s pretty frustrating.
Also, I loved the BTS and the roulette features. I’m not sure why you had to make the “tough decision” to get rid of them unless it was causing too many problems within the app. They were fun! Now it’s not as fun as it used to be. The pm chats are pretty useless as far as I can tell and are just going to be used for sexual content to be shared and as many of these comments suggest, children use this app to connect with their families and are supposed to be safe here. Please promote a family friendly space and continue to endorse fun, stress free, real moments between friends and families. Obviously that is what people using this app want and what you the developers ( I am hoping) want as well.Show lessElly5002
First social media
This is the first social media I’ve ever had and I love it so much! I’m so glad this is the first I’ve got because it’s such a good introduction to our world of instagram and tik tok! It shows you how to manage social media and not be in your phone all the time without the constant pull back into it. I love this so much! There is something else I should mention though before I go without complaints. There are a lot of ads in the app. Most have sound and are quite loud even if you have the sound at medium volume on your phone/device. There has been a couple times where I was in a quiet setting and I was looking through friends BeReals and I got a very unwelcome blast of sound. Overall it’s a pretty great app, but for the developers: I know ads are mostly something you can’t change, but if you could somehow make it so that the ads are silent unless you manually change it to have volume, that would make looking through friends BeReals a lot easier. Overall I LOVE BeReal a lot and it has been a super fun intro to social media and a great way to connect with friends. I hope I could get through how much I love BeReal, and didn’t wreck my appreciation with my talking about ads. THANK YOU BEREAL!!!!!!!!Show lessthe jaysters
Developer Response
Hey Jaysters, thanks for taking the time to write to us. We’ll make sure to share your love with the team. Let us know if you have ideas 👉contact@bere.al. Stay real, BeReal Support ❤️Love love LOVE ❤️❤️❤️
This app is so good to find out what other people doing this influences and everything. It gives you a chance to see what everyone else is doing. Some annoying things are behind don’t have like stuff and you can’t do multiple a day not enough day so yeah, this is so good, though if you wanna get that you’re here and your friends can’t contact with each other don’t get it but if you want an app where you can see what your friends are doing and talk to them about it but then it!! another part that I already have mentioned a bit is about how you can talk to people and you can leave comments on their posts and it’s so amazing like if you don’t have like time on WhatsApp which I don’t have time WhatsApp time because like you have like screen screen time because you spent so long on your phone that means you talk to people and you can express yourself the most random ways you never know when we will go off and just it’s so fantastic. I just like at school it will go off. It could go off but it doesn’t matter cause it allows you to post to be real post lately but it will show how many times you took and what kind you took and if you took it on time, sorry for this massive massive review, but if you read all the way comment 🎀💖💜Show lessThe sigma alpha skibidy
Developer Response
Hey, thanks for taking the time to write to us. We’ll make sure to share your love with the team. Let us know if you have ideas 👉contact@bere.al. Stay real, BeReal Support 💌️Poor communication and logging in
I also bought a new phone and i was told to go to their website to contact them and now it’s telling me to go the contact us in my account settings, which isn’t possible because im locked out of my account. Please Help! Can I have be reals email because I can’t contact you because I’m not logged in.Show lesskalanisf
Developer Response
Hi Kalanisf, we understand the situation and would love to help you. Please forward us more information on the issue with screenshots/videos to contact@bere.al, and we'll get on it. Talk soon, BeReal Support 😍️was my favorite app… things have changed.. :(
bereal was amazing. everyday i was so excited to see when it would go off. i loved seeing what all my friends were doing, especially the ones who live far away who i don’t see as often. and then it happened. THE ADS. they took over. every other bereal was a freaking facebook ad! then it was Bible Word Puzzle. i love the bible, but i don’t want ads for it’s word puzzle. then another one for facebook, and then crocs. they were taking over. all the ads would make the app tweak out and glitch. it would pause my music. WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE TO PAUSE MY MUSIC??!!! and now, when you swipe up, it doesn’t show you all your friend’s bereals together!! it’s so annoying! and when people post an extra bereal, it’s separate from the first. what the sigma? this app was so good, i loved it. please please please please take away the ads, and bring back the swipe up thing and keep the extra bereals with the firsts. then it will be perf. and don’t even get me started with how you can follow celebrities now! that defeats the whole purpose of bereal. i don’t care what this random billionaire is doing in their mansion. bereal is for real friends. so get rid of that too.
thank you for listening to my yap session. i do still love this app, but please consider what i’ve said.Show lessnatlee :)
Used to be great
This app used to be a great way to show friends what you’re doing daily, but over the past year the app has become worse. It used to be annoying that you have to have a very good phone connection to upload bereal otherwise the photo will just erase itself. That i used to be able to deal with but now there are so many teething problems, such as every time i launch the app none of my photos will load and the app just kills my phone off all the time. I can’t use the app without it crashing or just slowing my phone down completely making it unusable. The feed rarely ever refreshes and it takes forever to upload a bereal, making it impossible to post on time. All in all i don’t even know how to use this app anymore.
Ever since they added in ads as well i see them more than i see posts of my friends. If it wasn’t for the amount of photos i have taken on here over the last two+ years I would remove this app instantly. Sorry bereal, but the novelty has worn off for me and the app has become insanely difficult to use.Show lessKarmira17
Ad implementation is a huge bummer
This is the only social media I regularly use. I liked the idea, I liked their messaging, and it’s fun keeping up with friends like this. For the past 6-12 months, each update has made the experience worse. First, they pushed following popular brands or famous people. Why would I want to be marketed at while scrolling through my friends’ feed? Then they added ads. While I understand ads are a necessary evil of monetization, they way they implemented them is horrible. The ads are as big as your friend’s picture AND they play audio. Even ones that don’t play audio, they’re inserted to pretend like they do. So if you’re listening to music or watching something, you’ll either have a pop-up style ad play at you, or it’ll pause your music. I think the ads could still be implemented to monetize for the devs while not ruining the customer experience. It feels hypocritical to have messages on the app that make it seem like it’s not another social media while we’re watching it devolve into one before our eyes.
ETA: They also changed how grouping your friends’ photos work now, too. It used to be that a single friend’s multi-post would be grouped together and you could swipe through all their pictures. Now they’re all an individual picture, so it’s further to scroll. I assume because it makes the feed stretched out which allows for more ads.Show lessTrulanfa
So Fun but Suggestions..
I honestly love this app, it is so fun to stay in touch with your friends and create memories which you can look back on - however some suggestions to improve the app: • please make it so that you can receive a time to bereal notification without needing internet! - I have found that especially when travelling to a different country it is super difficult to post a bereal during the day due to not receiving the notification, and of course impossible to be on time. This would avoid having spent a whole day out with many bereal opportunities but having to post it many hours late at the end of the day after returning back to the hotel etc. • recieve the bereal notification with 2 minutes, not 30 seconds later! • fix the issue where we miss bereal notifications entirely even with internet connection • be able to pin several bereals on your profile, and pin them in groups or a collection like an instagram highlight! Thanks for reading!Show lessStudentLife222
Developer Response
Hey, thanks for taking the time to write to us. We’ll make sure to share your love with the team. Let us know if you have ideas 👉contact@bere.al. Stay real, BeReal Support 💌️Honestly, gets more disappointing with each update.
I loved the original concept of BeReal and I made my account before it had any other updates, but unfortunately it's just gone down hill from where it started. It used to be a fun, chill place to see where your friends were and what they were doing at a certain time in the day. I loved it! But, with every update it becomes more like social media. I hate how every single app seems to morph into SnapChat once they gain a platform. My least favorite update is the "bonus BeReal." This update is supposed to give you the motivation to post on time because, if you do, you get to post two bonus BeReals throughout the day. I always post on time but I rarely use this feature because it's incredibly annoying when my friends on the app post their bonus BeReals only when they’re doing something fun or hanging out with people. (Again, social media.) This is the main reason I stay away from social media, is because it's just a way for everyone to brag without being a jerk and doing it right to your face. Enough said, I think it's clear how I feel about the app's slow decline towards being just another platform to get everyone else to think you're always doing fun things without them. Please fix this, it's just creating animosity between users.
Edit: BeReal has introduced ads that mute your music if you’re scrolling while streaming music. Debating uninstalling.Show lessstevie willowshaft
Developer Response
Hi Stevie, we’re sorry to read your review. We'd love to have specific feedback on the changes you don't like 👉contact@bere.al. We'll see what we can do! Talk soon, BeReal Support ❤️Profit over usability
Adding ads and canceling slides to force users to scroll is just pure greedbilliamchi
