Leave a Review Bumble For Friends
Quite a good app
Mostly it’s ok. You get one or two guys trying to use it as a dating site, but other than that it seems good for expanding your circle of friendsfinding_memehoe
Developer Response
Thanks for sharing your positive experience with us! We're always looking for ways to improve our members' experience with the app. If you have any suggestions, please message us at @BumbleSupport on Twitter or Facebook. Alternatively, you can contact us via bumble.com/contact. 💛Functional but absurdly overpriced
The paid features on this app are ridiculously overpriced considering there aren’t many people on the app. $5 a month might be reasonable, but it’s $5 per WEEK. This is particularly relevant when you take into account that one of the key paid features is spotlight, which lasts a measly thirty minutes, so unless you’re brand new to the app, it’s unlikely anyone you haven’t already swiped on will even be on the app during that time. It’s essentially $5 a week to undo a swipe (and it’s very easy to accidentally swipe while scrolling through a profile). The developers need to be more realistic setting prices instead of trying to brush off the criticism they’ve gotten here by saying the app is technically free.Show lessnonsentient
Developer Response
Hi there! Thank you for leaving us a review. We appreciate you sharing your feedback with us. We are always looking for ways to improve our members' experience on the app so we'll be sure to pass your input along to our wider team. 💛People don’t actually use this
If you’re wanting to make new friends, this sadly isn’t the app you’re looking for. The app itself is fine, but the reality is that most people just create an account but do not actually use it.
If you’re wanting to make new friends just join a social club or make new connections rather than swiping at home waiting for any connection to happen.Show lessHamman97
Developer Response
We’re sorry to hear about your experience! We’re still growing in your area so we’d recommend expanding your distance range. Rest assured, new bees are joining the Hive daily so we’re sure a meaningful connection is just around the corner! 🐝Reskin with unimpressive friend finding features
Its literally just a reskin of bumble dating with zero work put into making it actually useful for meeting other people face to face. The “plans” section is the biggest draw but fails miserably in actually allowing people to coordinate plans. The most it has is a polling section. I understand people need to actually interact in order to plan events, but I started a bouldering group months ago and I still haven’t met a single person. I compared notes with my friend and he said the same thing. People don’t show up. Most probably because there is no scheduler. You get a single date/time input to schedule an event, but absolutely no support for recurring events or scheduling a follow up event. I do love the simplicity of the app, but it really needs to help people coordinate. It’s crazy that it’s been 2 months in a group with 12 members with me telling people I’m climbing every Tuesday with literally no one showing up.Show lessBobydude96
Developer Response
Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us! We're very sorry your experience wasn't as positive as we would have liked. Your feedback is incredibly valuable to us, as it helps us make our app better for everyone. Please know we've forwarded your comments to our product team. If there's anything else you'd like to share or any concerns you have, please let us know at @BumbleSupport on social media. 💛SCAM ALERT!
I apparently have 22 likes but can't see any of them until i get a subscription. It keeps telling me to change my filters (which i have none) and it keeps offering me the monthly subscription for 1.40/wk. I think you'll be better off getting on an app like meet up or simply just finding events to meet people. Money doesn't guarantee anything in this case and I'm not even getting an outing out of it. Spend your dollars somewhere else. Don't pay to chat online. Get the meet up app instead and go to an event that resonates with you. You'll surely find people to chat there and get a chance to get out of the house. A lot of events are free if you're on a budget.
Edit (in response to developer): Thank you for providing evidence of your deceitful ways. I checked the app again to give you the benefit of the doubt.
1. I clicked "chat" function (at the bottom of the app) - and it took me to chat screen which is empty at the moment but at the top of the screen it shows two blurry stacked photos with the number 37 in a yellow square (which I expect is the number of people who have liked my account). Next to that is written "people here want to be your friend" and right below that it says "check who they are".
2. So, I clicked on "check who they are" which is underlined and hyperlinked. This action took me to the "liked you" function and now I see a screen that has a love heart at the top, followed by text that say "Liked you" and below it, it says "Upgrade to Premium to see who liked you!". And finally from 2/3 of the screen i can see blurred images in a tile layout but can't see anyone's account if I click on it. The all immediately starts offering me a subscription.
So, please tell me again which part of this is a free service. If you claim that the swiping is free then I agree, indeed it is. But if you're claiming that the chatting is also free then you'll have to check again. It seems you haven't read your company's latest memo.
I originally said that this was a bit of a scam, I'm changing that to definitely a scam! Call it what it is and we don't have an issue.Show lessPandii3
Developer Response
We're sorry to hear Bumble For Friends isn't meeting your expectations. Bumble For Friends is free use and you don't need to buy any features to connect with others or send messages. We do offer paid features for those that want to enhance their experience. If you have any other questions, please feel free to contact us at bumble.com/contact. 💌App never worked
I tried to join bumble bff and it never worked , like I could never even swipe. Downloaded the regular bumble and it worked, tried to use the friends app and it switches me to the bff app that does not even open.Annoyeduser1232
Developer Response
This doesn’t sound ideal and we'd love to investigate what's happening on your account. Can you please send us a message at bumble.com/contact? We're sure we’ll have you up and buzzin' again in no time! 🐝Friends should be all genders
I got this app originally to find friends of all genders and the app decided to change that to same gender friends, so can't really use it the way I want to. I either have to meet people to date and explain I want friends only and that doesn't work.. or lie and see if I can get men to answer me the way I want. It's not good now for those of us looking to make friends of all genders. I mean we are all adults here, so not sure what the liability of this is for the app. But it's very old fashioned in that sense. Has potential, but not a fit for meShow lessNimbette
Developer Response
We appreciate your feedback. At the moment, you can only match with members of the same gender; however, whilst this is the way our app works now, we'll be sure to pass your feedback on to our Product Team. If you have any other suggestions feel free to contact our team at https://bumble.com/bff/help#contact-us. 🫶Bumble have no interest in making this a safe space for people genuinely looking for friendship
I have used bumble BFF several times over the last few years and you just have to resign yourself to the fact that especially men are on there to hit on you and make you feel uncomfortable. There is no way of reporting this in the App and when I contacted BFF to ask how I could prevent it, they just didn’t care.
The attitude of you just have to ignore it is taking accountability off of BFF to create a safe environment for people to be to make genuine social connections without harassment.Show lessCharliehlkj87
Developer Response
We believe everyone deserves a safe and comfortable place to make empowered, respectful, and meaningful connections, and we're incredibly sorry to hear you experienced this type of behavior on our app. We can assure you that Bumble For Friends is for friendship only, and misusing this platform in any way violates our Community Guidelines. Please use the Block & Report function in-app; here's how you can do that: https://bumble.com/en-au/help/how-can-i-report-someone. Our Moderation Team will then receive your report and take appropriate action immediately. Alternatively, you can reach out via DM on social media (@BumbleSupport). We're here to support you. 💛Features Are Inconsistent
They have good features and the best one is the event feature but when you schedule an event it says the feature is new and that it will only work for some people but doesn’t say why or who it will work for so you’ll send out invites and your matches will see the invite but the link won’t work and they won’t be able to join the chat. It’s frustrating. Why have features that only work for a few people. It leads to low attendance at these events. And then they offer a poll feature in these event chats but it doesn’t show the host the names of the members that have voted and what they voted for so it’s pretty pointless. I tried to use it for rsvps. Overall this app seems like a random unfinished thought. I really hope they make all features available for all users or I’ll probably just delete the app and use FB groups instead.Show lessHaukak
Thought this was for FRIENDS, getting sent nudes.
Making new friends as an adult can be hard. Heard about this app and thought I’d give it a try. Although my bio clearly states I am straight and only looking for friends I am getting hit on by guys, and even sent unsolicited nudes. Very disappointing. Maybe it’s because it shares the users between BFF and regular Bumble, and it shouldn’t. Why does a “friend” app even ask you about sexual orientation??? Completely split off and make people get a fresh new account and explicitly tell them BFF isn’t for dating or hookups. Until things change, forget looking for friends on here..
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Hey Bumble! Thanks for the canned response! I’m sure you’ll get right on the issues, as soon as they affect your bottom line.Show lessscottjl
Developer Response
Thanks for updating your review. We always appreciate feedback from our users.
