Bimble User Reviews

Name: Bimble - Save Your Places
Rating: 3.1 (81 reviews)

Bimble - Save Your Places

Bimble Studios LTD

🌟 Lifestyle

✈️ Travel

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Can't even sign up

Tried 3 different ways to sign up. All failed. Said my email was the wrong format or "something went wrong" when creating a password

Godzilla195454

3 years ago

Good

When it was actually working, it was à fantastic app. I would have given 5 stars. It’s no longer working & there’s no app support to contact.

cje24576

3 years ago

New update terrible

The new update has made the app much worse. You can no longer easily see all the places on your list on the map. Instead it shows this useless “heat map” of other peoples spots. Terrible update! Please go back to how it was before.

tk123987

4 years ago

Needs A Good Map

The concept of this app is really strong and the social aspect has great potential but I found it very hard to navigate spatially through the lists. For example if you look at all the vintage stores in London listed by people on Bimble you have not clue where they are in the city unless you save them and check each one at a time. It would be really useful to integrate the lists on a map so you can see which spots are in your area. You would gave the upset hand if you did this. For example right now if you were let’s say at the barbican for a morning event and wanted to get lunch afterwards you would check for lunch spots on yelp or google maps. Neither are curated options. If Bimble were to integrate the map into the app you would provide users with really well curated lists based on your very specific location. Discovery is always fun too though but feels less useful.

zenobia1234

4 years ago

Response from developer

Hi, thanks so much for your review. Good news, we have now released the Bimble map! Great minds..... I hope you enjoy it!

Create profile UI not working

Whenever I click on join bimble to create profile, UI doesnt work to enter any information. Clicks dont work. I cant enter any information. Weird, basic step doesnt work- not sure if its a legit app.

Tejomay24

5 years ago

Response from developer

Hi, we have been trying to get to the bottom of this issue which was affecting a small number of users and we have now understood that there is an incompatibility with a specific iphone setting for a certain iOS version. I was told by our developers today that they have now fixed it, so it will come in our next update, next week. I'm sorry it took so long!

Tele verification is annoying anyway

Telephone verification code won’t send

olffersson

5 years ago

Love the concept

Love to travel and love this concept. Will keep you posted

CIGTallahassee

5 years ago

Great idea but not user friendly

I was so excited to download this app - what a great idea! But after a few minutes of trying to navigate it was just not intuitive and easy to use. Please update entirely. I’m not an app designer but it needs work. I would love to give this another go if it were redesigned.

Drw@fc

5 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you so much for your frank feedback. I now have some relevant answers for you: we are reworking the design at the moment and there will be a series of significant updates coming over the coming weeks, starting with a great interactive map feature. I hope to see you back on the platform soon!

Messy app, no global content

I was hoping to be able to move my 30 or so lists with hundreds of places from Google Maps to Bimble but there seems to be mostly UK content. Not much in the rest of Europe or North America outside of NYC, or if there is, the discovery mechanism is poor. I don’t care who makes a list, I care about their profile and taste, and areas where they are experts. Most lists are super generic and don’t seem to go beyond popular spots with nothing special at all. There’s no audience so I’m not going to bother.

physhfr

5 years ago

Response from developer

Hi, thank you for your useful feedback. I am circling back now as we are getting ready to release a big update in February which will make it simple and quick for you to find the places people are saving near you and then you can follow the creators you enjoy and keep up to date with profiles that are relevant to you. I hope this will answer your main concerns effectively!

Conceptually Cool, execution poor

The app idea is pretty awesome. Pretty disappointing that after downloading none of your text fields to join work. Not very useful if you can register. Bug fixes needed.

thebeigesavage

5 years ago

Response from developer

Hi, Thanks so much for bringing this to our attention, it seems to be a new bug happening on certain devices or iOS versions. We have had 3 reports over the last few days on this. If you could email me (julia@bimble.com) to say which phone and which iOS version you are using, that would be enormously helpful. Then I will be able to let you know as soon as it is fixed.

Why do you need my phone number?

And why don’t you accept it when I enter it? I understand that as a free app you need to monetize somehow, but don’t be so pushy/obvious about it. I like an app that allows to create an account with a user name and password. You ask for the email, okay, and the phone number. Since I really wanted to see the app, I have in and typed in a phone number. The app says: “Please enter a valid phone number in format like +447911123456” but your own input field formats it as +1 (791) 123-4567, which is inconsistent. And then the app does not accept my input. And so I will never get to use the app until you, perhaps, make the phone number optional or accept my input.

ponzu22

5 years ago

Just bougie crap

This app lacks diversity and is only for a certain type of place. thought it might be cool to find cute hole-in-the-walls and things to do, but it’s 99% dumb overpriced and/or trendy gentrifying businesses.

Carol-City

5 years ago

it’s eh if you don’t live in a major city

I understand it may be a young app but there’s literally no places in my city, which is surprising considering it’s a semi-major city. They shove all these different international and cross country places in your face on the homepage and the only way to find anything in your town is to search for it, but it’s hidden on another page. Honestly the app developers need to do a better job of letter you explore around you in your own town, instead of going “Hey look at this cool cafe in Berlin” 20 times over on the first page. It talked about “local businesses” and something something “community”, but it’s the complete opposite.

TLDR: don’t get the app unless you’re in a major city, even then you’ll get bombarded by places thousands of miles away

T’ rav

5 years ago

Response from developer

Hi T'rav, thanks for leaving your thoughts. As you so rightly say, we are a young app - launched at the start of lockdown. We are also a user generated content app, for collecting and saving your places, so there are only places listed in your area if you, or others in the local community, share them. As content builds, we are personalising the feed to people's locations, but that only works if Bimblers contribute with the great little places they love : )

What’s in it for me?

Ok, so you’re asking me to spend my time and list my favorite local jems to benefit other travelers and your cash flow. What’s in it for me?? I’m tired of apps that ride on the back of their users to deliver value for shareholders.

PortnoyF

5 years ago

Response from developer

Hi PortnoyF, really sorry you feel this way. The app is free to use - you can collect places for yourself - as a kind of digital address book for your places - or to share with friends and other members of the community. If you want, you can keep your places private, or not add any at all. We believe in sharing, as a community, but we don't impose it.

Good Concept

Interesting concept and if you are a person who likes being an early adopter, working with an app through its beta kinks and providing content into a community until it gains traction — totally hit this. Creators likely felt like this filled a gap in the app space, but to me I already use Swarm in the same way that I would potentially use this. Right now it’s limited to discovery and in my first experience, when I tried to add The Odeon in NYC to my own list and create a new Bimble for it, it bugged out. I’m going to wait until it gets a little further along.

Cincoted

5 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks for trying Bimble and for leaving your feedback. Sorry for the kinks! You are right that it is still early days for Bimble but we are now releasing updates every few weeks, so it'll keep getting better! Hope to see you on the app again down the line : )

New user

I just loaded the App and think it’s a great idea so I gave it just three stars so far- the first thing I did was try to find Bimbles local to my area. It does not look like I can search by geography (country, state/province, city). Seems like that should be a primary function for trip planning. Am I missing how to do that?

Grthgd

5 years ago

Response from developer

Hi! thanks for leaving your feedback. I'm so pleased you're into the idea of Bimble : ) Sorry you didn't find local Bimbles - if you click on the little magnifying glass top right of the Discover screen and type in the name of your city, that should return local results. We're pretty new, so no guarantees that we have content in your neighborhood yet! Please add the places you love to get the ball rolling! We'll be building better map based search functionalities soon, so it'll be easier to navigate, filter and find great little places. Happy bimbling!

Price???

I accidentally pushed get and app told me it was processing my purchase. ????? Nowhere can I find the cost. How can o get out of this. I haven’t even looked at the app

mmunie

5 years ago

Great concept with a cool UI

Looking forward to seeing Bimble spread in my city!

Felix_MK_27

5 years ago

Response from developer

Thanks Felix_MK_27 ! We're seeing more and more pick up in the US, so hopefully it'll soon be busy in your city : )

What a great find!

Super helpful app. What a great concept. My girlfriend and I love to travel, and have enjoyed putting together Bimbles to save the places we enjoyed most during our trips. Love checking out other peoples Bimbles as well, so we can discover cool new places in our area and places we visit.

gldema

5 years ago

Response from developer

So glad you are enjoying Bimble and finding it useful. We have lots of plans for the coming months, so hopefully you'll like it more and more!

Lots of potential!

This app is clearly new, but as a traveler and someone who loves to share recommendations, I think that it’s a gold mine. I hope that a follow feature arrives soon so I can better keep track of people & lists.

gawnjp