# FirstMove: Meet People Nearby — Make friends at live events > Make friends at live events (iPhone/iPad app by FirstMove Labs.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/firstmove-meet-people-nearby/id6749918226 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [FirstMove Labs](https://appshunter.io/developer/1832831036) - Category: Social Networking, Business - Price: Free - Age rating: 12+ - Requires: iOS 15.1 · 140 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2025-09-19 - Data updated: 2026-09-23 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/firstmove-meet-people-nearby/id6749918226/reviews.md ## What is FirstMove? You walked in on your own. Everyone else looks like they already know each other. Your phone is the easiest place in the room to hide. FirstMove is built for the ten minutes before you give up and go home. WHAT IT ACTUALLY IS A VibeZone is a room drawn on a map. Someone opens one around a venue, a festival field, a conference hall, a rooftop, a park bench. While it is open, anyone standing inside can see who else is there and say something. Step outside and you're gone from it. No profile left behind. No follower count. No feed to keep fed. Not a dating app. Not another place to scroll. HOW A NIGHT GOES 1. Open the map. See what's live around you, or draw your own zone wherever you happen to be standing. 2. Put together a face for the room: a name, a line about what you're up for, an icon. It exists in this zone and nowhere else. 3. Knock on someone. If they knock back, a chat opens. If they don't, nothing happens and they're never told you tried. CONSENT, BUILT IN Every introduction runs through the same three steps: knock, mutual confirm, connect. Nobody can message you before you've said yes. There is no request folder filling up with things you never asked for. Chats close when the zone does, unless you both decide to swap something permanent. SAY IT WITH A GIFT When a chat is open, you can send a gift into it. Twelve of them, from a Wave to a Castle. It lands as its own bubble, and tapping it fills the screen. Gifts cost Coins, bought in packs inside the app. SparkCredits are earned, not bought: someone sends you a gift and you earn SparkCredits, and they pay for gifts too. Inviting people earns them too, the first time someone you invited checks into a VibeZone. Your wallet holds both balances and the history of what you sent and received. PRIVACY, SPECIFICALLY Not a promise. A design. - The profile you build lives in one zone and dies with it - Your location places you inside a zone; it is never drawn on a map for anyone to follow - Messages are end-to-end encrypted between you and the person you agreed to talk to - Faked GPS is rejected before it reaches us, so being in the room means being in the room - Leaving is the delete button. Walk out and the zone forgets you THE WRITING IS THE HARD PART. NOW IT ISN'T. Tap the spark and FirstMove drafts it: - Event titles and descriptions - VibeZone names and blurbs - A persona bio, a username, an opening line - A one-off icon for your ephemeral profile, made to order Everyone gets an allowance every month. FirstMove+ gets a far bigger one. IF YOU THROW EVENTS, START HERE This is the part we built hardest. Anyone can create an event now. No review queue, nobody to email, no waiting on us. - Sell tickets through Stripe, Paystack or Apple Pay - Check people in with the built-in QR scanner - Open a public zone for the whole room, or a private one behind a key - Hand out badges for staff, investors, founders and first-timers, so the right people are findable - Draw the geofence yourself, to the meter, around exactly the space you booked - See who actually showed up, and how the room moved through the night Guests who met someone come back. Guests who spent the night in a corner on their phone do not. That is the entire pitch. WHERE IT EARNS ITS PLACE The conference where you know precisely nobody. The festival where you lost your friends four hours ago. A house party in a city you moved to last month. The wedding where you're the plus-one and the seating chart was not kind. Any room at all where the most interesting person is eight feet away and neither of you is going to move first. FIRSTMOVE+ A much larger AI allowance, and more room to host. Optional, monthly, and never required to meet anybody. Free to download, free to open a zone, free to say hello. Available in eight languages. Walk in. Make your move. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.6.2 — 2026-09-21 SAY IT WITH A GIFT There's a moment in a chat where you don't know what to type. Send a gift instead. • The gift button in any one on one chat opens the picker: Wave, Rose, Coffee, Cocktail, Bouquet, Fire, Crown, Party, Bottle, Diamond, Rocket, Castle • It lands in the conversation as its own bubble. Tap it and it fills the screen • Long press a gift to react to it, the same as any other message • Notifications now say what arrived: a gift, a voice note, or a message It goes into a chat the two of you already have. Nobody can gift you before you've knocked back. YOUR WALLET, YOUR MOVE • Gifts cost Coins. You buy Coins in packs inside the app • SparkCredits are earned, not bought. Someone sends you a gift, you earn SparkCredits. They pay for gifts too • Inviting people earns them. The first time someone you invited checks into a VibeZone, SparkCredits land in your wallet • The wallet shows both balances, a top up button, and the history of every gift you've sent and received ALSO IN THIS VERSION • My Tickets hides tickets for events that have already ended • The live board on Home was rebuilt. What's on now, in a rail you can scroll • The VibeZone map groups pins that sit on top of each other, and has zoom buttons Free to download, free to open a zone, free to say hello. Walk in. Make your move. ### 1.6.1 — 2026-09-20 This is the version we have been building towards. THE WRITING IS THE HARD PART. NOW IT ISN'T. You are standing in a room. You need a name, a line about what you are up for, and something to say to the person eight feet away. That used to be the part that sent people back to the bar. Tap the spark. FirstMove drafts it. • Event titles and descriptions • VibeZone names and blurbs • A persona bio, a username, an opening line • A one-off icon for your ephemeral profile, made to order It writes for the room you are in tonight, not a profile you have to keep forever. Use the draft, edit it, or throw it away and tap again. Everyone gets an allowance each month. FirstMove+ gets a far bigger one. You do not need FirstMove+ to meet anybody. It is optional, monthly, and never required to open a zone or say hello. IF YOU THROW EVENTS, START HERE This is the part we built hardest. Anyone can create an event now. No review queue. Nobody to email. No waiting on us. • Sell tickets through Stripe, Paystack or Apple Pay • Check people in with the built-in QR scanner • Open a public zone for the whole room, or a private one behind a key • Hand out badges for staff, investors, founders and first-timers, so the right people are findable • Draw the geofence yourself, to the meter, around exactly the space you booked • See who actually showed up, and how the room moved through the night A VibeZone is still a room drawn on a map. Someone opens one around a venue, a festival field, a conference hall, a rooftop, a park bench. While it is open, anyone standing inside can see who else is there and knock. Step outside and you are gone from it. Guests who met someone come back. Guests who spent the night in a corner on their phone do not. That is the entire pitch. HOW A NIGHT STILL GOES 1. Open the map. See what is live around you, or draw your own zone wherever you happen to be standing. 2. Put together a face for the room. It exists in this zone and nowhere else. 3. Knock on someone. If they knock back, a chat opens. If they do not, nothing happens and they are never told you tried. Nobody can message you before you have said yes. There is no request folder filling up with things you never asked for. Chats close when the zone does, unless you both decide to swap something permanent. YOU ARE THERE OR YOU ARE NOT You have to be standing in the room. They have to knock back. Walk out and you are gone. The profile you build lives in one zone and dies with it. Your location places you inside a zone; it is never drawn on a map for anyone to follow. Messages are end-to-end encrypted between you and the person you agreed to talk to. Faked GPS is rejected before it reaches us. Leaving is the delete button. WHERE IT EARNS ITS PLACE The conference where you know precisely nobody. The festival where you lost your friends four hours ago. A gallery opening where everyone arrived in pairs. A run club on week one. A house party in a city you moved to last month. The wedding where you are the plus-one and the seating chart was not kind. Any room at all where the most interesting person is eight feet away and neither of you is going to move first. ALSO IN THIS VERSION Verify your email without leaving the app. Location is more accurate, so being in the room means being in the room. Live rooms open faster. And we spent a serious amount of time on the crashes that should never have been there. FIRSTMOVE+ A much larger AI allowance, and more room to host. Optional, monthly, and never required to meet anybody. Free to download, free to open a zone, free to say hello. Available in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Zulu, Xhosa and Yoruba. Walk in. Make your move. ### 1.5.6 — 2026-09-15 This is the version we have been building towards. THE WRITING IS THE HARD PART. NOW IT ISN'T. You are standing in a room. You need a name, a line about what you are up for, and something to say to the person eight feet away. That used to be the part that sent people back to the bar. Tap the spark. FirstMove drafts it. • Event titles and descriptions • VibeZone names and blurbs • A persona bio, a username, an opening line • A one-off icon for your ephemeral profile, made to order It writes for the room you are in tonight, not a profile you have to keep forever. Use the draft, edit it, or throw it away and tap again. Everyone gets an allowance each month. FirstMove+ gets a far bigger one. You do not need FirstMove+ to meet anybody. It is optional, monthly, and never required to open a zone or say hello. IF YOU THROW EVENTS, START HERE This is the part we built hardest. Anyone can create an event now. No review queue. Nobody to email. No waiting on us. • Sell tickets through Stripe, Paystack or Apple Pay • Check people in with the built-in QR scanner • Open a public zone for the whole room, or a private one behind a key • Hand out badges for staff, investors, founders and first-timers, so the right people are findable • Draw the geofence yourself, to the meter, around exactly the space you booked • See who actually showed up, and how the room moved through the night A VibeZone is still a room drawn on a map. Someone opens one around a venue, a festival field, a conference hall, a rooftop, a park bench. While it is open, anyone standing inside can see who else is there and knock. Step outside and you are gone from it. Guests who met someone come back. Guests who spent the night in a corner on their phone do not. That is the entire pitch. HOW A NIGHT STILL GOES 1. Open the map. See what is live around you, or draw your own zone wherever you happen to be standing. 2. Put together a face for the room. It exists in this zone and nowhere else. 3. Knock on someone. If they knock back, a chat opens. If they do not, nothing happens and they are never told you tried. Nobody can message you before you have said yes. There is no request folder filling up with things you never asked for. Chats close when the zone does, unless you both decide to swap something permanent. YOU ARE THERE OR YOU ARE NOT You have to be standing in the room. They have to knock back. Walk out and you are gone. The profile you build lives in one zone and dies with it. Your location places you inside a zone; it is never drawn on a map for anyone to follow. Messages are end-to-end encrypted between you and the person you agreed to talk to. Faked GPS is rejected before it reaches us. Leaving is the delete button. WHERE IT EARNS ITS PLACE The conference where you know precisely nobody. The festival where you lost your friends four hours ago. A gallery opening where everyone arrived in pairs. A run club on week one. A house party in a city you moved to last month. The wedding where you are the plus-one and the seating chart was not kind. Any room at all where the most interesting person is eight feet away and neither of you is going to move first. ALSO IN THIS VERSION Verify your email without leaving the app. Location is more accurate, so being in the room means being in the room. Live rooms open faster. And we spent a serious amount of time on the crashes that should never have been there. FIRSTMOVE+ A much larger AI allowance, and more room to host. Optional, monthly, and never required to meet anybody. Free to download, free to open a zone, free to say hello. Available in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Zulu, Xhosa and Yoruba. Walk in. Make your move. ### 1.5.0 — 2026-09-12 This is the version we have been building towards. THE WRITING IS THE HARD PART. NOW IT ISN'T. You are standing in a room. You need a name, a line about what you are up for, and something to say to the person eight feet away. That used to be the part that sent people back to the bar. Tap the spark. FirstMove drafts it. • Event titles and descriptions • VibeZone names and blurbs • A persona bio, a username, an opening line • A one-off icon for your ephemeral profile, made to order It writes for the room you are in tonight, not a profile you have to keep forever. Use the draft, edit it, or throw it away and tap again. Everyone gets an allowance each month. FirstMove+ gets a far bigger one. You do not need FirstMove+ to meet anybody. It is optional, monthly, and never required to open a zone or say hello. IF YOU THROW EVENTS, START HERE This is the part we built hardest. Anyone can create an event now. No review queue. Nobody to email. No waiting on us. • Sell tickets through Stripe, Paystack or Apple Pay • Check people in with the built-in QR scanner • Open a public zone for the whole room, or a private one behind a key • Hand out badges for staff, investors, founders and first-timers, so the right people are findable • Draw the geofence yourself, to the meter, around exactly the space you booked • See who actually showed up, and how the room moved through the night A VibeZone is still a room drawn on a map. Someone opens one around a venue, a festival field, a conference hall, a rooftop, a park bench. While it is open, anyone standing inside can see who else is there and knock. Step outside and you are gone from it. Guests who met someone come back. Guests who spent the night in a corner on their phone do not. That is the entire pitch. HOW A NIGHT STILL GOES 1. Open the map. See what is live around you, or draw your own zone wherever you happen to be standing. 2. Put together a face for the room. It exists in this zone and nowhere else. 3. Knock on someone. If they knock back, a chat opens. If they do not, nothing happens and they are never told you tried. Nobody can message you before you have said yes. There is no request folder filling up with things you never asked for. Chats close when the zone does, unless you both decide to swap something permanent. YOU ARE THERE OR YOU ARE NOT You have to be standing in the room. They have to knock back. Walk out and you are gone. The profile you build lives in one zone and dies with it. Your location places you inside a zone; it is never drawn on a map for anyone to follow. Messages are end-to-end encrypted between you and the person you agreed to talk to. Faked GPS is rejected before it reaches us. Leaving is the delete button. WHERE IT EARNS ITS PLACE The conference where you know precisely nobody. The festival where you lost your friends four hours ago. A gallery opening where everyone arrived in pairs. A run club on week one. A house party in a city you moved to last month. The wedding where you are the plus-one and the seating chart was not kind. Any room at all where the most interesting person is eight feet away and neither of you is going to move first. ALSO IN THIS VERSION Verify your email without leaving the app. Location is more accurate, so being in the room means being in the room. Live rooms open faster. And we spent a serious amount of time on the crashes that should never have been there. FIRSTMOVE+ A much larger AI allowance, and more room to host. Optional, monthly, and never required to meet anybody. Free to download, free to open a zone, free to say hello. Available in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Zulu, Xhosa and Yoruba. Walk in. Make your move. ### 1.3.5 — 2026-05-30 Your VibeZone just got a lot more alive. This release sharpens the moment you walk into a room. Faster check-ins, a cleaner Launchpad, richer chat, and a few new ways to actually meet the people around you. - Redesigned Launchpad. Cleaner header, smoother feel, and quicker check-ins when you arrive. - Knock alerts that reach you even when you are not on the Launchpad, so you never miss a signal. - Challenge messages built into the handshake. Break the ice on your terms before you Connect. - Chat got better. GIFs, smooth scroll-back through older messages, and on-device encryption. - Events you can see before you arrive, plus a CLOSING SOON nudge when a VibeZone is about to end. - Verified badges, so you know who is who. - Introducing FirstMove+. An optional membership with monthly or yearly billing that unlocks more from your VibeZones. - Invite your people with referrals, now built in. - FirstMove now speaks seven languages. - Plus stability and reliability fixes across check-in, sign-in, and notifications. ## Apps similar to FirstMove | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [First Move AI](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/first-move-ai/id6755981253) | 5.0 (3) | Free | Social Networking | | [Luciyah](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/luciyah/id6748574471) | — | Free | Social Networking | | [RH Volunteering](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/rh-volunteering/id6593676616) | — | Free | Social Networking | | [Engy Africa](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/engy-africa/id6743745497) | — | Free | Social Networking | | [Japabudz](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/japabudz/id6764668527) | — | Free | Social Networking | | [InLoop APP](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/inloop-app/id6759622200) | — | Free | Social Networking | --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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