# Friendly Social Browser — user reviews > 777 indexed App Store user reviews of Friendly Social Browser by Friendly, Inc., rated 4.60/5 from 84,353 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/friendly-social-browser/id400169658/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/friendly-social-browser/id400169658.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 67,371 · 4★ 7,434 · 3★ 4,071 · 2★ 1,979 · 1★ 3,498 ## What do users think of Friendly Social Browser? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Efficient app - 🔒 Private experience - 👍 Customization options - 🚀 Fast and responsive - 👍 Convenient all-in-one app - 🚀 Lightweight and less bloated - 👍 Good alternative to Facebook app **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes and freezes - 🐛 Glitchy performance - 🐛 Unreliable notifications - 🐛 Inconsistent navigation - 🐛 Issues with video playback - 🐛 Ads and monetization problems - 🐛 Lack of feature parity with official apps **Commonly reported bugs** - Frequent crashes and freezes - Issues with loading posts and comments - Problems with logging in and staying logged in - Inconsistent behavior when navigating between screens - Inability to upload videos or images in certain scenarios **Most requested features** - Add voice/video chat in Messenger - Improve real-time notifications - Enhance integration with other social apps - Provide better support for Facebook Pages - Add option to disable automatic feed refresh ## Newest reviews (11 of 777) ### 2/5 — Inital load and setup *2026-07-31, version 1.3.0* Takes forever. I haven’t even used it yet as I have not been able to set it up. :( ### 4/5 — Not registered *2026-07-30, version 8.9.56* It not working like before they keep banding account and it not working perfectly ### 2/5 — Crashes and glitchy *2026-07-24, version 8.9.56* Update July 2026 - Still can’t post/reply on FaceBook and must close-restart app when switching to BlueSky, as the feed doesn’t load. The overlay for blocking/muting feeds on FB doesn’t work. Update - had to delete and reinstall the app to get it working after the latest update. Now working again. Still can’t download documents from FartBook. —— Used to be essential and still provides FartBook without ads. The latest update has been a real downer. It now force closes before the app loads. On FB, the comments do not work and it is not possible to download files. No big thing, though, given it is META. Really good app for BlueSky; works seamlessly. ### 1/5 — Error *2026-07-10, version 8.9.56* Can’t get passed it’s own internal browser reCAPTCHA check, “unsupported browser”. No response from support email. ### 4/5 — Lite Facebook *2026-07-10, version 8.9.56* Searching the web ### 1/5 — Saving pics doesn’t work *2026-07-04, version 8.9.56* Still doesn’t work have to copy them to notes and do it that way ### 1/5 — Don’t install if… *2026-07-03, version 8.9.56* Do not install this if you have noticed that Facebook intentionally breaks elements on the website when you browse in Safari with AdGuard or other app blockers turned on because this will not be your solution. It will behave the same. Videos won’t play nothing will be clickable. I installed this because I thought I can get rid of the ads in the native Facebook app. I was wrong. ### 3/5 — Used To Be Very Useful *2026-06-30, version 8.9.56* Loved this app before. Performance issues for me after a few minutes of using it. Causes iPhone 14 to freeze up like it’s causing resource issues. Also not able to make comments on posts within Facebook. Also not able to view Marketplace. I’m guessing it could be FB making changes to prevent other browsers from being able to access their environment completely. So if I want to comment on posts, I have to use a regular browser on my laptop. ### 1/5 — No longer supports Twitter *2026-06-27, version 8.9.56* App can’t log into Twitter for the last week, simply replies to “use the official X app”, barf. No word on an update coming, app may be abandonware. ### 2/5 — Instagram *2026-06-24, version 8.9.56* I keep trying to add pictures on my secondary instagram just showing “Upload failed. Only images can be posted.” Why all this? Please try and fix it I can’t post and add profile picture ### 1/5 — fallen from grace *2026-06-24, version 8.9.56* this used to be a super app. even bought and used the paid version. however. it seems for years the updates didn’t fix the issues and now it’s been a long time since the update. meta socials have issues. x won’t allow log ins, browsing shows pages with problems. seems the developers have given up. this app did it all a million times better than all its peers but seemingly has been given up on :( ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Crashes and glitchy; now abandonware *2026-08-25, version 8.9.56* Update Aug 2026 - Looks like this is abandonware. The free version hasn’t updated for a year and the paid version for two years. A real shame, as this was once a good app. Still can’t post/reply or download on FartBook. The overlay doesn’t work when trying to change post order, it just greys the screen. Update July 2026 - Still can’t post/reply on FaceBook and must close-restart app when switching to BlueSky, as the feed doesn’t load. The overlay for blocking/muting feeds on FB doesn’t work. Update - had to delete and reinstall the app to get it working after the latest update. Now working again. Still can’t download documents from FartBook. —— Used to be essential and still provides FartBook without ads. The latest update has been a real downer. It now force closes before the app loads. On FB, the comments do not work and it is not possible to download files. No big thing, though, given it is META. Really good app for BlueSky; works seamlessly. ### 1/5 — Its not working *2026-08-17, version 1.3.0* Mac OS stop to working a couple months ### 1/5 — Does not let you log in *2026-08-16, version 8.9.56* Kept trying to log on to Facebook. captcha kept in going on and on ### 1/5 — Update!!! *2026-08-15, version 8.9.56* Please update your app it’s been over year since you did an update so you need you update so some certain site like Nextdoor can be access on it ### 1/5 — Restore Key Functionality. *2026-08-12, version 8.9.56* It was a decent experience my first time using this app. Most things seems to work well with few exception especially with Facebook (which is primarily what it was invented for) but now, even the stuff that used to work has ceased to work properly hence resulting in horrid bugs and terrible functionality. Can the developer teams look into some features (Marketplace, Dating, Drop-down menu to create a page, Games, Messages) on Facebook and fix it appropriately. Thanks in advance! ### 1/5 — BE CAREFUL!!! *2026-07-28, version 1.3.0* I installed this and it put some dodgy extension in my safari browser, then my web server was hacked into because someone was obviously watching me enter credentials. Not safe at all! ### 1/5 — Facebook *2026-07-26, version 1.3.0* Its been over a month and Facebook access is totally restricted… ### 1/5 — 👎 *2026-07-16, version 8.9.56* 👎 ### 1/5 — Ig *2026-07-15, version 8.9.56* Very bad ### 1/5 — Horrible *2026-07-12, version 8.9.56* Never sends the code to my phone? Absolutely useless! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Good *2026-08-20, version 8.9.56* Good ### 5/5 — Review *2026-08-04, version 8.9.56* Best ### 5/5 — Perfect *2026-08-02, version 8.9.56* Good ### 5/5 — Please *2026-07-27, version 1.3.0* make a kids version so i can use canva.com ### 5/5 — Hey how have you been *2026-07-05, version 8.9.56* Very good ### 5/5 — lnstagram *2026-07-04, version 8.9.56* lnstagram ### 5/5 — Good *2026-06-30, version 8.9.56* Good ### 5/5 — perfect *2026-06-23, version 8.9.56* perfect ### 5/5 — Super *2026-06-23, version 8.9.56* Cumple sus funciones 10 /10 ### 5/5 — Love the app butt. *2026-06-20, version 8.9.56* Wont let me log onto youtube through my Google acct. Tried all the different browser option to no prevail. Also cant seem to import data from friendly to friendly plus. Shouldnt need to log into each account and set them all up again. June 20,2026. Wont let me reply to anyone…. Been a year since update. Guess the projects been abandoned. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-31.*