BeFriend Me vs Minglee
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BeFriend Me
Connect with others and discover local businesses through personalized profiles and digital coupon hunts. Businesses can promote their services and create digital coupons to attract new customers globally.
- Personalized profile creation
- Support local businesses with promotions
- Expand business with digital coupon creation
- Chat Room for social interaction
- Digital coupon hunt with AR functionality
- Easy coupon search by interest and vicinity
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Business sign up is NOW $10.00 a month or $95.99 for the year. Who said you have to be out with the old, to be in with the new? Why can't you have both? BeFriend Me allows you to be the BEST friend you can be, without the anxiety of being there for someone in person. FULLY PERSONALIZED PROFILE CREATION: A user can easily sign-up and create his/her profile. The app allows the user to select and choose his/her preferences so that the user experience is custom and is meaningful. As the base app, this profile sets the tone for the entire BeFriend Me experience for the users. SUPPORT LOCAL BUSINESSES: BeFriend Me will provide members with promotions from local businesses that may even apply internationally. Who is overdue for a dinner date? Dinner on us, using discount codes that is! BeFriend Me cares about your community. Allow us to help keep your favorite small businesses open. You can help them too, just Befriend Me businesses you like, and order deliveries nearest to you. EXPAND BUSINESS AS AN ENTREPRENEUR: For only $10.00 dollars monthly, businesses can save in promotions since BeFriend Me allows you to promote your business using our business promotions. BeFriend Me allow opportunities for businesses to attract new customers from all over the world without worrying about how to promote. Let the app worry about that. There is an algorithm built in the app that will match your businesses with friends interested in your products and services. CREATING DIGITAL COUPONS: Businesses can easily create digital coupons for their customers. These coupons can be created with a wide array of available variations such with specific time durations, in limited numbers etc. These digital coupons can then be placed in specific geo-locations for the users (customers) to hunt. Thus creating an exciting way of promoting a business to its customer base. SOCIAL INTERACTION: Elevate your app experience with our latest feature – Chat Room! Seamlessly integrated into your favourite platform, Chat Room brings a new dimension to social interaction. Connect with friends, family, and colleagues like never before through instant messaging, voice calls, and even crystal-clear video calls. Whats New The sign-up process is streamlined to accommodate an easier user as well as business registration. The entire app has gone through a facelift in through new UIs and easier operational flows. The Coupon Hunt room is first of its kind digital scavenger hunt for coupons. Businesses can increase customer engagement through placing digital coupons at strategic places and inviting customers to “hunt” them digitally through the AR functionality of their mobile devices. Any BeFriend Me user can hunt for these exciting coupons. EASY COUPON SEARCH: Creating a digital coupon is super easy in this app. A user gets to browse all the available coupons and deals based on his/her interests and vicinity. In addition, an easy to use search option is available for the users to find and locate any desired coupons. GEO-LOCATION BASED OPERATIONS: The coupons are created and placed using precise geo-location. This ensures a fun way for the users to hunt for a specific coupon as the coupons only become available when the user is near to the precise coupon location. AR HUNT: The coupons are virtual and can only be visible through using the AR functionality of the mobile device. Once a coupon is available in the app, a user can begin the hunt. A detailed direction to the precise location of the coupon is provided to the user and AR is enabled once the hunter is near enough. This game-like hunt is bound to provide the BeFriend Me users ample excitement. SAVING COUPONS: Once successfully hunted, a coupon can be stored in the user’s profile for immediate or later usage.
Minglee
Connect with people globally through video calls, text messaging, and photo sharing. Capture and share your moments with friends using emoticons and multimedia. Stay in touch and express yourself with a variety of communication tools.
- Global connections
- Unlimited video calls
- Text messaging
- Photo sharing
- Moment capture and sharing
- Emoticons and multimedia expression
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EXPLORE Connect and meet new people all over the globe with Minglee!. Having many friends makes your life colourful!. Unlimited video calls, text messaging and more!. You will get the chance to share your favourite pictures. MOMENTS We provide you the ability to capture the moments you want to share. Moments and moods help you stay in touch. Moments/moods can be expressed via emoticons, videos, images etc. FEATURES * Message your friends. Receive notifications the moment they respond * Express your emotions with fun and cheerful Emoticons, Voice mails, images and videos * Explore how people around you are feeling * Video call your friends and have unlimited fun. *Share Photos Download Minglee and connect new people around the world
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: BeFriend Me at 4.8 against Minglee's 3.5. BeFriend Me also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 11 months) and ratings volume (9 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BeFriend Me holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 2 respectively.
BeFriend Me ships an update every 6 weeks, Minglee every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BeFriend Me | Minglee |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (9 ratings) — better | 3.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 11 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 218 MB | 138 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | BEFRIEND ME L.L.C. | Success Chizaram |
Customer experience
BeFriend Me
Minglee
In-app purchases
BeFriend Me
No in-app purchases
Minglee
No in-app purchases








