Buddy List Messenger vs Buzzing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Buddy List Messenger
Easily send mass messages to your contacts. Friends can choose to receive your updates via text or push notifications. Share your ideas directly with the founders.
- Send mass messages
- Push notification subscriptions
- Text message subscriptions
- Direct founder feedback channel
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A green dot next to a name. That's the whole idea. Buddy List brings back the one thing instant messaging got right and every app since has thrown away: you could look at a list and see who was actually there. Not who posted three hours ago. Who's around, right now. WHO'S AROUND Open the app and you have your answer before the screen finishes settling. Green means they're here. Amber means they stepped away. Every state carries a shape as well as a colour, so it reads the same if you can't tell green from amber. AWAY MESSAGES, IN YOUR OWN HANDWRITING "brb, mom needs the phone." Set a status and it goes out to your buddies as a notification. Pick the font. Pick the colour. Six real typefaces, eight colours, and whatever you want to say in them. This is the part where the personality lives. FRIENDS AND FAMILY Group your people and collapse the ones you're not looking at. Each group shows how many are around out of how many there are. YOU CONTROL THE LIGHT Go invisible and you appear offline to everyone. Hide your presence and you stop seeing theirs — it works both ways, always, and no screen in the app can get around it. Auto-away marks you away after 24 hours. We're also deliberately imprecise. "A few minutes ago," never a timestamp. Nobody needs to know you looked. WHAT'S NOT IN HERE No feed. No algorithm. No recommended accounts, no follower counts, no strangers, no ads. There is nothing to scroll and nothing to catch up on. You add the people you actually talk to, and that's the whole app. Buddy List needs a phone number to find your friends, and a notification permission to tell you when they're around. That's it.
Buzzing
Organize gatherings, manage tickets, and share event details with friends seamlessly. Keep everyone informed about concerts, festivals, or nights out without endless group chats.
- Create events with date, time, and location
- Assign and share tickets with friends
- Add notes for attendees
- View all upcoming events in one list
- Coordinate group outings
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Buzzing helps you organize events, track tickets, and share plans with friends—all in one simple place. Whether you and your friends have an upcoming concert, festival, movie, or night out, Buzzing keeps everyone informed without long chats or scattered details. Create Events with Ease Set up events in seconds with time, date, location, and key details. Everything stays clearly organized from the start. Assign Tickets & Share Plans Save ticket details and assign tickets to friends so everyone knows who has what—no more digging through messages. Add Notes for Attendees Share important notes with event participants, like meeting spots, reminders, or details everyone should know. View All Your Upcoming Plans See all your upcoming events in one organized list and quickly check what’s next. Made for Groups Who Love Going Out From concerts to birthdays to nights out, Buzzing helps your group stay coordinated—without the chaos.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Buzzing at Free against Buddy List Messenger's $5.99. Buzzing also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). Buddy List Messenger's advantage is ratings volume (35 vs 2). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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
Buzzing is free to download; Buddy List Messenger costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Buzzing holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Buddy List Messenger has 35 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Buddy List Messenger ships an update weekly, Buzzing every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Buddy List Messenger | Buzzing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (35 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 35 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Spark Limited Liability Company | BusyBee Innovations Inc. |
Customer experience
Buddy List Messenger
Buzzing
In-app purchases
Buddy List Messenger
No in-app purchases
Buzzing
No in-app purchases









