FURIENDLY vs Heatwave Social
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FURIENDLY
Connect with other pet owners in your neighborhood. Discover pet-friendly locations, plan meetups with furry friends, and join local pet events. Share moments and chat with your pet crew.
- Find pet-friendly spots
- Discover local pet events
- Plan pet meetups
- Connect with pet owners
- Group chat for pet crews
- Pet photo contests
- Share pet stories
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Pets bring people together. Furiendly makes it easy! Furiendly is you and your pet's neighborhood in one app. Find pet-friendly spots and events near you, plan meetups with your pet friends, and meet the pet people around the corner. SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING NEAR YOU Home shows what's going on around you today: furiends out nearby, upcoming events and handpicked local spots. FIND PET-FRIENDLY SPOTS Parks, trails, patios, cafés and shops, picked by our team. The map shows where to go and which furiends are already out. MEET NEW PET PEOPLE Ready to grow your crew? Discover shows pets and owners nearby. Sniff the ones you like, and when they sniff you back, you're furiends. DISCOVER PET EVENTS Browse pet events near you every week, from park socials to community meetups. PLAN MEETUPS Create a meetup in a few taps, invite your furiends and see who's going. Share it to Instagram Stories or send the link to anyone. ONE CHAT FOR YOUR WHOLE CREW Message furiends one on one or start a group chat for the whole crew. Share photos, voice notes, check-ins and meetups right in the conversation. STAR OF THE WEEK Enter your best pet photo in the weekly contest, vote for your favorites and share the win. STORIES Share moments from your day with your furiends. GETTING STARTED IS QUICK Sign up with your phone number or Apple, pick a username and you're in. Add your pet's profile whenever you're ready to start meeting new people on Discover. Furiendly is free to join. Who knows, your pet might just meet their new best friend. (And you might too!)
Heatwave Social
This social media app uses a unique "heat" system to reveal content, encouraging community engagement. Posts start blurred and become visible as users contribute, fostering anticipation and connection.
- Content revealed by community "heat"
- Posts start blurred
- Set custom reveal requirements
- Instant unlock with tokens
- Private chat upon unlocking
- Screenshot protection
- Trending content feed
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Some moments are worth the wait. On Heatwave, every post starts blurred, and it takes everyone bringing the heat to unlock it. No mindless scrolling through everything at once. The reveal is something you earn together, and the wait is what makes it hit. A photo dump becomes an event. A drop becomes a countdown. An announcement becomes something people actually show up for. A new kind of social media. Built on anticipation, made for connection. Set the bar. You decide how many flames it takes to reveal your post. Spark it. When the flames add up, the blur burns away for everyone who brought the heat. Skip the line. Spend tokens to unlock any post instantly. Start a conversation. Instant unlocking also opens a private chat with whoever posted. Stay protected. Screenshots are blocked, so what you share stays yours. See what's hot. Trending shows what's catching fire right now. And when a post finally burns open, you find out exactly who showed up for it. The best stuff is behind the blur. Download Heatwave.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FURIENDLY at none against Heatwave Social's 3. FURIENDLY also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Heatwave Social sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. FURIENDLY asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for FURIENDLY against 5.0 for Heatwave Social. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
FURIENDLY ships an update every 2 weeks, Heatwave Social every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FURIENDLY | Heatwave Social |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 121 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | LeashedIn | Heatwave Social Inc. |
Customer experience
FURIENDLY
Heatwave Social
In-app purchases
FURIENDLY
No in-app purchases
Heatwave Social
- 3 Flame Tokens$3.99
- 10 Flame Tokens$9.99
- 25 Flame Tokens$19.99


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