Bimble - Save Your Places Reviews

by Albert Lawson

Bimble is kind of a mess. Many restaurants have duplicate (in one case, triplicate) listings. It seems anyone can add anything and it won’t check to see if it’s already in the database. There’s no way to report duplicates, either, so it just becomes a mess. Meh.

The discovery function is terrible. You can’t just pull up a map or have it look for places near you. It just gives you a list of Bimbles that might be 3,000 miles away. It doesn’t even have location data.

Meh. Not the worst idea but oretty useless as it stands.

by T’ Rav

I understand it may be a young app but there’s literally no places in my city, which is surprising considering it’s a semi-major city. They shove all these different international and cross country places in your face on the homepage and the only way to find anything in your town is to search for it, but it’s hidden on another page. Honestly Bimble developers need to do a better job of letter you explore around you in your own town, instead of going “Hey look at this cool cafe in Berlin” 20 times over on the first page. It talked about “local businesses” and something something “community”, but it’s the complete opposite.

TLDR: don’t get Bimble unless you’re in a major city, even then you’ll get bombarded by places thousands of miles away

by Thebeigesavage

Bimble idea is pretty awesome. Pretty disappointing that after downloading none of your text fields to join work. Not very useful if you can register. Bug fixes needed.

by Physhfr

I was hoping to be able to move my 30 or so lists with hundreds of places from Google Maps to this app but there seems to be mostly UK content. Not much in the rest of Europe or North America outside of NYC, or if there is, the discovery mechanism is poor. I don’t care who makes a list, I care about their profile and taste, and areas where they are experts. Most lists are super generic and don’t seem to go beyond popular spots with nothing special at all. There’s no audience so I’m not going to bother.

by Tejomay24

Whenever I click on join this app to create profile, UI doesnt work to enter any information. Clicks dont work. I cant enter any information. Weird, basic step doesnt work- not sure if its a legit app.

by Michelle1635384949

Was hoping to use for trip planning but it isn’t populated enough to be helpful like Pinterest used to be.

by MadisonDupart

Call me crazy but I hate apps where you actually have to read the instructions. I assume that in 2021 everything built is intuitive and if it’s not then it’s um... stupid? Lol I understand that’s clearly me projecting after not bother to read how to work it but when it came to the part that said typed your location I did and I think Bimble is too small/west coast for now. It suggests great lil spots all around NoCal. But when it came time to suggest things in Bushwhick Brooklyn there were none. It could only find Williamsburg in Brooklyn (laameee) and even then it suggested a school as a fun hang place lolol. Which I think sounds like a trashcan of a time is hanging out at or around an elementary school.
I give 1 star cause I like where there beads are at and the second star because 1 star felt too mean!

by Cincoted

Interesting concept and if you are a person who likes being an early adopter, working with an app through its beta kinks and providing content into a community until it gains traction — totally hit this. Creators likely felt like this filled a gap in Bimble space, but to me I already use Swarm in the same way that I would potentially use this. Right now it’s limited to discovery and in my first experience, when I tried to add The Odeon in NYC to my own list and create a new this app for it, it bugged out. I’m going to wait until it gets a little further along.

by CIGTallahassee

Love to travel and love this concept. Will keep you posted

by Drw@fc

I was so excited to download Bimble - what a great idea! But after a few minutes of trying to navigate it was just not intuitive and easy to use. Please update entirely. I’m not an app designer but it needs work. I would love to give this another go if it were redesigned.

by Grthgd

I just loaded Bimble and think it’s a great idea so I gave it just three stars so far- the first thing I did was try to find Bimbles local to my area. It does not look like I can search by geography (country, state/province, city). Seems like that should be a primary function for trip planning. Am I missing how to do that?

by Caleb_bates

Amazing app, but navigation of it could be improved.
Adding your own places is so easy, as is viewing other features people’s places.
Not sure if overwhelming is a good word, but as it stands, the only way to see all places in a specific area is to search every permutation of the name of places after you select an area. I can’t find what I don’t know, and it looks like one aim of Bimble is to discover places. Let’s maybe make it easier to do that.
Here’s a suggestion: allow the user to pick a location, then provide either all the places/bimbles available on my map/list, or even sort it by category.

by PortnoyF

Ok, so you’re asking me to spend my time and list my favorite local jems to benefit other travelers and your cash flow. What’s in it for me?? I’m tired of apps that ride on the back of their users to deliver value for shareholders.

by Mairvmurph

This is a cool app! I wish there was a follow feature. I really like the advice of a travel company and I would love to follow them to get updates on new gems and places to see!

by Katrina Finette

As someone who loves to support small businesses and go out to eat, I’m always asked to share recommendations with friends. this app has made it so easy for me to curate complete lists of all of my favor spots by area and even interest, and easily share them with friends, family, business associates, etc. I love the ease with which Bimble allows you to add places that might not already be listed, create this app lists, upload photos, add personalized tips/recommendations and discover amazing places other people have shared. I’ve even started Bimbles of new places I want to remember to try. An all around great tool, it’s refreshing to see an app dedicated to sharing the places and businesses we love, so that we can experience areas as locals do. I’m a big fan and look forward to seeing how this app evolves as the community grows!

by Felix_MK_27

Looking forward to seeing this app spread in my city!

by 4Ninachen

Such a great concept for an app! I’m a realtor and am currently using this app to put together lists of great local places to share with buyers looking to get to know the area. Also love using it to keep note of new places I want to try!

by Gldema

Super helpful app. What a great concept. My girlfriend and I love to travel, and have enjoyed putting together Bimbles to save the places we enjoyed most during our trips. Love checking out other peoples Bimbles as well, so we can discover cool new places in our area and places we visit.

by A Yasa

I’m so happy to have stumbled upon this app. I’m a big traveler and collector of places I love / places to try and Bimble is such a better solution than the email chains and notepads that usually house my lists. I’m also finding it to be a great way to organize the many future trips I’ve planned daydreaming during the pandemic.

by Gawnjp

Bimble is clearly new, but as a traveler and someone who loves to share recommendations, I think that it’s a gold mine. I hope that a follow feature arrives soon so I can better keep track of people & lists.

by Marsima4

App is hard to navigate. It’s all over the place. Random cities even if you put your location it doesn’t help.

by Charlottemodel

No way to browse places near you. There’s a search where you can enter a zip code but nothing comes up. I think it’s just too early to use Bimble. Hopefully I’ll see another ad for it in a few years when it’s more populated

by Kangjulie16

Good intention but its ui/ux is not great

by Mlg12347

I initially downloaded Bimble after seeing it on a YouTube video and thought it would be great for an upcoming vacation (that will probably be delayed ☹️) . But continuing to look is a great distraction from all that’s going on in the world. I encountered an issue with Bimble not working for me. I was in contact with the developer, who was great from the beginning. Trying to walk me through it until lastly suggesting I update the version of software I was using with my iPhone. I was using 13.1 rather than the newest update. BAM!! It worked!! And it’s phenomenal! I can’t wait to actually be able to take my vacation and use it while I’m there! Thank you Julie for being so patient and helpful while helping me figure it out. It’s great to be able to take some time and forget about the Coronavirus for a little while and dream of a vacation...whenever it may happen! You’re very thoughtful, and my colleagues will be very surprised and appreciative!