Bumble For Friends: Meet IRL Reviews

I’m so happy that you guys released BumbleForFriends!! I’ve been wanting to see one of the big dating apps do this. You guys are on the cutting edge! The group events feature is genius. This feature alone is going to really change the game for people meeting online.
My top suggestions:
*Adding 7 optional spaces for the polls (so that the group can vote on a day of the week).
*Adding reactions to messages to maintain the appearance of active conversation in groups.
*Adding a going or not going option to events.
Thank you for BumbleForFriends, Bumble!

I’m so happy! Love the new look and now I can delete the original bumble app so my boyfriend doesn’t get weirded out.

I’ve already made some matches and some friends!

I didn’t love the idea having the bumble app on my phone because how it’s mainly a dating app. Glad to see they created a separate app for friendship

So far so good; smooth onboarding and setup. It’s really exciting to see Bumble investing in friendship. Can’t wait to see how they evolve and develop BumbleForFriends in the future!

This really helped me find all my friends and I am so glad bumble created a safe space to find a friend … I’ve met amazing women through this!

I haven’t received the phone call or text to verify my account. I understand why they want to make it more secure, but at least make sure it works properly.

Why would you make the phone verification a phone call instead of a text? Also I never received a phone call so obviously this system isn’t working

If you have both bumble apps you can swipe right on yourself 😂 - not sure why you can’t just merge both your bff accounts or why they can’t remove the bff option in regular bumble

I can’t log in at all after making an account. It says that my phone number is already used, but will not actually let me sign in

Sadly, I’m unable to make an account. Seems like the developers have kinks to work out.

Literally a cloned app - unless you have a jealous spouse I’d just stick to the main bumble app

why is the only option to call? and why am i not receiving the call??

Terrible experience. Interests are useless. Try BumbleForFriends AXIR instead!are

Can’t sign up because it doesn’t call you with the code. Tried emailing for support and they don’t answer. Hate BumbleForFriends don’t waste your time.

“Upload photos” doesn’t work. Just gets stuck loading forever. Can’t even set up my profile

Everything moved over from the bumble app pretty easy. So far so good. I like that it’s a friends only app now.

$30 a week for premium is ridiculous! No service cost that much especially just to see a possible friend match.

Have restarted BumbleForFriends numerous times and can’t get past the first screen to verify my number. Have never received a phone call like BumbleForFriends says I should.

Please add the Spotify feature as this is a perfect way to form friends that like the same music as you!

I got BumbleForFriends to find friends in my area, although I did match with a few people when I tried to log back on, it said that I had been reported in my account was permanently blocked. i’m not sure why someone reported me, but obviously BumbleForFriends did not do their research before choosing to block me. I had no pictures on there, except for a couple pictures of me where I was fully clothed and a picture of my dog. In my bio all I said was where I was from and that I was looking for friends to hang out with. I think BumbleForFriends is a great idea but people getting blocked from BumbleForFriends just because someone reported them without BumbleForFriends doing their research, Kind of makes it pointless because that means someone can go through and report everyone they swipe on and there will be no one left on BumbleForFriends .

I just was on BumbleForFriends the other day where I created my account and of course added my profile pictures. Well I hopped off for the night and went back on only to find out they took off my photos for “being against the guidelines” yet it was just a simple face photo. NOTHING WRONG WITH IT AT ALL. I even double checked the guidelines because I tried again only for once again a quick moment later it was removed again. On top of it I am unable to respond to anyone now or match with anyone?? Come on over a face photo that was acceptable. I reached out to bumble on Instagram and Twitter but highly doubt I will hear from them since people haven’t heard from them in months.

Despite what the person who is responding to reviews says, you cannot use BumbleForFriends without paying. I swiped on a couple of girls I liked and went to see who o matched with but it says “upgrade to premium to see who liked you” then it says “upgrade to premium to send a message” so no, it is not completely free to use. The only thing you can do is swipe and like 5 people before it says to upgrade. If that is a bug you guys are working on then say that, but to keep replying that it’s completely free is just misleading. There literally no point to use BumbleForFriends if you do not want to pay for premium.

Please add the ability to add more than 5 interests though PLEASE! It just doesn’t feel like enough when finding friends!! Especially when you only have 25 free likes a day!

Other than that I love that it’s a separate app and I don’t have to have regular bumble on my phone because I’m engaged!

Please please please let us choose what gender people we get shown rather than limiting it to only people of the same gender. Bumble BFF is the best option for finding local friends but I don’t want to limit myself to just people of the same gender as me. At least give us the choice!

I cannot use BumbleForFriends until y’all let us choose a fixed location!! I am not trying to make friends in every city I travel to! I want to make friends in a local area and when I travel outside of that area, it’s ASININE that I’m now unable to connect with people in my home base until I return.

App seems like a great idea in concept, but it’s puzzling why you can only match with the same gender. It seems that the intention is to separate it from being a dating platform, but aren’t swipes mutual? Why not permit people to opt in/out of who they’re seeking as friends or who their profile shows for?

They have monetized friendship. Absolutely ridiculous. Signed up thinking, hey new in town would be good to meet others since it’s so difficult anymore. Oh hey, I got a like! Great I’ll reach out…
App: so in order to even speak to someone with whom you share a basic common interest you have to pay $29 a week or $119 for six months.
Deleted my account. WTAF?

I’ve tried multiple times with multiple avenues to contact support about getting my Bumble subscription connected to BFF but nobody has gotten back to me since Aug 11th. I do not have twitter or Facebook so please do not suggest that.

Would be a great app if it wasn’t so expensive and if all useful feature wasn’t exclusive to the membership. You can only select a few interests.

When you originally set up if you attach your bumble bff account it says you will no longer be able to use your bff account. Sooooo? You want me to pay two memberships? Nah I’m good.

It seems like a cool idea to find friends, but $60 a month is a little too out of my price range. I’m going to have to pass on this one.

Makes you upload 2, when I select them it doesn’t work. Closed and reopened app. Can’t get around it nor go back.

They say free to use and that only a “few features” that are “upgrades” and are not necessary to make a connection is a lie. Do not waste your time.

I have been locked out of my premium account for 4 days and emailed support many times but they do not respond back. This is useless.

Some weird bug that won’t allow me to save my interests after adding them. Is only allowing me to view other non-binary people even though I’d prefer to make friends with people of all genders—I can’t find a “gender” in preferences so I don’t think it’s an issue on my end. I’m in a big city and have the filters set to the broadest possible ranges but I’ve somehow swiped through everyone in a couple minutes. It’s not really helping me make new friends :(

How are we supposed to make friends if we can’t even see one person that likes you? It’s kinda sad that BumbleForFriends is advertised to make friends, but realistically you can’t see anyone that likes you unless you have a subscription.

It’d be nice if you could at least unlock and see at least one match a day or after viewing an add.

Guess it’s worth it if you subscribe.

I downloaded the new app and it transported all my info from the old BFF which made it easy. Looks slick. Similar to the old one but I’m excited this has its own app now!

So close to being fabulous. Have a lot to say but when it comes down to the quick and dirty : Bumble for Pete’s sake why charge such a high prices? Basic feature like “undo” when accidentally swiping left Vs right, there is not a single option to undo (even when trying it out the first day) without being behind a $20 for ONE WEEK to $80 for 6m pay wall. Come on bumble? People are lonely during a recession with inflation and this is the options you give? More greed. No under $10 trial period is so lame. Like you were so close… I would be so happy to pay a reasonable price for an app like this, but to be so stingy to not even allow us to TEST the features before paying SUCH prices? Come on now. 8.6 billion dollar company needs $20/wk before you can even test a basic feature. Give me a break. (Oh and to boot, went to the contact us page on their website to avoid leaving this review, to give them a polite and decent chance to hear from the people - and “this page is not available” was the contact us page. Nice.)

I was hesitant to get BumbleForFriends as I am married and was worried it wasn’t actually a friend app but more like a dating app but no! You get people who are also just looking for friends. It’s the same as a dating app, you get to fill out everything about you, post pictures and set distance and age preferences. So far I’ve noticed that texting first is the best way to actually get people to talk but if you’re too scared send a gif! Me and my husband both got BumbleForFriends and I mostly get women on mine and he gets mostly men, now idk if you can’t change the preferences to mix or get the opposite gender but it doesn’t bother us at all. I’ve had BumbleForFriends for maybe 3-4 days and got a couple phone numbers and one planned meet up so far but you really gotta put in effort like with any other friendship that’s in real life.

I’ve been waiting for an app like this for awhile that people in my area actually use, which so far, they have! It’s been so fun meeting new people on here but there’s a lot of limitations on the interest buttons and how many swipes you can get. There should be another option to get more swipes other than the very high priced premium :(
I hope there’s new updates coming soon because this is an awesome app that is much needed for college aged adults!

I’m not really sure what the differences are between this and the regular Bumble but I am not impressed. My biggest pain point is that the chats section doesn’t say which chats are your turn or their turn to send a message? I keep forgetting to respond to messages because I thought it was the other persons turn….. this is really annoying. Also BumbleForFriends keeps showing the same people although I have already X’ed them out.

I don't understand why they limit our profiles to 5 interests, 3 questions about ourselves, a tiny bio, and a few pictures. We're not babies, we can decide for ourselves what will make our profile look too cluttered or not. i'm sorry whoever designed this is lacking personality, but most ppl have more than 5 interests. and the timer? Please. What if someone has a busy work day? I don't see how BumbleForFriends is benefiting from rushing us.

In order to see what people like you back, so that you can have conversations with them, you need to pay ridiculous prices. You can’t even use BumbleForFriends for it’s intended purpose unless you’re willing to pay them money. Making friends is hard enough, and them pretending as if you can use BumbleForFriends without paying for it is misleading and insulting.

I swear I swiped right on only 5 to 10 people when I first got BumbleForFriends before it told me I was out of likes within a few minutes. Okay, I wait 12 hours or so and open BumbleForFriends again, thinking I’ll have more likes. I swipe right on TWO PEOPLE and tells me I’m out of likes again..?? Nearly impossible to find matches with this extremely limited amount of swipes

Just downloaded and it’s cool so far. Only thing is you only get like 15 swipes maybe less, then it says please match diligently, I don’t discriminate or judge, I’m looking for friends so I’ll very very rarely swipe left. So I ran out of swipes. When does it reload it doesn’t tell you. And to get more swipes is also expensive more expensive than dating app premiums.

I’ve been trying since BumbleForFriends came out to get my subscription connected to both Bumble and BFF, through social media and the website contact form, several times. Not one response. Will be canceling my subscription for good because of poor customer service, not worth the money.

If you and another person match then you can begin a conversation, but if you don’t match you have to pay to unlock the feature where you see who befriended you. And it’s kind of expensive. Not too happy with the first go.

BumbleForFriends works great and plenty of people use it, but good glob is it expensive. $30 is the lowest amount you can spend, and that gets you premium access for a only a week. Premium is the only way to actually see who’s liked you, so the free version isn’t very useful, imo.

First and foremost, it keeps deleting my photos every time I log back on or my photos keep getting taken down even though they’re just photos of me and nothing wrong with it. I keep putting photos in my account and they take it down for community guidelines but it’s literally just a picture of me sitting in my car or just a normal picture of me.
Another thing is the prices for premium. $80 for three months? That seems a little bit too much just to see who swiped right on you and to go back if you accidentally swipe left on someone.
I do like BumbleForFriends I just wish that there wasn’t so many bugs in that it wasn’t so highly prized because there’s no way I’m paying that much just to see who’s swiped right on me.

I tried to view the people that “liked” me and it said to upgrade to premium to see. I wanted to see the cost so I clicked on it and it said I had “no payment info on file” but there’s no place in app or settings to do so. I see from reading the other reviews here that the cost is too high anyway. I contacted help but never got a response and it’s been over two weeks.

It works fine. It’s like a dating app for friends, I get it, it has all the features. But why am I just limited to my gender? It literally makes no sense. I’m a girl, but I don’t get to have guys on my feed? So pointless.

So I’ve had BumbleForFriends for maybe two weeks. It doesn’t show me anyone new for a loooong time. It says 7 people “liked me,” but I can’t see them unless I pay like $40/month?! Dude, for one I am not paying for *potential* friendship. For two, I can’t afford that anyway. I’ve never had an app that charges that much for so little. It seems pointless to me so far. I’ll keep checking it every week or so but so far it’s very underwhelming.

It was working at in point but this it takes for every to load conversations and it moves slow

Downloaded BumbleForFriends yesterday, and got to talking to some cool people! Thought I’d give premium a try for a bit, and as soon as I purchased the subscription, my messages are stuck endlessly loading, not allowing me to respond or read chats. I’ve tried everything on the bumble troubleshooting website, including clearing stored data, deleting and redownloading BumbleForFriends , logging out and back in, and restarting my phone countless times, but nothing works. Hoping there will be a fix to this soon, as BumbleForFriends has a ton of potential, but as of now, I’m stuck paying 80$ for an app that doesn’t even work. :(

When I get a notification and open BumbleForFriends , nothing will load. My profile, people or messages or who’s liked you doesn’t load. I paid $40 for premium so I’m annoyed this is what I have to deal with. I’ve tried restarting my phone and deleting BumbleForFriends and reinstalling. It just works when it feels like it, it seems.

So I’ve had this for a while but I don’t know if this is how it’s supposed to be or not but I keep getting just girls on there. Like I wanna make new friends and that’s with both girls AND guys but not a single guy has appeared. So either no guy near me has BumbleForFriends or this is just for girls?? Idk y’all help

40$ a month just to view if potential friends liked you. They also offer 20$ a WEEK and so on. This is absurd! They charge outrageously high prices for simple premium features! But despite this it's an ok app. Oh and also they said they moderated my photo because i wrote TEXT on it and that it wasn't "original" It was only a photo of me with little text and they took it down and refused to put it back up.

I needed to contact you bc I put in the wrong date for my birthday and I needs to redo it..

So I signed out and now it won’t let me sign in. When I press continue with apple it goes through then asks me to type in my phone number, then continues to say “this number is already connected to a bumble account”…. Like… okay? Then let me sign in…. It’s kinda confusing and I don’t know how to get back into my account.

I think people are a little confused. You are able to see your matches for free, you just can’t see who liked you unless you pay the subscription. Meaning either a)someone liked you and they haven’t shown up on your feed yet, or b)they were briefly in your area and then went out of range so you wouldn’t be able to see them in your feed anymore.

My main issue with BumbleForFriends is that I don’t understand the algorithm. Like why don’t I see everyone all at once and instead just get a few profiles to see every so often? Like why are people appearing 3 hours later instead of before? And why don’t people show up again even after a few weeks? Also, the few matches I do get, people aren’t really willing to have a conversation anyways.

I can’t even make any friends on BumbleForFriends because they keep taking down all of my profile pictures, no matter what I do, and even though the pictures obviously do not violate any guidelines. For example: took down a picture of me in a T-shirt with a car and few words on it, and leggings. Took down a picture of me in a full length, loose, long sleeve floral print dress. Took down a picture of be in a black hoodie with a face on it and black leggings and an Alaska hat. Took down a picture of me in a calf length red dress and black boots. Took down two shoulder-up selfies of me. All of these pictures are fully clothed & had no offensive words or suggestive material of any kind.

I think BumbleForFriends is a great idea, although there are a few issues for me. First is having to buy subscription to make friends or message others, the subscription is priced a bit much in my opinion just to have a shot at making a friend. Second I have found my account was blocked this morning, reading other reviews I see that is may be a common problem. I was totally confused and shocked, failing to understand what went wrong. Like the others who wrote reviews , I don’t believe to have violated the terms and conditions at all.

I got BumbleForFriends because I'm doing school online and don't have any friends beside my boyfriend. I made a solid friend on here within a day of having BumbleForFriends so I don't even need it anymore.
What I like about it:
• Has verification which is good for safety reasons
• There's a variety of fun prompts you can put & answer on your profile
• It finds potential matches near your location so you can hangout irl.
• You can filter your options by location proximity & age
•Even if you don't match with someone you can send them a message called a compliment (they are limited though)
What I don't like about it:
•There's not a whole lot of options for these tag things you can put on your profile to see what you have in common with people. For ex:One tag might be basketball to show you like basketball. And you can only pick 5. I think there should be more options and the max should be raised to 8-10.
•You have a limited amount of likes
•If you accidentally swipe left you can only back track if you pay money
•They only let conversations with matches be open for 72 hours. (you can pay money to lengthen the time but only by another day).
Improvements that can be made:
1.Not charging for accidental left swipes
2.If someone pays for a lengthened conversation, it should not have an expiration date
3.Everyone should receive new compliments daily but people who pay can have extra or unlimited.

I downloaded BumbleForFriends after moving to a new state, and to be fair, I have made a couple of friends using it. To me, two small changes would make this a much better app. 1) Allow people to meet friends of any gender. In real life I have always had friends who were both male and female, and gay and straight. It’s weird and sad that BumbleForFriends restricts who can meet who based on gender. 2) Permit a bit more text in personal descriptions. The limited text doesn’t really allow me to highlight who I am AND what I’m seeking in friendship. This leads to a lot of wasted time and swipes.

You can’t see who liked you without paying. If you both swipe it shows but if one swipes and I guess you haven’t come across them yet you have to pay each week. Also are limited in swipes a day. Have to pay extra for advanced search criteria. Limiting the initial chat time is kind of weird.

Kind of odd a friend app charges so much just to see info for what the entire app was made for.

Nice way to meet friends and people in a similar stage in life. Especially since that can be more awkward than dating and being well out of my 20’s.
One thing that I would improve is the selection of locations. Not a huge deal but neither my home town nor my current town are options.

Well BumbleForFriends sounded like a wonderful one until I read all of your reviews. And then ESPECIALLY when support responses were not supportive at all. Great idea but y’all need to work out the bugs, check out accounts before closing them…you have way too many complaints about this, and work out something on your pricing please… your asking too much and repetitively too, just makes it not worthy nor appealing to your potential customers.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE being able to suggest meet up ideas to people in the area

Big fan of Bumble BFF always fun and safe. Hard to get people to meet up sometimes but I think this new update will help loads!

I keep trying to edit my profile so that there is more than one picture of me and it doesn’t seem to matter whether I add them all at the same time or one at a time, they all eventually disappear. I’ve tried about 8 different times in different ways. Tried getting out of BumbleForFriends and starting over again. Every time it ends up deleting at least 1-2 of the 5 I’ve tried to add and the only one I can get it to keep is the main one which eventually I actually want to replace. Its extremely frustrating! None of the pictures break any guidelines of any kind, they all show my face clearly, they’re all pictures of me, my profile is verified. I’m not sure what the issue is but it’s making me not even want to bother using BumbleForFriends and I haven’t even really started yet!

I know in peoples responses BumbleForFriends developers are claiming they don’t remove people’s photos without a valid reason but now I’m experiencing this and they’re removing my photos without a valid reason. It’s just photos of me fully clothed and they’re photos of me. Not anyone else. I’m not wearing a swimsuit or underwear or anything like that. I sent bumble a message to ask them to please stop removing my photos. Something is obviously wrong with BumbleForFriends. It’s clearly a glitch or something. Also there were only 2 people in my area and that was very disappointing. Not really blaming BumbleForFriends for that one just saying my experience with it I guess not many people use it.

BumbleForFriends itself is fine imo. I have the free plan and I don’t think it’s necessary to pay. I like the new plans feature although most people just make and join the groups for no reason. My problem is with the people using BumbleForFriends . It’s an app to make friends but about 80% of the girls on here are not looking to make friends. Most of them just want followers on snapchat and ig. A lot of them expect you to carry conversations and chase them. Most don’t even put in effort to fill out their profiles. I think bumble should do something to incentivize people to interact more. Or maybe randomly pair people up based on their profiles idk something to weed out the low effort people.

I’m so confused to look at all the good reviews I’m wondering if they’re paid. I’ve had BumbleForFriends for a week and filled out every. Single. Thing In my profile even going as far to make an insta because BumbleForFriends made me connect one to “complete my profile”. Well upon completion of my profile I have yet to receive a single “like”. I have swiped right on a ton of individuals that seem to have similar interests as me and have hit a brick wall. I can’t tell you how disheartening it is to repeatedly open BumbleForFriends hoping for just one single match, like, message, just anything and repeatedly be met with nothing. I wouldn’t honestly not bother with BumbleForFriends as all the effort I’ve gone through has been for nothing.

I got really excited because I’ve used the first Bumble BFF a few years ago and loved it. I stopped using it cause I felt like I knew enough people and I went on with my life.
I’ve been thinking about downloading it but was hesitant since I’m married and was worried about the dating side of it. Then I saw it was just BFF and got so excited!
Well, I deleted it not long after I set my profile up. I HATE how you have to pay for EVERYTHING. I’m moving soon and wanted to use the travel mode but have to pay for that. It used to not be like that. I really hate this money hungry app now.

I feel like this is a money grab.
I get many likes that I can’t see.
I’ve had two people messages me. Claiming I was one of their matches. HOWEVER, I haven’t seen a single match of my own. I feel like BumbleForFriends might not be showing your matches as you get them maybe? Trying to get you to buy the subscription. Which is quite a bit of money in my opinion. I would definitely prefer to use Tinder if I wasn’t married to find friends there that way I couldn’t get accused of things; potentially.
I thought maybe my app was glitched, but I updated it and it’s still the same.
I just saw all of the recent reviews and they’re all pretty bad reviews unfortunately.
I’m going to stick it out and hope that it gets better though. I think it could be great. I like the set up.
I’d prefer for there to be more than 5 options to select for interests. People are pretty complex.

I switched over from the main app to BumbleForFriends. I love the new Plans feature. But absolutely hate all of the bugs BumbleForFriends has. My account keeps getting flagged for no reason. And each time I reach out to BFF Support, they just send me an email saying it was a mistake. But they restricted my account due to THEIR MISTAKE and then never undo their restrictions. Even though i have the emails from them admitting their mistake. The restrictions just make it where I can’t link my instagram account which is minor but still annoying since it was their mistake to begin with. I keep seeking out help from support but they aren’t understanding the issue I keep telling them i think. BumbleForFriends is a great idea for people who are only interested in making friends. The only downside is there’s a lot of bugs and technical issues with BumbleForFriends that have yet to be resolved so just beware of that and report any you find so that their team can hopefully work on them.

Extremely odd that we’re only shown people of the same gender as possible friends. I don’t make friends with mxn. Especially not the country ones local to me. Like, this is entirely useless to me unless i want to make friends with gary who likes fishing and posting incel memes. Honestly this is so heteronormative and gross. Why have more than two gender identities if the profiles shown are still based on what people have in their pants? Why have nonbinary as an option if you’re still going to format this like a scared conservative sunday school teacher? Is bumble’s view of friendship modeled after Mike Pence? I can only know one womxn, fall in love with her, and call her “mother” for the rest of my life. Ew.

If you are a man, this is essentially a gay hookup app. Like grindr but classier.

Every time you think you might have found someone who seems like a match as a friend, you scroll down and they have a picture of them in a speedo and flexing or something like that. So, you will see 80% guys who are pretty open about wanting a gay hookup, 19.9% guys who want a gay hookup but are hiding that in their bio, and 0.1% me, the one guy who thought this was actually for finding friends to maybe go to a baseball game or concert, or meetup for board games or something.

And yes, you will only be shown other men, not women. It’s not written in the description at all. Huge bait-and-switch here.