We’ve introduced a new friendship mechanic called Sparks and Flames. How it works: • Send friendship sparks to other women and add a welcome message • Receive sparks from others and see all requests in one place • Choose which sparks you want to turn into a flame • A flame means you accept the friendship request • After that, you become friendas, can chat, and plan meetups • Sparks and flames refresh every week A new option for women’s communities: Selected women’s communities can now connect their members through Frienda. This allows you to find friends not only within your city, but also inside your own communities. This option will become available to everyone in upcoming updates. From the team: The last two months have been intense. Fingers crossed you’ll like new Frienda’s update.

We’ve introduced a new friendship mechanic called Sparks and Flames. How it works: • Send friendship sparks to other women and add a welcome message • Receive sparks from others and see all requests in one place • Choose which sparks you want to turn into a flame • A flame means you accept the friendship request • After that, you become friendas, can chat, and plan meetups • Sparks and flames refresh every week A new option for women’s communities: Selected women’s communities can now connect their members through Frienda. This allows you to find friends not only within your city, but also inside your own communities. This option will become available to everyone in upcoming updates. From the team: The last two months have been intense. Fingers crossed you’ll like new Frienda’s update.

Once we said Frienda would help girls find female friends to go to an Imagine Dragons concert together… AND IT’S ACTUALLY HAPPENED! Yesterday we received a message on Threads from @irochka.lee.libros: «After a few years in a new country, I found a friend on Frienda. And this autumn we finally went to an Imagine Dragons concert together». You can imagine our excitement! What’s new • Added a registration step to confirm your location. If it’s incorrect, you can fix it right away • Improved HEIC support, fewer upload errors • Increased photo upload quality • Improved uploading for small images under 1 MB • Updated the registration design with larger text and clearer descriptions • Fixed a bug with unread messages What we’re working on • We’re preparing a biiiiig update to Frienda’s matching logic. Great changes are coming!

A woman truly wakes up when she stops putting herself down, hating, dismissing or criticizing herself and other women. This line is from the book «All Roads Lead to Yourself» by Yulia Pirumova. I started reading it recently, and this thought really stayed with me. App updates • Updated pricing and added special offers • Chats now load the full message history older than 30 days • In some countries, the app now loads much faster Team updates • Our developer Danil is literally moving to Thailand right now with his dog • Frenda users supported the family coffee shop of our iOS developer in Armenia • Today Malika and her frendas bought tickets to a concert at the Opera House and to Rosie Huntington’s talk in 2026. Already excited. We’re planning to keep working through December with no extra days off. More updates coming soon!

We’ve added a new feature — Change Location. Now you can set your city manually if it was detected wrong because of VPN or GPS. The app also loads much faster now. Team news: Our support manager Dariga just turned 25 and went on a “half-vacation”. She’s skipping our daily calls but still answers every support message. Official statement: Dariga, we miss you and can’t wait to have you back. Now the whole Frienda team can see your support requests right on their phones. Say hi if you’re reading this. It’s how we’ll know someone actually checks this boring updates section.

Fun fact: even the founder struggled to use Frienda for a year. Now it finally works perfectly. For almost a year, Frienda’s founder Malika couldn’t properly use the app. She had over 600 friendas (all early users), and it took minutes to load each time. We finally fixed it! The feed and friendas list now open much faster for everyone. A few days ago, we also celebrated one year since the very first Frienda prototype. Back then, we had fewer than 100 girls. Today, there are almost 40,000. Feeling grateful and inspired to keep building.

Share your location and find friends nearby Our team spent a week working on a new feature to make meeting friends even easier. Now Frienda shows girls near you, and if you travel to another city, your location updates automatically Turn on your location and start meeting new friends

Notifications are here Get instant updates when you have a new match, like, or chat. Stay connected with your friendas.

Notifications are here Get instant updates when you have a new match, like, or chat. Stay connected with your friendas.

We’ve updated chats. For some users, they didn’t load well before — now conversations open smoothly. All chats are now in Friendas — just tap a friend and start typing. Old history is gone, so it’s the perfect reason to say hi first

We launched on International Friendship Day. Girls started sharing about us on socials (so much love!). The team did a happy dance on the call. We all got one day off. Bug fixes and improved search.