Friendly Plus Social Browser 17+

Update- issues appear to have been fixed with Oct 6 update! Thanks so much for the attention.

I’ve been using this App for a long time as my Facebook replacement. Since the iOS 13 update on iPad 6 I'm frustrated. The timeline used to remember it's place when exiting the app for minutes and now after switching the one other app and back it fully frereshee the timeline. On my Google Pixel phone, where I purchased the app also, it remembers my place in the timeline up to 30min later and opens right back where I left off nearly every time. I'd LOVE this to be fixed on iOS 13 please.

Less ads is great, but it still sometimes throws me to the top of my feed (like the fb app) even if there is no new content. It has difficulty playing videos and live stream. Videos that were live do not scrub—there is no way to go back ten seconds if I miss a word or forward if I want to skip the boring bits. It also has confusing glitches when saving photos; still will not scroll through photos properly and why is there a friend’s name randomly at the top when the photos are not theirs? Why do I sometimes end up at the top of my feed when I leave an article? (Some of these things are what I hated about the FB app.)
I got fed up with wrestling with this app and deleted it. I was already stressed, but this app exacerbated that. For me, it is not a ‘friendly’ app if I still struggle with it.
The developers need to observe some of the user flows, and see where the app is not flowing.
I may come back to it after the next update, it is still better than the fb app. But for now I’ll just access fb on my mac and perhaps use it less, which is probably a good thing.

It does so many things that the standard Facebook app doesn’t do, including NOT forcing me to use the Messenger app. I can manage my messages from Friendly+ without leaving the app. I can choose to view pages in mobile format, or as a desktop view. There are lots of little things that just make Facebook easier and more enjoyable to use with Friendly+. I can easily save images (with the official Facebook app, I can’t just press and hold to save cover photos, and have to screenshot and crop, instead, whereas Friendly+ just lets me save normally), and I can save videos — as well as watch videos without ads. I also love that I can choose exactly what colours I want to use. So many irritating aspects of the official Facebook app are gone in Friendly+. This app is well worth it!