Howbout: update your friends 12+

Social feed & shared calendar

Howbout Ltd.

    • Free

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Description

We’re Howbout, the social app to actually keep up with friends - what they're up to, what they have going on, and who they really are.

Socials aren't filled with your friends anymore, so we made an app for the updates you actually care about - how your friends spend their time.

Over 4 million people on Howbout, and they’re all hot.…



SHARE CALENDARS
- Let your friends know what’s going on in your life by adding it to the calendar - the HUGE updates or the "boring" day-to-day

FRIENDS-ONLY ACTIVITY FEED
- The easiest way to stalk everything your friends are up to

MAKE PLANS
- Actually get plans out of the group chat and stop the bed-rot. Unless you’re finding time to group-bed-rot together

SET WHO SEES WHAT
- Choose to share your any event with all friends, just Close Friends, or with no one

CHAT
- Your friends' plans are the best conversation starters, so react to plans & DM friends. For my yappers, there’s a built-in group chat for every plan & group

SEE WHEN EVERYONE’S FREE
- Find when everyone’s free to meet up without sharing every detail (boring, but necessary)

VOTE WITH POLLS
- Vote on anything (like what to do or when works best) with polls

COUNTDOWN TO PLANS
- Pin calendar events to your home screen and countdown to their date

KEEP MEMORIES
- Add pictures to pinned events to keep them as memories

ALL YOUR PLANS TOGETHER
- Forced to use a different calendar for work? Gross. Sync it all into Howbout

BUCKET LISTS
- Add in your bucket list to turn them into plans

SHARE PICS & VIDS
- Share pictures & videos directly to chats & plans

SEND INVITES
- Invite anyone to any plan with a link - and welcome to the 21st-century

Featured by Apple, BBC, MailOnline, TechCrunch, Business Insider and a ton of other ones we don’t care about as much!



Bored of stalking your friends on Howbout? Stalk us instead: @howbout_app on socials, hello@howbout.app on email

What’s New

Version 10.4.0

We’re spreading more festive joy with our latest version!

A new version of Howbout is now live, with the gift of bug fixes, performance boosts, and some feature revamps! So festive!

Ratings and Reviews

4.8 out of 5
17.5K Ratings

17.5K Ratings

MrKeech ,

Awesome Social organisation!

Ok, so as a band member and de facto manager (we can’t afford a proper one), Howbout has been an absolute Godsend when it comes to sorting out the bands various rehearsal and gig dates. The whole band has signed up (which is free) and we have never been more organised! We sound better, we’re more creative and the whole band experience has become slicker (seriously, come see us play!) and that all started when a team of enthusiastic musicians FINALLY pinned themselves down and got organised - thanks to Howbout. It syncs with your other calendars (should you wish it to - totally optional), so you can see if you’re free right away. You can invite everyone in your group to a rehearsal, or just pick the vocalists if it’s time to work on the harmonies, and then rehearsal the rhythm section on another day. Each event has its own chat section, as well as you being able to create a more general chat space that isn’t linked to an event (say if the de facto manager just got two kittens and HAD to share them with his band mates).
Overall a 5 out of 5 experience. BUT - I would give them 6 if I was allowed to, because the one time I did have the slightest issue with the app (which was a super niche problem), I got in touch, they answered quickly and respectfully, updated the app and offered genuine thanks for the feedback. As our keyboard player said at the time “That’s customer service done right!”
In summary. A solid 6 out of 5 from Crown Of Feathers (band)

gary.stockdale1 ,

The all in one calendar and social app you need

I use Howbout for organising both my family life and friend meet ups. It’s a super easy to use and navigate the app - really intuitive. It allows me to view all my calendar events in month, week, day and agenda view. The icing on the cake and innovate features are things like smart scheduling, Howbout finds a time my family or friends are free without me having to, and event chat built into the app! I’ve not seen these features in similar apps before. I can overlay friends and family calendars onto mine as well which is a handy feature and as a parent I use this to plan things with my wife and kids. I highly recommend this app and it now has its own spot on my home screen!

It's Amy! ,

Bit confusing

Overall it does what it says, but there should be a way of time blockers not showing up on the first page.
I don’t want to be reminded when I first go into the app that my next 3 events are work. I would like it so it only show plans on the first page not time blockers.

Also, it is not possible for me to ‘request feature’ or ‘get help’ as it expects you to have the default Mail app and I can’t see another way to find the email address on the app.
Finally, my friends work schedule can change so much it would be easier for her to be able to put on when she is free rather than when she is unavailable.

Overall it’s quite confusing. In my group only 3 of us have continued to understand this app-but I’m now really only using the app as a count down to holidays. If the time blockers were updated to be just that, then it would look cleaner and be more user friendly.
(Also, I have my work schedule on my default calendar app, at one point how about duplicated each event so I had 10+ on each day. Thankfully most were weekly recurring activities only to the end of the year so I could delete from my default calendar app. Still not sure how it happened)

Developer Response ,

Hi there 👋 Thanks for the 4* review! Just to quickly let you know, you can now hide Time Blockers from the home page – just head to the settings page (button in the top right corner) and toggle them off 😊 We’re working on changing our ‘request feature’ and ‘get help’ sections to open this up more, so thanks for that feedback! Additionally, we’ve made some improvements to our calendar integration so your duplication problems should now be fixed. If you’re still having trouble with that, please shoot us an email at feedback@howbout.app and we’ll help you out 🙌

App Privacy

The developer, Howbout Ltd., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Used to Track You

The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:

  • Usage Data

Data Linked to You

The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

  • Contact Info
  • Identifiers
  • Usage Data
  • Diagnostics

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

  • Diagnostics

Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More

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