Your new friendship journey starts here. Introducing the new dedicated friendship app - Bumble For Friends. Make genuine, IRL connections in a kind space.
Bumble For Friends is the new dedicated friendship app from Bumble, made to help you create new, meaningful friendships near you.
With Bumble For Friends you can chat, meet new people, and make friends in a community focused on kindness and safety. Whether you’re new to your area or just looking to expand your circle, Bumble For Friends is the easiest way to make new friends and find community.
Who We Are
If you love BFF mode within the Bumble app, then Bumble For Friends is for you! Bumble For Friends is an app where people in all stages of life can intentionally meet new friends and create meaningful connections. Bumble For Friends is not just an app that provides easy ways to help people connect and make friends with people nearby, it’s also an app that prioritises:
Genuine connections: We include app features like profile prompts and lifestyle badges, to make it easy for people to show up in a way that's true to themselves. Allowing you to find real, genuine friendships near you.
Kindness: We want you to feel good about meeting new people locally, so we’re creating a community centred around kindness. By committing to our kindness pledge, you are helping to make Bumble For Friends a welcoming and inclusive space for everyone.
Trust and safety: We empower our community with safety features like Account Verification, Reporting and Blocking, and our Safety Center, so that all members can feel safe to make new friends.
Download Bumble For Friends
Bumble For Friends is free to download and use. We also offer an optional subscription package (Bumble For Friends Premium) and single or multiple-use paid services for which no subscription is required (including Spotlights and SuperSwipes).
We offer weekly, monthly, 3-month, and 6-month subscriptions, with discounts given to the weekly price. Prices may vary per country and are subject to change without notice. Prices are clearly displayed in the app.
* Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase.
* Your subscription will automatically renew itself, unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
* Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period.
* You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal by going to your Account Settings in the iTunes Store.
* If you choose to use our free trial, any unused portion of the free trial period will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription to that publication, where applicable.
* If you don’t choose to purchase Bumble For Friends Premium, you can simply continue using and enjoying Bumble For Friends for free.
Your personal data is securely stored on Bumble For Friends—be sure to read our privacy policy and terms and conditions:
bumble.com/bff/privacy
bumble.com/bff/terms
Bumble Inc. is the parent company of Bumble, along with Badoo and Fruitz.
I really liked the app, made some meaningful connections, and then paid for a three months subscription. After using the app for ten days, out of the blue my account gets blocked. I had five or six conversations going and all very friendly, so why my account was blocked remains a mystery to me. I wrote to Bumble Support FOUR times and each time they replied that my account was blocked because it breached their terms but they wouldn’t tell me what I did wrong, IF I did something wrong at all. It’s an awful policy to remain silent and not tell the account holder what went wrong and what can be done to resolve the issue. So, the two friendly connections I made, are lost because I cannot access my account anymore, and the money paid for the three months subscription is gone too. What an awful experience I’ve had with this app. Never again.
Developer Response
Don't worry—we can totally help you with this! Please message our Support Team on Facebook or X (Twitter) (@BumbleSupport) or at bumble.com/contact and we'll have a second look.
New update makes UI worse
WTFHarry
The bloody geniuses at Bumble (sarcasm) have somehow decided to make the user interface considerably worse, particularly in the Liked You section. Now, instead of being able to see 4 profile thumbnails per page scroll they’ve decided to only let you see one big profile thumbnail per page scroll, and have given you no way to adjust this yourself to your preference. As the developer is it not your job to make things as convenient as possible for your users, and give them the freedom of choice to choose and adjust what interface settings they like to their personal preference? I doubt a SINGLE user prefers this new unadjustable, inconvenient new interface compared to the old one, especially as this stupid format makes it 10 times more likely you accidentally swipe accept someone as a friend when you were simply just trying to scroll down the list– which means you have to go unmatch them afterwards to not waste each other’s time. Change it back and give us the option to choose what interface we want. I want to save my time as your customer and see as many profiles at once as I can, not spend 5 times the amount of time scrolling down the list compared to before just to see the same amount of people. 🤦🏻♂️Before the update I’d give the app a higher rating but I won’t change this until the developers make the UI changes we prefer and want!!!
So much wasted potential
SlidePT
On paper the app is great. A dedicated app to make friends without people having different intentions. There is some functionality missing that makes the app not so great though. People seem to not use the app much which means a lot of matches expire and replies take days or weeks but it’s impossible to have a conversation like that. It would be good to have a “last online” date on profiles to better understand the likelihood of replies. The Super Swipe button is really badly place, it sits right where the right thumb will sit so you end up doing lots of accidental Super Swipes as you try to scroll profiles. The swipe left and right can be too sensitive and I’ve accidently swiped profiles while trying to scroll. The plans feature is great but it would be great to be able to filter or search the groups, it’s impossible to easily find groups for certain interests and people create lots of duplicates. Also please fix the chats not loading properly and constantly refreshing.Update: The Plans tab has been broken for over a month now and they flooded the app with profiles that are clearly fake. I get Bumble need to make the app look busy to drive engagement but at least they should make an effort to make the profiles look real. This is particularly noticeable when travelling abroad and you see 6 profiles in a row from the exact same location, all with the same age, no written content, English names, and photos that either look AI generated or like models.
Absolutely FUMING.
Lauren LDN
Was going to leave a fairly positive review but have now changed my mind, this app cares for nothing more than taking your money, first things first, the swipe settings is so sensitive it’s easy to accidentally swipe someone left or right, anywho, in my head I’d assume if you accidentally swipe someone that my might come back up on your page later in time, instead the app kept asking me to change the filters over 50 miles away or completely out of my age range which doesn’t make sense if your trying to build genuine “friendships” So I decided to buy premium for a week, just for my account to get blocked within minutes later, I have had no rude conversations, all I’ve done is swipe people left due to sensitivity or the assumption the swipes will reappear since I paid for Premium but there was no benefits for paying whatsoever, I’ve been left angry and disappointed, spent money for no reason my account got blocked in less than 24 hours. Will never be using this app again, they only want your money, don’t do it if your looking to build real friendships cause you’ll have to pay every minute to do so. Ridiculous. 0/10.
To be honest, everything is kinda new here. Say hello to our new dedicated friendship app - Bumble For Friends. It’s a bit like Bumble, but for finding friends and creating meaningful connections with people near you. We’ve got fun new profile features and important safety features to make it easy for people to show up in a way that’s genuine and true to themselves. We’re also creating a community centered around kindness, because kindness is kinda what we do. So, whether you’re looking for new friends to hit the town with, or to try that new workout class with, Bumble For Friends is here to help. Start a chat, meet up IRL, and find your kinda people.
Version 5.431.0
The developer, Bumble Holding Limited, 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:
Location
Contact Info
Identifiers
Usage Data
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Health & Fitness
Purchases
Location
Contact Info
Contacts
User Content
Identifiers
Usage Data
Sensitive Info
Diagnostics
Other Data
Privacy practices may vary based, for example, on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
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