Friendly Plus Social Browser

Name: Friendly Plus Social Browser
Rating: 4.43846 (4258 reviews)

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Friendly Plus Social Browser

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Friendly, Inc.

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User Reviews for Friendly Plus Social Browser

Problem with notifications

Hi. I paid to remove ads and show support and I really do like this app but there are a couple of things that are kind of confusing at times. For one, I can look at notifications and I can click on every single one of them but Friendly, will still show notifications at the bottom and also when I leave the app, the badge on the icon will still show them. I wish you could fix this. I know it’s not a major thing but it is very confusing. Also, Friendly will not show the messages that I have sent right away in the texting (messenger) part. I have to refresh the text window to see the text I just sent. It was confusing to me at first because any other messenger app I’ve used will update the text window right away but not this one. So I have to resort to using Facebook Messenger, which is an unnecessary extra that I should not have to do. It’s possible that you have fixed these problems, but because the new updates have such bad reviews, I’m afraid to update. :(Just want to add a thank you for all the good things about this app! I know trying to keep your app working is a challenge with Facebook constantly making changes!

-Vickster-, Jul 31, 2019

Looks good, but broken

Might have been 5 stars if you could actually hear your notifications without having to physically look at your phone. And even when you do get a messenger notification, after tapping on it, it shows nothing but the last message. You still have to use the actual messenger app to read new messages. Also, even after setting your feed to “most recent”, you get posts that were made hours and hours ago showing at the top. Sorry guys, great concept but I should have never paid for this. Until I can use this app exclusively to check facebook and messenger, and actually see and hear my NEW notifications, I’m uninstalling. Enjoy my 2 bucks. 👍

1RedLine3, Jun 27, 2019

Perfect wrapper for Facebook!

I’ve lost track of how many friends and family members I’ve turned on to this app. Three killer features: - It blocks ads, popups, and trackers, so it’s safe to read that oddball article your aunt posted. - It has a keyword filter for your newsfeed, so you don’t have to see those oddball articles your aunt posts about that politician you hate. - It wraps the mobile Facebook interface, so everything works...but Facebook can’t “accidentally” leave the microphone open in the background or rifle through your pictures.At this point, I’ve uninstalled the regular Facebook app from my phone—I don’t trust it anymore, and I just use Friendly to Facebook safely.

Allpossiblenicknamestaken, Nov 21, 2017

Fixed with latest update!

UPDATE: The very latest update seems to have resolved the issues I reported below and reverted the app to the wonderful less-crowded and more-sane interface. I’m guessing perhaps Facebook’s latest update stymied the devs for a bit? Anyway, happy to be back up and running!Genuinely unfortunate: this has been the app I’ve recommended for *years* to friends and family looking to escape the mess of Facebook’s invasive tracking and awful UI. Unfortunately the latest update has removed everything successful about this app (the clean & usable UI, the filtering and ad blocking, the custom filters) and replaced it with a broken encapsulation of the Facebook mobile UI, which is a mess-and-a-half on its own. If I wanted that, I’d load Facebook in Safari. One hopes this is temporary or I guess I’ll need to find a replacement for Friendly.

Allpossiblenicknamestaken, Jun 18, 2022

Friendly is the best way to experience Facebook

I love how there are more options to share things in Friendly, especially with myself, to save things I like. I appreciate how easy it is to check on my kids’ Facebook feeds to see what they and others are posting. I like how things don’t suddenly change without notice; the developers are always very good about sharing specific changes, which are always an improvement. I don’t feel like the Friendly team has an agenda or that I’m a guinea pig to experiment on. I have a lot more trust for them than the Facebook corporation and appreciate the buffer they provide between me and the annoying changes the Facebook developers make. What first attracted me to Friendly was that I could have the option of having my feed show posts from any of my friends, even seldom contacted ones, as they were posted, with none pushed to the top. I’ve been able to feel connected with more of my friends because of this feature. Thank you, Friendly team, for making my experience on Facebook less jarring and irritating and so much more enjoyable!

anetpc, Apr 03, 2018

Once again you have screwed up a perfectly good app

I switched many moons ago and have not looked back; however, I am getting tired of the problems that occur after many updates. The most recent problem occurs when I change orientations of my iPhone either intentionally or usually unintentionally. The app loses my place and starts over at the top of the stream. This is highly annoying when I am down in a stream and want to read a document that is wider than the screen. I rotate the device and instead of showing the page I was reading it snaps back to the top. I scroll back to the page to read it. When I am finished, I turn the device back to vertical and once again the app snaps back to the top of the screen. Guess I’ll use another app until you get the latest screw up corrected. I really wish you would take more care with your updates. You have a good app, but it seems that nearly ever other update something infuriating like this happens.

Aphotowizard, Jan 07, 2021

Deletes your edits before you can post- extremely frustrating

Anytime you’re editing a post you need to scroll up by swiping down to get to the top in order to press the post key on the upper right corner. But, if you scroll a little bit too far the page your on refreshes and you loose everything you wrote. The same thing happens when you type a long post and try to add photos to it; I’ve had so many thoughtfully written posted get deleted because of this bug that I’m deleting this app and going back to Facebooks app. At this point I don’t care what anyone does to me or my data, or who they sell it to; I just want to be able to post anything without loosing everything I wrote over half the time. How is it that this bug persists? Why didn’t I uninstall this app a long time ago? If you’re precise enough to scroll without causing the page to refresh before click the post button, then you’ll probably be really good at gold cause that’s what it feels like I’m playing. But the difference is if you don’t scroll a hole-in-one every time, you loose everything you’ve written!

Boyziggy, Jun 16, 2018

The better way to FB

I originally downloaded Friendly years ago and promptly forgot about. About a year ago i grew sick of waiting for the FB app to adopt split screen and work with the 12.9 iPad pro. I tried Friendly and was amazed by how customizable, powerful, and lightweight it is. I can use it with my iPad, but I love how well it works when traveling in parts of the world with slow internet connections. And the continued development of the app is amazing. The dark mode, the ability to send articles to Instapaper or Pocket, the ad blocking. It all is incredible.One great addition would be to have a “reading” mode similar to Safari when you open a link to an article.

Bram NYC, Jun 26, 2018

Stellar! Great unsurpassed features

Contact support for issues people! I've had this and other FB apps for years. None compare to this one. This continues to improve in substantial ways. First, ad block!! Works quietly in the background, doesn't slow anything down. Clean interface, seamless, very fast, easy nav, far more features than FB. Useful ones. Makes FB useful, much less tedious and less frustrating.I just discovered a feature that sent me back here to rewrite my review - you can export/save/open articles you visit from links into other apps. Stellar!!! That saves me TONS of hassle and time. I look forward to FB now.Thank you devs for a great app, for maintaining and improving it for so long.

crasshipster, Jun 12, 2018

The best

This is probably the best way to view your social media feeds. Although I’m a little confused what exactly is the difference between the plus, and the regular friendly app, I have both and they don’t seem to have any differential features. One issue they have that they need to address is notifications. When you receive a notification you get just a friendly notification with no information of which social media account it came from or even details about the notification. Because of this, they’re essentially useless and users should just turn them off. There is extremely disappointing as there is a lot of useful information from social media notifications.

Dave804, Apr 07, 2023

Description

With Friendly, you only need one app for all your social needs. Access your Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit and other social accounts in one powerful browser app. Friendly Plus Social Browser is the premium version of Friendly Social.

It includes all of Friendly's advanced features. One App for all your social accounts - Save space on your device - Preserve your battery - Save Data Usage - Easily switch between multiple accounts Take Control of your privacy - Friendly Privacy Shield (blocks social, advertising and content trackers) - Use FaceID, TouchID or Passcode to Login - Block click trackers Take Control of your data - Easily download or repost any of your Photos & Videos - Advanced Media Player (play in background, adjust speed, Picture-in-Picture) - Order feed by Most Recent - Filter/Highlight feeds by keywords Enjoy your social experience again - Advanced Colorful Themes - Night Mode - Adjust Font Size GIVE FRIENDLY A TRY ! And don't hesitate to reach out if you need anything CONTACT / HELP & FEEDBACK Please use link on this page, or message us from the app help menu Notes: - Facebook® and the Facebook logo are trademarks of Facebook Inc. - Friendly is not affiliated with, endorsed, or sponsored by Facebook