Bristlr, dating for beard fans
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social Networking | Free | John Kershaw | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Bristlr is the world's greatest dating site for people into beards; those with beards, and those who want to stroke beards.
Find local people near you, and filter by distance, age, and whether or not they have a beard.
Bristlr has created more than half a million connections between those with beards, and those who want to stroke them, and is used in more than 100 cities around the world.
Avoid bad matches with Bristlr's "Lothario detector" which alerts you if an incoming message has been copied and sent to other people. Be original!
Bristlr also has:
- The ability to change your location
- A secret profile section visible only to your matches
- Daily matches, giving you new faces every day
- The ability to hide people you're not a fan of (with a free undo)
- Filters which let you search any age, and any distance from a few miles to the entire world.
Reviews
Excellent start
Canada Dan
For a prototype app, it has more bells and whistles than I thought it would. This is a hilarious and functional app, bringing the bearded and beardless together to share their appreciation for facial fur. This prototype version is surprisingly packed with features, so it has nowhere to go but up. Give it time, and this will be a gem. Keep up the good work.
:-/
DigitalDeanna
I just tried to create an account and I didn't even get that far and it told me the there was an error with my application and to check back later. Tried logging in with the account I tried to create and it said the same thing...to come back later prob with application.
Room for improvement
notTom
But still four stars for the concept and for a decent prototype. What this really is, is a bad web view (broken back forward, as in you have to use the hamburger menu to get back to your main messages pane because they forgot to add a soft back button there like they did for profiles) of their website. If you really want to use this right now, just use the site in Safari, it is slightly more functional. They have not yet implemented "can receive messages from everyone by default" or at least "let people know you won't get messages so you have to come back and heart everyone you might possibly want to hear from and hope they did the same for you". It's basically the tinder model but it doesn't apply as well here. If you're having problems signing up, again use the website. At least you can message the user named "feedback" with your suggestions and complaints. I think it's just two guys at the moment so I will cut a little slack.
No sexual orientation filter
cquach1012
The app seems to carry an assumption of heterosexuality amongst its users. There's no way to know the sexual orientation of guys that show up on my feed unless they explicitly write it in their profile. As a gay guy, the only option I have to filter the men on my feed is by showing only those who mention the word "gay" (or something similar) in their profile, and there's no guarantee that they'll do that.
Can't wait for this to take off!
Npq561
A dating app with a beard filter, what more could a girl want? Needs to work on the flow of the app and a few more filters as far as sexual orientation and such. But otherwise, I hope it takes off soon. Fun app
Good idea, but the software needs work.
KyleMacManus
As a bearded man I really like the idea. It's really clunky and poorly designed though. I'm sure it'll get better with further development.
I really wish I could rate it higher
iharrington
This is a great concept for an app. The specificity of it is awesome, and hits right home for a guy with a beard like me. Unfortunately, it's incredibly buggy, and the experience is pretty awful. Not only are there no filters on the results, but it doesn't wipe away the ones you've already viewed and rated. That means every time you come in, you have to browse through the same pages you've seen over and over. I've used it for two days and have gotten zero matches. I've used many dating apps, and this is the first time I've gone more than a few hours without a match. Hey, maybe beard lovers just don't like me. Or maybe, just maybe it's a pointless horribly developed app that doesn't actually work.
