Friendly Plus Social Browser Reviews

FB ?, Twitter ?

Left0verture

My complaint about the official FB app is being force-fed their trending news feed. If I want to know, I know where to look, thank you. Friendly allows me to see what I want to see and filters out ads and pre-digested "news" items. Sadly, I don’t see any way to do the same with Twitter. I’m still subjected to ads and the infuriating ‘trending’ panel.

Friendly indeed

c3eg

Like the space it saves, messenger in the app. like b4. I digit. ????

No support for sharing/uploading videos in fb or messenger?

grayCeworks

I love the small footprint. About 45mb installed vs nearly 500mb for FB’s bloated apps. I like that it weeds out most of the ads. (Wish it would do the same when I click a story link). It doesn’t constantly refresh in the middle of reading or commenting the way the FB app does, so that’s a BIG plus (it does occasionally crash though). And it also includes some support for Instagram and Twitter, which makes it a decent all-around app for the casual user who is short on storage space for their phone or tablet. But like I mentioned in the title, it doesn’t allow me to upload videos to FB or in messenger. Not even live photos or animated gifs! What?! It displays them greyed out when I try. That is a dealbreaker for me. Then, within the app, to play a video, or a gif, I can’t just click play. I have to click it, then it opens in a different view. Then click it again to actually make it load. Then click it yet again to play. Why??? And if I want to share a clip to a friend by message? Nope. A cute animation? Nope. Still-photos only. And the messenger part also has some awkward areas. It doesn’t load at the most recent messages. It loads a few messages back, so that you have to scroll to even get to the comment box, which is not static but remains at the end of the messages, making it impossible to scroll up to refer back to something that was said, and keep it in view while continuing the conversation. In addition to poor video support, it handles photos awkwardly within the app. For example if I want to zoom in on a photo it first makes me download it? I don’t want to download it I just want to zoom in!!! And if a person has more than a few photos in a post, there is no way to view any more than the first few. Instead of allowing you to scroll through the ones after the “+3 more” it just pretends they don’t exist. Or it will scroll through other photos posted by that user or page but NOT remaining ones in that post! This right here, along with not being able to post videos, are the two major reasons I am reinstalling FB instead of continuing to use this app that I paid for.

It’s OK but extremely clunky

-r0b-

I guess it’s worth 4.5 stars just for blocking the horrendous amount of Facebook ads. Overall, I find it’s pretty clunky. It won’t play videos half the time, and downloading an image is just plain cumbersome.

One of the better Facebook apps

Ashmoore1

Great app that just keeps getting better and better with regular updates.

Great app!

Sauron+on+on

Love this app as a FB alternative. Have been using it for over a year, no problems. Latest update provides the option to select from a wide choice of external browser app options in which to open links. Friendly + Brave = a mobile Facebook experience that floors the Facebook app.

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Tia's 6sPlus

For some reason I started having trouble with my iPhone acting like it had a bad virus when I’d download the FB app! I had to keep a desktop version access on my phone & delete the actual app itself!! My phone would not function at all with the FB app! Not just when I was on FB!! So I found the Friendly App!! Thank goodness!! All has been fine since!! I don’t know what’s up with the FB App in using it on MY phone but it just wouldn’t work!! Thank You ‘Friendly’ ?

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