Friendly Plus Social Browser Hack 8.9.29 + Redeem Codes

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.

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.

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!

I used to love this app and recommended it to all my friends, but over the last few months it’s become so buggy that I think I’m going to have to find something else or go back to the Facebook app.

It was a great way to still have Facebook and messenger in one app, but it’s now just loading the mobile web version of Facebook and messenger can no longer be accessed. Also because of this, the UX/UI is terrible and not user friendly whatsoever.

Before that, it wouldn’t let me expand or read comments on most posts of groups I was subscribed to. So if I saw a post from a group in my feed, it’d tell me the post didn’t exist. So I’d have to go to my computer and find it in the group to read the full post, see comments, or write a response (including my own posts in groups!)

I emailed them about both of these issues with screen shots but never heard back or acknowledged they know it’s a problem. It seems I can read group posts now but the web feed is terrible, and I can’t access messenger.

Also, before messenger went down, I was messaging a girl about an upcoming trip, but she wasn’t on my friends list. I could not find the messenger convo anywhere on the app even though it gave me the notification I had a new message. I had to go to my computer to read it.

Maybe I’ll try back in a few months to see if they worked out the bugs, but for now, it’s not really usable and hasn’t been for a while.

I love the small footprint of this app. I’ve had no problems accessing any Facebook features when using the Friendly app. A hint about enlarging your newsfeed, be sure that you’ve clicked on “follow” for each of your friends that you want added to your newsfeed page.
The ad blocking feature and screening posts by keyword are features that I really like. I’ve read some reviews saying that videos won’t post, trying to copy comments doesn’t work, it’s glitchy, and it’s slow. I’ve experienced none of these problems. In fact, I’ve found it much easier to locate older videos that I posted years ago, copying photos and text isn’t a problem, and Facebook Messenger functions great, without having to download an additional app.
Would I purchase this app again, or recommend it to a friend? Absolutely!

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.

I been using Friendly+ for a bit now and if we are comparing it to the Facebook app I’d have to say that this feels a bit like the mobile site. Things just don’t load like they load on the Facebook app, I’m looking forward to the advances that this developer will do to this app later on. The one thing that I do definitely appreciate about this app is the dark mode feature that Facebook for some reason just doesn’t have at all. Strange. This app is very good tho. I’m looking forward to the advances in features and overall user interface experience that friendly will add or polish, bc I definitely think it needs a lot more polishing. The one item I’m getting a lot of crashes on is the color changer option.. every time I want to change the color of the app once logged in, it just crashes instantly without warning. Every single time.

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!

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.

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!