Friendly Plus Social Browser

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. My real only complaint would be that the app doesn’t grab the profile photo I use on Facebook, despite my contacting the developer, and getting assurances that this problem would be addressed in the next update. It remains an unsolved glitch. Note to the developer, fix the profile photo problem, and I’ll change my review from 4 to 5 stars. Would I purchase this app again, or recommend it to a friend? Absolutely!

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.

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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 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!

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.