Longwalks vs Bumble BFF- Friendship Apps

I’ve moved around a lot as an adult due to my husband’s job. Moving is hard enough when you factor in the actual physical part of moving, the logistics, finding a new home, selling your current home and the list goes on and on. One of the hardest parts though that you don’t really consider is how hard it is to make friends as an adult. It’s even harder when you’re in a new town or a new state. 

I’m so thankful these days though for the available options that allow you to meet people from the comfort of your couch. You’ve probably heard of Bumble BFF that’s a spinoff of the dating app Bumble. Have you heard of the app though that’s really shaking things up? The Longwalks app has burst on the friend app scene and has one important factor that really puts it above the rest. 

Every day on the Longwalks app you are prompted to answer a question. The question might be a personal one, might be a fun one, might even be a silly question but you answer the question. The questions help then curate a friendship profile for you that allows Longwalks to match you with other users that answers mesh with yours. There isn’t another friendship app on the market that does this. 

Bumble BFF prompts all it’s users to initially sign up, create a profile, add a pictures, answer a few generic questions and then users are allowed to start searching for friends. On Bumble BFF you set your location and from there you are fed all the profiles from users in your location. Users swipe left or right to determine if they’re interested in getting to know another user based off the profile picture and a quick glance at the profile. It doesn’t take a genius to realize that’s a quick decision that’s mainly based on superficial feelings on a user’s profile picture. 

Longwalks really stands out with it’s question feature because it helps create this personalized profile on a user. The matches a user receives have a higher chance of friendship compatibility with a backbone of profiles built on who a user really is. Longwalks really goes beyond the electronic limitations that happens with an app for friendship. By prompting users to answer these questions it utilizes the technology for creating friendships rather than creating friendships based on superficial quick judgements. 

Many Bumble BFF users actually mention that when they do match with different users and start to open conversations they are quickly disappointed. Often users are met with people just looking for roommates or even club promoters trying to convince you to come out to their club for some drink specials. There are many matches that can happen by swiping and often Bumble BFF users are met with a time suck of weeding through who’s on Bumble BFF for authentic friendship and what users are there for alternative motives. 

Longwalks has all users answer the same question daily so you know when you get your 5 daily matches from Longwalks you are getting legitimate friendship matches. Longwalks also offers a variety of clubs within the app that you can join based on a hobby or interest you might have. These clubs are a great way to automatically know you’re friendship chances are fairly high when you are connected with people in these clubs because they at least have one similar interest with you. 

Longwalks is free and will continue to be free. They hope to offer some sort of way to enhance your profile through paid services in the future, but for now it’s free and all about the experience of it’s users. I hope that if you’re looking to make genuine friendships that you’ll give Longwalks a download and start answering daily questions that could land you lifelong friendships.