Friendspire is a free app that is here to help you get recommendations from friends.
We live in a world of information overload, fake reviews, and recommendations from strangers.
All of these issues make it hard to find worthwhile suggestions for our next movie night, TV show to binge, and restaurant to try out.
Something that has stayed reliable throughout time has been our friends’ opinions.
From what rocks make the best tools to what book should I read next, our friends and family members have always been the first people we turn to, so why don’t we treat recommendations the same?
On Friendspire, you’ll be able to find recommendations for movies, TV shows, books, podcasts, restaurants, and bars, and if your friends have recommended an item, their recommendation will be at the.
This is what separates Friendspire from the other big review sites and curated lists.
Friendspire has curated lists, but the main focus of those lists is still bringing you recommendations from friends since the average of their ratings will be shown on the items on the list.
What can you do with Friendspire:
- Rate and comment on movies, TV shows, books, podcasts, restaurants, and bars
- Buzz an item as a way to promote an item to your friends more than a rating would
- Save items for later
- Like and comment on your friends’ activity to support and interact with your friends
- Collect badges and learn fun facts as you review more items
- Explore curated lists to get inspiration
- Invite your friends to have more fun
At the surface, Friendspire seems like a fun tool that centralizes your network’s opinions on different things.
There have been so many times where I really liked a friend’s recommendation and forgot it five minutes later.
The thing is that we already have so many apps on our phones that take up our time and gigabytes, so is this really going to be worth the space?
The co-founders of Friendspire, Morten and Markus, understand this and have developed the app around spending less time on your phone.
This might seem counter-intuitive at first, but at the end of the day, getting recommendations from friends makes finding things to do easier AND faster.
Think of all the hours that you’ve spent scrolling through Netflix or Yelp looking for something to do.
Going to the app, seeing what your friends liked, and picking from those items is much faster than scrolling aimlessly.
The whole point of Friendspire is to spend less time scrolling and more time enjoying.
In that way, it is definitely worth the space on your phone.
Even if you want to just see what it’s about, you can use the website to look at reviews and lists.
The big review sites like Tripadvisor, Yelp, and Rotten Tomatoes are on there way out.
We know no longer have to depend on reviews from strangers (many of them might even be fake). We deserve better, and why not use Friendspire?