Yarbuddy - Make Friends App

Yarbuddy is a make friends app for meeting real people near you. It is a friendship app, not a dating app — you are here to find buddies, not a partner.

Making new friends as an adult is hard. You leave school, you move city, your old circle scatters, and there is no obvious way to meet anyone. Yarbuddy exists for that.

Pick what you are into. See people nearby who picked the same. Start talking.


WHAT IT COSTS: NOTHING TO TALK TO ANYONE

No payment to talk to anyone. Connecting and messaging are free, with no limit on how many messages you send. You never pay to start a conversation or to reply to one.

Plenty of apps let you match free then charge for the first message, so you collect people you cannot speak to. Here, the conversation is the free part.


MEET NEW PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY GET YOU

Friendship works better with something in common. Choose your interests — music, films, food, fitness, gaming, books, travel, art, photography, sport, coffee — and Yarbuddy shows you people near you who chose the same ones.

No cold rooms full of strangers. Just people you would have something to say to.


FIND FRIENDS NEAR YOU, ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD

Yarbuddy works wherever you are. Set how far to look — your neighbourhood, your city, or wider — and change it whenever. You control location permission from your phone.

Just moved to a new city and know nobody? Back home after years away? Working somewhere your old friends are not? Or simply want someone to talk to who is not from work? Yarbuddy is built for all of that — wherever in the world you are.


EVERY PHOTO IS CHECKED BY A PERSON

A real person reviews every profile photo before it goes live. Not a filter. Not an algorithm. A person.

No blank profiles. No pictures pulled off the internet. Selfie and ID verification are optional on top for anyone who wants the badge.

Slower and costlier than the automatic way. Also the only way that works.


YOUR PRIVACY IS YOURS

Your phone number is never shown to another user — not to a buddy, not to anyone. Conversations stay inside the app until you decide otherwise.

Block someone and they cannot see you or contact you again; only you can undo it. Report from any chat and a real person reads it. Nobody is ever punished automatically by a counter.

Yarbuddy is for adults — we check your age when you sign up.


BREAK THE ICE WITHOUT THE AWKWARD BIT

The hardest part of any conversation is the first line. Answer prompts on your profile so people meet the real you, not four photos — and send a note instead of a blank hello. No pressure to be clever, and no rush to reply.


IS THIS A DATING APP?

Friendship comes first. Yarbuddy is built for finding friends, and that is what most people use it for. Some friendships turn into something more, and we do not pretend otherwise — but nothing here is designed around dating, and nobody is expected to be looking for it.


WHAT YOU GET FREE

- Create your profile and get your photo reviewed
- Choose your interests and set your distance
- Connect with people near you
- Send and receive messages, with no limit
- Answer prompts and send notes
- Block, report and delete your account any time

YARBUDDY PREMIUM ADDS

- See who liked you first
- Unlimited likes
- Priority visibility
- Advanced filters

Premium makes things faster. It does not unlock talking to people — that is free for everyone and stays that way.


WHAT TO EXPECT

Yarbuddy is new, and we would rather tell you that than have you find out. There is no huge crowd here yet. What there is, is a properly checked one — every photo seen by a human being before it appears.

If you widen your distance setting you will see more people. And if you are among the first in your area, tell a friend: friendship apps only work when the people you would actually get on with are on them too.


Make new friends. Meet new people. Find someone to talk to.

Take it at your own pace. Free to join, and free to chat.