Bimble - Save Your Places

The new update has made the app much worse. You can no longer easily see all the places on your list on the map. Instead it shows this useless “heat map” of other peoples spots. Terrible update! Please go back to how it was before.

The concept of this app is really strong and the social aspect has great potential but I found it very hard to navigate spatially through the lists. For example if you look at all the vintage stores in London listed by people on Bimble you have not clue where they are in the city unless you save them and check each one at a time. It would be really useful to integrate the lists on a map so you can see which spots are in your area. You would gave the upset hand if you did this. For example right now if you were let’s say at the barbican for a morning event and wanted to get lunch afterwards you would check for lunch spots on yelp or google maps. Neither are curated options. If Bimble were to integrate the map into the app you would provide users with really well curated lists based on your very specific location. Discovery is always fun too though but feels less useful.

Whenever I click on join bimble to create profile, UI doesnt work to enter any information. Clicks dont work. I cant enter any information. Weird, basic step doesnt work- not sure if its a legit app.

Telephone verification code won’t send

Love to travel and love this concept. Will keep you posted

I was so excited to download this app - what a great idea! But after a few minutes of trying to navigate it was just not intuitive and easy to use. Please update entirely. I’m not an app designer but it needs work. I would love to give this another go if it were redesigned.

I was hoping to be able to move my 30 or so lists with hundreds of places from Google Maps to Bimble but there seems to be mostly UK content. Not much in the rest of Europe or North America outside of NYC, or if there is, the discovery mechanism is poor. I don’t care who makes a list, I care about their profile and taste, and areas where they are experts. Most lists are super generic and don’t seem to go beyond popular spots with nothing special at all. There’s no audience so I’m not going to bother.

The app idea is pretty awesome. Pretty disappointing that after downloading none of your text fields to join work. Not very useful if you can register. Bug fixes needed.

And why don’t you accept it when I enter it? I understand that as a free app you need to monetize somehow, but don’t be so pushy/obvious about it. I like an app that allows to create an account with a user name and password. You ask for the email, okay, and the phone number. Since I really wanted to see the app, I have in and typed in a phone number. The app says: “Please enter a valid phone number in format like +447911123456” but your own input field formats it as +1 (791) 123-4567, which is inconsistent. And then the app does not accept my input. And so I will never get to use the app until you, perhaps, make the phone number optional or accept my input.

This app lacks diversity and is only for a certain type of place. thought it might be cool to find cute hole-in-the-walls and things to do, but it’s 99% dumb overpriced and/or trendy gentrifying businesses.