Howbout: update your friends

4.6
9.23K reviews
1M+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Howbout’s the social app to keep up with friends. Socials aren't for friends anymore, so we made an app for updates you actually care about - how your friends spend their time.

Over 4 million people on Howbout, and they’re all hot.…



SHARE CALENDARS
- Let friends know what’s going on by adding it to the calendar

FRIENDS-ONLY ACTIVITY FEED
- Easiest way to stalk all your friends are up to

MAKE PLANS
- Get plans out of the group chat

SET WHO SEES WHAT
- Choose to share your any event with all friends, just Close Friends, or with no one

CHAT
- Friends' plans are the best conversation starters, so react to events & DM friends. And there’s a built-in group chat for plans & groups

SEE WHEN EVERYONE’S FREE
- Find when everyone’s free to meet up

VOTE WITH POLLS
- Vote on anything (what to do or when works best) with polls

COUNTDOWN TO PLANS
- Pin calendar events to your home screen and countdown to their date

KEEP MEMORIES
- Add pictures to pinned events to keep them as memories

ALL YOUR PLANS TOGETHER
- Forced to use a different calendar for work? Sync it all into Howbout

BUCKET LISTS
- Add in your bucket list to turn them into plans

SHARE PICS & VIDS
- Share pictures & videos directly to chats & plans

SEND INVITES
- Invite anyone to any plan with a link - and welcome to the 21st-century

Featured by Apple, BBC, MailOnline, TechCrunch, Business Insider and a ton of other ones we don’t care about as much!

Bored of stalking your friends on Howbout? Stalk us instead: @howbout_app on socials, [email protected] on email
Updated on
Nov 27, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Messages and 5 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.6
9.13K reviews
Zoe Quick
November 2, 2024
Easy to use. No ads. Nothing is blocked by a pay wall. you can set things to repeat forever or even every 2,3,4 weeks. there's really no limit. you can set it so only specific people can see your plans. VERY user friendly and neat to look at. definitely something I will continue to use. definitely recommend for bust friend groups or family or what ever you need.
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Mack Bee
June 19, 2024
it was great, but now it won't even let me look at messages from group chats. it freezes everytime and won't open the chat. it's like the page gets stuck. I've un-installed and reinstalled, force stopped, and cleared cache (which worked a little but its still glitchy). i love the concept of this app. its functions are great, but i wish it just did freeze so much.
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Howbout
June 19, 2024
Hi there! Sorry to hear you're having these issues with chat in Howbout. Please could you email us at [email protected] so we can look into this and sort it out for you? 😊
Beatrix Kerr
November 19, 2024
This would be great, and I'd recommend it to all my friends, but the three contact requirement is making me look elsewhere. A lot of my friends don't have a big friend group they're joining with so that would prevent them from using the app. A lot of people just have one, maybe two people they want to share calendars with. Edit: That dismissive copy-paste response doesn't address the issue. Your users can't have a good experience if they can't use the app.
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Howbout
November 19, 2024
We’ve seen our users have a much better experience if their friends join at the start too, so we’re encouraging users to add their friends when they sign up 😊 We're limited to word count here annoyingly, but our support team can give you a hand with getting into the app [email protected] if you were still interested in joining 🫶

What's new

It’s not Christmas just yet, but we’ve got an early present for you… 🎁

A new version of Howbout is now live, with the gift of bug fixes and the infrastructure for exciting new features to come! So festive!