“You cant make friends unless you pay — I used this app back when I was a senior in high school, and honestly, it used to be a great way to meet people and make friends. I came back to it recently, and I’m extremely disappointed with what…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 2,000 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.5 ★373,468 ratings
—Downloads
17+Age rating
138 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Welcome to Yubo – the ultimate social platform for making new friends all over the world! With millions of users worldwide, we’re all about connecting you with like-minded people in a fun and safe place!
FEW THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT YUBO
1) SWIPE TO MAKE NEW FRIENDS: Use our swipe feature to find new friends who are online and share the same interests! With just a swipe, you could meet your new bestie!
2) CHAT WITH FRIENDS WORLDWIDE: One of the coolest things about Yubo is that you can chat with people from all over the world! Whether you're feeling silly, want to sing, dance, or chat about your day, Yubo has got you covered!…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 4.238.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 4.238.0, updated 2026-10-05.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
2 themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Raised by 52 distinct reviewers — 2.6% of the 2,000 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 13 distinct reviewers (0.7% of 2000 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Stupid Concept — The idea that you have to pay to see the people who like or attempt to add you is ridiculous. And it’s not like a small amount, 95% of the people who attempt to talk to you are locked behind a pay wall and you’re left…”
“Now it’s just a money grab — You used to find friend for free now you have to pay to see who reacted to you smh🙄”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 4.238.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.