Buddy List Messenger5.0.2 - App Store

A green dot next to a name. That's the whole idea.

Buddy List brings back the one thing instant messaging got right and every app since has thrown away: you could look at a list and see who was actually there. Not who posted three hours ago. Who's around, right now.

WHO'S AROUND
Open the app and you have your answer before the screen finishes settling. Green means they're here. Amber means they stepped away. Every state carries a shape as well as a colour, so it reads the same if you can't tell green from amber.

AWAY MESSAGES, IN YOUR OWN HANDWRITING
"brb, mom needs the phone." Set a status and it goes out to your buddies as a notification. Pick the font. Pick the colour. Six real typefaces, eight colours, and whatever you want to say in them. This is the part where the personality lives.

FRIENDS AND FAMILY
Group your people and collapse the ones you're not looking at. Each group shows how many are around out of how many there are.

YOU CONTROL THE LIGHT
Go invisible and you appear offline to everyone. Hide your presence and you stop seeing theirs - it works both ways, always, and no screen in the app can get around it. Auto-away marks you away after 24 hours.

We're also deliberately imprecise. "A few minutes ago," never a timestamp. Nobody needs to know you looked.

WHAT'S NOT IN HERE
No feed. No algorithm. No recommended accounts, no follower counts, no strangers, no ads. There is nothing to scroll and nothing to catch up on. You add the people you actually talk to, and that's the whole app.

Buddy List needs a phone number to find your friends, and a notification permission to tell you when they're around. That's it.

Version History Presence you can trust: one definition of "around", shape as well as colour on every dot, and away messages that broadcast the moment you set them. Invisible mode now hides your presence and theirs, enforced in the service layer rather than the UI. 5.0.2 Aug 14 Bug fixes and improvements 4.0.1 May 7 Re-brand :) 4.0 08/31/2024 Bug fixes & improvements 3.7.4 05/01/2024 Bug fixes & improvements 3.7.3 04/23/2024 Bug fixes and improvements 3.7.2 04/03/2024 Apple cal sync! 3.7.1 03/21/2024 Responses to your friends' posts now show in your profile. Updated feed and profile improvements. Bug fixes and improvements. 3.7 03/12/2024 Bug fixes and improvements 3.6.6 02/28/2024 Bug fixes and updates to the feed 3.6.5 02/25/2024 Bug fixes and improvements 3.6.4 02/22/2024 Link is more clear, event description, pro organizer updates 3.6.3 02/15/2024 End time, description, and public responses to activities. We now support a purpose-built exp for event organizers (if you are one, please reach out to us at team@spark.ooo). 3.6.2 02/12/2024 Bug fixes and improvements 3.6.1 02/09/2024 Bug fixes and improvements 3.6 02/07/2024 Get suggestions of plans to do when you create new activities. 3.5.3 01/18/2024 simplified UX and some minor bugs 3.5.2 01/14/2024 Suggestions + ideas make it easy to plan what to do. 
Bug fixes and improvements to add photo and activity creation. 3.5.1 01/09/2024 Add a photo to your activity once it begins, bug fixes and improvements. 3.5 12/31/2023 Tag friends and add locations to your activities + bug fixes and improvements 3.4.5 12/26/2023 Bug fixes and improvements 3.4.4 12/19/2023 Fixes to load the friend manager more quickly 3.4.2 12/18/2023 Bug fixes and improvements. 3.4.1 12/16/2023 Push notifications open the profile, 3.4 12/13/2023 Bug fixes and improvements 3.3.2 12/11/2023