Bunch is MiniParty!

I have been a daily Houseparty user for over a year now. Between the pandemic and two deaths in our friend group in the last year, Houseparty was our solace, distraction, and point of connection. With Houseparty being discontinued in October, my friends and I have been desperately searching for an app that is similar and are really liking Bunch a lot. Bunch has incredible potential to take over with the competition gone. A couple of suggestions: 1. Add a streak component—keep track of minutes you’ve talked with each friend. Houseparty would reset streaks every time you went more than 48 hours without talking. One friend and I are at almost 60k minutes without missing a single day. Knowing we don’t want our streak to go away keeps us coming back every day. Our goal was to get to 525,600 minutes on Houseparty🤣, but sadly we have to let that go. Would love to know the length of time we’ve hung out on bunch. 2. Add a word game to the instant games. Houseparty has a game called wordracers where you get 8 letters in a circle. There is at least one word that uses all 8 letters. You have 90 seconds or a 2 minutes per round to find as many words as you can from those 8 letters. For word 5 letters or longer, the first person to get the word gets double the points. The game has three rounds, and between each round you can toggle between the “top words” list (will show all 8 letter words in the game whether or not someone got them, and then will show all words players got, with little flags marking who got the word first) and the scoreboard which shows how many words you got in each round and the total number of points. My friend and I that are on Houseparty every day are OBSESSED with this game. It’s one of the reasons our streak is so high. Please please please consider adding a game like this. Thank you for continuing to make Bunch available. Apps like this are helping so many more people than you may realize during times like these.

first of all i'm just going to say that this is a good app. The games are mostly fun ( my faves are mars dash and hoops) and its cool playing them with friends . BUT.... The quality of the games is pretty bad. Ever time I click on a game it either gives me a black screen or says loading for like 5 minutes straight then says that the game is having trouble loading and I have to press try again a million times. This happens most on Mars Dash. A lot of the time me and a friend will be playing Mars Dash and the game will start for me and I will start running and playing the game as usual, but for my friend it still says loading and they never join the game. It doesn't show them on the line down below either, and it says that they left the game( even though they didn't ). This has happened to multiple friends in multiple phones. Also it sometimes can take like 2 minutes wait between when I click something ( hi, leave the room, end the game, mars dash, etc) and when it actually happens. SO FRUSTRATING! 😑😫😫😫 EDIT ABOUT A MONTH LATER: OMG you guys fixed it! the new update o mars dash is amazing! I have been having no tech issues whatsoever and neither gave any of my friends. IT IS SO AMAZING! thank you so much it is so fun. the scenery is wonderful and the fact that you can play with other people because sometimes i want to play mars dash but none of my friends can play and before that meant i just couldn't play but now i can so yeah it's awesome

This app is super fun and easy to use, but the sign up was hard because something kept on happening (I forgot what it was I have had this app for so long) and I finally got in and I feel it is super safe as well! I feel it is safe because you can’t just have someone randomly come into your party because you can lock your rooms automatically and for friend requests, if you don’t know that person, then just decline the request like you would on any other app. I feel it is super fun and a great way to kill time and every game on there is very fun once you get to learn it! And I’m so happy they have got the game Among Us on there because I feel that would be really fun. And the only reason why I’m saying WOULD BE is because I have no idea what keeps on happening because I have the app on my phone and when I click on Among Us all the sudden it says I need to download that app and I already do so I don’t know what goes I there, but other than my technical issue every part of the app is fantastic! 10/10 recommend downloading!!! Thank you for reading my report on the Bunch app and I really hope you download it and tell your family and friends because if they don’t have this app they are missing out on a lot of fun opportunities!!! 😁😁😁