Bloom - LGBTQ+ Community

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About this app

Bloom is an 18+ LGBTQ+ community for friendship, chosen family, connection, wellbeing, safety — and, if you want it, dating. 🌸

Bloom is for adults only: users aged 18 and over.

We didn't build another swipe machine. We built a place where queer people can feel seen, heard, supported and loved — whether you're here for friends, healing, your chosen family or your person.

Built with love by two real people — Lenie & Ninna — across South Africa and Sweden.

🌷 WHAT YOU CAN DO ON BLOOM
• Friendship & community — meet kind people nearby or anywhere in the world
• Chosen Family — find the people who feel like home
• The Circle — a soft community feed with official Bloom posts & honest conversation
• Bloom Garden 🌿 — honour your journey: every milestone you survive becomes a flower in your personal garden, and you can send love to others' flowers in the Community Garden
• Global discovery — connect across borders with Nearby & Global modes
• Petal Translate 🌷 — chat across 30+ languages in one tap
• Willow & Bloom Mind 🍃 — gentle wellbeing support, including one free daily check-in
• LGBTQ+ Safe Spaces — inclusive venues and resources
• Safety tools — easy reporting, blocking and human moderation
• Messaging — text chats with photos and Petal translation
• Optional dating — love when you want it, never pressured
• Bloom Today 🌸 — a fresh question, prompt and reason to return every day
• Friends of Bloom 🤝 — meet the podcasts, publications and LGBTQ+ organisations who support Bloom, with links to their work
• Help Bloom Grow 🌱 — invite friends, vote on features, help build your local community

💎 SOME FEATURES REQUIRE A PAID SUBSCRIPTION
Bloom is free to join and use. Bloom Plus ($8.99/month) and Bloom Premium ($14.99/month) unlock extras such as unlimited messaging & translation, deeper Willow wellbeing conversations, mood tracking, journal and premium profile customization. Subscriptions renew until cancelled — manage or cancel anytime in Google Play. Everything essential — including safety tools, crisis resources and the Friends of Bloom page — is always free.

🏳️‍🌈 BUILT FOR EVERYONE
Lesbian, gay, bi, trans, non-binary, queer, questioning, ace, pan, intersex and beyond. Every identity. Every pronoun. Every story.

💌 SAFETY FIRST
• Real-account verification
• Easy block & report tools
• Inclusive community guidelines
• Human moderation, not just algorithms
• Your data stays yours — we never sell it

🍃 WELLBEING, HONESTLY
Willow and Bloom Mind offer gentle wellbeing support and self-reflection tools. They are not a substitute for professional medical or mental-health care and do not diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any condition. Crisis and emergency resources are always free.

💖 OUR PROMISE
Bloom is the app queer people emotionally exhale into. Soft. Safe. Human. Yours.

Made with love for the global LGBTQ+ community.
Every identity. Every pronoun. Every story. 🌸

What’s new

Meet Friends of Bloom 🤝 — a new appreciation page honouring the podcasts, publications and LGBTQ+ organisations that have supported Bloom along the way, with direct links to their work. Find it on your profile and in Settings. Plus the usual polish and stability improvements. Every identity. Every pronoun. Every story. 🌸