GROWLR: Gay Bears Near You

GROWLR, LLC

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

The only app for Bears and Bear Chasers!

More Bears in More Places...we are a global community with over 10,000,000 members worldwide. GROWLR allows you to meet other Bears from around the world or around the corner. GROWLR is free, fast, reliable and easy to use.

A Bear is a gay man who belongs to a very inclusive part of the gay community. Some are hairy, some are muscular, and some are heavy-set and some are none of those things. Being a bear is about being yourself - we are all amazing no matter how we are labeled.

Bear Chasers are the men who love Bears – and if you’re a Chaser you’ve come to the right place! More Bears in More Places.

It’s the perfect way to meet guys and make friends whether you are sitting at home or traveling abroad. Send and receive private instant messages, live video calls, pictures and video.

We also have an amazing Event section with complete and up-to-date Bear Run and Bear Bar listings. Tons of Galleries, Check-in features, Notes and More.

GROWLR allows only males 18 years or older. Photos depicting nudity or sex acts are strictly prohibited.

Visit us on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/growlrapp

Or on the web:
http://www.growlrapp.com

Ratings and reviews

This app has too many broken or poorly designed features. I decided to pay for the PRO version to see more profiles, but the grid remains pathetically limited. Everyone's profile picture is awful because it gets automatically cropped in the worst way possible, even after you select the crop region yourself. You only get to see a single public picture per profile. The search function only gives you a handful of profiles. It's just all around poorly designed, with no improvements over time.

This app is in my eyes very basic and not used by enough people to even warrant getting the pay version. In the "nearby" profiles shown, there are about a third of them that are a reasonable distance away, then they jump to 50-60+ miles away! I KNOW there are other users closer that have been on within the last 24 hrs, yet aren't displayed! I'm really not interested in viewing folks from 100+ miles away that appear in the "nearby" section! Waste of time in my opinion.

I've used this app on and off for several years. Unfortunately, lately one if the biggest annoyances are the bots, sending me messages to invite me to their site. Of course I don't click, but block and report them, but unfortunately they keep coming back. This is becoming annoying as hell. Update 7/31: Reduced to one star. Using in-app reporting and blocking feature and bots still happening. Am paying for monthly subscription. Surely that should account for something.