Introduction and Review

Selected as the Editors’ Choice and ranked 8th in the ranking list of social networking applications on the App Store, BeReal has achieved huge success worldwide. Share your photo with your best friends and family members by using BeReal. No fees are required to install the app on your phone so you can rest assured when you want to try it out. With its simple operations, you will be able to share your daily moments with your significant ones on a daily basis. Capture a photo within 2 minutes so as to let your friends and family members keep up with your life and check out what your friends are up to at the same time. The camera of BeReal is specially designed in order to cater to the personal needs of users in terms of the selfie as well as frontal photos in a simultaneous manner. By making your BeReal account public, you will be able to find other people you don’t know but who are near to you. A unique challenge will come out now and then so as to enrich the user experience. When seeing your friends’ ReReal, you can leave your comments under their posts to interact with them. Of course, personal chat is also available to users. Attach emojis to make your conversations more vivid and interesting. Show your emotions and yourself with those RealMojis as well. A map is available for you to check out where your friends are at the moment of their posts and you can access your BeReal posts and save your memories in a digital archive. With a widget, you can see the live reactions of your friends right on the home screen. BeReal will encourage you to build your own social circle and increase interactions with others to deepen your friendships. However, you have to be aware that the app will not make you become an internet influencer and there is no filter available to beautify your personal images. This app can be addictive without any restriction in use so parents should be careful when their children are using the app. Not all interactions are enjoyable for all users so frustrating situations may occur as well. Refrain from using BeReal when you are doing sports in case of accidents. 

Updates

BeReal has been updated on a monthly basis according to the version history shown on App Store. On January 3rd, 2023, the developers launched version 0.30.1, in which the recap video was updated. In its most recent update on February 8th, 2023 with the launch of version 0.32.0, the developers managed to fix 7 bugs without clarification of what exactly the bugs were.

Features

1. With its specially designed camera, both selfies and frontal photos can be taken simultaneously.

2. You can find out what people near you are up to by making your BeReal account public.

3. Challenges are posted now and then for users to take so as to make their user experiences more colorful and creative.

4. Users can interact with each other by leaving comments under the posts or starting direct and private conversations.

5. By using RealMojis, you can make your conversations more interesting and humorous.

6. The map enables you to check out the location of your friends so you will keep up with their recent situations easily.

7. The app keeps an archive of your posts to remind you of past life moments.

8. By taking advantage of the widget, you can check out your friend's updates on your home screen.

9. The RealMojis stickers are also available for users to use in iMessage chats.

10. The app is free for users to install.