Blued Review September 2024

Registering in Blued is fairly quick and easy. You just need to nominate a username and password and enter a captcha to prove that you are not a robot. Your password needs to be at least 6-30 characters and should be a mix of English letters, numbers, and common characters like the dashed line.

There is no need to provide an email address or your mobile number, unlike similar mobile dating apps. After a successful sign-up, you will be redirected to a page that will ask you for your basic profile information such as nickname, date of birth, height and weight and ethnicity. The app will ask you to upload a photo thereafter, which you can skip if you choose to upload a photo later.

Once the whole process of registration is done, you will be taken to a suggestion page of gay guys you might like. This is the initial contact you can perform in the app. You can opt to follow some of the suggested profiles so that you would already have contacts in your contact list even before you get to explore what the app offers.

Although it is not mandatory, you can link your e-mail or phone number. This lets you recover your password in the event that you forgot what you initially inputted.

Compared to other dating apps, Blued has a different approach to how they match their users.

Firstly, there is no ‘like’ function, rather, users follow other users if they wish to see their post updates. Another way of contacting is through joining public and private video live streams.

If you are giving the live stream, you can invite your contacts for a private screening. If they did not join during the duration of your live stream, they would still see the invitation in their respective inboxes, but would not be able to replay it. Same as if you are on the receiving end of a private live stream invitation.

There is also a nearby function that shows you users who are near your current location—that is if your GPS is turned on. As well as an explore feature where you can see popular live streams and threads.

All profiles in Blued feature the very basic information initially provided in the registration process.

When you check out a profile, the user’s profile photo takes up the whole screen. There isn't even a need to scroll down as you immediately see the remaining details like the user's name, location, age, and when he was last online.

The sparse profile might be because Blued is a social dating app that leans toward matching users for casual dating. Instead of an in-depth profile that lets you know the person deeper, appearance matter the most at Blued.

Blued leaves you to uncover details that refer to the user’s personality and character during the interaction and conversation between the two of you. 

Blued Safety Features

Blued received a ‘TRUSTe Enterprise Privacy Certification’ for its efforts to keep users’ app activity private.

In Blued, screenshots and screen recording are prohibited to protect all users in video calls and livestreams. Attempted screenshots will produce a blank image on iOS devices, and are completely impossible on Android phones.

Private Albums are also now available, where the member has to give permission other members to see their photos.

Blued works in the currency of ‘beans’. Beans are used to post flying comments to another user’s public or private video live stream.

Another thing that beans are used for which is buying and sending virtual gifts to other users. The act of giving and receiving virtual gifts add to your Blued profile’s ‘social wealth’. For every 100 beans your spend in public and private live chats, you earn 1 wealth point.

As you level up your social wealth, you will get certain privileges that would make you stand out from the rest. You will have a special icon that changes in colour for every 10 levels you achieve. This could make your flying comments have a rainbow bubble which could attract other users and would definitely make your comment stand out.

You can also earn free flying comments every month once you reach level 12 and above. The number of monthly free flying comments depends on your level.

For levels 12-15, you get 10 free flying comments every month. For levels 16-19, 20 flying comments. For 20-23, 30 flying comments are free on a monthly basis. Levels 24-25 get 40 free every month. And lastly, levels 26-30 get a monthly allowance of 50 flying comments.