# Circles: Healthy Social Media — Chat and share with friends

> Chat and share with friends (iPhone/iPad app by Chicos Interactive.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/circles-healthy-social-media/id6755348264 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Chicos Interactive](https://appshunter.io/developer/490359947)
- Category: Social Networking
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 52 MB
- Released: 2026-03-18
- Data updated: 2026-09-05
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/circles-healthy-social-media/id6755348264/reviews.md

## What is Circles?

Circles is a private social app for the people you actually care about. No algorithms, no ads, no strangers. Just your people.

Social media promised connection. It delivered an ad machine designed to keep you scrolling, sell your data, and fill your head with content from people you've never met. You stay because your real friends are there — buried under influencers, ads, and an algorithm that decides what you see.
Circles breaks that cycle. Bring the people who matter — five, ten, maybe twenty — and leave the rest behind. Once they're here, there's no reason to go back.

==CREATE YOUR CIRCLES
Make a circle for any group — family, close friends, your running crew, the 2 people who actually want to see pictures of your food. Each circle is a private space where you share what matters with exactly the right people, and nobody else.

==CHAT WITHOUT THE NOISE
Message your friends one-on-one or in groups. No 200-person group chats spiralling out of control. No strangers. Just real conversations with people who actually know your name.

==SHARE MOMENTS, NOT CONTENT
Post photos and updates to all your contacts or just specific circles. No begging for likes, no worrying about what strangers will think, no performing for an audience.

==SEE EVERYTHING, THEN YOU'RE DONE
There's no algorithm deciding what you see. You see everything your people share, in the order they shared it. When you've seen it all, you're done. No infinite scroll. No suggested posts. No rabbit holes. Just small, purposeful catch-ups.

==NO TRICKS
No notifications begging you to come back. No streaks. No dark patterns. No "you haven't posted in a while." Circles doesn't want anything from you.

==PRIVATE BY NATURE
None of your content in Circles is public. No discover page. No suggested friends. No way for a stranger to find you or follow you. Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest. It's never sold, shared with advertisers, or mined for profiles.

==YOUR DATA IS YOURS
Circles doesn't sell your data, build ad profiles, or track your behaviour. Row-level security means you can only access your own data. You can delete your account anytime — no guilt trips.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.5.1 — 2026-08-31

- Notifications for reactions and comments on moments now show as a badge on the Activity tab instead of the Moments tab.
- Fixed some rare issues with the chat bubbles animation
- Circles are now in the Friends tab instead of the Profile tab

### 1.5.0 — 2026-07-03

• Reliable posting: your posts now keep uploading and finish even if you close the app, so what you share always makes it through.
• Clear your audience in a tap: when choosing who sees a post, tap your current selection to turn every circle off at once.
• Sharper videos: videos you share now upload at significantly higher quality.
• A smoother chat: a refreshed chat interface with smoother, more polished animations.

### 1.4.1 — 2026-06-13

- Better notifications management
- Improved chat experience
- Bug fixes and performance improvements

### 1.4.0 — 2026-05-11

- You can now post links in your moments feed
- You can translate posts and comments
- Notifications and badges are more reliable, and you get notified for responses to your comments
- You can setup your default circles list to make it easier to reuse the same audience

### 1.3.1 — 2026-04-22

• Better handling of notification and badges
• Tap on longer posts text to expand it
• Images and videos should feel much faster to post and view
• Activity tab now separates new notifications from old ones
• You can now view an AI summary of your latest messages in the activity tab
• You can ask Siri to summarise your unread notifications for you, just say: Siri, what did I miss in Circles?
• Add the Circles widget to your Home Screen to view the latests posts.

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