Unsure if its dead, but hasn’t been updated in some time
A couple friends recommended I try cocoon in place of FB/WA/Vero. I really enjoy the privacy and control, but am concerned because I’m not able to upgrade to the paid membership anywhere and it doesn’t seem like this app has been updated in over a year.
Super bummed, hope Cocoon wasn’t abandoned after their Substack acquisition.
Super bummed, hope Cocoon wasn’t abandoned after their Substack acquisition.
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Abandonware, sadly
This had so much potential, but the entire dev team got acquired and there hasn’t been an update in months, and it’s impossible to coax people into something with no future. If someone else would take it up, it’s a five star app - particularly loved the flight status sharing.
Great app but no longer supported
My family started using this app during the pandemic to keep in touch; it’s really great. However, it is seemingly no longer supported — the team was acquired by another company and even though the announcement said this app would continue “independently”, the help center link is broken and their contact email address returns as undeliverable. (I discovered this when my dad got a new phone and could no longer find the app on the Play store.) Really disappointing that they aren’t more upfront about the lack of continued support — and it seems borderline unethical to charge people a subscription too! We don’t pay for a subscription but like, don’t give people the option to pay monthly for your app if you’re not going to continue supporting it, that’s just gross. My family will be finding a different app, sadly.
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Will this project continue?
Cocoon seems ok, just want to know if you plan on continuing the project or if it will die in a couple years? I don’t want to waste my time to get family and friends involved if it’s just going to disappear, but it’s the best thing I have seen so far.
Superb idea and app with one new problem
Love using this app with my family. It’s our go to app and allows us to enjoy communicating fun photos and news items and saving iMessage for urgent matters only. BUT some bug has surfaced and we can no longer use the Apple share option to share an item without an error. Now we have to copy/paste after opening the app. Way more time consuming and is taking the fun out of sharing. Hope this can be fixed soon.
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Major flaw for an app that is geared toward the family.
Pretty simple major flaw: you must have a phone number to use it. Many families have children with iPods or iPhones with no phone number yet. Seems like a really poor decision to require a phone number. Makes it unusable.
A Suggestion
Search. Right now it’s nearly impossible to find an old conversation
Umm..
I’m on a iPad I don’t have a phone number I have a email why can’t u use that?
Very nice but not quite there yet
It really is a beautiful app, works well, and has a lot of potential. But there’re a few gaps that keep it from becoming my primary family messaging app. K so I hate to give so much weight to something as petty as gifs, but I apparently use this feature so much elsewhere that the absence of a gif integration on Cocoon is a huge drawback for me. A widget for iOS 14 with like a snapshot of what’s going on in each cocoon would be a great way to subtly notify us of activity throughout the day. Also would like to see a collective calendar that lets you see events, flights, work schedules, etc for the group at a glance. (Bonus points if it could show collective availability to simplify selecting commonly free dates for getting together IRL) And finally, maybe some more categories to quickly share. for instance: media sharing like what we’re watching, reading, listening to, with the ability of engage in inline discussions about those topics. Every time a new episode comes out, or album drops, or a chapter is read, discussing what happened would be so interesting— Anywayy I’ve only just started using cocoon so hopefully I haven’t just missed these features from being a new user. I have high hopes and will keep my eye on release notes as they continue to update.
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Response from developer
Hi, thank you so much for the detailed reviews! All great feedback and suggestions. We just released GIF support with a built-in GIF picker for replies and new posts if you want to check that out :)
Love this app!!
We were users of Path before that discontinued. I’ve been using this app with my family for the better part of a year, and I just love it! I gravitate to using this app far more than other social media because these are the people I care most about and want to share things with FIRST! It’s easy to share, to comment, to discuss, and to even look at things shared in the past!
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Only works right on phone
It’s a good idea, but the fact that it can’t switch to landscape mode in an iPad is a real drawback.
Basic Info Missing
You can’t see the time when any posts were made. I keep trying to swipe to the left to see the time like you can in IOS Messages but that feature just doesn’t exist in Cocoon. It honestly makes the app unusable now because no one knows when anyone posted anything.
Love it but one downside
Really loving this app and SO happy to finally have a replacement for Path. The only downside is not having a notifications center of some sort. In order to see if anyone has connected or responded to anything is by scrolling through the whole feed and trying to notice if anything is new in an old post I appreciate that cocoon doesn't try to interrupt daily life by sending a notification for everything, but it does take unnecessary time by having to scroll through everything and try to see responses or comments.
Once that is made easier, I would give it 20 ⭐️ if it was possible
Once that is made easier, I would give it 20 ⭐️ if it was possible
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I hope the developers see this suggestion
This app definitely has potential and is a cute idea for trying to provide that same kind of closeness you feel with your special someone in-person and replicate it within a messaging/social hub.
Hard to go up against normal texting apps, but I have one suggestion that might make a big difference in such a simple (and sure, shallow) way. Give the choice of changing/personalizing the app icon.
I know it’s such a shallow thing to reject an app for its app icon, but that’s truly what made my wife and I remove this from our homepages. If you gave us some options to choose from, or even gave us a way to create a monogram, bigram, etc, that personalizes our cocoon, even make it a paid feature, I bet you’ll have lots of people more interested in this app. I feel so shallow for complaining about an app icon but I would rather be honest because we want to use this app, we just don’t like the badge and don’t want to look at it versus look at iMessage.
Please consider this an implement it fast fast fast! I’ll be checking back! Thanks and best of luck, devs!
Hard to go up against normal texting apps, but I have one suggestion that might make a big difference in such a simple (and sure, shallow) way. Give the choice of changing/personalizing the app icon.
I know it’s such a shallow thing to reject an app for its app icon, but that’s truly what made my wife and I remove this from our homepages. If you gave us some options to choose from, or even gave us a way to create a monogram, bigram, etc, that personalizes our cocoon, even make it a paid feature, I bet you’ll have lots of people more interested in this app. I feel so shallow for complaining about an app icon but I would rather be honest because we want to use this app, we just don’t like the badge and don’t want to look at it versus look at iMessage.
Please consider this an implement it fast fast fast! I’ll be checking back! Thanks and best of luck, devs!
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Great app for a family social group!
So much better than the incessant notifications from iMessage for a close-knit family group that likes to share stuff! Really well done. I’d like to see more reactions than just a “like”. Only reason it’s not 5 stars is because Safari Content Blockers are not honored, so links shared in the Cocoon are full of crap, and sometimes full-page pop-ups/videos/whatever take over and prevent easy commenting because they are overlaid on “top” of the link.
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Amazing way to stay in touch
Our family has been using cocoon since the beginning! It is an amazing way to keep in contact with grandparents or family far away without sharing photos on public sites. It also helps keep our close family in touch much easier. We love it!
Hoping for more polish
I was hoping for something a little more polished and feature rich. It doesn’t seem much more than a running Messenger app conversation. I was hoping it would be more of maintaining a profile page like FB and posting things inside your Cocoon. Without all the advertisements and political BS. I do like the idea of a closed close-nit family thing. I’ll keep checking back to see how it develops.
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Good
Really good app during these time of social distancing. It’s easy to use and has a great design
Room for improvement
App has interesting concept and potential.
Nice minimalistic Yet organic UI
Some feedbacks:
- needs better Gif compatibility
- can’t type other languages (I can type them but didn’t convert properly when typing in Japanese)
- can’t select a color when it’s already taken. Also not enough color choices. There are 12 colors to choose from but what happens when there are more than 12 people? Please add more colors.
Nice minimalistic Yet organic UI
Some feedbacks:
- needs better Gif compatibility
- can’t type other languages (I can type them but didn’t convert properly when typing in Japanese)
- can’t select a color when it’s already taken. Also not enough color choices. There are 12 colors to choose from but what happens when there are more than 12 people? Please add more colors.
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My new favorite app of 2020
This has gotta be one of the best apps I've seen in a pretty long time.
