# Social Web Cloud — News, Chat & Search. Ad-Free

> News, Chat & Search. Ad-Free (iPhone/iPad app by Social Web Cloud LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/social-web-cloud/id6737016229 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Social Web Cloud LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/814297213)
- Category: Social Networking, News
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.1 · 45 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2025-01-22
- Data updated: 2026-08-31
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/social-web-cloud/id6737016229/reviews.md

## What is Social Web Cloud?

Most apps are free because you are the product. Social Web is different — and so is the way it's built.
We don't have ads — which means we have no reason to track what you search for, no algorithm deciding what you see, and no company building a profile on who you are. We make money because you pay us a fair price. That's it. That's the whole deal.
Everything in one place. Almost nothing to pay. Built for people, not profit.
Social Web combines private messaging, a news feed, and internet search in one app — built on open internet standards that no single company owns or controls. And here's what makes it different from every other app on this list: your data doesn't live on our servers. It lives on yours.
WHAT YOU GET:
— Private group messaging where messages live on your own server, not ours
 — Follow Reddit, YouTube, podcasts, local news, and more in one clean feed
 — Search RSS feeds and the open internet without being tracked
 — Host your own Social Web server and own everything — your data, your conversations, your archive
 — No ads. No algorithm. No data collection. Ever.
 — Available for less than a dollar a month — because privacy shouldn't be a luxury
WHY IT'S DIFFERENT:
Every other messaging app, news reader, and search tool you use is making money from your attention and your data. We don't. We built Social Web because we believe the internet was meant to belong to the people using it — not the companies profiting from it.
With Social Web, you can run your own server. Your messages are stored where you decide. No company can delete your account, shut down your archive, or change the terms on you. If Social Web disappeared tomorrow, your data would still be there — readable by any RSS client in the world, because it's built on open standards, not proprietary lock-in.
No ads means no reason to watch you. No algorithm means no one is engineering what you think or feel. No data profiles means you are a person, not a product.
The internet, the way it was meant to be.

License agreement link: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Monthly Subscription | $0.99 | per month |
| Basic Annual | $9.99 | per year |
| Premium Monthly | $3.99 | per month |
| Premium Annual | $39.99 | per year |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 3.3.5 — 2026-08-28

- fix random notification and brings old chats to the top, even though nobody has sent a message
- fix Following a feed with unrecognized pubDate formats spams the Feed with "just now" items on every refresh
- fix uncapped title heading sizes

### 3.3.4 — 2026-08-22

- first-time/one-time Pull Down To Refresh Notification
- fix imports RSS items in waves should do it all at once
- bug - app stalled out after creating a new stack and adding feeds to it
- fix tabs can go missing bug on Feed tab

### 3.3.2 — 2026-08-20

- fix returning to the Feed from an article scrolls the feed to the top
- fix YouTube shorts should be tall (in the feed)
- should be able to upload a photo for my stack icon instead of a color
- fix unclean screen-nav history after signup
- Pill Bar To Disappear When Scrolling
- Sources on browser tab
- Feed position jumps when switching from Videos back to All
- Visual bug on the blank browser tab
- Keyboard not closing properly in chats
- Can't undo an accidental follow while importing subscriptions
- Profile stats pill (Subscriptions / Stacks / Chats) should be tappable
- Find Sources list scrolls intermittently — root Pressable fights the list for the touch
- Feed tab button should scroll to top, then refresh on a second press
- Profile tab icon in the bottom pill should show the user's avatar
- Browser empty state should hide entirely when the keyboard opens
- Add browser and search results to a stack, not just the main feed
- Creator cards should show when a feed is in a stack

### 3.2.8 — 2026-08-13

- pre-signup "hosting choice" onboarding

### 3.2.7 — 2026-08-11

- fix reactions not working on remote chats
- fix searching for RSS feed sources failed
- fix Browser Search Result Error
- fix Browser Tab Location Search Error
- new onboarding design

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