Cocoon for Android

Updated (05/02/22) Is this app no longer supported? Since Path (RIP) went away my small close group of friends found ourselves homeless and Facebook is just a bad idea. Looked for months until I found this app and we love it! Have been using it nonstop since then. If I could have just 2 immediate updates they would be 1) notifications bar - right now there’s no way to keep track of comments on previous posts so you find yourself missing lots of potential convos. Tagging each other doesn’t work and there’s no place to view all the tags either way. 2) being able to reply in a post with a photo - essential if you ask me. Also, something we loved from Other apps was being able to tag what we were listening/watching/reading plus more moods and the ability to use stickers. If we could use our own iMessage stickers that would be great. I would be a paying customer if these issues were to be resolved for sure. Love it that much.

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.

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.

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 Google 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.

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.