Cocoon - Private Sharing

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.

I love the idea of a micro social for those most important to you; I also love the elegant, minimalist design ethos that pervades Cocoon. However, there are areas that need more polish. For example, currently you can only delete a group of photos, whereas more granular control of individual photos would be welcome. What if you post something by mistake? Furthermore, if you post a group of photos and comment on one of them, said comment overlays every photo in the group. These seem like issues that would have been resolved in early alpha/beta builds. Overall, I’m really enjoying the app thus far and see the immense value it provides. Going forward, I’ll definitely be a paying customer, and I look forward to seeing how Cocoon evolves in the coming weeks/months.

This app is wonderful! My family lives in different cities across the US. Although we try to talk on the phone a lot to keep in touch, Cocoon helps us constantly feel close to one another. I love being able to keep up to date on where my family is and what they are up to without needing to proactively ask. Also, the design is beautiful, and I love the new features they are rolling out. This is an important app for loved ones!!

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!

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