Cocoon - Private Sharing Hack 3.1.4 + Redeem Codes

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!!

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.

This app uses an extremely insecure method to make your family’s chats private. It is essentially a six-letter password that you cannot change, that a malicious actor would have infinite tries to guess, and once that malicious actor gets access to your cocoon they cannot be removed.

A six letter password is not enough to put in front of the locations of all your family members and your private conversations with them. This shows a serious lack of understanding of even the most fundamental ways your safety could be compromised, and does so while advertising itself as a privacy focused platform.

Until this fundamental flaw is addressed, you should look elsewhere for private communication.

A few issues I’ve run into so far: The “Home” timeline hasn’t updated in 2 days. Weather almost always shows “not available” for everyone in my Cocoon. One Cocoon member’s info hasn’t updated in days.

A few suggestions: Although I can delete images from the Home timeline, there’s no delete available in the Vault. It would be nice to be able to branch separate/private chats with only specific members of the Cocoon. Would be nice to set location based notifications.

All in all, I like the idea, but the functionality is still pretty basic, and status info updates are awfully flakey.