Social media is evolving fast, with platforms like Threads and Noplace leading the charge.
Check out these 13 new social networks making waves in 2024.
Let’s dive right in!
1. Noplace
Website: https://www.thenoplace.com/
Released: July 2024
HQ: San Francisco, California
Users: No data available
Funding: $19 million
Description: Noplace is a new social media platform aimed at a Gen Z audience. Referred to as a “mashup of Twitter and Myspace for Gen Z”, it’s a colorful social app focused on text updates. Users can create customized profiles (change background colors, add tags) and find new friends based on common interests. App experience offers 2 feeds, one global feed which is the same for everyone on the app, and another personalized with friends only.
2. Ten Ten
Website: https://tenten.app/
Released: September 2022
HQ: Paris, France
Users: No data available
Funding: No data available
Description: Ten Ten is a walkie-talkie app designed for teen audiences to send voice messages to their close friends. Ten Ten hit 6 million downloads on Google Play in 6 months since its app release (its Android app was released in January 2024)
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3. BeReal
Website: https://bereal.com/
Released: January 2020
HQ: Paris, France
Users: 25 million
Funding: $90 million
Description: BeReal works as a photo-sharing app, allowing users to post one unfiltered photo per day to show their activities to their followers. The app alerts users randomly during the day to post a picture in 2 minutes. 12% of young adults ages 18 to 29 in the US report using BeReal.
4. Threads
Website: https://www.threads.net/
Released: July 2023
HQ: Menlo Park, California
Users: 175 million
Funding: Owned by the publicly traded company (Meta)
Description: Threads is a new social media platform from Meta focused on sharing text updates, similar to the X/Twitter experience. Messages published on Threads have a character limit of 500 words, profiles can be set to public or private and there’s an integration allowing users to share Threads posts to Instagram directly.
5. Airchat
Website: https://www.air.chat/
Released: April 2024
HQ: Los Angeles, California
Users: Not publicly disclosed
Funding: Undisclosed
Description: Airchat is an audio social network encouraging users to “just talk”. Described as a combination of “X/Twitter and Clubhouse”, instead of a text-based format, users share voice notes and the app automatically transcribes recordings. On Airchat, the feed consists of a combination of text and audio snippets.
6. Yik Yak
Website: https://yikyak.com/
Released: August 2021
HQ: United States
Users: Not publicly disclosed
Funding: $75 million
Description: Yik Yak is a pseudonymous social media platform, popular with college students. The app is designed for location-specific sharing, enabling users to share messages, referred to as “yaks,” to anyone within a five-mile radius. Yik Yak had over 3.5 million iOS downloads since 2021.
7. Substack Notes
Website: https://substack.com/notes
Released: April 2023
HQ: San Francisco, California
Users: Not publicly disclosed
Funding: $89.4 million
Description: Substack Notes is a social media feature built on top of a newsletter publishing platform with over 35 million active subscriptions (including 3 million paid). Similar to the X/Twitter experience, Substack Notes allows users to post short-form content.
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8. Coverstar
Website: https://coverstar.app/
Released: March 2017
HQ: Berkley, California
Users: Not publicly disclosed
Funding: Undisclosed
Description: Coverstar claims to offer a “safe TikTok alternative”. According to developers, content is consistently monitored and no explicit or dangerous content is allowed. Furthermore, the social platform doesn’t support direct messages for safety reasons.
9. Jagat
Website: https://www.jagat.io/
Released: March 2023
HQ: Singapore
Users: 10 million
Funding: Undisclosed
Description: Jagat offers a location-based social media platform. Jagat provides an interactive map interface, which enables users to check friends’ locations in real-time, their status updates, and discover activities in the local area. According to the company, Gen Z makes up approximately 85% of the Jagat user base.
10. Fizz
Website: https://fizzsocial.app/
Released: January 2021
HQ: Palo Alto, California
Users: Not publicly disclosed
Funding: $41.5 million
Description: Fizz is an anonymous social network for college students. The network allows users to join private school communities for communication where they can share posts anonymously. On top of social networking, Fizz offers an online marketplace integrated into the app to sell and buy items among students on the campus.
11. Lemon8
Website: https://www.lemon8-app.com/
Released: March 2020
HQ: Singapore
Users: Not publicly disclosed
Funding: Undisclosed
Description: Lemon8 is a photo-centric social media platform from TikTok’s parent company (Bytedance). With elements of Pinterest and Instagram, Lemon8 markets itself as a “lifestyle content community”. Lemon8 allows users to edit photos, videos, post content, and discover new content in one app. According to Appfigures estimates, Lemon8 was downloaded 12.9 million times across the App Store and Google Play in 2024 (as of July 25).
12. Lapse
Website: https://www.lapse.com/
Released: July 2022
HQ: London, United Kingdom
Users: Not publicly disclosed
Funding: $42.4 million
Description: Lapse positions itself as an “app that turns your iPhone into a disposable camera”. When taking a picture, users have to wait 1 to 3 hours for photos to “develop in the darkroom”, a filter giving a vintage look is automatically added. Once pictures are taken, photos can be shared with friends or added to “journals”. Lapse hit 1.2 million downloads worldwide in 2024 (as of July).
13. Bluesky
Website: https://bsky.app/
Released: February 2023
HQ: Seattle, Washington
Users: Not publicly disclosed
Funding: $8 million
Description: Bluesky is a text-based social media platform, considered as an alternative to X/Twitter. Posts shared on the platform have a limit of 300 words and can include pictures.
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