Hive Social is a free social networking app from Hive Social Inc. where you can post text and photo updates, create polls, and discover others who share the same interests as you do. It’s an amalgamation of various social and communication apps, so it acts as a photo-sharing platform, messaging app, and music-sharing service in one.

Users proclaim Hive Social as a more extensive alternative to Twitter, thanks to the numerous additional features it provides. Compared to the latter, this one also allows more ways for you to personalize your profile, with color themes and unique identifier tags.

A personalized social media experience

With Hive Social, you can connect with a hive of likeminded people by exploring the discover page. This section of the app allows you to follow topics relevant to you so that you can easily find posts that interest you. The home feed is arranged chronologically, so it makes it easier for users to stay up to date on all their mutuals’ recent posts. 

One of the app’s main selling points is its customizable features. Apart from setting your own profile photo, header, and username, you can also add identifiers to let other users know your zodiac sign and pronouns. Apart from choosing your own color theme, you also have the ability to add a song that automatically plays as soon as someone visits your profile.

While this social networking app is rapidly gaining popularity, especially with its unique feature set, there are still some issues it can improve on. First, it takes quite a bit of time before content can appear on your feed, so all you see is a blank screen. Second, there are numerous users with similar usernames, making it difficult to distinguish the real account owners from parody and duplicate accounts.

Great potential to become a top app

Although Hive Social is still a little rough around the edges, it presents a number of great features that make it worth checking out. Not only does it allow you to curate your feed based on your interests, but it also allows personalization so you can show off your true personality. Just keep in mind that it’s possible that you end up with the same username as someone else.