Roost Social is an app that geolocates each user and slows transmission to the speed of bird flight. You start with a pigeon, but can add other species to your "rookery," thereby increasing the velocity of your correspondence: "Feed them, level them up, watch your flock grow."
Every message takes flight. Watch your pigeon cross oceans and cities in real time to reach your friends. Collect birds, train your flock, and stay in the moment.
Roost brings back old school messages. You send a note, a bird picks it up, and it flies across the world to your friends. No instant delivery. No read receipts ten seconds later. Just a little bird in the air, carrying your words, taking the time it takes.
Watch yours and your friends birds fly in real time around the world. Be in the moment. Send something and go live your day. When your bird lands, it lands.
BUILD YOUR ROOKERY Catch birds of every feather. Your favorite New York Pigeon, rare cardinals, mythical phoenixes. Every one has its own speed based on their real speeds. Feed them, level them up, watch your flock grow.
REAL MAPS, REAL FLIGHTS Every delivery flies a real route across a real map. Track your bird as it goes. See where it is, how far it's come, when it's landing.
Beyond the avian-themed gamification, it's otherwise a social media platform media in the contemporary minimal vein, with no algorithmic feeds or other engagement-hacking shenanigans. You can disable precise location if you don't want people to know exactly where you are. Roost is available for iOS and an Android version will soon be hatched.
Spotted via John Bull on Bluesky: "more apps need a 'my rookery' page is all i'm saying."
