Peach (social network)

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Peach
Stable release
1.2.3 (October 3, 2017;7 years ago (2017-10-03) [1] )
Android

1.2.2 (January 31, 2019;6 years ago (2019-01-31) [2] ) [±]

Operating system iOS, Android
Platform social networking mobile application
Website web.archive.org/web/20231004002307/http://peach.cool/

Peach is a mobile application-based social network created by Dom Hofmann. [3] Peach is available as an Android and iOS application. It was introduced at the January 2016 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. [4]

Peach has been compared to Ello, Path, and App.net. [3] [5] [6] [4]

Peach has "magic words," which were compared to Slack's similar slash shortcuts. [3] [7] These allow the user to access commonly used functions such as typing the letter "g" to send a GIF or "c" to bring up a calendar, similar to a command line interface. [7]

Peach eschews the traditional news feed, hashtagging, and tagging common to social networks. [5] The editor-in-chief of The Next Web described Peach as a hybrid of Twitter and Slack, while noting that some users of the social network were creating fake celebrity accounts. [8] Bloomberg Business noted that when it was introduced, "[e]verything about Peach... seemed hip, down to the URL", but that by the end of the month it appeared that "interest in Peach softened". [4]

In late 2023, LenosTube (a service that sells YouTube channels, comments, and views) bought the peach.cool domain. [9] The website was updated to claim that Peach had been purchased by LenosTube, [10] and the domain set to redirect to their website.

As of 2025, the Android app is no longer listed on the Google Play Store. [11]

References

  1. ↑ "Apple on the App Store". iTunes Store. 2017-10-03. Retrieved 2017-10-03.
  2. ↑ "Peach — share vividly". Google Play Store. 2019-01-31. Retrieved 2019-01-31.
  3. 1 2 3 Laforge, Patrick (2016-01-11). "Peach App for the iPhone Stakes a Social Media Claim". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2016-01-16.
  4. 1 2 3 Kyle Chayka (10 February 2016). "Peach Is a Great New App You Definitely Don't Need". Bloomberg.com.
  5. 1 2 Ward-Bailey, Jeff (2016-01-14). "Peach – a plucky, pared down social network – ditches news feeds and hashtags". Christian Science Monitor. ISSN   0882-7729 . Retrieved 2016-01-16.
  6. ↑ Hern, Alex (2016-01-11). "What is Peach? The new social network app taking the tech world by storm". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2016-01-16.
  7. 1 2 Feldman, Brian (2016-01-11). "How Peach's Most Interesting Feature, the Hybrid Command Line, Is Becoming Mainstream Again". Following: How We Live Online. Retrieved 2016-01-16.
  8. ↑ Hussey, Matthew (2016-01-09). "New social network Peach is being taken over by people using fake celebrity names". The Next Web. Retrieved 2016-01-16.
  9. ↑ "Peach Social Acquired by LenosTube: A New Era for Social Media Growth".
  10. ↑ "Announcement – Peach Social Acquired by LenosTube". Archived from the original on 2024-02-16.
  11. ↑ "Not Found" . Retrieved 2025-07-31.
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