Artfol: Meet artists

The Artfol app is a social network designed specifically for artists. It provides a platform for artists to showcase their artwork and support other artists. The app is open to all forms of visual art and offers various tools for artists to customize their experience, such as creating a profile and gallery, and resharing their favorite artwork. Users can also engage in discussions, browse art, and communicate with others through private messaging.

One of the key features of Artfol is its focus on discoverability. The app brings back chronological feeds, ensuring that users never miss a post from other artists. The algorithm is also weighted on recentness, giving equal chances to both big and small artists to have their posts seen. Additionally, users can engage with the community by participating in challenges and answering questions, which can help increase their exposure.

The app also offers a dedicated section for community challenges, where users can browse and participate in existing challenges or even start their own. They can set a deadline and select winners once the challenge is over. Users can also customize their profiles by selecting which artwork to showcase, uploading a profile picture and banner, choosing a theme color, and writing an intro. They can also add a commission tab to show that they are open to commissions.

Artfol also has a feature for groups, where users can find and join communities of like-minded artists and individuals. They can also create their own groups, participate in group challenges and events, and start discussions and post art in a private space within the app. Another feature is the ability to reshare artwork from other artists, with the option for users to like the original artwork through the reshare.

The app also offers collections, which allow users to categorize their own art into easy-to-view collections, such as comics or original characters. They can also use collections to bookmark challenges or save artwork from other artists. Users can choose to make their collections private or public and display them in either a single or double column layout. Additionally, users can make text posts to interact with their followers, browse other text posts, and ask or answer questions through the community tab.

Even non-artists can join the Artfol community by creating a non-artist account. This allows them to access all the content on the platform and make text posts, comment on posts, and reply to comments. The app also provides links to its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy for users to review before using the app.