The social network for artists. Artfol is made for artists, focused on showcasing artwork and supporting any and all artists. Open to all forms of visual art, Artfol provides tools which give you full control of your Artfol experience; from customising your profile and gallery to resharing your favorite artwork! Users can engage in discussions on the Community tab, browse art from the Discover page and converse with others through private messaging.
Key Features:
Discoverability
• We are bringing back chronological feeds! Never miss when users post, as the posts on your feed will be kept in the order of when they were posted.
• Our algorithms are weighed on recentness, this means that every artist (both big and small) will have an equal chance of having their posts seen.
• Engage with the community; participating in challenges and answering questions are great ways to get exposure!
Community Challenges
• Browse existing challenges through the dedicated challenge tab
• Participate in existing challenges
• Start your own challenge, set a deadline and select winners once it is over
• Browse challenge submissions through the submission tab
Customisable Profiles
• Customise your gallery by selecting which artwork to show people when they first visit your profile!
• Upload your own profile picture and banner
• Choose a theme colour for your profile
• Write an intro which will show up below your username
• Choose to add a commission tab to show others you are open to commissions!
Groups
• Find and join communities of likeminded artists and individuals
• Create your own group to meet others with similar interests
• Participate in group challenges and events
• Start discussions and post art in a private space within Artfol
Resharing Art
• Reshare your favorite artwork from other artists!
• Users will be able to like the original artwork through reshares
Collections
• Categorize your own art into easy to view collections, such as comics, original characters or more
• Use collections to bookmark challenges, or save artwork from others
• Set your collections to private if you want to keep it to yourself, or public if you want to share it with others
• Choose to display your collections in either a single column layout or a double column layout
Post and Browse Text Posts
• Make text posts to interact with your followers
• Browse other text posts through the community tab
• Browse questions asked by the community through the question tab or ask your own questions
Non-Artist Accounts
• If you are not an artist but still would like to browse the app, make a non-artist account!
• Get access to all the content on the platform
• Have the ability to make text posts as well as comment on posts and reply to comments
Terms of Service: https://help.artfol.co/terms-of-service
Privacy Policy: https://help.artfol.co/terms-of-service#privacy-policy
Artfol fulfils a lot of my desires as an art focused social media. Love the chronological feed, trigger warnings, commission page, & tag system!
While it’s been laggy it’s understandably because it just launched, which to me isn’t a big issue as there’s time for the app to grow.
Some features I would love to see is the addition to upload gifs/videos and multiple images as a photo set, folders for galleries, and the ability to reply to people’s repost (maybe just the original artist?). I do appreciate the way reposts are done as it prevents the repost to get more likes than the original but it’s kind of a bummer i cannot directly reply when people repost my art.
Also a web version would be great, i’m not sure how much of this is already in the plans but yea!
Huge props to the development team!
