Cosmos: Curated Inspiration

Cosmos is an amazing app. Lately, I’ve been trying to decrease my time bed rotting and sitting around scrolling, but I love organizing ideas and I could be on Pinterest for hours! However, Pinterest seems to be just adds these days and so I looked for an alternative. Cosmos is aesthetically pleasing, has an easy layout, and is very enjoyable. However it could use some tips. As much as I love Cosmos, it’s almost overly aesthetic as to where it’s hard to find certain selections. If I search “blue couch” it doesn’t give me many options, but a bunch of aesthetic, professional photos which is very pleasing to the eye but slightly dysfunctional. So, I would keep up the great work but make it easier to find friends and followers and increase the selection of photos. Love this app!

If you try and sign up. Says user already exists. If you try to reset your password, the password reset form just times out. Epic fail.

I saw this app on Instagram and I decided to download it. something would like pop up and then I was very confused cause I would see if I wanted to follow someone but it would say error and then that’s it and then the rest will be like loading I will update this if it fixes itself 😩

I was looking for an alternative to Pinterest with less ads and this is PERFECT. Super easy to navigate and highly inspiring.

such a soothing and inspiring platform! that’s what i’ve always dreamt the internet could be. thank you for making it real!

Hands down the best inspiration app I've used in a very long time. I love the sleek design (on both web browser & mobile app) and find it so much more calming than Pinterest. No ads, very little AI, AND a dedicated tab for shopping? Perfection. Also, as someone who lurks the Cosmos discord server, I'm so excited to see all the additions being tested. Kudos and thanks to the creators!!!

The UI is just gorgeous, and there is so much more variety than Pinterest and other inspiration sites. It’s so nice to not have ads bombarding me like Pinterest has, and to have so many more niche images and interests. Just delightful.

A genuinely aesthetically pleasing app with no ads as far as i can tell which already makes it ten times better than pinterest. However, i spent only five mins on the app before being overwhelmed by the amount of AI art- WAY worse than on pinterest. So solid choice if you want pretty pictures i guess but if you want any kind of actual, non-AI generated art THIS IS NOT A SAFE PLACE.

Lovely app with potential! I am migrating my photos from Pinterest to back them up and although Cosmos isn’t as seamless and enjoyable (yet) as Pinterest, it is a great alternative. However, I changed my 5 stars to 3 because saves are limited to a certain amount, which is a pretty easy threshold to surpass. This will be a lengthy review including features unique to Cosmos, features I love, improvements, and features to add. I know it is very long but I wanted to be as informative and helpful as possible. Features unique to Cosmos: (1) the Canvas feature; I can see my “elements” (photos) in a “cluster” (board), zoom out, also click on an individual photo to go to the source. (2) I can see/access the cluster an individual saved the image to through “connections”. (3) Search by color; self-explanatory :) Intuitive features I love: (1) the dashboard at the bottom; the home, search, create, activity, and profile are ideally placed. (2) long-pressing a photo; this allows me to reorder, save to another cluster, and delete with ease. And lastly… Some improvements: (1) Lag; app starts to lag when dragging an element to reorder it inside of the cluster once you move past the end of the page. (2) Algorithm; algorithm doesn’t seem to take into account ALL of the elements you have saved but rather just the last few (which usually is the same set of things e.g. ocean photos, flowers) which is frustrating. (3) Limited saves on Free Plan; this would force me to get Premium. I am happy to pay to support the creators and keep Cosmos add-free, HOWEVER the only option is Premium ($72/year) which is an absurd and unjustifiable amount. Features to add: (1) Sub-section within a Cluster; I absolutely loved using this feature in Pinterest to streamline my space/time. (2) Light-mode; there are no mode options as the “default” is technically the app itself. I would love a light-mode to brighten it up! (3) Tiered pricing; In addition to established creatives, a lot of young users are amongst the target audience. We do not have disposable income so tiered pricing could ultimately benefit Cosmos. I’m on version 1.32.2 (1347)

Boots into black screen. Cant enable nsfw content without a computer. Just let me use a mobile browser!