Hoop is a social discovery app for teenagers and young adults to find new friends globally through profile matching on iOS and Android.
Product velocity
Maintenance
Daily rank 🇺🇸
#148
▼8Social · free
Sentiment
4.3
1.1M reviews
Nemesis
Fragmented field
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire Hoop to expand their social circle across borders, using the app as a discovery engine to move connections to persistent messaging platforms.
For Teenagers and young adults seeking to expand their social networks globally through profile-based matching.
What does it look like?
Key features
Browse and filter user profiles from specific countries or worldwide.
In-app currency earned via daily check-ins or watching videos to unlock profile interactions.
Connect and share external social media handles with matched users.
How much does it cost?
Freemium model relies on ad-supported engagement loops and IAP diamond packs to monetize social discovery.
Velocity
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Hoop - Make new friends currently operates at a maintenance cadence, averaging approximately 0.04 releases per week over the analyzed period. The development trend is stable but limited to technical maintenance, as the latest release and the preceding version both contain only generic bug fixes and performance optimizations. There is no evidence of new feature development or live operations, and the publisher utilizes opaque release notes that provide no insight into specific functional changes.
Who built it?
User Sentiment
What do users think recently?
Review voice lately leans mixed. Users appreciate the core social connection loop provides an effective way for users to meet new friends globally and integration with external social platforms simplifies the process of moving conversations off the app, but report aggressive monetization and high costs for basic interactions frustrate users who prefer a free experience.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- The core social connection loop provides an effective way for users to meet new friends globally
- Integration with external social platforms simplifies the process of moving conversations off the app
- Aggressive monetization and high costs for basic interactions frustrate users who prefer a free experience
60 of 99 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Mixed overall
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Competitive landscape for Hoop - Make new friends
How's the Social market?
Hoop maintains a steady presence in the social discovery category with over 1.1 million total ratings across platforms. The reliance on external platforms for communication creates a monetization gap compared to social apps that host native chat threads.
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Key takeaways for Hoop - Make new friends
Where is it heading?
The social discovery market is consolidating around apps that provide safer, native communication environments. Hoop's current posture is exposed: by relying on external platforms, it remains a discovery utility rather than a destination, making it vulnerable to rivals that offer a complete social experience.
- Technical instability and broken reward systems disrupt the user experience, leading to negative sentiment regarding monetization fairness.
- The app remains in maintenance mode with only minor bug fixes, indicating no current investment in new feature expansion.
The SWOT
- Global profile discovery mechanism drives high initial install velocity
- Implementing native chat would increase time-in-app and reduce churn
Next best moves
Ship native in-app chat because it is the top-requested missing feature → increase time-in-app
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
Users report: Hoop's lack of native chat is…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Native in-app chat (available in social discovery rivals but missing here)
Since the last report: The core product remains in maintenance mode, but the intelligence now explicitly frames the lack of native chat as a strategic choice to avoid moderation risk and a primary competitive weakness.
Bottom line
Hoop succeeds as a discovery funnel for external social platforms, but its aggressive monetization and lack of native chat limit its long-term value, so the team should prioritize a native messaging feature to keep users within the app.
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- [1] App Store, source
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