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Oldest Survivor in Social Networking

The grand veteran of the Social Networking category, still going.

Apps considered
11,719
Qualifying rule

A Social Networking app with a known release and an update in the last year.

Recomputed

1 Oct 2026

Confidence

Medium · computed proxy

The board

Ranked by first shipped
  1. 1 WalkieTalkie VOIP Justin Brady 2008 first shipped
  2. 2 Skout Dating App & Live Chat Skout, Inc. 2009 first shipped
  3. 3 Tumblr: Social Media & Art Tumblr, Inc. 2009 first shipped
  4. 4 Match Dating App: Chat & Meet Match Group Americas, LLC 2009 first shipped
  5. 5 GG Fintecom Sp. z o.o. 2009 first shipped
  6. 6 WhatsApp Messenger WhatsApp Inc. 2009 first shipped
  7. 7 TextNow: Call + Text Unlimited TextNow, Inc. 2009 first shipped
  8. 8 Tapatalk - 200,000+ Forums Everforo, Inc 2009 first shipped
  9. 9 Monal — XMPP Chat Molitor und Dietzel, Inh. Thilo Molitor 2009 first shipped
  10. 10 Grindr - Gay Dating & Chat Grindr LLC 2009 first shipped
  11. 11 Mamba: Dating, Meet New People JSC Mamba 2009 first shipped
  12. 12 Rebtel: Top-ups And Calls Rebtel Networks AB 2009 first shipped
  13. 13 네이버 블로그 - Naver Blog NAVER Corp. 2009 first shipped
  14. 14 Sync.me - Caller ID & Blocker Sync.ME LTD 2009 first shipped
  15. 15 imo-International Calls & Chat imo.im 2009 first shipped
  16. 16 pixiv pixiv Inc. 2009 first shipped
  17. 17 Hootsuite - Social Media Tools Hootsuite Inc. 2009 first shipped
  18. 18 Recon - Gay Fetish App T101 Limited 2009 first shipped
  19. 19 Zoosk - Social Dating App Zoosk, Inc. 2010 first shipped
  20. 20 Minha à Paris horairesdesarcelles 2010 first shipped
  21. 21 Ameba（アメーバ） CyberAgent, Inc. 2010 first shipped
  22. 22 Jack’d - Gay chat & dating Perry Street Software, Inc 2010 first shipped
  23. 23 微博 SINA Corporation 2010 first shipped
  24. 24 iSmartMMS lite Sergey Astakhov 2010 first shipped
  25. 25 TwitCasting Live MOI CORPORATION 2010 first shipped
  26. 26 Free Tone - Calling & Texting TextMe, Inc. 2010 first shipped
  27. 27 SessionTalk Pro Softphone SessionTalk Ltd 2010 first shipped
  28. 28 Holiday Greeting Cards Maker Sergey Astakhov 2010 first shipped
  29. 29 Tagged Dating: Chat & Go Live! Ifwe Inc. 2010 first shipped
  30. 30 KakaoTalk : Messenger Kakao Corp. 2010 first shipped
  31. 31 MobileVOIP international calls SolarisSystems 2010 first shipped
  32. 32 SessionTalk SIP Softphone SessionTalk Ltd 2010 first shipped
  33. 33 CaringBridge CaringBridge.org 2010 first shipped
  34. 34 네이트온 NATE Communications Corporation 2010 first shipped
  35. 35 Kik Messaging & Chat App Medialab - Kik 2010 first shipped
  36. 36 Happy BirthDay Cards Maker Sergey Astakhov 2010 first shipped
  37. 37 QQ空间 Tencent Digital (Tianjin) Company Limited 2010 first shipped
  38. 38 Wykop Wykop sp. z o.o. 2010 first shipped
  39. 39 ChristianCafe.com - Dating RealCafes.com Inc. 2010 first shipped
  40. 40 다음 카페 - Daum Cafe Daum Corp. 2010 first shipped
  41. 41 Linphone Belledonne Communications SARL 2010 first shipped
  42. 42 TeamSIP 2phone TeamFON GmbH 2010 first shipped
  43. 43 Mother's & Father's Day Cards Sergey Astakhov 2010 first shipped
  44. 44 MeetMe: Go Live & Meet People The Meet Group Inc. 2010 first shipped
  45. 45 SimSimi SimSimi Inc. 2010 first shipped
  46. 46 FC2 Blog FC2,inc. 2010 first shipped
  47. 47 ContactsPro HX Demodit GmbH 2010 first shipped
  48. 48 Meetup: Social Events & Groups Meetup LLC 2010 first shipped
  49. 49 Illustail Naomoto Niwayama 2010 first shipped
  50. 50 Spontacts: Aktivitäten & Leute SYNEXIT GmbH 2010 first shipped
  51. 51 unfollow for X aka Twitter Spicy Apps 2010 first shipped
  52. 52 SCRUFF - Gay Dating & Chat Perry Street Software, Inc 2010 first shipped
  53. 53 BirthdaysPro HD Demodit GmbH 2010 first shipped
  54. 54 Life360: Family Safety & GPS Life360 2010 first shipped
  55. 55 ContactsPro X Demodit GmbH 2010 first shipped
  56. 56 Checkie for Foursquare Swarm tijo, inc. 2010 first shipped
  57. 57 Plenty of Fish : Dating App PlentyOfFish 2010 first shipped
  58. 58 GroupMe Skype Communications S.a.r.l 2010 first shipped
  59. 59 iBrowser-multi tab&full screen 碧珍 刘 2010 first shipped
  60. 60 BirthdaysPro Demodit GmbH 2010 first shipped
  61. 61 Stocktwits: Trading Community StockTwits Inc. 2010 first shipped
  62. 62 Talkatone: WiFi Text & Calls TALKATONE, INC. 2010 first shipped
  63. 63 Bimmerpost BIMMERPOST 2010 first shipped
  64. 64 Friendly Social Browser Friendly, Inc. 2010 first shipped
  65. 65 Tumbletail Naomoto Niwayama 2010 first shipped
  66. 66 Vumber – Business Phone Number Vumber Holdings LLC 2010 first shipped
  67. 67 GROWLR: Gay Bears Near You GROWLR, LLC 2010 first shipped
  68. 68 GULFSIP Video Call United GULFGATE TRD. CO 2010 first shipped
  69. 69 Rakuten Viber Messenger Viber Media SARL. 2010 first shipped
  70. 70 Text Free: Second Phone Number Pinger, Inc. 2010 first shipped
  71. 71 ROMEO - Gay Dating & Chat PlanetRomeo BV 2010 first shipped
  72. 72 Virtual Tags Fabrizio Bartolomucci 2010 first shipped
  73. 73 1km -New relationships, Groups Malang Studio Co. Ltd, 2010 first shipped
  74. 74 Badoo Premium Badoo Software Ltd 2011 first shipped
  75. 75 u4Bear: Gay bear social Aplicaciones y Recursos 2000 S.L. 2011 first shipped
  76. 76 Hi There - 친구 만들기, 일상 공유, 다이어리 PSYNET Co., Ltd. 2011 first shipped
  77. 77 WeChat WeChat 2011 first shipped
  78. 78 Draugiem Draugiem SIA 2011 first shipped
  79. 79 Libon - Calls and Recharge Libon 2011 first shipped
  80. 80 Z5 Mobile CSDVRS, LLC 2011 first shipped
  81. 81 iSharing: GPS Location Tracker ISHARINGSOFT, INC. 2011 first shipped
  82. 82 Ashley Madison Discreet Dating Ruby Life Inc. 2011 first shipped
  83. 83 RedHotPie - Dating & Chat App Digital Quarter Pty Ltd 2011 first shipped
  84. 84 flickery Matthias Gansrigler-Hrad 2011 first shipped
  85. 85 SpoofCard - Privacy Protected Spoofcard LLC 2011 first shipped
  86. 86 Noondate: Dating & Friends Mozzet Co., Ltd. 2011 first shipped
  87. 87 YY-视频秀场 Guangzhou Jinhong Network Media Co., Ltd. 2011 first shipped
  88. 88 P3 Mobile Purple Communications, Inc. 2011 first shipped
  89. 89 Parlor: The Social Talking App Parlor 2011 first shipped
  90. 90 Linky: Share links & more Pragmatic Code 2011 first shipped
  91. 91 Universal Translator Alteru Inc. 2011 first shipped
  92. 92 Mango IRC Pavel Kanzelsberger 2011 first shipped
  93. 93 네이버 카페 – Naver Cafe NAVER Corp. 2011 first shipped
  94. 94 Cougar Life: Cougar Dating App Cougar Life Inc. 2011 first shipped
  95. 95 Mumsnet Mumsnet Ltd 2011 first shipped
  96. 96 QQ Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited 2011 first shipped
  97. 97 LINE LINE Corporation 2011 first shipped
  98. 98 Adam4Adam Gay Dating Chat A4A A4A Network Inc. 2011 first shipped
  99. 99 LESARION - lesbian dating lesarion GmbH & Co. KG 2011 first shipped
  100. 100 世纪佳缘-婚恋交友脱单社区 上海花千树信息科技有限公司 2011 first shipped

Showing 100 published positions. Boards recompute automatically, so a crown can change hands at any time.

Rewind the board · last 12 snapshots
1 Oct 2026
  1. 1WalkieTalkie VOIP
  2. 2Skout Dating App & Live Chat
  3. 3Tumblr: Social Media & Art
  4. 4Match Dating App: Chat & Meet
  5. 5GG
  6. 6WhatsApp Messenger
Leaders by first shippedtop 14 of 11,719
1st14th

What the data shows

▲What the data shows

  • Sergey Astakhov is the most represented maker here, with 4 apps in the top 100.

How this board is measured

Metric
The earliest release still maintained in Social Networking.
Qualifies
A Social Networking app with a known release and an update in the last year.
Why it matters
The grand veteran of the Social Networking category, still going.
Known limits
Reflects public listing data only; a figure we read, never one we estimate. Listings are read from Apple’s public metadata and are not restricted to a single storefront. Methodology →