The app is completely focused on voice and the spoken words are automatically converted to text.

Is there room in the overlapping social media market for another slightly different app?

Right now we have apps that are mostly text, we have photo and video apps and networks, and AirChat is focused on – voice. Although apps were introduced during the pandemic in which the dominant mode of conversation is voice (remember Clubhouse), they still did not take off and attract a sufficient number of users.

The team behind AirChat, which includes investor Naval Ravikant and former Tinder executive Brian Norgaard, believes there is a market for voice-focused apps.

They believe that voice is a much more intimate medium compared to text communication, so passion can be conveyed in messages, unlike ordinary text “people are made to agree with other people, and it only takes one voice naturally explained”.

The application itself is similar in appearance and interface to many existing social networks. Users can post content, follow other users, like their content, etc. and can send messages directly to other users of the application.

But instead of entering text, the focus is on voice, so that the notification should be spoken, and users will be able to hear it in AirChat, but also – read it. That is, the application will automatically convert speech to text for situations in which you do not want or cannot listen to the messages of other users. But the point is that you can’t write them, only say them.

This app was first introduced late last year and has recently been redesigned and is available to Android and Apple phone users, but only to those with an invite.

The number of users is constantly increasing and it will be interesting to see how many users will continue to use it, and who will simply try it and then delete it from the device, while again it is necessary to remember Clubhouse, which was once a very popular app and today almost no one mentions it anymore.

Also, the Fast Company site reminds us of the competitors that emerged after Musk’s takeover of Twitter. Although they had a large media following and although many Twitter users, ie. the current platform X announced that they are abandoning that social network and intend to turn to some alternative solutions, Mastodon had only 1.5 million monthly active users at the beginning of the year, while Jack Dorsey’s Bluesky figures are slightly better and reach about two million users.