Making Sense Community
A Better Conversation
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
The Making Sense Community is a dedicated place for curious minds to trade ideas, sharpen their thinking, follow good arguments wherever they lead, and have fun doing it.
This is not another social network. Members use their full, real names, and we do not optimize for engagement, outrage, or any of the other mechanisms that have made the existing platforms so poisonous. This is a community in a more traditional sense—one that is organized around shared interests and the working assumption that the people you are talking with are arguing in good faith.
Topics consist of current events, politics, books, spirituality, health, film, travel, as well as episodes of the Making Sense podcast and whatever else is on your mind.
The most important house rules are intellectual honesty and basic decency. Keep it civil, don’t spam or self-promote, steelman before you criticize, and don’t use AI as a replacement for your own voice. Within that, this is meant to be a genuinely good time.
Inside, you'll find:
• Sam showing up how he would in a chat with people he trusts: dropping links he’s come across, reacting to events in the news, floating ideas that aren't yet ready for an episode of the podcast.
• Member-created threads on wide-ranging topics.
• Member profiles and direct messaging, so the connections you make here don't have to stay inside a single thread.
• Notifications you control, so the community is available when you want it and quiet when you don't.
• Healthy moderation that protects the space for the community by removing anyone engaging in toxic behavior.
Come join our community of curious, sharp, good-humored people who take ideas seriously without taking themselves too seriously.
*Names and images in the screenshots have been changed for privacy.
The developer, MAKING SENSE MEDIA LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Identifiers
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Search History
- Identifiers
- Diagnostics
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- MAKING SENSE MEDIA LLC
- Size
- 92.7 MB
- Category
- Social Networking
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.1 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
18+
- 18+
- Contains
Messaging and Chat
User-Generated Content
- Copyright
- © Making Sense Community 2026