Hornet - Queer Social Network 17+
LGBTQ Chat, Videos, Gay News
Queer Networks Inc.
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Hornet is the top gay chat and dating app for making authentic, quality connections with genuine queer users. Gay, bi, trans, pan, non-binary, and queer users can connect through chat, photos, videos, and more!
With over 40 million users, Hornet is the LGBTQ+ community’s home base for enjoying queer life: gay dating, casual meetups, lifelong relationships, political advocacy and personal expression, mental support, and meaningful chat. Hornet’s wide range of features including queer video stories, an active gay social feed, chat and inbox messages, and exciting live videos make it easy — and safe — for LGBTQ+ people to share their experiences (and have fun).
Traveling somewhere new? Hornet offers you access to the gay community around the world. Chat with gay locals on your trip to New York, try out gay dating during your vacation in France, or just meet some new gay friends in your own neighborhood.
Whether you’re a gaymer, a drag-lover, fitness-obsessed, or if you love gay nightlife and travel, finding your own niche on Hornet is simple. Explore queer hashtags, start a discussion in the feed, like and comment on posts, and chat with other users.
Our unique combination of cutting-edge technology and an all-embracing community makes Hornet safe and easy for you to make queer connections.
Discover
Find LGBTQ users around the globe using our unique virtual travel feature.
Apply filters to find exactly who you are looking for within the LGBTQ community.
Browse the feed to stay on top of all things LGBTQ.
Post and watch gay video stories showcasing queer life.
Connect
Personalize your profile by uploading multiple photos and customizing your bio.
Meet real, authentic gay men by checking out verified users.
Chat with queer creators, send gay emojis and stickers, react with LGBTQ-inspired emoticons, send voice messages and more.
Send other users Awards for content you enjoy or earn them on your own content, then redeem them for fun perks.
Meet gay guys, lesbians, bisexuals, pansexuals, trans, non-binary, genderfluid, and queer people all over the world.
Go Live
Hornet Live is Hornet’s live-streaming feature.
You can live stream queer content to an audience of more than 40 million queer users.
Streamers will have the option to receive significant gifts, which can be cashed out into material earnings
Safety
At Hornet, user safety isn’t just important, it’s essential. We offer innovative privacy controls, advanced data security, and safety tips geared toward gay men in at-risk countries. We authenticate LGBTQ users through the Hornet Badge and user verification, to maintain a troll-free platform where gay, bi, trans, non-binary, and queer men can thrive.
Support is free and available 24/7, with record response times.
Hornet is a gay-owned, queer-run app providing a safe platform for the LGBTQ+ community. We do not tolerate any form of homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, racism, misogyny, sexism, ableism, ageism, or religious discrimination.
HORNET PREMIUM
As a premium subscriber, you will enjoy your experience without ads, get access to features such as read receipts, discover even more gay men in your area, see which queer users checked you out, and many many more!
Payment will be charged to your account at confirmation of purchase.
If you pick the subscription option, it automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
Subscriptions may be managed by the user, and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase.
Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable.
You must be 18 or older to use Hornet Queer Social Network
Privacy policy: https://hornet.com/about/privacy-policy/
Terms of use: https://hornet.com/about/terms-of-service/
Join us on social media:
Facebook: @HornetApp
Instagram: @Hornet
What’s New
Version 8.15.0
Our latest release gives users the power to center themselves at the heart of the app. The highly anticipated feature allows users to boost moments— designed to help elevate your favorite photos and make sure that you're seen by more guys, leading to even more chat messages.
Users can access the new feature in multiple ways, including on a moment screen, on the main feed, or on their feed. Simply click the button to purchase a boost and instantly promote your post, massively increasing your visibility among other guys. Users can also boost their photos while posting a moment, which will jump to the top of the feed once the image is approved.
In addition to fixing bugs and BTS performance improvements, we will continue to update Hornet often to make it a faster and more reliable way to connect with your community!
Ratings and Reviews
Constant fake catfishing scammer profiles
What used to be quite a good app, now seems to be mainly populated by fake catfishing scammer accounts. Several times a day there’s some unsolicited messages from new profiles based thousands of miles away, requesting private pictures and WhatsApp or personal contact details. Despite reporting them to admin, they still seem to be active several weeks later, and there’s no facility to attach the messages they send when they are reported. Also, accounts that are quite clearly using fake photos stolen from either famous people, easily googled and identified which have been reported, (and I even tell admin who they’ve nicked the photos off!) STILL remain active...if you’re going to use this app, be warned that most of the messages you’ll receive will probably be from a fake account, and even if you report the account, admin seem unable, or unwilling to actually do anything about it...very disappointing...
Audio from ads, convoluted functionality and unfixed bugs. Not good anymore
I used to use this app when it launched, and it was really good at the time.
Since then, the cramming of new features and the push to get people to spend money has really ruined the app. Why have things like “who has viewed you” been put into the filter controls?! It’s just dumb!
Anything to do with ME should be clearly accessible from MY profile. NOT buried in hidden menus. Maybe then you could convince more people to actually consider buying a subscription.
Bugs found: uploading new photos aren’t visible unless you refresh the UI (change tabs), once I block someone - I should be taken back to the previous screen, messages are jumping out of order and only fix if you sign out and back in and the notification badge in the app doesn’t clear even when you have read a message (you have to go back into the chat for it to update). This is all primitive functionality and you can no longer get that right.
More infuriatingly (and I believe against Apple’s terms and conditions) - your ad partners have started playing music and redirecting to the App Store! Fix it or lose members to other services who have more users.
You cannot expect anybody to pay if you can’t get the basics right. At one time you did - so re-evaluate your development operations.
Appallingly Bad
Over the last year it has been evident that the owners of this app are only interested in milking it financially for all that it is worth. Crap about serving the gay community is, in reality, nothing more than about lining the pockets of the few who own Hornet. Not every gay man is out and/ or able to live freely in their country -an issue that is regularly pushed as a noble cause by the Hornet Team - and so many users are confronted my ever reducing free profile numbers to view, endless adverts promoting crypto currency or other gambling sites (promoting gambling to guys suffering with identity and self esteem is not what I would call a good idea), which just creates an appallingly bad and potentially dangerous user experience for some.
There is very little point in wasting my time writing this as no one will ever read this. Sort it out or I and others will go elsewhere. Disappointing!!
App Privacy
The developer, Queer Networks Inc., 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
- Usage Data
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Sensitive Info
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Queer Networks Inc.
- Size
- 310.2 MB
- Category
- Social Networking
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 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.
- Languages
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English, Afrikaans, Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
- 17+ Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References Frequent/Intense Sexual Content or Nudity Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humour Frequent/Intense Mature/Suggestive Themes
- Copyright
- © 2024 Queer Networks Inc.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Hornet Premium £9.49
- 3 Months £19.99
- Hornet Premium £9.99
- Hornet Premium £13.49
- Hornet Premium £26.49
- Hornet Premium £12.99
- 1 Year £39.99
- Hornet Premium £20.99
- Hornet Premium £8.99
- Hornet Premium £6.99