Cosmos is an amazing app. Lately, I’ve been trying to decrease my time bed rotting and sitting around scrolling, but I love organizing ideas and I could be on Pinterest for hours! However, Pinterest seems to be just adds these days and so I looked for an alternative. Cosmos is aesthetically pleasing, has an easy layout, and is very enjoyable. However it could use some tips. As much as I love Cosmos, it’s almost overly aesthetic as to where it’s hard to find certain selections. If I search “blue couch” it doesn’t give me many options, but a bunch of aesthetic, professional photos which is very pleasing to the eye but slightly dysfunctional. So, I would keep up the great work but make it easier to find friends and followers and increase the selection of photos. Love this app!

I like the aesthetics of the app, however it needs some improvement. First of all I don’t understand why the feed doesn’t update or reload fast enough most of the times I need to wait about 24 hours for my feed to update if I drag down the screen to force it to reload it just doesn’t. This makes me close the app as soon as I get bored with the current pictures and only go back like a day after. Next, if you click on one picture of the feed you can’t close it unless you press directly on the arrow button at the top left of the screen, which I understand. However, if we take pinterest as an example I’m able to use just one hand for all of my manipulations. In other words, I suggest you make the display of the chosen image so that it can be closed by quickly dragging it down, instead of looking for the arrow. Another thing is I don’t understand how can I promote my works and gain followers. Where am I supposed to post pictures so they appear for other users? Is my feed made of other’s content or is it the selection from the developers? Can my content possibly appear on the other’s feed? Can I promote my content? Will there be comments under pictures? Any connection to other users? Now it feels kinda lonely in the app. I get the idea of pure aesthetic, but it’s super clean and soulless as of right now. I would be really happy if you could respond with some answers for my questions. Best of luck in developing!

So I saw an add on Instagram and thought why not compare this to Pinterest since that’s what everyone else is doing and supposedly it’s better? I was wrong. I downloaded the app and started by searching simple things. Like “NFL.” It came up with almost absolutely nothing related to that. I then searched up “Steelers.” Which is an NFL team. It came up with a few things, but nothing like Pinterest would’ve given me. Not to mention other things that were popping up that I wouldn’t want to see again. While I was searching things like the NFL, Top Gun (The movie) and even NASCAR, it kept giving me pictures of (Almost) completely naked women. Which is completely disgusting, never in my years of using Pinterest have I ever seen something like that, and I’d love to know how that’s okay? Yes, I know this app is rated 17+, but if you’re going to make an app that wants to grab the interest of people using Pinterest, make it family friendly at least. When you search something 9 times out of 10 it shows you things not even slightly related to your search and shows you a bunch of random pictures. The only thing that worked for me was when I typed in “Horror aesthetic.” So I believe this app is mainly for aesthetics and getting the certain color that you want. (As they’ve clearly demonstrated in all their adds.) All in all, I don’t see myself using this app much, and ARE NOT impressed.

A wonderful cross between Tumblr & Pinterest. The content feels like it is a much higher quality than a lot of other sites. And it’s clearly artistically driven. If you have an itch for aesthetics, this will scratch it! I have very few gripes. However, the algorithm needs work. I’m really tired of seeing the same images over and over on my “For You” tab. I think it’s supposed to change the more you connect elements to clusters and upload images, but it doesn’t do a great job of that. My other issue is the search feature, I’d love to be able to sort by new. Only well connected elements get seen, which is bad for discoverability. Seeing the same posts over and over again makes me less likely to return to Cosmos regularly and doesn’t drive creativity. It kind of feels like a popularity contest, despite that being opposite of the point.