Now it’ll be easier to find Groovers outside of Groove, so you can cheer each other on when posting about a new project or well-deserved vacation! Add your links to your Instagram, Linkedin, Tiktok, X, Youtube, website, and podcast.

Groove will become a paid community starting January 23rd. $18/month or $120/year. If you’ve been a community member for a while or have done more than 50 Grooves, you’ll get an extended free membership for a set period, and be able to share a free guest pass with a friend.

Prompts for fun things you can share about yourself to connect with others, a 1-line bio that’s visible when you appear on the home screen, plus the ability to add optional pronouns to your profile. New Groovers will be able to fill out these new items when they onboard.

Instead of today’s longer process where friends accept your invite via Groove’s website, your new invite directs them to download the app and they use your invite code to sign in automatically.

When you come in via an invite link from a Groove partner (like Creative Mornings, for example), they show up on your profile in the “invited by” section. Tapping a partner’s name shows you a list of Groovers, who you might know or want to add to your orbit.

To help early Groovers get inspired by what’s possible in Groove and build their Grooving habit, they earn stickers as they learn the ropes.

More relevant and useful notifications that support new Groovers coming back into the app and making them feel welcome. Perhaps including an omni-channel approach with messaging, emails, and phone notifs.

To make room for a more comfortable reading (and high-fiving) experience, and so you can better see new posts, the bulletin boards are getting their own page in the app.

Want to find other graphic designers / rock climbers / composers / chefs / or parents like you on Groove? We’re improving our search functionality so you can search keywords in people’s bios rather than just names. We will also surface people we think you’ll want to be connected with, so you can add them to your orbit. We’re considering offering tags for your profile with interests and topics (eg ‘author’, ‘gardener’, ‘entrepreneur’ etc) that will be searchable as well.

Sign up to Groove with your phone number - it’s faster, smoother (no need to go to your email to look for for verification links) and means it’s easier for us to verify community members when they join.

This makes it easy for Groovers to see who they know already inside the Groove app and invite friends in. For brand-new Groovers, this can mean a softer landing and make it easier to start Grooving.

Create a group for 4+ people to coordinate private Grooves together. You can invite people from outside Groove to join you.

It can be easy to miss when another Groover has sent you a new message, so we send you an email with a heads-up to read it.

Instead of manually asking Groovers like you to write something new, we’re now able to more easily use profiles and other content to keep the home page a fun place to learn about Groovers (via the onlinen now section) and we’re considering using the spotlights real estate as an educational/inspirational resource for new Groovers with less than 10 Grooves, showing videos and podcast clips.

Either in the app or in an email or both, we give a personalized roundup of stats: this week’s Grooves, who you Grooved with, goals and tasks, streaks (days Grooved in a row), weekly goals or wins posted, and high fives. For new Groovers we can include tips on how to make the most of your upcoming week, checklist-style. (eg schedule a morning kick-off groove, set weekly goal, etc.)

Hopped into video chat with groovers you haven’t met before and not sure which pronouns to use or want to just take a peek at their one-line bio? We got you.

A new way to bring friends into Groove, giving Groovers a specific number of invites. You’ll also be able to see who’s joined using your invites, and explore who your friends have brought in too.

If you start a Groove, it will now stay active for longer than the previous 5 minutes so someone is more likely to join you.

Making it easier to find friends to Groove with and reduce the uncertainty of who might join you.

The ‘big green button’ that new Groovers can sometimes find intimidating will now be a ‘little green button’ instead, and it’ll always appear at the the top of the home screen. So if someone in your orbit has started a Groove, instead of needing to join that one, you’ll be able to start your own if you choose.

Some subtle graphical updates to the way that groove cards look in the app: Besides looking cuter and more streamlined, you’ll be able to view more cards at once. Info about who’s waiting for a match, and when a Groove is starting is also presented in a more consistent way so New Groovers have a clearer picture about what’s happening.

We’re clearer than ever about what Groove stands for and who Groove can benefit. So we’re tweaking the website to showcase our awesome community and be more specific about who should apply to join. An updated FAQ section also helps quell first-Groove jitters.

On the home screen, you’ll see a blue dot when someone is online and has their phone open now, or a yellow dot when someone’s online but hopped away from their phone for a bit. This helps you see who might be faster to join your Groove, or who might need a few minutes.

In addition to sharing a goal, we’re adding in a bulletin for sharing wins from the week. After that, our slack channels for announcements and tech support & ideas will be moving to over to bulletin boards as well. This way there’s no need to hop between two apps. The design will still say simple and clean though, without taking up a lot of space.

Little design tweaks so it’s clearer how to pull from today’s to-dos into a Groove, and also making it clearer that your tasks carry over from one Groove to the next if you don’t complete them.

When you share a link inside of a chat, instead of it showing up as plain text, it’ll show up more appealingly as a preview image with bolded headline and some preview text.

Has someone posted a really interesting goal? Now you’ll be able to reply to someone’s post in the bulletin board when you want to cheer them on or give kudos.

See what friends and community members are working on this week, and be able to high five them - right from their profile.

See how long is left in the Groove, while you’re checking off tasks on the pink screen.

Share weekly goals like we do inside of Slack - but now it’s all inside Groove on our brand new bulletin board that you can see on the home screen. You can also tap to high five people’s goals to cheer them on. Can’t wait to see your goal for the week - High five!

Little info indicators to make things clearer:

• Prompts to suggest who shares first in regroup when there are 3-4 people.
• An icon that shows when your camera is off
• A little message that shows when you’re having a slow time connecting to video or your connection is rocky

A way to Groove with people who share things in common with you. A space might be named after an interest or type of work like “coaches” “musicians” “writing” “podcasting” or we may use spaces to onboard communities that exist outside of Groove into the platform (like alumni of an online workshop). When you join, you can create Grooves that are just for space members.

A nudge for new users to add a profile picture every time they try to Groove without one.

Before, you only got notified when people in your orbit were Grooving which meant new members weren't getting any notifications and if you had a small orbit you weren't getting many either. Now, you’ll be notified when “everyone” Grooves are started. You can adjust this by tapping your picture, then 'settings'.

If no one from your previous Groove joins you to “Groove again”, your orbit will be notified after 30 seconds and you’ll have the chance to open your Groove up for anyone to join.

Milestone celebration graphics After you complete a Groove milestone, like hitting your 50th Groove, you’ll see a nifty graphic to celebrate (and can download to share!) ✨

If you start a Groove and no one joins you, you can now get notified when the next one starts (whether that person is in your orbit or not) so you can get into flow asap.

Groovy graphics to celebrate milestones with a share button to post them on social media or send them to a friend.

Clicking the lightbulb in the app will help folks find our FAQ and a video about how Groove works.