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Communities and Conversations, Built to Scale Safely.
We build social apps, community platforms, messaging, live streaming, and dating products for startups and brands, with real-time features, content moderation, and privacy controls designed for healthy communities.
Trusted by teams building what's next
Successful social products create real connections and give people a reason to come back tomorrow. That depends on a fast first experience, relevant feeds, reliable chat and notifications that feel helpful rather than noisy. It also depends on trust: people stay where they feel safe, and advertisers, app stores and regulators now expect social platforms to prove that safety is designed in rather than promised.
As a social media app development company, we build community platforms, social feeds, messaging and group chat, live video and audio rooms, creator platforms and dating apps for startups, brands and established communities. Real-time features run on WebSockets, WebRTC and providers such as Agora, Twilio and Firebase, and engagement is driven through Braze, OneSignal and Mixpanel with careful attention to notification fatigue.
Trust and safety is part of the architecture. We build reporting flows, moderation queues, automated detection of harmful content, appeals and transparency reporting aligned with the EU Digital Services Act and the UK Online Safety Act, along with DMCA notice and takedown processes. Age assurance, parental controls and COPPA-compliant consent protect younger users where a product allows them.
Privacy and platform rules shape every release. Personal data is handled under GDPR and CCPA with clear consent, data export and deletion, and apps meet Apple App Store and Google Play policies on user-generated content, account deletion and in-app purchases. Infrastructure is designed so feeds, chat and notifications stay fast as the community grows, without rebuilding at each milestone.
Posts, reactions, comments, stories and ranked or chronological feeds with personalisation that can be explained, tuned and switched off where regulation requires.
One-to-one and group chat with media, typing indicators, read receipts, push notifications and end-to-end encryption where the product needs it.
Live streams, audio spaces and video calls with low latency, co-hosting, gifting and moderation controls, built on WebRTC, Agora or Twilio.
Reporting, automated detection, moderator queues, appeals, user blocking and transparency reports designed for EU DSA and Online Safety Act duties.
Sign-in, verification, age estimation and parental consent flows that protect users without adding unnecessary friction to onboarding.
Fan-out feeds, event streams, caching and sharded storage designed so latency stays low as the network grows by orders of magnitude.
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Each one designed with your teams, integrated with the systems you already run, and engineered to scale.
Posts, reactions, comments, and personalised feeds.
One-to-one and group chat with media sharing.
Live video and audio rooms with interactions.
Groups, forums, and events for niche communities.
Profiles, matching, and safety features.
Moderation tools, reporting, and age-appropriate design.
The organisations and segments we build software for.
The product categories social networking organisations most often ask us to build, from focused mobile apps to multi-tenant platforms.
Profiles, follows, feeds, stories and discovery for consumer social products.
Groups, threads, events and roles for niche, professional and brand communities.
One-to-one and group messaging with media, voice notes, calls and encryption.
Live video, audio spaces, co-hosting, gifts and real-time comments.
Profiles, matching algorithms, verified identities, safety tools and premium tiers.
Creator profiles, memberships, exclusive posts, tipping and payouts.
Verified member directories, mentoring, events, jobs and private groups.
Shoppable posts, live shopping, reviews and creator storefronts.
Moderation queues, rules engines, classifiers and transparency reporting for existing networks.
Grouped by who uses them. Every feature below is one we have shipped to production, not a wishlist.
What members use on mobile and web.
For trust and safety teams and community managers.
Run the network and the business.
The problems we most often help social networking organisations solve, and design every engagement around.
New networks must deliver value before they have many users, through onboarding, seeded content, invitations and niche focus that make the first session worthwhile.
Harmful, illegal or abusive content must be detected and handled quickly, with fair appeals, while moderators are protected from unnecessary exposure.
Feeds, chat, presence and notifications must stay fast as users grow, and naive designs collapse under fan-out and write load.
The EU DSA, UK Online Safety Act and children's codes impose risk assessments, reporting and age assurance duties that need to be engineered into the product.
Users expect control over their data, visibility and who can contact them, and a single privacy failure can end a young network's growth.
Real products designed and engineered by Creuto end to end, with the operational depth social networking projects demand.
An AI-native platform for software company discovery and verified reputation — engineered end to end by Creuto with Claude and OpenAI.
~200K
Listings Seeded Before Launch
2
Independent Ownership-Verification Paths
2
AI Providers in Production
A mobile-first platform enabling users to discover, compare, and book venues and vendors for weddings, birthdays, and private events — all from a single app, built and delivered by Creuto end to end.
8–12
Vendors Per Event (Unified)
1
App to Plan Everything
0
Phone Calls Needed to Book
A full-stack beauty marketplace consumer mobile app, vendor dashboard, and super admin panel designed and delivered by Creuto from scratch.
200+
Vendors Onboarded
40%
Drop-offs Reduced
16 wk
Time to Market
The social networking standards we build against and the controls behind them. Your compliance team keeps ownership; we make the software easy to certify.
The platforms, standards and third-party services a product in this sector usually has to talk to. If yours is not listed, it is almost certainly something we have connected before.
The reasons clients in this sector give when they recommend us, not the ones we would pick ourselves.
Either we build it exceptional, or we don't.
The standard every social networking product leaves our studio with.
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Moderation, reporting and age assurance are planned in the architecture, not added after the first incident.
We have built feeds, chat and live features that keep latency low as usage climbs.
We understand how DSA, Online Safety Act and children's codes affect features, and design accordingly.
Early builds are lean but structured so growth does not force a rebuild.
We support moderation operations, store updates and growth experiments after launch.
What organisations in this sector gain when the software is built around their workflows rather than the other way around.
Your own platform gives you direct relationships with members instead of renting attention on someone else's network.
Relevant feeds, reliable chat and well-timed notifications bring members back.
Strong moderation and privacy controls build trust with members, advertisers and app stores.
Documented safety processes reduce the risk of enforcement or store removal.
Subscriptions, creator revenue and ads can be added as the community matures.
First-party data shows what members value and guides the product roadmap.
Transparent, sprint-based and built around decisions you can see. You know what ships, when, and why at every step.
Start Your ProjectWe define who the network is for, the core interaction, the cold start plan, the safety risks and the engagement metrics that matter.
Feed, chat and media architecture, data model, moderation approach, age assurance and the online safety and privacy duties in scope are documented.
Prototypes are tested with target members to validate onboarding, posting and safety controls before full build.
Two-week sprints deliver working apps on real devices early, with seeded test communities to exercise feeds and chat.
Load tests for fan-out and chat, abuse and spam testing, store policy checks, accessibility review and a penetration test.
Invite-only or staged launches, moderation operations support, growth experiments and a roadmap driven by retention data.
Chosen per project for longevity, hiring depth and fit with your existing systems, never by fashion.
AI IN SOCIAL NETWORKING
We apply AI to improve discovery and protect members, with human oversight on enforcement decisions and transparency where regulation requires it.
Explore our AI engineeringThe shifts we design for so a product launched this year is still the right product in three.
The EU DSA and UK Online Safety Act are now being enforced, making risk assessments, reporting and transparency standard engineering work.
Regulators and app stores increasingly expect age checks and teen protections, using estimation and verification services.
Users are moving towards niche groups, private chats and topic communities rather than broad public feeds.
Large language and vision models help triage harmful content, with human moderators making final decisions on sensitive cases.
Subscriptions, tipping and paid communities give creators direct income and platforms a revenue share.
There is no honest single number. Scope, integrations and compliance drive the budget, so we price against a written scope after discovery. The factors below are what move it.
Chat, presence, live video and audio rooms add infrastructure, provider costs and testing.
Ranked and personalised feeds need data pipelines and models beyond a simple chronological feed.
Automated detection, moderator tooling, appeals and transparency reporting add significant build effort.
Verification providers, parental consent and teen protections add integration and design work.
iOS, Android and web each add build and QA effort, even with shared code.
Higher concurrency and data volume require more architecture work and load testing.
| Engagement | Typical scope | Timeline |
|---|---|---|
| Validation MVP | Mobile app with profiles, feed, chat, basic reporting and moderation, analytics and invite-led onboarding. | 10 to 14 weeks |
| Production platform | iOS, Android and web, live features, full moderation tooling, notifications, monetisation and admin console. | 4 to 7 months |
| Enterprise or large-scale network | Personalised feeds at scale, multi-market compliance, age assurance, transparency reporting and AI moderation. | 8 to 14 months, phased |
Revenue models we have built billing, reporting and growth loops for. Most products combine two or three.
Paid tiers with extra features, visibility or an ad-free experience.
Native ads and sponsored content with consent-aware targeting.
Commission on memberships, tips and paid content sold by creators.
Gifts in live streams, boosts and digital items sold through app store billing.
Paid groups for professionals and white-label community platforms for brands.
The engineering disciplines every project in this sector draws on. Each has its own page with process, stack and FAQs.
Founders and product leaders on what it is like to build with Creuto.
“The deliverable was better than we anticipated.”
Thanks to Creuto's work, the client could track their expenses and employees' daily work efficiency. The team delivered a system that could solve and monitor complaints, improving guest satisfaction. They communicated well through in-person meetings. Overall, the product exceeded expectations.
Vishal Sharma
Partner, Lazystay Hospitality
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Straight answers about social networking software projects. If yours is not here, ask us directly.
Ask our social networking teamIt depends on the real-time features you need, such as chat and live video, the complexity of the feed, the trust and safety scope, age assurance requirements, the platforms in scope and the scale you plan for. A validation MVP is a materially smaller investment than a large-scale network. After discovery we provide a fixed-scope proposal with a clear breakdown.
A validation MVP with profiles, a feed, chat and basic moderation typically takes 10 to 14 weeks. A production platform on iOS, Android and web with live features and full moderation tools usually takes four to seven months. Large-scale networks with personalised feeds and multi-market compliance are delivered in phases over eight to fourteen months.
We build the features those laws expect: easy reporting, notice and action workflows, statements of reasons, appeals, risk assessment support, transparency reporting and protections for children such as age assurance and safer default settings. Your legal team owns the risk assessments, and we provide the product controls and evidence to support them.
We work with Agora, Twilio, Stream, Sendbird, LiveKit and Firebase for real-time features, Amazon Rekognition, Hive and Perspective API for automated moderation, Yoti and Persona for age and identity checks, and Braze, OneSignal and Mixpanel for engagement. We also build custom real-time services when provider costs or control require it.
Social media app development focuses on the member-facing apps for iOS, Android and web. Social networking software development also covers the feed and chat infrastructure, moderation and trust and safety tooling, notification systems, analytics and admin consoles. A healthy network needs both designed together.
Yes. We build focused MVPs around one core interaction and a defined community, with enough moderation and analytics to learn safely, and an architecture that can grow without a rewrite once engagement is proven.
Yes, with COPPA-compliant parental consent, age assurance, private-by-default settings, restricted messaging, no behavioural advertising for children and the protections required by children's design codes and the Online Safety Act.
Yes. We build profiles, matching, chat and premium tiers with photo verification, block and report tools, safety guidance and moderation, plus the age checks and data protections dating products need.
Tell us what you are building. We will help you scope it, design it, and ship it, with a senior team accountable end to end.