Everything it does, and nothing it doesn’t.
Avokindo is a community-powered platform that connects people, places, activities and commerce. Every capability below is a surface you can open in the shipped app.
The three pillars
Communities, ticketed events, artists and venues.
Three pillars, four things connected: communities are the people, venues are the places, events are the activities, and a priced ticket is the commerce.
Four tabs, and everything the group does lives in them.
A community is the unit everything else hangs off. Start one, or find one near you and ask to join.
- Feed for posts, Events for what is coming up, Members for who is in, Memories for what happened.
- A public community publishes its return rate — the share of people who come back — beside its distance from you.
- Communities can be public or private, and private ones approve join requests.
- Only leaders and admins organise a community’s events.
Two kinds of event, and a door that keeps count.
An open event is an invitation to a community’s members. A ticketed event has limited spots and a pass each guest shows at the door.
- The organiser scans passes at the door. Issued, admitted and waiting update as they go.
- A full event keeps a waiting list, and a spot a guest releases opens up again for someone else to take.
- Passes live in a wallet, ready to scan, and a cancelled event tells every holder straight away.
- Reviews open after the event ends, and only to guests who were admitted at the door.
Somewhere to play, and someone to play there.
Artists publish what they do and what they are open to. Venues claim their listing and take requests. Communities book both.
- Artist profile — act type, genres, bio, gallery, portfolio and social links, follower count and upcoming dates.
- Two availability labels an artist controls: Open for Collaborations and Open for Residency.
- Venue listing — capacity, what the place is known for, its regulars, check-in count, and tabs for the communities and events it hosts.
- Bookings and residencies — request a date against a venue’s availability, or hold a recurring slot that runs its own sessions.
Verification
Verification unlocks actions, not membership.
There are two steps and they are the same two for everyone. Neither is asked for at sign-up; each is asked for the first time you reach something it gates.
- Browse communities, events, artists and venues
- Search what is near you
- Hold a pass and get in at the door
- Send and read messages
- Join or create a community
- Create or manage an artist profile
- Claim a venue
- Check in at a venue
- Add a profile photo
- Post to a community feed
- Comment
- React
- Show interest in a community event
The order is fixed. Step 2 compares your profile photo against the face captured in step 1, so the scan always comes first. An account that only browses, holds a pass or messages is never asked for either, and many never are.
Also in the app
The rest of what ships.
16 languages
English, Malay, Chinese, Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, French, German, Russian and Filipino — 17 locales, with both Simplified and Traditional Chinese.
Memories
Photos from something that actually happened, posted to a community’s Memories tab. A memory can stay for good, or delete itself 24 hours after posting.
Messaging
A chat opens between you and the host when they accept you into a community event. Messages translate, and you can mute, archive or report a chat.
Near Me
Communities, events and venues sorted by how far they are from you, so what you find is somewhere you could actually get to.
Blocking and reporting
Block anyone, and report a chat, a post, an artist profile, a venue listing or a ticketed event. Images are screened automatically when they are uploaded.
Your data
GDPR and PDPA compliant. Control your privacy settings and delete your data whenever you want; the privacy policy names every third party, advertising included.
Premium
Optional, and this is the whole list.
Everything above is free. A Premium subscription adds exactly these seven things and nothing else. Prices and renewal terms are in the Terms of Service.
- Posts
- 100 active posts at once, instead of the free plan’s 50. Interests stay at 50 on both.
- Ad-free
- No ads anywhere in the app.
- Premium badge
- A gold crown badge on your profile.
- Read receipts
- See when your messages have been read.
- Activity Insights
- Track the events you host and join, and how your community responds.
- Voice messages
- Record up to 120 seconds, instead of the free plan’s 30.
- Translation
- Translate messages without a daily limit, instead of 5 a day.
Before you plan around it
Four things Avokindo does not do.
Worth knowing before you organise something. These are current limits, not permanent ones.
It takes money for ticket prices, and nothing else
A ticketed event is free, or it has a price the guest pays through Avokindo; the organiser is paid out afterwards, and a cancelled event marks every ticket bought through Avokindo for refund. Anything else — a venue deposit, an artist’s fee — is arranged between the two people involved rather than through the app.
Ticketed events have no thread
A ticketed event carries no comments, no reactions and no message thread. Accepting someone into an open community event does open a chat; a pass does not.
The event type is one-way
An open event and a ticketed event are different things. Once you publish one, it cannot be turned into the other — pick the type before you announce it.
Communities have no group chat
Conversation in a community happens on its Feed, in posts and comments. There is no all-members chat room.
Get the app
Find your community. Find your place. Find your audience.
Free to download · iOS and Android