Forum, a Facebook app

Review by eFreeware

Forum is a standalone app from Meta Platforms, Inc. that takes the group side of Facebook and gives it a home of its own. Instead of mixing group discussions in with friend updates and videos, it builds the experience around the communities you already belong to and the ones you haven't found yet. It is free, carries no ads and offers no in-app purchases, and it has been installed more than 100,000 times with a 4.6 average from just over 3,000 ratings.

The main reason to consider it is focus. If your Facebook use is mostly about groups, this app is designed to keep those conversations front and center rather than treating them as one feature among many. You sign in with your existing Facebook account, and your groups, profile and activity come with you, so there is no separate community to rebuild.

Groups carry over, not split off

The most important thing to understand about Forum is that it does not replace your groups. They continue to exist on Facebook, and anything you post through Forum shows up in those groups on Facebook as well. That makes the app an alternative way in rather than a separate network, which should appeal to anyone who wants a different view of the same discussions without asking their communities to move.

Log in through Facebook and your profile, groups and activity come with you. The developer also offers the option to post under a nickname, which gives you a way to take part without your name attached to every reply. Because the groups themselves stay where they are, joining Forum does not mean abandoning the people who never install it.

A feed that picks up where you stopped

The feed is assembled from conversations in your groups rather than from whatever happens to be trending. The developer's pitch is that you see what real people are saying, and the practical effect is a stream of discussions tied to communities you chose rather than an algorithmic mix of everything on the platform.

Forum also makes a point of letting you jump back into a conversation where you left off. For anyone who follows several active groups, that is the feature that matters most day to day: long threads are easy to lose track of, and a space built around resuming them is a more useful arrangement than scrolling back through a general timeline. It is a small promise, but it is the kind that decides whether an app like this becomes a habit.

Ask turns a question into a group-wide search

Ask is the feature that goes beyond what a single group can do. When you want opinions, advice or recommendations, you pose the question and the app pulls together responses from across groups, so you are drawing on people who have dealt with the same thing rather than waiting on one community to answer.

That is a meaningful difference from posting in a single group and hoping for replies. The topics the developer describes cover everything from small pastimes to neighborhood tips and help groups, and Ask is where that range matters most. I'd expect it to be most useful for decisions with many possible answers, where a wider pool of experience beats a handful of replies from one thread.

Admin tools stay on Facebook, with an assistant added

Group admins keep all of their existing tools on Facebook. Forum's addition is an AI assistant for admins, meant to help run groups, moderate posts and keep communities healthy, while admins stay in charge. The assistant is presented as help rather than as an automatic handover of decisions.

Moderation is the part of running a group that scales worst, so an assistant aimed at that work is the most interesting piece of the app for anyone who runs a busy community. The framing matters here: the tools you already rely on remain where they were, and Forum is an additional place to work from rather than a replacement for the admin side of Facebook.

What it asks of you before anything else

Forum is not a standalone service. The app also states plainly that what you share through Forum is visible in your groups on Facebook, which is worth weighing if you were expecting a private corner.

The developer warns that availability can vary by country or region, so what you see may depend on where you are. The app is rated Teen and is free to install, with no ads and no in-app purchases. It arrived on May 20, 2026, and the most recent update was a set of bug fixes.

Who gets the most from a groups-first app

This is an app for people whose Facebook activity is already concentrated in groups. If you check in on a handful of communities, follow long-running discussions and want a place that treats those as the main event, the design matches how you already use the platform. The Ask feature adds something you cannot get from any single group, which is a reason to keep it installed even if your feed habits are settled.

Group admins are the other clear audience. The assistant for managing and moderating communities is aimed at the work that takes the most time, and admins keep their existing tools alongside it. Anyone who uses Facebook mainly for friends, videos and general browsing has less to gain, since those are not what Forum is organized around.

A focused companion for Facebook Groups regulars

Forum is worth installing if groups are the part of Facebook you care about. It keeps your existing account, groups and activity, adds a feed built around conversations and a way to resume them, and offers Ask for questions that need answers from more than one community. Admins get an assistant for moderation on top of the tools they already have.

The trade-offs are built into its design rather than hidden. It leans on your Facebook account, it does not isolate what you post from your groups on Facebook, and availability can vary by region. For people who live in groups, those are reasonable terms. For everyone else, the app is a narrow tool aimed at a specific habit, and it is honest about that.

What's new in version 28.0.0.2.106

Bug fixes.