May 15, 2026
Folk: the human side of the app
Trees became Folk in the bottom nav. People got their own first-class tab, with two ways to look at the roster and a search that scopes itself to how well you know someone.
The bottom-nav tab that used to say Trees now says Folk.
The change wasn’t cosmetic. Trees was a feed. Folk is the people. It moves the human side of the app from a side-effect of conversations to its own place.
Two views
Ladder and Rings, toggled in the header. Ladder is three rungs — Acquaintance, Friend, Close — with the people at each stage in the order they arrived there. Rings puts you at the centre and the same three stages as orbits around you; each person is a small circle breathing at its own pace.
Around now
Above the views, when you’re not searching, a small strip shows what people in your roster have been doing in the last few hours — without telling you where.
Search
Three buckets: your folk, people in the forests you share, and the canopy beyond. The canopy bucket is redacted to a handle and a rough location.
Tapping someone
A panel rises with what you share. From the panel: message them, add them to a group personal forest, invite them to a forest, propose a move up the stage ladder.
Because people are the thing the app is for.