# Plurk

> Social Networking

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id942373800](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id942373800)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id942373800`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Plurk Inc.
- **Category:** Social Networking
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (540 ratings)
- **Version:** 7.36.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-01
- **First published:** 2015-01-28
- **Size:** 135 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-24
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/plurk/id942373800)
- **Website:** [https://www.plurk.com/](https://www.plurk.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.plurk.com/privacy](https://www.plurk.com/privacy)

## Description

Plurk is a privacy-first social network for discovering, connecting, and sharing everyday moments with friends, family, and like-minded folks. Express yourself freely with thoughts, moments, videos, artworks, or simple tidbits, while keeping control over who sees what.

Key features include Custom Emoticons—created from any image to add color and emotion to posts—and Private Messages to foster private conversations. Plurk emphasizes security so you can share your emotional moments without worrying about prying eyes.

## Rankings

- #70,447 — Overall

## Review summary

Plurk is praised for a clean, fast, and user-friendly timeline and a long-running, privacy-conscious experience. It’s seen as a reliable alternative to Twitter. Top negatives are intrusive ads (even for paid users), frequent crashes after updates, posting failures, and notification/auto-refresh issues. Overall, strong UX and privacy appeal are common, but stability and monetization changes frustrate many users.

### Pros

- Clean, fast, and user-friendly timeline/interface
- Long-standing reliability and familiarity with occasional glitches notations
- Privacy-conscious and straightforward experience (less reliance on complex algorithms)
- Appeals as a calmer alternative to Twitter with a readable feed

### Cons

- Intrusive, large ads that disrupt media, even for paying users
- Crashes and stability issues after updates (app often closing or freezing)
- Posting problems (unable to post or posts stuck on sending)
- Notification gaps and lack of reliable auto-refresh

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id942373800)