Welcome, steward

Acorn is community software for building a space on the internet for your community to grow, connect, feel safe, and make decisions together. Many of our online communities live on space we rent from Big Tech, which also makes them subject to Big Tech's rules, moderation, algorithms, and data extraction.

Acorn is how you build and run an online community you and your people control.

Acorn comes in five plans, so you can start small and grow into a fully independent space when you're ready:

• Free — one feed for your community — public or private.
• Community — up to 5 feeds and member permissions, still on Blacksky's shared PDS.
• Collective — up to 10 feeds, with everything from the Community tier plus member tiers and badges.
• Organization — unlimited feeds on a Personal Data Server (PDS) dedicated to your community, plus full custom branding and up to 3 custom domains.
• Custom — everything in Organization, plus APIs, custom features, migration tooling, and a dedicated rep, priced case-by-case.

On every plan, you can create feeds and control whose posts show up in them, and you set the moderation rules for your community.

The promise of Acorn is that every community gets a social space built for them — designed to grow with the needs of your people, and the option of being independent anytime you choose. These guides walk you through running that community using our tools.

Start here