Meta Launches Forum, a Reddit-Style Groups App

Meta has launched Forum, a standalone app built around Facebook Groups that it positions as a space for deeper discussion and AI-generated answers. The app loads a user's existing Facebook groups, profile, and activity after sign-in, and organizes its feeds around group conversations rather than trending content.

Forum was first reported by TechCrunch. In its App Store listing, Meta describes Forum as a "dedicated space built for deeper discussions, real answers and communities you care about."

What Forum Does

Forum runs on a user's existing Facebook identity. After signing in, members see their groups, profile, and activity carry over, and they can post under a nickname as they can in the main Facebook app.

Meta says the groups themselves still live on Facebook, and anything shared in Forum stays visible in those groups. The pitch is a conversation-first feed built to show "what real people are saying, not just what's trending," with a layout meant to make it easy to return to ongoing threads.

AI for Answers and Moderation

The feature that separates Forum from a simple Groups spin-off is its AI. The app includes an "Ask" tab that lets users pose a question and receive an answer compiled from discussions across different groups, turning community conversation into a queryable source rather than something users scroll through.

A second AI assistant sits on the admin side, helping group administrators manage their communities and moderate content. The Ask tab places Forum in the same territory as Reddit's Answers and Google's AI Overviews, both of which summarize human discussion into direct responses.

A Direct Play at Reddit

Forum is Meta's clearest attempt yet to compete with Reddit's model of interest-based, community-led discussion, a format that has gained value as AI systems increasingly cite community conversations when generating answers.

The Keyword examined that dynamic in February, when Reddit stood out as the most-cited social platform in ChatGPT. By keeping Forum tied to Facebook Groups, Meta is trying to convert an asset it already owns, its hundreds of millions of group members, into a destination that resembles a rival it does not.

Whether users want a separate app to reach groups they can already open inside Facebook is the open question, and Meta has tried a dedicated Groups app before. It launched one in 2014 and shut it down in 2017.

Part of a Wider App Push

Forum is the second standalone app Meta has shipped in recent weeks, following Instants, a disappearing-photos app tied to Instagram. Both arrive as Meta signals plans to release far more apps than it has in the past.

According to a Wall Street Journal report, Zuckerberg told employees that AI-driven efficiencies now let the company build more apps cheaply, and floated building 50 new apps before scaling the ambition back to a few at first.

Forum, along with Instants and the CapCut-style editor Edits, shows what that strategy looks like in practice, with small, recognizable app concepts increasingly wrapped in Meta's AI.