getting started
sign up, choose imessage or telegram, and send folk its first message — about five minutes, start to finish.
getting folk set up takes about five minutes. here's the whole thing.
sign up
head to getfolk.app and sign up with your phone number. we'll text you a code to confirm it's really you. prefer telegram? you can sign in with telegram instead — same result.
connect the basics (optional, but nice)
folk will offer to connect your gmail and google calendar. this is what lets it answer "what's on my schedule tomorrow?" or "did sarah ever reply?" without you copy-pasting anything.
you can skip this and do it later — folk works fine without it, it just knows less about your world.
pick where you want to text folk
choose your home base:
- imessage — folk lives in your green/blue bubbles, like any other contact.
- telegram — folk is a bot you chat with in the telegram app.
you can read more about how each one feels in imessage & telegram.
say hi
open the chat and send your first message. seriously, anything works:
hi folk! what can you do?
folk will introduce itself and you're off. try asking it to do something real, like "remind me to call mom on sunday" or "find a good coffee spot near me."
free preview vs. subscription
new accounts get a short free preview so you can feel out what folk is like before paying for anything. once you've used it up, folk will let you know and point you to a plan.
there's a free trial on the paid plans too, so you get real time with the full thing. see privacy, plans & keys for the details.