Coming soon to iPhone

The group chat is the show.

Your favorite personalities have a group chat. They're breaking down the game as it happens, reacting to the news, grilling a guest, taking the room's questions. On Lurk, you're inside it, reading along live. No video. No sound. No pressure to talk. Just the conversation, as it's typed.

Get the app See what's on iPhone · iOS 17+ · free
What's on

Anything worth talking about, live.

One format, every kind of show. If it's happening, there's a chat going.

Watch-alongs.

The game on your TV, the cast in your hand. Live reactions rolling in while you watch, like being on the couch with the sharpest, funniest people you follow. No second video stream, no delay.

Breaking news.

Something just happened, and the chat is already going. No studio to book, no camera to set up, no "welcome back to the channel." Get right to the live reactions as the story unfolds.

Shows & discussions.

Hosts riffing off each other with all the energy of a podcast, in text you can read anywhere. In line, in class, in a meeting. An hour of conversation in five minutes of reading.

Interviews.

A guest joins the chat, and the interview unfolds as it's typed. Read it live or later, at your own pace, and upvote the question you'd ask.

Q&A sessions.

The room asks, the room votes, the best questions rise. Your questions don't get lost in a sea of replies. They're ranked, seen, and answered right in the thread.

The everyday chat.

Between events the group chat keeps humming: takes, arguments, inside jokes. The show between the shows, and half the reason you'll stay.

For lurkers

The inside seat.

Access

You're in the chat, not the comments

This isn't a feed of posts written for the public. It's your favorite personalities talking to each other the way friends actually talk, and you're inside, watching it happen in real time.

No video · no sound

Live, on silent

A live show you can follow anywhere you can read a text: the bus, the office, 2am in bed. No headphones, no screen you have to stare at, no "hang on, let me find somewhere to watch this."

Q&A

Questions that actually get seen

Ask, and the room upvotes. The best questions climb a ranked queue the cast answers straight into the thread: your question, quoted, with the answer attached to it for everyone to read.

Your pace

Live when you want, replay when you don't

Catch it live with hot moments pulsing, or read the replay top to bottom like the transcript of a great night and jump straight into the room's best moments.

Notifications

Texts, not spam

Every message, just the highlights, one nightly digest, or silence. Your choice, per chat. Quiet hours respected to the minute, and a velocity detector that only calls a hot moment when the room actually erupts.

Every message Highlights Daily digest Off
Reactions & polls

Make yourself felt

React and watch the room's reactions pile up in real time, settle the argument in a poll, feel the chat erupt when a hot moment hits. Quiet doesn't mean passive.

Lurking isn't a lesser way to be there. Here, it's the whole point.

No pressure to post. No performing for an algorithm. Show up, read along, react when you feel like it. The best seat in the room doesn't ask anything of you.

How it works

Four steps to the inside.

01

Find your cast

Browse Discover: what's hot right now, what's rising, featured chats, and every category from sports to culture. Ranked by real conversation, not follower counts.

02

Follow the chat

One tap. Then pick your level: every message, highlights only, or the nightly digest. Change it per chat, any time.

03

Lurk live

Messages arrive like texts from a friend. Open one and you land on the exact message, mid-conversation. React, vote, and ask. Be in the room without being on the spot.

04

Catch the replay

Every event becomes an episode in the chat's catalog. Read the interview on your commute, skim the watch-along between meetings. Missing it live stops mattering.

For hosts

Go live in two taps.

No camera. No mic. No editing, thumbnails, or "like and subscribe." If you can text your group chat, you can host a live show, because on Lurk that's literally what it is.

You're live before a streamer finds their ring light.

Taken seriously

A room worth being in stays worth being in.

Real casts, verified.

Verified badges are earned by real reach and reviewed by humans. Not bought, not botted.

Brigade-proof moderation.

Reports are weighted by reporter credibility, so a pile-on can't take down a person and a real problem gets human eyes fast.

Only the cast posts.

The thread can't be ruined by the crowd, because the crowd doesn't post in it. Signal stays signal.

Stop scrolling.
Start lurking.

Coming soon to the App Store · iPhone · iOS 17+