About CommonYard
A yard is where people meet
CommonYard is a free social app, built for doing things together — voting, taking sides, signing, playing and talking — not for scrolling past other people’s lives.
Why it exists
Most social apps turn everything into the same endless feed. You read, you scroll, and nothing you do seems to go anywhere. CommonYard starts from the other end: a post can ask for one small thing — a vote, a side, a signature, a swipe — you do it right on the card, and you see what everyone else did.
How the app is organised
- HOME — the Yard. Your yards as round tiles along the top, then posts, polls, petitions, swipeys and games. Tap a yard's tile and HOME becomes that yard.
- GAMES — games to play alone with a hall of fame, hosted rounds, and team games between yards and friends.
- YOU — your profile: points, streak, saved posts, your people, your posts and your settings.
- + — beside the bar, for making a post.
Inside a yard, the bar adds CHAT for that yard's chat room. Search and your notifications are at the top right.
Yards
A yard is a community inside CommonYard. Anyone can make one: a general yard, a school yard (which adds Practice for school work) or a religious yard (which adds the devotional, the prayer wall and the week). The people who run a yard choose who gets in, post a notice, announce things, set up events and keep the yard kind. A post made in a yard stays in that yard: anyone can look inside a public yard, and a private yard is for its members.
Points and streaks
Taking part earns points: a post, a vote, a signature, a finished game. Points are credits for taking part, not cash. Doing something every day builds a streak, and your points for the week climb your yard’s ladder.
RateYourSociety lives here
RateYourSociety (RYS) is Ghana’s public-opinion platform, started in June 2023 by the same founder. Its home is now CommonYard, and one account works for both. RYS keeps its own page, Ghana’s Mood, at rateyoursociety.com.
At a glance
- What it is
- A social app for taking part together
- Creator and founder
- Ronald Dumeloo
- Price
- Free to join
- Where
- commonyard.app, in any phone or desktop browser
- Also home to
- RateYourSociety
The short answer, with every part explained: What is CommonYard? Writing about CommonYard? See the press kit.