Social networking applications for android. OL PORTAL - all social networks and messengers in one application. Specialized social networks

version: 4.83.2 from 01 August 2019

Convenient program for downloading media files from the social network VKontakte. Allows you to search and sort audio and video recordings, and then save them to your computer. In addition, it provides downloads of clips from popular video hosting sites.

The social network VKontakte has become the largest repository of music and video on the Runet. And if you are an active user of it, for sure from time to time you have a desire to download a track or clip to your computer. The VKMusic application will allow you to do this without any problems. You can download this wonderful development for free for any version of Windows. With it, you can easily find the media file you are interested in (at the same time, you can specify what quality you need) - just enter the name in the search field.

version: 3.96 from 28 January 2019

Here is a program for quick and easy downloading of media files from VKontakte. You can download any audio and video recordings of the most popular Runet social network without opening a browser. And also listen and view them in the built-in player.

You will say that there are many such applications now. But will they offer to find and download the album in a couple of clicks? How about watching a video from a social network in the built-in player without going to the page and downloading it right there?

version: 3.5 from 04 May 2017

The latest version of LoviVkontakte includes a fully functional music player that can play songs both before, during or after download.

version: 2.2.0 from 09 November 2015

Friend Around is a popular messenger with social network elements among Russian-speaking users. Allows you to quickly find new friends and receive notifications about events from their busy life.

The application is available on all platforms common in Russia - you can download DrugVokrug on your computer, iPhone or tablet. At the same time, the capabilities of the desktop and mobile versions are identical.

version: 3.3 build 1591 from 27 July 2015

An extension for the most convenient download of audio compositions and videos from the VKontakte social network. It integrates as an add-on into any popular browser, after which it is able to provide amazingly fast downloads in a couple of clicks.

The plugin allows you to download to your computer any audio and video that you see on the most popular social network Runet. It could be a movie recently released in a theater, a new hit or just a video filmed by someone.

Everyone knows only about 2-3 of the most popular social networks. But do not forget that there are many other thematic communities on the Internet, in which people united by common interests or professional sphere are constantly active on a daily basis.

The most popular social networks in Russia: 2018

The social network is available in 90 languages ​​or more, is highly popular among the Russian-speaking audience, and is the largest in all of Europe. The headquarters is located in St. Petersburg. VKontakte makes it possible to send messages and images, share video and audio recordings, tags, create your own groups and communities, and relax with browser games. The social network strives to remain the fastest and most modern way of communication on the Internet. It is the most popular social network in Russia (2018).



This domestic social network belongs to Mail.Ru Group and was created in March 2006. In terms of popularity this year, it ranks 3rd in Armenia, 4th in Azerbaijan and Russia, 5th in Kazakhstan, 7th in Ukraine, 27th worldwide.

According to a December 2017 poll, 19% of the domestic audience use the Odnoklassniki website almost every day or every day.





Free social network that allows you to share photos and videos. It incorporates elements of a social network. Instagram allows you to take photos and videos, use filters, share them through your account or other social networks. At the moment, both from the point of view of the user and from the point of view of promoting their services and products



A popular video hosting service in the world that hosts a lot of videos. A unique social network in which everyone can find it as well as make it their own.



It is the most famous social network in the world, which appeared on February 4, 2004. Its creator was Mark Zuckerberg with his roommates while studying at Harvard University. The first name was Thefacebook, and only university students had access to it. After that, students from Boston universities got access, then students from all American universities with an email address on.edu. Since autumn 2006, anyone can register on Facebook.



The emphasis on this social network is on personalization and ease of use. The content is divided into several categories - video and audio, chat, link, quote, photo and text. People subscribe to blogs of interest to them, the entries of which appear in the news feed. They also flag posts that they liked with the appropriate button and reblogged to their page to comment on them.

There is support for automatic export of messages to Facebook and Twitter using the RSS protocol.

Social photo hosting, whose users upload images to their respective collections, share photos with other people. Added images are called "buttons" and collections are called "boards."

Other most popular social networks in Russia

A popular portal where users create their electronic diaries, communicate with each other. There are also counters for sites.

Russian-language social site, which is a collective blog. There are elements of a news site. Habrahabr is intended for publishing analytical articles and news. Topic - Internet, business, modern information technologies. Several years ago, a number of topics were separated into separate resources.

A popular platform on which users create their blogs, communicate with people. Popular social networks in Russia include it on their list.

The largest music catalog, which creates individual and general charts for each user.

Not the most popular social networks and portals

This social network is intended for users to communicate with each other. With its help, you can find friends by interests and similar entertainment, create an individual design for a personal page, start a diary, become a member of communities or create your own by interests, communicate in blogs, share video, audio and images. About 300 thousand users have their blogs on Privet.ru.

It is a popular web service for blogging and chatting with like-minded people.

Social service of Russian information channels, which was launched in the spring of 1998. Designed for organizing and maintaining electronic mailing lists.

Specialized social networks

Business social network that brings together entrepreneurs and specialists according to certain criteria (geography, profession, industry). It appeared in the summer of 2008, and today it has about 7 million registered users. The social network is intended for discussing professional problems, searching for partners and investors, self-education and getting new ideas. In the largest communities of the network, more than 2 million people participate.

What plans to start a new project: a mobile social network. The CP has compiled a selection of existing mobile social networks that Durov's team may have to compete with. The guest of the column today was the CEO of Social Insight Andrey Podshibyakin.

Line

Download: App Store, Google Play, Windows Phone (Free)

The social network that grew out of the messenger is very popular in China. The main feature of LINE is a huge number of stickers. The company regularly releases new stickers, linking them to various events.

The user can purchase additional skins. Targeted at a youth (and informal) audience, the social network already last year cost about $ 28 billion. And this is far from the limit.

Path

Download: App Store, Google Play, Windows Phone (Free)

The social network Path is focused exclusively on mobile devices. From the computer, you can see individual posts shared from the application, but nothing more. The program has its own zest: a maximum of 150 people can be added to friends - that is how many permanent social connections one person can really support at the same time - the so-called Dunbar number.

Despite the introduction of stickers and a 1-year premium subscription, Path is not doing well. This is probably why the application is rather slow and is updated less frequently than we would like.

Couple

Download: App Store, Google Play (Free)

A mobile application for two, formally, is not a social network, because you can interact in it with only one person. But the number of opportunities for communication is impressive. In addition to correspondence, there is a joint to-do list, drawing, calendar and, of course, stickers.

The service has gotten a web version over the past year and it seems to be doing well. But, of course, due to its focus on couples, this app is unlikely to compete with other social networks.

Wechat

Download: App Store, Windows Phone (Free)

Standard set: animated stickers, voice chats, video calls, user profiles. With the latest update, WeChat has acquired an online store through which you can purchase some products for everyday life.

WeChat is confidently winning the messenger war in China and is seriously preparing for international expansion. It is this social network that can be considered one of the most promising on the market.

Summary

For the selection, we have downloaded and installed a dozen different applications of mobile social networks. Most of them are completely undeserving of attention due to the strange design or slow operation. Some cannot boast of even minimal features, and some are nothing more than instant messengers. Pavel Durov will probably first of all have to compete with products from the Middle Kingdom, which impudently take users and sell them sets of stickers worth millions of dollars. These are the strongest competitors of the young team of Olympiads. However, there are no clear leaders in the mobile social networks market, so Durov's team has the opportunity to create something new.

Andrey Podshibyakin, CEO and co-founder of Social Insight

I usually use the standard set of the modern city dweller: Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter, plus Vivino lately (by the way, I don't have Instagram). From the unusual, I want to tell you about these applications:

Phoenix hd (App Store - free)... This is a hellish shooter in the very Japanese genre of bullet hell, which I love with an inexplicable love (if you look at the leaderboard there, then I take the first three places in points in Moscow). The essence of the game is simple: you need to move the spaceship across the screen with your finger, dodging the hail of missiles and lasers spewing out by rivals. Very few can hold out longer than ten to fifteen minutes, then you need to start over.

iTunes Remote (AppStore - free)... There is one story connected with this rather ugly and not the most convenient application. The fact is that two months ago I lost the Apple TV remote - the users of this device know that it has no physical buttons. Therefore, to watch a movie, now you have to launch the iTunes Remote. An added bonus: Eminem and Noggano can be output to a home theater speaker with just one poke.

Tribez & Castlez (App Store, Google Play - free)... The product of the friendly company Game Insight has already collected a tribute from me in the amount of several hundred dollars - when I ask my friends to pour me in-game money, for some reason they laugh, nudge each other and say that their admin panel has broken. Be that as it may, Castlez is such a very beautiful strategy about little people, equipping their life in the conditional Middle Ages. From time to time they are attacked by horned trolls and other evil spirits, but this, in fact, does not matter - it is much more important to monitor the timely sowing of fields and harvesting cucumbers from them.

Applications by Andrey Podshibyakin

Bonus: EDGE(App Store). EDGE is the only video game publication that isn't ashamed to read if you're 13 or older. It is originally a fifteen-year-old British paper magazine, whose opinion is highly regarded by the largest developers and publishers. The iPad version of EDGE recently won some kind of design and usability award, so trust me, it's pretty good. The only question for the publication is the following: they are still too deeply immersed in the outdated paradigms of AAA development for "large" consoles and do not know how to write about social and mobile games at all (although, in fairness, almost no one can do this at all). So, on the eve of the sale of a part of Supercell for one and a half billion dollars, EDGE predicted a quick death, decay and oblivion for this studio. Believe me, this is very funny for people in the industry.

Moreover, unlimited tariff options, becoming massive Wi-Fi, the popularization of smartphones and the existing set of applications for social networks are literally pushing people into “mobile sociality”.

All the variety of "social" applications can be divided into two large groups. The first one includes official applications developed by a particular social network, and the second includes third-party applications. The programs of mobile phone manufacturers stand somewhat apart, and most of them are just a shortcut to access a mobile social networking site, although there are some very functional products.

Official Apps

Among mobile platforms, iOS and Android are the most fortunate in terms of the release of official client applications for social networks, for which all major social networks have released their own applications. Also, the plans of the official developers usually include the creation of client applications for Windows Phone 7. But other platforms are somewhat less fortunate. However, this is not surprising - the listed platforms are actively developing, and the majority of their users are relatively actively using the Internet from their mobile devices.

Facebook

The official mobile client of this social network exists in the form of versions for iOS, BlackBerry, Android and webOS. A typical set of capabilities for full-featured Facebook clients include status updates, feed views, events, walls, user information, link exchange, add posts, upload photos, and watch videos. More recently, Facebook has released another official mobile application called Facebook Messenger, positioned as "a quick way to send mobile messages to friends." The functionality of Facebook Messenger is limited to text messaging, and all additional functionality of the application is reduced to the ability to add photos and current coordinates, as well as group discussions. But Facebook Messenger will help you communicate with both Facebook users and those who do not have a Facebook account, but through text messages.

Facebook has not forgotten the owners of ordinary mobile phones, whose functionality can be expanded only through JAVA applications. A program was released, the essence of which follows from its name - Facebook for Every Phone. The app compatibility list includes over 2500 different mobile phone models. They allow you to read your news feed, view and upload photos, chat with friends, edit your personal profile, and even create a new account. Also, without leaving the application, you can work with the device's camera and access the address book.

Our mobile operators did not stay away from the "socialization". In particular, for Beeline subscribers, when they use the branded version of the Facebook JAVA client (Facebook Mobile), the internal traffic of the program will be assessed at discounted rates (until October 5, it was free), and according to the tariff plan, only transitions on external links.

"In contact with"

There is also an official mobile client for the Russian Facebook, the VKontakte social network. The list of operating systems it supports includes iOS, Android, Symbian ^ 3, and Symbian 9.4. With the help of official clients, VKontakte users can view the news of friends and groups, publish new posts on the wall, exchange personal messages, organize group conversations and participate in them, look at and add photos, manage photo albums, get acquainted with user profiles, watch videos, listen music and use location services. The program also has its own widget that can display the latest news. In general, the functionality of mobile VKontakte on different platforms is similar, and the main reason for some external differences lies in the features of the platforms used. By the way, in the Beeline and MTS networks, you can also use the lightweight versions of VKontakte and Facebook for free - 0.vkontakte.ru and 0.facebook.com, respectively, as well as SMS notification services.

An official mobile client has also been developed for the young, but rapidly gaining popularity social network Google+. Moreover, the search giant released a client not only for its brainchild - the Android mobile OS, but also for its main competitor - Apple iOS. Also, the official Google+ app for Windows Phone 7 should see the light soon. Mobile Google+ features include viewing updates to this social network, messaging (with the right circle), and downloading and viewing photos or videos. In general, the functionality of the Google+ mobile application is quite enough for the full use of the social network of the same name.

The list of platforms supported by the official Twitter microblogging client includes iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7. The mobile Twitter client provides standard features - reading and writing messages, copying other people's posts (ReTweet), direct messaging, searching, managing followers lists , exchange of photos, videos, links, search, viewing trends, etc. By the way, using the function of adding photos directly from a mobile phone in this application is often more convenient than entering pictures through a computer.

Third Party Applications

Among the products of third-party developers there are both applications created for a specific social network, and programs that have the functionality of access to several services. However, more often than not, such aggregator applications provide their users with only basic functionality, and in order to get the maximum mobile capabilities, one should give preference to specialized clients, maximally "sharpened" for a specific social network. By the way, special care should be taken with mobile applications for social networks - recently, programs that imitate software for a particular social network began to appear on the Internet, but their main purpose is to steal your username and password in order to further send spam on your behalf or performing other actions.

Among third-party developers, Twitter has become the most popular social network. Applications for accessing it have been created for all mobile platforms. Moreover, each platform has its own recognized leaders. For example, for iOS, Twitterrific and Tweetbot are among the best. Interestingly, both applications are paid - Twitterrific will cost $ 4.99, and Tweetbot - $ 2.99. But thanks to the convenience of the interface (especially carefully designed in Tweetbot), each of these programs has amassed its own, rather large audience. Plume, TweetCaster and Twicca have gained well-deserved popularity on Android devices. And they are all free. By the way, the multi-platform TweetCaster is available along with Android and for iOS, Windows Phone, Blackberry and Bada.

Windows Mobile has not been left without a good Twitter client - the user-friendliness of the interface and functionality of moTweets look more than worthy. By the way, Twitter support on WM-smartphones from HTC was initially integrated into the proprietary shell. On the Symbian platform, Gravity and Tweets60 are the leaders in creating "tweets", with Gravity claiming to be the most functional, and Tweets60 the most convenient and free program with a simple interface. In general, there are a lot of third-party Twitter clients, and, probably, each user of this service can choose a program that best suits his needs.

"In contact with"

Alternative clients for VKontakte are divided into two groups. The first of them includes full-featured applications that provide access to the main functionality of the service. Examples of such programs are VKontakte Amberfog for Android, iVK for iOS and the VKontakte application by GALS Soft, designed for Windows Mobile. The second group includes applications that provide access only to certain functions of a social network, such as messaging and music or video. In particular, video players are popular among users, allowing them to watch videos uploaded to this social network. So, this category includes "android" VKVideo and "VKontakte Video" (both utilities are available in the Android Market). There are also “music” clients for VKontakte that can cache music from this network for further offline listening. Applications of this class include, for example, LazyTool for iOS.

A classic example of an all-in-one multi-protocol client is IM +. It helps to use MSN / Windows Live, Facebook, Skype, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber, MySpace, Twitter, VKontakte and Yandex IM. Of course, you should not compare the capabilities of IM + with the functionality of specialized applications, but this program allows you to combine all accounts in one application, which is convenient in certain cases. Supported platforms include iOS, Blackberry, Android, webOS, J2ME, Windows Phone, and Symbian. This application is released both as a paid Pro version and as a free one that displays ads.

The strength of Nimbuzz is the combination of free and versatility. The program is compatible with almost all existing mobile devices. Supported by iOS, Android, Symbian, Blackberry, as well as most common phones that support the installation of JAVA applications. Only the owners of devices with Windows Mobile were in the "flight" - since July 1, 2010 this platform has been excluded from the list of compatible with Nimbuzz. Of the popular social networks, Nimbuzz has Facebook, MySpace and Hyves, and it is also permissible to integrate Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger, AIM, ICQ and Google Talk. In addition, you can enjoy free phone calls.

UTalk, which, along with its own protocol, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber, iChat / Mobile Me and Gagu-gagu, supports Facebook, VKontakte and Odnoklassniki. The UTalk program is cross-platform - there are versions of the application for smartphones with Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile, iOS and ordinary mobile phones that support only J2ME applications. UTalk is also available for Windows and Linux desktops (via Wine).

"Mobile Agent"

To get mobile access to social networks, Mail.Ru users can use the Mobile Agent application, which is compatible with Windows Mobile, Symbian, Android, iOS and regular phones with Java support. Moreover, the capabilities of this application, in addition to sending free SMS-messages, supporting Mail.Ru, ICQ and VKontakte accounts, also allow you to communicate on the My World social network and leave notes on the Blogs blog hosting.

P.S

Of course, it is not possible to cover all social media-focused mobile apps within a single article. There are really a lot of them, and the choice of the best is a matter of subjective preferences. And here everyone has their own criteria. Someone is closer to official applications, someone prefers third-party applications, and for some users the web interface is generally optimal. But the main thing is that there is a choice, and among the available variety, everyone can choose "social" programs to their liking.