Community, found. Find your people across DC, Maryland, and Virginia, form new friendships, and build a community of your own.
Your sky starts with one light: you. Add your people, your plans, and your communities.
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A free app for iPhone and Android, with no ads. For adults 18 and over.
What is Doogo?
Doogo is a social network for real-world connection in Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia. Doogo helps you find your people and form friendships and a community of your own, based on who you are and what you like. Doogo is free, has no ads, does not sell your data, and is built for your privacy and safety.
How Doogo works
Start with you.
Tell Doogo what you like and where you call home. A few interests are enough to begin.
Find your people.
Doogo points you to the communities and plans where people who share what you like already are: your neighborhood, your interests, and where you are in life.
Form your own community.
Keep showing up. Watch loose connections grow into a community that lasts.
The goal is a community of your own.
A few months in, your sky holds the people you keep making plans with, the rooms where you're a regular, and new friendships that last. Community is the point. Events are just the spark.
your people your communities
An illustration of a sky a few months in. Yours starts with one light.
Along the way
Introductions
Doogo sets up small groups of people who share what you like, and helps them form friendships, meet, and do things together in real life.
Discover
Things to do near you, picked for what you like.
Communities
Rooms for your neighborhood and your interests, with many already open.
Your friends
Bring the friends you already have, and plan things together.
Many communities are already open across the DMV.
Founding members wanted. Most are just getting started. Don't see yours? Suggest a community in the app.
- Where you live
- Adams Morgan, Alexandria, Arlington, Ashburn & Leesburg, Bethesda & Chevy Chase, Capitol Hill & Eastern Market, College Park & Hyattsville, Columbia & Ellicott City, Fairfax & Tysons, Manassas & Woodbridge, Navy Yard & The Wharf, Reston & Herndon, Rockville & Gaithersburg, Silver Spring & Takoma, U Street & Shaw
- What you like
- Arts & Museums, Board Games & Trivia, DMV Bookworms, Dog Owners of the DMV, DMV Foodies, DMV Hikers & Outdoors, DMV Runners, Volunteers of the DMV, Live Music
- Who you are
- Internationals in the DMV, DMV Parents & Families, Young Professionals of the DMV, Students of the DMV, Women of the DMV, New to the DMV, Out in the DMV
And we keep adding more.
More connected than ever. Somehow lonelier, too.
Approximately half of U.S. adults report experiencing loneliness, with some of the highest rates among young adults.
We have more followers, more group chats, and more ways to reach each other than any generation before us. And yet finding real friends in the place you actually live has never felt harder. Doogo exists to close that gap.
- Not contacts. Not followers. The community that forms around what you actually love.
- No rewards for screen time. Being alone is not a failure.
- Built to get you out, not to keep you scrolling.
Three things you can count on.
Always free
Doogo is free and always will be. No subscriptions, no in-app purchases, and no ads.
Your data is not sold
We do not sell your data.
Built for privacy and safety
You choose who sees each part of your profile. Block, mute, and report are part of every conversation, and new images are checked before they appear.
Built by researchers from Carnegie Mellon.
Get Doogo
A free app for iPhone and Android, with no ads. For adults 18 and over.
Doogo at a glance
- What it is
- A social network for real-world connection
- Where
- Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia. Anyone 18 or over can create an account.
- Price
- Free, always. No ads.
- Get it on
- iPhone and Android
- Age
- 18 and over
- Made by
- Doogo Research, Inc.
Questions about Doogo
What is Doogo?
Doogo is a social network for real-world connection in Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia. Doogo helps you find your people and form friendships and a community of your own, based on who you are and what you like.
Is Doogo free?
Yes, and it always will be. No ads, no subscriptions, and no in-app purchases.
Where does Doogo work?
Doogo is focused on Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia, the area locals call the DMV. Anyone 18 or over can create an account.
Do I need the app?
Yes. Doogo lives in the app for iPhone and Android. You can create your account on the web, then continue in the app.
What communities can I join?
Many: neighborhoods across the DMV and communities around interests such as running, board games, books, and live music. Most are just getting started, and founding members are wanted.
Can I start my own community?
You can suggest one in the app. Our team reviews every suggestion.
How does Doogo use AI?
Doogo learns what you care about from the plans you save and go to, and uses that to pick things to do near you. Our recommendation engine runs on our own infrastructure. We do not send your account data, direct messages, comments, profile data, or user uploads to an external AI provider. Public event listings are summarized with outside AI services.
Does Doogo sell my data or show ads?
No. We do not sell your data. Doogo shows no ads.
Is Doogo safe?
Every conversation has block, mute, and report. Text is screened and new images are checked before they appear. Doogo is for adults 18 and over.
Who is behind Doogo?
Doogo Research, Inc. Built by researchers from Carnegie Mellon.
How do I delete my account?
You can delete your account at any time. The account deletion page explains how. Account deletion
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