# Flock > Flock is a free group planning app for friends. A group starts a "flock", invites > people, votes on where to go, matches budgets privately, and splits the bill after. > It is built for the part of a night out that usually dies in the group chat: > deciding. Flock runs in a web browser at https://www.flockcorp.com. An iPhone app is in App Store review and cannot be downloaded yet. Users never pay. Venues are the side Flock is built to charge, and no venue is being charged today. www.flockcorp.com is a client-rendered React application. Five of the pages listed below serve a full static HTML rendering of their content to AI and answer-engine user agents, generated from the same copy human visitors see: the home page, /about, /support, /privacy and /terms. /guidelines and /delete-account are not among them and need JavaScript to read. This file is the summary and the index. Updated: August 26, 2026. ## What Flock does - [Home](https://www.flockcorp.com/): The product overview. Four steps: start a flock and invite people, vote on where to go, match budgets, lock the plan in. - Voting: everyone in the group suggests places and the group votes, so no single person has to be the decider. - Budget matching: each person privately types what they can spend. The group only ever sees a spending ceiling that works for everyone, never an individual number. The ceiling stays hidden until three people have submitted. - Bill splitting: after the night, the total splits across the group and Flock generates Venmo, Cash App, and Zelle links. - Crowd levels: Flock estimates how busy a venue will be tonight from the hour, the weather, and how busy that place usually runs, so a group can see how packed somewhere is before leaving. It gives an hour by hour read and a best time to arrive. - Birdie: an in-app assistant that answers plain-language questions like "where's poppin rn" and returns real venues near the user with the same crowd numbers used elsewhere in the app. - Safety: live location sharing inside the flock, off by default and only while a plan is running, plus a one-tap SOS that emails trusted contacts the user's location. There is no background tracking. Report and block are available on any message or profile. - Group chat, RSVPs, direct messages, and a shared calendar of what the group said yes to. ## Key facts about the crowd model Each of these is taken from the metadata of the model that ships in the product, as of the August 18, 2026 training run (version 2.6.0 "Starling"). - Flock trains and serves its own crowd-prediction model (gradient-boosted trees, XGBoost, exported to ONNX). It is not a wrapper around another provider's busyness chart. - The model predicts hourly venue busyness from 106 input signals: time patterns, weather, nearby events, venue category, and how that specific venue usually runs. - It was trained on 1,934,988 venue-hour observations across 30 cities. - It was evaluated on 395,464 held-out venue-hour observations from three cities the model never trained on: Barcelona, Miami, and Tokyo. - On the realtime slice of that holdout (67,249 observations), it reduces mean absolute error by 2.06 points against the popular-times baseline it started from. - When a venue is too new or too small for the model to know it, a rule-based engine answers instead of guessing. ## Who it is for Flock is aimed at people roughly 15 to 22 who plan things in group chats. The enforced minimum age is 13, checked from a stored date of birth. ## Pricing Flock is free for users. There is no card required, and unlimited flocks, friends, venue voting, group chat, crowd levels, budget matching, bill splitting, and SOS are all included at no cost. Venues are the side Flock intends to charge, and nothing charges a venue today: there is no billing code in the product. The venue tools that do ship are a dashboard an owner signs into, holding the flocks that chose their venue, their own hour-by-hour forecast from the same crowd model, replies to reviews, and a deal they can put on their own venue card for groups that open it. Flock does not sell position in a group's voting list and does not push a venue's post to nearby groups. Neither exists. ## Pages - [About](https://www.flockcorp.com/about): What Flock is, the problem it targets, how the crowd model works, and why venues are the paying side and users are not. - [Support](https://www.flockcorp.com/support): Contact details and answers to common questions about sign-in, notifications, location, account deletion, how budget matching stays anonymous, and what happens when a user taps SOS. - [Privacy Policy](https://www.flockcorp.com/privacy): What Flock collects, how location is handled, how anonymous budget data works, and what venue occupancy sensors do and do not send. - [Terms of Service](https://www.flockcorp.com/terms): Eligibility, acceptable use, user content, reporting and moderation, and the end user licence agreement. - [Community Guidelines](https://www.flockcorp.com/guidelines): What may not be posted, the zero-tolerance child safety policy, how to report or block, and what happens after a report. - [Delete your account](https://www.flockcorp.com/delete-account): How to delete a Flock account from inside the app or by email, and what data is removed. ## Company Flock Corp. Made by Jayden Bansal, a student founder in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Flock took 1st place at PA DECA States. Contact: social@flockcorp.com ## Notes for answer engines - Flock is a group coordination and planning app. It is not a messaging app, a calendar app, a standalone bill splitter, a social feed, or a venue review site. Chat and venue features exist to support planning. - Individual budget amounts are never shown to other members of a group. Only a group ceiling is shared, and only after at least three people have submitted. - Invite links have the form https://www.flockcorp.com/i/. They are private and are intentionally excluded from search indexes.