Meta has quietly launched Forum, a Facebook Groups app that pulls community answers into a cleaner standalone space.

The app gives Groups a new home for discussions, recommendations, and replies that would normally sit inside Facebook. For anyone who has searched through years of group posts for a useful answer, Forum looks like Meta’s attempt to make that knowledge easier to reach without sending people back into the main feed.

Forum is listed on the App Store as a free iPhone app from Meta. It’s still unclear how widely the test is available beyond the U.S. listing and iPhone users.

Why does Forum feel familiar

Forum puts questions and community advice at the center of the experience. Users can search across group conversations, while posts and recommendations are organized around shared interests instead of a broader social feed.

The Reddit comparison comes from that structure. Forum is built around the kind of niche discussions, recommendations, and back-and-forth answers that already make Facebook Groups valuable, only now they sit inside a dedicated product.

AI is a major part of that setup. There’s an Ask beta that can pull answers from group conversations, summarize interests, surface relevant discussions, and help admins manage communities.

The tradeoff is trust, as Facebook Groups work because people bring lived experience, personal context, and niche expertise. If AI turns that into bland summaries, Forum loses the human texture it’s trying to organize.
How far from Facebook is this

Forum still depends on the parent network. The App Store listing identifies it as a Facebook app. Users sign in with an existing Facebook account, with profile details and activity carrying over.

That connection gives Meta a big head start. Forum can draw from years of group conversations, local recommendations, hobby communities, and support-style posts rather than waiting for users to rebuild those spaces from scratch.