What groups are
Groups are small, private spaces for sharing with specific people — a family, a few close friends, a shared interest. They are how you reach a chosen circle without making anything public, and without building a following.
A group never owns your posts
This is the idea that sets MemoCove’s groups apart. In many apps, a post you make in a group belongs to that group — it lives there, and if you leave, it stays behind. MemoCove works the other way around: you write a post in your own space and include it in the groups you belong to. The post is still yours; the group is just one more place it appears.
Why does this matter to you? Because it means joining a group is never a trap. Your posts are never scattered across spaces you can’t fully see or control, you can share one post to several groups at once, and a single visibility choice always governs who can reach it. Your record of your own life stays whole, in one place, no matter how many groups you are part of.
Members only, and small by design
- Members only. A group’s contents are visible only to its members. People who aren’t in a group can’t see its posts or its member list; the only glimpse an outsider gets is the group’s name, when a member shares an invite link with them.
- Each group keeps its own conversation. If you share a Group-only post to several groups, the members of each group see only the comments from their own group (plus yours). Nothing said in one room leaks into another. A Public post has a single conversation, open to everyone who can see it.
- Small by design. A group can have up to 500 members, and the Free plan lets you be in up to five groups — created and joined counted together (Pro removes that limit). A group is meant to feel like a room, not an auditorium.
One post in several groups
Because you include a post rather than hand it over, the same post can be in up to five of your groups at once. Here’s how that works:
- It shows up in each group. The post appears in the timeline of every group it’s in, placed by the date you wrote it. In your own Groups timeline, a post that’s in several of your groups appears only once.
- Group tags stay among members. A post shows the names of its groups as tags at the bottom — tap one to open that group. You only ever see the tags of groups you belong to: someone in your family group sees the family tag but never learns the post is also in your book club, and people in none of its groups see no tags at all, even on a Public post. As the author, you see every group your post is in.
- Any one group is enough. Being a member of any one of the post’s groups is enough to see a Group-only post, while its comments still stay within each group — see comments in groups.
- One notice, not several. When a post lands in several of your groups at once, you’re told about it once, not once per group.
- Each group lets go on its own. If you leave one of the post’s groups, an admin takes it out of their group, or a group is deleted, the post leaves only that group and stays in the others. A Group-only post that loses its last group stays with you, visible only to you, until you add it to a group again or change its visibility.
Owners, admins, and members
- Members share posts into the group, comment, can pass the group’s invite link or QR code along to someone they’d like to bring in, and can leave whenever they like.
- Admins (up to ten per group) can also invite people by username, replace the invite link with a fresh one, edit the group’s name, description, and cover, take a post out of the group, and remove members.
- The owner — the person who created the group — can do everything admins can, and is the only one who can make or remove admins, hand the group to someone else, or delete it. An owner can’t leave without first transferring ownership or deleting the group, so a group is never left without someone responsible for it.
You’ll find all of this in the group’s settings — the … button on the group’s page.
Joining a group
You are never added to a group without agreeing. There are three ways in, and every one of them is your own choice:
- An invitation. An admin invites you by your username. The invitation arrives in your notifications, where you can accept or ignore it.
- An invite link. Any member can share the group’s link (memocove.com/join/…) in a message. Open it and you’re in. Each link works for seven days; an admin can make a new one at any time, which retires the old one.
- A QR code. On the phone app, the invite link can also be shown as a QR code, and the scanner on your Me tab reads it — handy when you’re in the same room.
Leaving, and when things change
- If you leave a group, your posts leave with you. They stay in your own space, but the group no longer sees them.
- If an admin removes you, or takes one of your posts out of the group, you’re told plainly — no guessing about why a post disappeared.
- If a group is deleted, every member is told, and everyone’s posts stay with their authors. Nothing you wrote is lost when a room closes.
Notices from your groups
By default you’re told about new posts in your groups. For a busy group you’d rather read on your own schedule, open the group’s settings and switch off Notify me about new posts — you stay a full member. Owners and admins are also told when someone joins. See notifications for the whole picture.