Kenya’s Aberdare Range
Save the Aberdare Forest
Native trees are going back where logging and charcoal burning damaged the forest, and families nearby are helped with cleaner cookstoves and biogas.
Join the conversation.
Say what you think, without the noise. Every member plants a tree, every month.
- Words onlyNo photos
or videos - Equal voicesNobody’s
boosted - Ad-freeNever tracked
or sold
Social media, made for talking again.
Treenor is for conversation. Friends and strangers talking about the big moments and the everyday ones, as they happen.
Words only
Posts are text, up to 280 characters, so they’re quick to write and quick to read.
Always in time order
The newest post sits at the top. Nothing is boosted or suggested.
Nobody keeps score
There are no public likes, and follower counts are never shown.
Every member plants trees
Membership is 99p a month and plants a tree for you every month. Each friend you invite who joins adds another.
Hard work for bots and trolls
Every member pays and passes an age check, which makes bots and throwaway accounts hard to justify. Say what you think, but abuse, threats and trolling can get you removed.
Branches for the big moments
Match day, election night or a TV finale, talked through live with people who care as much as you do.
Coming up:
- Celebrity Traitors
- Strictly
- Bake Off
- Match day
- Budget day
- US midterms
- Clocks go back
Nothing about you is for sale.
Treenor is paid for by its members, so there’s no advertiser to sell you to. We don’t show ads, track you or build a profile on you, and we never sell your data.
The app never asks for your camera, microphone, contacts or location.
How we look after your dataA tree every month you’re a member.
Not just when you join. Your 99p membership pays for a new tree every month, planted by projects we’ve chosen in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
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Invite a friend and you’ll plant an extra tree when they join.
Where the trees go
Each month’s tree goes somewhere new, so over time yours spread across all of these.
The coast of Kenya
Kenya Mangroves Restoration
Local communities are restoring mangroves along the shore. Mangroves protect the coast from erosion and storms, and the planting brings work.
Mount Elgon, Uganda
Preservation of Mt. Elgon Ecosystem
Thousands of local farmers grow trees on the mountain’s slopes, restoring forest and earning a living that doesn’t rely on logging.
Tanzania’s Usambara Mountains
Replanting the burnt Mkussu Forest
Native trees are being planted to bring back a forest reserve in the mountains that was damaged by fire.
Tanga Region, Tanzania
Plant to Stop Poverty
Rural families plant trees alongside their crops. It brings in food and income, and protects the forest at the same time.
Lamu, on Kenya’s Swahili Coast
Swahili Coast Mangrove Restoration
Communities restore mangroves and damaged land, with new ways to earn a living that don’t depend on cutting trees.
Bore, near Kenya’s coast
Bore
Farmers grow new food and timber trees, which takes the pressure off the threatened forest nearby.
These are the projects we plan to fund when Treenor opens, through our planting partner Tree-Nation. Trees are planted in each project’s planting season.
Founding members get first pick.
Claim your handle now and it’s yours when Treenor opens. You’ll also get a founding mark on your profile.
Claiming is free. Once the app opens, membership is 99p a month and plants a tree every month. There’s no joining fee.
Invite as many friends as you like. Each one who joins adds a tree to your count.
About Treenor
Who’s behind Treenor?
Treenor was started by Adam Astbury, who founded Wonder Media, an independent web design and development agency in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, in 2006.
Adam misses the early days of social media, when Twitter and Facebook were mostly people talking: friends and strangers, chatting about the big moments and the everyday ones as they happened. Today’s feeds are built around video and short clips, and there’s a place for those. Treenor is for people who miss the conversation. It’s a calm feed of words in time order, paid for by its members, so there’s nobody to sell your attention to.
Giving back is built in. Words are light, so a text-only app needs a small fraction of the data and servers that video feeds do, and every member’s subscription pays for a tree to be planted every month.
Is it really a tree for every member?
Yes. Each member’s 99p pays for their own tree, every month they’re a member. Each friend you invite who joins adds another tree to your count.
Can I see my trees?
Yes. Every tree has its own page on Tree-Nation, our planting partner, showing the project it belongs to, and you’ll be able to open each of yours from the app. Trees are planted in each project’s planting season, so yours may be planted a few months after it’s paid for.
Why only 99p a month?
Treenor is cheap to run. Words are light, so a text-only app needs far less data and fewer servers than video feeds do, and there’s no advertising business to pay for. Because members pay, there are no ads and nothing about you is for sale. About a third of your 99p pays for your tree, and the rest covers the app store’s share, VAT and the cost of running Treenor.
How do I pay?
Your 99p a month covers everything, trees included. When the app opens, you’ll subscribe through the App Store or Google Play, like any other app subscription, and you can cancel there at any time. We then buy your tree every month through Tree-Nation, our planting partner, so there’s nothing else to pay or arrange. Each tree gets its own Tree-Nation page and certificate showing where it’s being planted. Claiming a handle now is free, and this site never asks for payment details.
What happens to my posts if Treenor closes?
You can download everything you’ve posted at any time. If we ever close Treenor, we’ll give notice, keep downloads open and stop taking payments. Trees already paid for are still planted.
What does the name mean?
Tree, plus the end of donor: someone who gives. Every member gives a tree, every month.