Find your community in the Flo app
What is Flo’s Secret Chats?
Consider Flo’s Secret Chats your must-visit new community. Currently available in English and Portuguese, it’s a moderated chat space in the Flo app where you can talk with other Flo members about the things that matter to you.
All you need to do is sign up to the Flo app, get your randomly assigned avatar. Secret Chats is anonymous, so you don’t need a photo of yourself. And then you can start chatting.
7 million Flo users chat in the community every month2
1 in 2 women say Flo helped them feel supported thanks to a community of like-minded others3
How does Secret Chats work?
Find your people
Want to read about other people’s experiences to help you feel less alone? With 7 million monthly users and more than 1,000 threads, polls, and questions covering everything from polycystic ovary syndrome symptoms to parenting and perimenopause, there’s a Secret Chat for you. Personalize your feed by hearting or bookmarking your favorites.
Chat anonymously
Secret Chats is a space where our members can connect on some of the most intimate and personal things going on in their lives, so we want you to feel comfortable.
That’s why you’ll be given a randomly generated avatar instead of being asked to upload a photo of yourself. If you have a premium account, you can personalize your avatar.
Feel safe thanks to moderation
All Secret Chats topics are managed by Flo’s moderation team. They’ll also read and preapprove all comments before they appear to help create a safe, inclusive, and open space for the whole community. To learn more about this, you can read our Secret Chat Rules.
Explore trusted advice from our health experts
You can access content from doctors and experts on Flo’s medical board through the Secret Chat’s Ask an Expert tab. They regularly answer questions on topics from managing stress to orgasms to pregnancy symptoms and everything in between.
Find your people
Want to read about other people’s experiences to help you feel less alone? With 7 million monthly users and more than 1,000 threads, polls, and questions covering everything from polycystic ovary syndrome symptoms to parenting and perimenopause, there’s a Secret Chat for you. Personalize your feed by hearting or bookmarking your favorites.
Chat anonymously
Secret Chats is a space where our members can connect on some of the most intimate and personal things going on in their lives, so we want you to feel comfortable.
That’s why you’ll be given a randomly generated avatar instead of being asked to upload a photo of yourself. If you have a premium account, you can personalize your avatar.
Feel safe thanks to moderation
All Secret Chats topics are managed by Flo’s moderation team. They’ll also read and preapprove all comments before they appear to help create a safe, inclusive, and open space for the whole community. To learn more about this, you can read our Secret Chat Rules.
Explore trusted advice from our health experts
You can access content from doctors and experts on Flo’s medical board through the Secret Chat’s Ask an Expert tab. They regularly answer questions on topics from managing stress to orgasms to pregnancy symptoms and everything in between.
What our community is saying about Flo’s Secret Chats
There are more than 1,000 Secret Chats threads, polls, and questions to explore.
“I have felt like I’ve found friends and people who do care. The craziest part is we don’t even know each other — just women showing empathy and trying to help one another out. This is exactly what we need! It might sound lame, but with how stressful life is, this almost feels like a saving grace for me.”
“This is the place I go when I feel really lonely. It’s a gentle and safe space, and honestly, it lifts me up to see people from different beliefs, nationalities, backgrounds, and ages put aside their differences and share their stories, recipes, deepest vulnerabilities, and even artwork without shame or judgment — just admiration and encouragement. Love to see us all building each other up as women!”
“This is literally the only place online where chats about super sensitive topics are pretty much always dealt with sensitively and open-mindedly. The level of gentle communication and inclusivity here among anonymous people truly gives me hope for humanity.”
“Love my Flo fam for never judging anything I have ever said — no matter how crazy or embarrassing.”
Is Secret Chats safe?
Along with using anonymous avatars and pre-moderation of topics and comments, there are several other ways we keep you safe when you’re using Secret Chats:
Age-restricting chats
To use Flo, you must be over the age of 13 (or 16 in the European Union, United Kingdom, and Canada), but not all threads and chats will be available to all members. Your Secret Chats feed is personalized based on your age and goal in the app, so you can get the most out of it and see what’s most useful to you fast. If you’re under 18, then the topics and groups that you’ll see will be slightly different from those available to adults.
Blocking topics and notifications
Alongside favoriting certain topics so you see similar threads and questions, you can also block topics and threads. This means that you don’t have to see content on subjects that you don’t want to.
You can also block notifications from Secret Chats if you no longer want to be alerted when someone replies to your comments or writes a comment in a thread that you started. Find out how to do this in our Help Center.
Frequently asked questions
Secret Chats is available to all users who have an English or Portuguese language account. Some comments or topics are age-restricted, with users over 18 having full access to all discussions. The content you will see is based on the age set when you created your account and what you said your goal was.
If you’d like to explore Secret Chats, all you need to do is:
- Open your Flo app.
- Click on the mask icon along the bottom of your screen (it’s third from the left, in the center of your screen).
- Find a topic you’re interested in either by:
. Using the search bar along the top of the screen
. Scrolling through popular questions on your home screen
. Clicking through to saved threads using the “saved” button along the top of your screen
. Using the interests toggle to explore something new.
- To add a comment on an existing question or thread, select the question you’d like to contribute to and write in the comments box. You can also ‘heart’ a question or save a thread using the bookmark icon.
There are more than 1,000 Secret Chats threads, polls, and questions. Some of the most popular topics are:
- The effectiveness of different types of contraceptive methods
- Tips for self-pleasure
- How many days your cycle usually lasts
- Early pregnancy signs
- How to tell if you’re pregnant without doing a test
- How to figure out how many days past ovulation you are
- Baby bump progress
- How long you might wait before announcing your pregnancy
- How you feel about your changing pregnant body
References
- Flo’s internal data for Secret Chats
- Flo’s internal data for Secret Chats
- 3,800 surveyed, 2022
- Sensor Tower, Jan. 2024, iOS & Android, by category ranking
- Sensor Tower, Jan. 2024, iOS & Android, by category ranking