Kik Messaging & Chat App

What reviewers actually said

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1. [R15] 5/5 · US Chatting: Great to meet new people and chat especially with Gamers
2. [R146] 5/5 · US Friends: I have made a lot of new friends all over the world. Kik gives me a peace of mind after I lost my dad. I just want to say thank you.
3. [R104] 5/5 · US Simple and convenient: Good platform for messaging when you don’t want to give away your phone number. It’s also good for siloing communications away from “social” platforms. Kik respects user privacy better than any other messaging app I know of.
4. [R234] 5/5 · US Amazing: Very private and reliable
5. [R210] 5/5 · US Fun app: Kik live streaming is so fun
6. [R1] 1/5 · US Kiks gone down hill.: Takes forever to load, can’t see people’s profile pic, lagging like crazy no matter how many times I update the app.
7. [R16] 1/5 · US No longer works: Completely freezes my phone, crashing everything, before the app crashes itself. Can’t even connect now on a fresh install without it freezing. Also makes the phone lava hot, being the only app to do so
8. [R40] 1/5 · US Can’t Login: App crashes every time I tap “Log In”. This latest update from 4 days ago is causing this glitch. Waiting for a new update, so I can use the app…
9. [R41] 1/5 · US App keeps crashing: Every time I try to log in it just crashes, don’t know if this is caused by a new update or what
10. [R13] 1/5 · US No longer works: No longer can get in. Looks like it’s a paid app now?
11. [R21] 1/5 · US New update: This new update will let me open the app but it won’t give me the option to input any information, so now it’s useless and I can’t use it. Please fix whatever you did please!
12. [R26] 1/5 · US Join Kik Setup Error: ALL & Any username is “Taken” as means can’t create any account EVER!: Join Kik Setup: Error 1. Email address I enter is said by Kik app is “Invalid” Regardless what email address I have to try. Error 2. ALL & ANY Username is “Already Taken” kik app claims in error by any typo combination of username in field is treated taken. There is no other person that would have made up
13. [R27] 1/5 · US It's sucks my Kik is stucked: Why does my Kik account won't go through it's stucked
14. [R23] 3/5 · US Issues Continue to Persist: While logging in is no longer an issue, for some reason, I’m no longer able to receive messages. This started happening just days ago. Plus, some profile pictures aren’t being displayed and the app is still freezing/locking up. I don’t know if it’s because of my older device (9-year-old iPhone 7 Plus) or if this is a known issue. Really hope this finally gets so
15. [R28] 3/5 · US App sometimes works: Kik is an ok app but for some reason won’t load messages if you have the app close for a few minutes
16. [R31] 1/5 · US Poor service: Takes for ever to deliver a message or receive messages even on WiFi I’ve had a message sitting on sent for 4 days
17. [R38] 1/5 · US Messages not received: None of the messages are loading unless I’m on the app. If I exit to go to another app and come back to Kik, I won’t get any messages that were going on. I woke up and only started getting the ones from the time I woke up not the time I was asleep
18. [R4] 3/5 · US Latest update will not allow me to see certain pfp: Just downloaded latest update and it will not allow me to see certain individuals pfp while in group chat. This is very annoying and I hope you can resolve it. Also I preferred the old gif system. Hopefully you can resolve some of these issues
19. [R6] 3/5 · US Change isn’t always good: The new gif keyboard hardly ever loads and also doesn’t have the popular gifs that Tenor had. Also can’t see a lot of pfps. And no, there’s no setting I can find to make it any different.
20. [R2] 1/5 · US Creeps: I used this app when I was a minor, and men had access to chat with me. Predators love this app. Parents, protect your children and make sure this app is not on their phone
21. [R8] 1/5 · US ABSOLUTELY GARBAGE: This app should be removed from the AppStore it is so poorly run. Nothing but bots, scammers and gays.
22. [R10] 1/5 · US App is trash: No matter how many times you block or say someone’s a scam/fraud they continue to to have a profile. This app is definitely bottom tier for messaging apps
23. [R11] 4/5 · US Could be a five star app: But the spam messages have gotten so out of hand it’s bringing the app down in a big way. I’ve been using kik for over a decade before it was what it is today and always enjoyed it. Not anymore. The more spam messages I report the more I get. If I report 1 I get 10 in it’s place. Kik you need to get this handled and stop asking us to pay for the app. As an OG I will unins
24. [R7] 1/5 · US GIFs no longer work: GIFs won’t load…
25. [R3] 1/5 · US Purchase: Your app was free it’s not worth paying for
26. [R17] 1/5 · US Getting a pay screen option at log in: Thought app was free
27. [R34] 1/5 · US This app has changed for the worse.: I use to use Kik very often from 2015 through about 2018, when it was good. I only downloaded it because I was curious to look through my old messages. This app has changed a lot, I can’t say in a good way. Nowadays it’s just another weird, uncomfortable, inappropriate app for a bunch of strumpets, but I can see why this can attract certain strange folk. Also,
28. [R50] 1/5 · US Buggy: It’s so overrun with ads and horrible streamers the app barely works
29. [R82] 3/5 · US Ads: Ads are hard to shake off and much to often.
30. [R133] 3/5 · US Used to be great: What did you people do to this app it’s horrible and slow the live chat is ok but along with the ads it’s slow I have to fully close it 17 ( not kidding) times just to open a chat sometimes I can chat sometimes I can’t please fix this monstrosity back to how it used to be the classic was way better then whatever this is
31. [R20] 1/5 · US Groups: I can’t make any groups
32. [R60] 1/5 · US Complain: It is not allowing me to join groups,whenever I clicked join group it allows showed something went wrong,you guys should do something to fix that
33. [R155] 4/5 · US The app glished my account: I can't open a group chat
34. [R24] 1/5 · US Kik: Not as good as it used to be a lot of scammers and no 1on1 video chat
35. [R29] 5/5 · US I have recommendation: Bring back video calls!!!!!
36. [R123] 3/5 · US You gotta add some organization to this app!: It’s a good app all things considered but y’all should really add some organization features cuz for example I’m in tons of groups and it is exhausting trying to find the right one so y’all should add a way for us to like add little folders or something for me organize all my chats n groups
37. [R128] 3/5 · US Call feature: Needs one.
38. [R56] 4/5 · US Love but yall….: Fix the damn selfie camera button please and thank you. Can you follow in the ways of snap/most people’s phones and give it a video option instead of trying to hold the button down ? 1/2 the time it doesn’t work and it’s frustrating as all hell
39. [R228] 3/5 · US Fix live: I would make it more stars. However I’m having an issue with your live camera ai it won’t register my face even tho my face is on the screen for live. Please fix this asap. I’ve been a kik member for years.
40. [R240] 5/5 · US Fix it please: The live picture camera is not working it’s showing gallery photo with live picture.
41. [R36] 4/5 · US Chats are gone: Why are so many chats gone and so many profile pictures blank?
42. [R44] 3/5 · US Can’t see pfp and chats are cleared: I enjoy Kik but chats show not talking , pfp white . Seems a lot have major issues lately .
43. [R130] 3/5 · US Good but lost my messages!: I have only used the app for messages thus far, but it froze up and I had to reinstall and lost my message history. :( Additionally, it would be nice to be able to “react” to incoming messages.
44. [R279] 3/5 · GB Connection issues and message saving issues: Mix it’s ok but keep losing connection and can’t get it back have to log out but by doing that I lose my messages should fix it so that messages can be kept after logging out or deleting
45. [R46] 1/5 · US False reporting problem: Yeah long story short I have over 5000 days on this app. You can spam reports literally, you can keep hitting tthe report button and it works for them, imaging talking to someone in video chat and it all turns off. I can spam report you all day if I want and I WILL be rewarded for it. (Maybe next update you can improve your secret Ai not that I will.
46. [R113] 3/5 · US Bans: Way too easy for someone to just report you and get you acct banned. It sucks
47. [R250] 3/5 · US Policy: Kik is way to strict on the users so fast to ban someone for self expression
48. [R35] 3/5 · US Bot City: So many bots here ! AI world here. Haven’t been able to talk to one real person via chat. Only live chat have real people !
49. [R18] 3/5 · US I got groomed on this app: You’re still having random people do sexual live streams and have weirdos here? Thanks
50. [R19] 1/5 · US App for pedofiles: I haven’t used this app since around 9/10 years old but there were so many pedofiles and I fell personally damaged. I should probably sue this company. Anyone that reads this and is willing to back me I will split the lawsuit 50/50. Kik promotes pedophilia and especially when I was a child. Any lawyer reading this I would also split the lawsuit with 50/50. Kik was a sick, grotes
51. [R30] 1/5 · US Why: I have been stalked repeatedly by one person who keeps making accounts just to harass me. He should’ve been IP banned by now. The sexual culture has killed real human interactions and real conversation that doesn’t involve sexual chat. Disgusting app that USED TO BE GREAT.