Leave a Review Kik Messaging & Chat App
Good for chat but security flaws
I started using App based on suggestions that it was a private way to chat with others. Used mainly for adult purposes, or any scenario where you don’t want anyone to see a chat in your phone’s text messaging. The addition of specialized groups you can join to meet others with same interests to you was an added bonus. Actually made some real friends with the groups. What I find very disturbing is the extremely high amount of bots that are in the App. They are usually disguised as attractive women who privately message you, and then try to lure you with spam or a phishing link. Of course, I just report and block and delete them, but when you’re getting up to 10 a day, you start to realize KIK has a major problem. They can also join private groups and wreak havoc with members. Remember, children (17 y.o.’s per KIK, but I’m sure younger are using App) can use this App, so this can create real problems to the unaware. When you report the Spam Bots every…single…day, you would think KIK would take more stringent action to prevent this. Nothing. It simply allows you to block them. I thought reporting them would get their accounts removed, but when I look at my block list they still exist years later. Especially disturbing because the Spam Bots are always sexually explicit. Not for younger, or people sensitive to sexual harassment. Take this seriously, KIK.Show lessEJMills
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Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Please, make sure to flag the incident in question on Kik. Our moderation team will make sure to take action as soon as possible.Good for chat but security flaws
I started using App based on suggestions that it was a private way to chat with others. Used mainly for adult purposes, or any scenario where you don’t want anyone to see a chat in your phone’s text messaging. The addition of specialized groups you can join to meet others with same interests to you was an added bonus. Actually made some real friends with the groups.
What I find very disturbing is the extremely high amount of bots that are in the App. They are usually disguised as attractive women who privately message you, and then try to lure you with spam or a phishing link. Of course, I just report and block and delete them, but when you’re getting up to 10 a day, you start to realize KIK has a major problem. They can also join private groups and wreak havoc with members. Remember, children can use this App, so this can create real problems to the unaware.
When you report the Spam Bots every…single…day, you would think KIK would take more stringent action to prevent this. Nothing. Especially disturbing because the Spam Bots are always sexually explicit. Not for kids.Show lessDeveloper Response
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Please, make sure to flag the incident in question on Kik. Our moderation team will make sure to take action as soon as possible.Best Accurate tracker!! Very awesome✅💯
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Was good, now pointless
Kik used to be ok. Fun, rooms for every taste, and a few good features. It had its issues (too many bots, spammers, and a heavy focus on adult content). But it was still fun. You could meet a lot of fun people, could find rooms you liked, and learned to dodge the crap. HOWEVER, this release is broken garbage. The sex and bots are still as rampant as ever, but now you get far too many pop up ads, and CANNOT join ANY rooms. Absolute garbage. Pointless. And I put in a service ticket where I explained everything (my account, what phone, what os, the problem, the things I had tried, etc). I received an automated response apologizing for the issue and asked me a small list of questions they needed as additional information. Most of which I had already provided in my initial contact. I wrote back with concise answers to each. A day later I got another automated response with another list of questions, several of which were repeats of the first. I patiently provided those answers. It has now been 2 weeks and I have not heard a peep in response despite two more follow up attempts on my part. Point is, their service is as bad as their app. Unless and until they fix this version steer clear. It is a waste of time!Show lessMmmfrompa
Better, but still needs work
After the last update and my last review, you fixed one of the major issues and complaints I had; you fixed the notification bug, now they come though again and I can actually talk with people again, however there's still two issues that plague the app; the ads and the bots, I'll go over both issues: 1. The ads are extremely frequent and annoying, they're often unskippable or straight up lock you in them so you can't access messages easily, I've had to close the app a total of three times to get out of some ads. 2. The bots, dear god the bots, they're out of control. Over the last month, I have gotten over 35 invites from random sex bots trying to scam me for a website (and since my last review, twenty more have added me), this can all be fixed if you simply add the ability to disable people from inviting you or if you purge the app of these bots. Please PLEASE do something about the bots, I can wait with the ads, just put something out that either purges all the bot accounts or give us the feature to disable invites -A user who had used your app since 2018Show lessColton pokemon
Used to be good. Not so much anymore
I have had this app for 8 years now and it used to be so much better when it was just chatting and video, without all the extra features they have now. If I don’t want be live or watch anyone be live I still have to deal with seeing them on my feed. Why?
Live is very pointless and everyone on it are pervs and trying to promote sex and being inappropriate indirectly. It’s very annoying. It’s also not more the features, it’s the fact that the app has SO many bugs now bc of these features and it continuously freezes. The only reason I’m still on this app and tolerating this is bc of my old friends that I talk to on the app, however if it continues and it’s not dealt with I’ll have no other choice but to leave the app. Also why do I keep receiving messages from bots or females asking for n**es? Please fix this it’s ridiculously annoying. Focusing on making the messaging better rather than adding pointless features.Show lessPersianCrown
New Message Notifications Broken, Poor Customer Service, No Plans to Fix Issue
In the latest update of the KIK app, the “new messages” notifications pop up but you’re unable to access or read the new message. At this time I was unable to find a “fix”. So after having to complete an extensive (and confusing) search to report the issue, I was able to email their tech team to inform them that I receive the notification for new messages but I am unable to read them. Their response was, “we know there’s an issue with new notifications and at this time there are no plans to fix it.” Unfortunately the App Store won’t let you download an older version (at least that I can find).
If you want a messenger app that you’re already a member of and can only receive messages to those in your history list of people who have already contacted you, then this app will suffice. If you wish to direct new friends to your KIK app or want people to find you via their search function, good luck. You’ll get a notification that you received a message but won’t be able to access it. I used to love this app as it reminded me of the old Yahoo Messenger. I guess I’ll have to find messenger app since they said there’s no plan to fix it.Show lessOnthedownlow
New messages function is broken
I’ve had the app for about 2 years. In the past it’s been alright… lots of message loading issues and general glitches. Plus I have never been able to receive push notifications, even though I’ve done the troubleshooting and done everything recommended to turn on push notifications. They just don’t work. Which is annoying.
Now the new message function is broken, which is just as frustrating as it sounds. I’m getting new message requests from friends and I’m 100% unable to view or access them. So I essentially can’t chat with those friends at all and their messages are just hanging in cyber limbo. I contacted customer support and they said they’re aware of the issue and that there is no fix for it, but that they’re working on it. It’s been broken for about a week now. You would think that an app pretty much dedicated to chatting with people would be more concerned about the fact that… people are currently unable to chat with each other. From what I’ve read, all iOS users are experiencing this. This is a huge glitch for what is probably over half of their user base. What’s the point of the app if I can’t talk to my friends? Kik developers need to get their act together and fix it before people just ditch for Snapchat entirely.Show lessvanna red
“Live” has ruined this app
I don’t care to chat with strangers live, especially when most of it goes directly against the terms and conditions as its basically porn, and the app now automatically picks a random person who is live and sticks it above the last conversation I had. The result is that I go into the app and click on a conversation I’m having, but as the app loads, it loads tons of live people along the top and then also some random live person. Thus instead of opening my personal conversation I clicked on, the live one often loads. Also the recent editions constantly pop up a blue screen to have me make sure I don’t lose my info, but when you click on it, it doesn’t offer an update, it instead takes you to settings. Using this app, I usually open it and close it twice to get past the b.s. auto-loaded content and just get to the conversations with people I know. It used to be great before live—I wish I could disable that.Show lessSorengyrl
Pros and cons for sure
I’ve had this app for a bit now. On and off and through multiple accounts. It’s great in many ways, I’ve found many friends and had many laughs. The community overall is full of nice people. But lately it’s died down, sadly. There’s been an overrun of bots that kinda drove people away, and many of the bots- besides rage- just don’t work anymore. Now they’re pushing this new live thing that not many people even use. Sure, some do. But it’s really not that many. And the ads oh my goodness. It’s great. Has a good base and start and all, but slowly it kinda… fell apart. I hope it gets better soon. EDIT: Unable to make your own groups now because of the blacklist thing. I get it, but it’s annoying. I get that you use it to get rid of bots but it really messes with people. The info video basically tells you to either start a new account (and people have accounts for years and don’t wanna restart) or get a new device like. Seriously man? Stop this nonsense and work on it a different way rather than messing with good, creative people.Show lessHi Im Irony
