# Are.na — user reviews > 189 indexed App Store user reviews of Are.na by When It Changed Inc., rated 4.94/5 from 293 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/arena/id1299153149/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/arena/id1299153149.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 283 · 4★ 6 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 2 ## What do users think of Are.na? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Fast and clean - 👍 Minimalist and accessible - 🖤 Great community and content - 🖤 Inspiring and creative - 🖤 Organically curated experience **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes and stability issues - 🐛 Laggy performance - 🐛 Bugs and glitches - 🐛 Unintuitive navigation - 🐛 Limited functionality compared to website **Commonly reported bugs** - Inability to login or sign up - Blocks not loading or duplicating - App crashing when viewing GIFs/animations - Inconsistent behavior across iOS versions - Navigation issues due to 'Dynamic Island' **Most requested features** - Ability to sort channels by connections - Landscape mode support on iPad - Password reset functionality - Multiple image/video uploads - Improved channel management ## Newest reviews (17 of 189) ### 4/5 — Versão para português do Brasil. *2026-05-22* Gostaria que acrescentasse o idioma português do Brasil. ### 5/5 — The best. *2026-02-06* Just the best place for storing vibes. ### 5/5 — I always feel good after using Are.na *2026-01-30, version 2.0.2* This site revolves around finding the commonality between you and other people and your ideas and theirs. Are.na is the meaning of connection online. Proud to support them and likely will for the rest of my life. ### 5/5 — Better than Tumblr *2026-01-25* A friend put me into this platform and it’s really revived my interest in online spaces. I think it’s what I loved about tumblr and what I wish Pinterest was. Glad I landed here. ### 5/5 — 🖤 *2026-01-23* update improved usability, ty ty **Developer response:** Give the new app a shot, this will 100% be fixed. ### 5/5 — Beautiful and Easy to use *2026-01-20, version 2.0.2* Are.na is life. I use it daily and rely on it for everything from academic research to mood boards to shopping lists. A great mobile app for a great web app! ### 5/5 — One of the best apps of our modern smartphone times *2026-01-14, version 2.0.2* I’ve been using Are.na for over 3 years now, and this website/app has given me the ability to organize ideas, future gifts for friends/loved ones, recipes to be remembered, Youtube Tutorials, and I use it daily for building visual treatments for work (Design + Art Direction) It should not be understated how many rabbit holes can be explored on Arena among its users. Arena feels like the internet that I grew up with. There’s so much to be gained from Arena. Whether organizing ideas/images for a project or hosting your own portfolio as a PDF for others to see. I’m finding new ways every week to use Are.na. Even after 3 years. If you’re big into archiving, in any sense, you would greatly benefit from using Are.na ### 5/5 — Best app *2026-01-09* Best app, my new web homebase ### 5/5 — Everything *2026-01-07* Goes here ### 5/5 — the app of all time *2026-01-05, version 2.0.1* one of the last human oases left on the internet. i adore are.na and its principles as well as its ease of use! the interface is minimalist and accessible, and the new update has improved on the ease of use in every way. one of the few app subscriptions i have and stand by— without utilizing algorithmic feeds or ai search elements, your experience is organically your own. putting your internet experience back in your own hands!!! i love you are.na!!!!!!!! ### 5/5 — 5 stars *2026-01-01, version 2.0.1* There are many platforms out there trying to be Are.na but nobody can match. Are.na is the OG and still the best for making connections and exercising your brain, esp with the new app update. 5/5 ### 3/5 — Good app *2025-12-30* Can you guys please make it again so you can search individual blocks in a channel? Idk if it is just my are.na but would save me much time. **Developer response:** Yes, updates to search coming very soon. ### 5/5 — New UI *2025-12-26* After the new UI/UX update late 2025, it improved so many bugs and bad features. It made the experience way more useable and makes me want to use the app way more. ### 5/5 — i love are.na *2025-12-24* i put people onto are.na and it hurts a bit every time because i’m sharing the gold mine ### 4/5 — Sort function? *2025-12-23* After the most recent update I can’t figure out how to sort by “no. of connections” after searching a particular topic Might be user error but its not obvious to me ### 5/5 — 5 stars *2025-12-22* Very good app no ads or algorithms and much faster than before!! ### 5/5 — new update is 🔥 *2025-12-22* fast and clean, what more could you ask for? ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Impossible de s'inscrire *2026-05-17* Alors à l'écran d'inscription, c'est fait pour des grands téléphones, lorsque le clavier s'ouvre la première ligne, pour mettre mon e-mail, disparaît en haut, impossible de cliquer dessus ! Allez zou, bye bye 👋🏻 ### 1/5 — . *2026-01-28* постоянно вылетает, приложение прекратило работу на территории россии))) нельзя оплатить платную подписку с российской карты. засуньте эти 5$ себе в задний проход, пойду отдам деньги нормальным разработчикам ### 1/5 — Serious ethucal concerns. Turned into a place for men to store private naked photos of women *2026-01-19* used to love Arena. It felt like a thoughtful, experimental space for designers, artists, and researchers to collect and share visual references. Even though it’s basically a glorified Pinterest for creatives, it had a curatorial ethos that made it feel intentional and community-driven. Over time, though, I’ve watched it turn into something much more troubling. Increasingly, Arena hosts large, unregulated collections of nude women uploaded by men, often framed loosely as “erotica” or “reference,” but without names, context, credit, or any indication of consent. In many cases, these appear to be private or scraped images, not published art, and there is no way to verify whether the people depicted are adults, whether they agreed to their images circulating in this way, or even where the images came from. What’s disturbing is not the presence of sexuality per se, but the complete absence of safeguards, attribution, or accountability. When users raise concerns, the content is often defended as aesthetic or artistic, but art does not require anonymity, and erotica does not require erasure. A platform that positions itself as a design and research tool should not function as an unmoderated archive of unidentified naked women. Arena’s hands-off approach feels less like openness and more like neglect. Without clearer policies, moderation, or ethical standards, the platform risks becoming a repository for exploitation rather than a space for creative exchange. That shift has made it increasingly uncomfortable to use, and it’s the reason I no longer feel able to recommend it. ### 1/5 — broken *2025-10-16, version 1.4.7* it’s not functional anymore, can’t navigate anywhere in the app ### 1/5 — It’s just a site wrapped as an app *2025-10-07* And it works worse than a site **Developer response:** Give our new app a shot! ### 1/5 — Too many crashes *2025-10-05, version 1.4.7* Unfortunately, I can’t enjoy the app to its fullest since it crashes too much. I wish they would optimize it for mobile. ### 1/5 — Simply doesn’t work *2025-08-06, version 1.4.7* I’ve set up a channel and want to add a block to it. I’ve clicked “Connect” and pasted the URL into the search box and, simply, nothing happens. I’ve tried this over and over again with no results. Simply useless! Doesn’t even deserve one star. ### 1/5 — keeps crashing *2025-04-11, version 1.4.7* too many gifs animations crashes the whole app.... its time for an update people ### 1/5 — Very unstable *2025-04-02* Please improve stability and UX. Now it's quite bad. **Developer response:** Try our new app, you'll appreciate the difference :) ### 1/5 — Stop drain our money *2023-12-31* Why I am should to pay for connect pictures more then 200 blocks? are you ok? you just the paid pinterest. Maybe you will automatically debit money from bank card for entering your site? for viewing pictures on site 1 sec - 1 dollar. why not?????????? ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — very very good *2026-08-16* Love it! ### 5/5 — 롱블랙에서 기사 접하고 왔어요 *2026-07-21* 알고리즘이 돌봄케어로 사는 사람입니다. 어떤 고민이 있으면 그 고민 딱 짚는 글 뜨고, 관심 생기면 바로 영상 옵니다. 근데 문득 그런 생각이 들더라고요. 내가 뭐 좋아하는지도 얘가 먼저 알고 갖다주는 거 아닌가. 그래서 홧김에 받았습니다, 이 앱. 아직 안 써봤지만 일단 알고리즘없이 한번 살아보려고요. ### 5/5 — Totally original *2026-07-19* One of the best places for curation and inspiration. ### 5/5 — Wonderful app *2026-06-08* A favorite. Nice. Friendly. ### 5/5 — ❤️ *2026-04-21, version 2.0.6* The best app ever to be created ### 5/5 — Perfect App *2026-04-13, version 2.0.6* Been using are.na religiously since like 2022. It feels almost like a journal, something to look back on that encapsulates your interests over time. Really good stuff! ### 5/5 — Excellent *2026-03-11* Literally the only app I use to curate images now. No distracting bells or whistles like other social media. The subscription is 1,000% worth the ad-less experience. ### 5/5 — everything. *2026-03-06* arena changed my life. i recommend it to everyone and talk about it constantly. ### 5/5 — arena rules *2026-02-26* i always feel so good when i spend time on this app ### 5/5 — Great alternative to Instagram *2026-02-19* Nourish your mind! It’s a lovely community here and there’s lots of niche interests to discover both visually and through text. Great memes, pdfs, design, poetry and beyond --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-28.*