# Cara: Art & Social — user reviews > 450 indexed App Store user reviews of Cara by Cara Project, rated 4.20/5 from 760 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cara-art-and-social/id6450934458/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cara-art-and-social/id6450934458.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 484 · 4★ 107 · 3★ 59 · 2★ 33 · 1★ 77 ## What do users think of Cara? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Smooth and easy to use - 🔒 Anti-AI platform that respects artists - 👍 Great community of artists - 💡 Innovative features like portfolio and timeline sections - 🎨 Dedicated to showcasing human-created art **Cons** - 🐛 Slow loading times and performance issues - 🔍 Difficulty finding and connecting with other users - 🤔 Unclear guidelines around NSFW content - 🔧 Buggy and unstable at times **Commonly reported bugs** - Inability to delete account - Issues with editing user profile and bio - Inconsistent behavior when posting and uploading content **Most requested features** - Add video upload and sharing capabilities - Improve search and discovery features - Provide more customization options for profiles - Implement a more robust notification system - Allow users to organize their likes and posts ## Newest reviews (10 of 450) ### 2/5 — Mehh *2026-07-15, version 0.13.9* This used to be active to the point that later on… there’s seemed to be no more engagement ### 4/5 — Great artist community! *2026-05-04, version 0.13.2* I get way more traction and engagement here than instagram can ever afford! Love the hard NO AI stance! But it would be nice to hide a post I don’t like so that it no longer keeps showing up on the feed. I would also really really really love to edit thumbnails. I’ve made mistakes of not editing nice thumbnails before and it just makes my portfolio look so ugly ;_; it would be nice to have more leeway to polish our portfolio in that regard. Also I can’t seem to access my bookmarks on the app. At least not in an easily accessible way. ### 3/5 — AI detectors feed everyone's work into AI. *2026-05-01, version 0.13.2* I love the idea of an art app/website without AI... but this uses an AI detector. AI detectors are known for messing up. They're literally AI. Your app/website is still feeding these artists' work into AI. ### 2/5 — Censoring artists *2026-04-23, version 0.13.1* Super thankful someone is trying to build a space for artists that isn’t Instagram but the censorship ON A PLATFORM FOR ARTIST is insane! I’ve seen so many sexualized images people have drawn of topless woman that are ok cause of “expression” but am not able to upload any of my character work containing a woman without a shirt cause of the climate she lives in and it’s got a visible nipple in it…… stop only allowing images you can sell to get past censorship. Nudity in art is the least of your worries!! Make it make sense ### 3/5 — It’s very laggy please fix *2026-04-13, version 0.12.10* Yeah ### 4/5 — Would like option to hide suggested art *2026-03-17, version 0.12.8* It’s nice to get recommended art from people I don’t follow sometimes. But I would like the option to hide something I don’t like. It used to be that I can mute them to make their art disappear on my timeline, but now I can’t do that anymore. If I mute them their art still shows up. Which would mean I would have to resort to blocking them if I don’t want their art to pop up, which though I haven’t done is still pretty unfair. ### 1/5 — so much for the "insta killer" *2026-02-23, version 0.12.5* all the ppl that migrated here from ig left w/o a trace or quit posting altogether. ain't no community left, and my engagement gets worse every time i come back hate to say it but i give up wit cara. barely lived up to the hype ### 1/5 — so much for the "insta killer" *2026-02-09, version 0.12.3* all the ppl that migrated here from ig stopped posting or dipped. ain't no community left, and my engagement got worse every time i came back hate to say it but i give up wit cara. guess my art rlly has no place in this world ### 4/5 — Please let us change our email *2026-01-18, version 0.11.9* Please let us change our emails connected to our accounts, this is really really frustrating. ### 2/5 — Can’t make a username *2026-01-05, version 0.11.3* The app keeps telling me that my username needs to at least have 4-20 characters lowercase letters or numbers only. I tried to save it many times but it just won’t let me make an account. Please fix this 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Dead and does not accept higger size files? For an art app? That is sus. *2026-09-01, version 0.13.12* It's a dead app. No engagement, no activity. While other apps offer more and have more audiences. It also does not accept higher size files?it is really sus for an art social media. It honestly seemed it is poorly made with no activity. ### 1/5 — Forced updates *2026-08-24, version 0.13.12* Opened the app today to find that I'm blocked from using it until I update. That is user-hostile garbage. Don't do that. ### 1/5 — Ai Attack *2026-08-16, version 0.13.11* Recently there was a Reddit thread on r/“defendingai” that they managed to scraped all of Cara data on artists works alike. As an artist myself I barely used Cara but only known about it when Twitter was going down so I decided to post some of my art there to see its momentum go nowhere as it was riding the train of twitter exodus but to see an entire app data gets infiltrated by Ai Crapists makes this whole lot worse. I hope anyone reading this don’t ever visit this app ever again. ### 1/5 — Entire site scrapped for AI *2026-08-13, version 0.13.11* The entire draw of this app was to protect artists from having their art from being used to teach AI. Well the entire website got hit and over 12TB of images have been fed into AI. Great job guys. This is why artists don’t trust websites anymore. ### 1/5 — dead app *2026-06-20, version 0.13.7* i tried to like cara for the longest, rlly did, but this app jus ain't for me evb that migrated from insta left w/o a trace. as much as i'd post n engage, i saw lil to no growth. there's no community left, only a ghost town i give up wit cara fr, yall got it ### 1/5 — dead app *2026-04-21, version 0.12.10* ey'body that migrated from ig disappeared w/o a trace, they ain't no community left as much as i'd post n engage, ppl barely fwm. my followers could interact wit ts i'd repost yet ignored all my work. as someone else said, not a welcoming app was gon leave my account up n jus abandon cara, but i deleted both and ain't comin back. yall got it ### 1/5 — dead app *2026-04-19, version 0.12.10* all the ppl that migrated from ig left w/o a trace, there ain't no community left as much as i'd post n engage, no one here fwm. my followers could interact wit ts i'd repost but ignored all my work. like someone else said, not a welcoming app was gon leave my account up n jus abandon cara, but i deleted both and ain't comin back. yall got it ### 1/5 — dead app *2026-04-10, version 0.12.10* didn't live up to the hype. all the ppl that migrated from insta left w/o a trace, there ain't no community left i'd engage wit ppl left n right but no one showed love back, jus ignore n push me away. wut happened to artist support?? given up on cara. might hafta abandon my account atp, yall got it ### 1/5 — Scum! *2026-03-12, version 0.12.8* You’re just as bad as the Mets Platforms did deplatforming people you don’t like. Scum of the Earth! ### 1/5 — Want to like it *2026-02-25, version 0.12.6* Like many who have given up on Pinterest for visual reference images, I had high hopes for Cara. So far, all I can find is fan art, anime-style drawings, and digital work. I just want to look at other fine artists’ paintings. I tried searching on the names of several of my favorite painters and not one painting of any of theirs was found. Not really sure what the point of this app is. Glad it’s AI-free. Still needs art by professional artists or it’s useless. Also extremely unimpressed by the social feature. It’s one of the reasons I no longer use Pinterest, so seeing it as part of this app was definitely a deterrent, not a desirable feature. Where’s an artist supposed to find images of art painted by other fine artists anymore??? ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Cara is a wonderful platform for amazing human artists *2026-08-24, version 0.13.12* I’m so sad to hear about the attacks from Ai users it’s so disgusting and breaks my heart as an artist. i’ve been on Cara before but left for a while only to hear about these Ai attacks. It’s unbelievable and so inhumane. I just cannot believe how disgusting and downgrading Ai has become towards human-made:environmental and innovated things like art, our planet and etc. I hope Cara can recover from this it’s truly sad to see such artist communities being attacked by people who use an inhumane, thieving and environmentally destroying program and call themselves “artists” wow. ### 5/5 — Clean & Concise *2026-08-16, version 0.13.11* Simple & Straightforward platform that allows aspiring and established Artist’s showcase their portfolios while connecting with other Artists. ### 5/5 — Amazing app *2026-07-17, version 0.13.9* I’ve seen so many different types of art here, and there’s no ai, amazing! ### 5/5 — Great app! *2026-07-12, version 0.13.9* I’ve been using Cara for a good bit now, and it’s a great alternative compared to other apps like it. I hope Cara sticks with its original purpose and never caves towards AI in the future. Really like the new updates and can’t wait to see what else comes later. :) ### 5/5 — Very simple! *2026-06-21, version 0.13.7* Honestly, very good app for sharing art. Basically just art social media. There are a few issues but it’s very easy to grow and share your art. ### 5/5 — Jesus *2026-04-28, version 0.13.2* Loves you ### 5/5 — Breath of fresh air *2026-03-20, version 0.12.8* It’s to refreshing to use an app that doesn’t push algorithm favored content. I can actually see new posts, and posts with low like counts instead of just the posts running numbers like on Instagram. Seems like a solid little community of artists on here. I hope more people can join. So far so good! I’m loving being able to share my art with others and meet new people, rather than become buried in sea of posts and get 0 interactions online. ### 5/5 — I really enjoy this app *2026-03-18* I overall enjoy this experience. I am fairly new to the platform. I’ve only posted a minimal number of things on this platform, but I gotta say it’s really good social media and it seems a lot more fair compared to its competitors whereas on Tumblr, I am lucky if I even get three likes where on this my first day posting I got 5 to 6 likes which is really refreshing when your motivation runs off of seeing if people enjoy what you make. I’m sure this app does have quite a bit of bugs. I’ve come across a couple of visual errors, but I’m pretty sure it has to do with more of what I’m using and not really the app I think the app has perfected a lot of different things especially the anti-AI status so far. I haven’t been skeptical of a single piece on this platform, which is sad that I have to be skeptical on any platform of anything being AI. I sure hope that this app does not end like most of its competitors with a bunch of greed and corruption within the next hundred years. ### 5/5 — Good app and community! *2026-03-06, version 0.12.8* While the community is small and engagement is low, it’s a very nice place to be as an artist! My only real criticism is the portfolios, organizing them is tricky sometimes if you don’t use it often. But everything else outweighs that! So proud to be apart of this community ### 5/5 — Best app *2026-02-06, version 0.12.3* This is the greatest way to show your Art and Photography Love it --- *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 2026-09-06.*