# HalloApp — user reviews > 30 indexed App Store user reviews of HalloApp by HalloApp, Inc., rated 3.90/5 from 146 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/halloapp/id1501583052/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/halloapp/id1501583052.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 97 · 4★ 5 · 3★ 10 · 2★ 5 · 1★ 29 ## Newest reviews (10 of 30) ### 3/5 — Needs other ways to login *2021-08-07, version 1.8* Not giving my phone number to an unknown new app… support login via Apple and I will go past the first screen ### 3/5 — A Promising Start *2021-07-23, version 1.7* It's great to see a company take another swing at private and healthy social media, and I'd love to use HalloApp as a drop-in replacement for Instagram and Facebook. Unfortunately, it's not quite there yet. For one, posts are automatically deleted after 30 days. I'm not sure if this was a deliberate design decision or a side effect of using the Signal protocol. But one of the things I'll often do on a platform like this is scroll back and view old memories and photos. Without the option to preserve posts, I don't see myself using it. Still, it's a promising start and I'm keeping my eyes on this project. The instant posts can be preserved I'll be dumping Instagram and Facebook. Additionally, I'd love to see capabilities for groups for event management and the like. Bring on the paid features! ### 3/5 — Voice chat *2021-07-23, version 1.7* In total, it’s fine but if it has voice chat and voice call and video call it was so better. The other opinion is the ability of editing the messages and i think it would be better to have this ability. ### 2/5 — Voice message *2021-07-22, version 1.7* Add voice message ### 3/5 — Needs more granularity up front *2021-07-22, version 1.7* The problem is in relying on your entire phone directory up front. If it were possible to start with a subset and build out, this would be a great start. As it is, once you have at least one contact, you can pick “just these people” but that’s not available until you’re already up and running. Would like to see this change if I’m going to convince people to try it out, because otherwise this is simple, granular, and seems to be an ideal replacement for mass social media. I look forward to revisions. ### 4/5 — Hmm bad nic *2021-07-21, version 1.7* 🔥 ### 2/5 — No iPad specific app - pass! *2021-07-20, version 1.7* Doesn’t provide an iPad formatted version. Not acceptable for what they are trying to be. Hard pass. ### 1/5 — Way too easy to abuse *2021-07-20, version 1.7* The first step is to upload all your contacts. The second step is assuming all your contacts are friends. Step one is a gross invasion of privacy, on the level of what Facebook does. Nobody in my contact book is giving permission to this app to mine their info. Step two is dangerous. I have several contacts that stay in my phone so I know not to answer their calls. I have other contacts that are no longer friends. I have work contacts that shouldn’t be able to see all my posts. Until this app removes the requirement to upload all contacts and go through them one by one to block them, it’s just as gross as the competition. ### 1/5 — privacy *2021-07-20, version 1.7* if you created an account you can’t delete it because this app has a big bug in deleting account. this app gather your contacts information in their servers that I think this isn’t right and I’m entirely opposed with this part of this app. let me make it clear to you there is no privacy :) ### 5/5 — ‌‌Iranian Breakfast *2021-07-20, version 1.7* پنیر آمل 😂🤌🏻 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — BAD privacy practice from the start *2022-09-02, version 1.22* Can’t get started without uploading all your contacts. The stated goal of this app is to keep you in touch with your “real” friends: why do you want to connect me to my dentist, my boss, people I don’t know who may have inherited a contact’s old phone number, etc. Why not just let users invite who they really want? This app is getting DELETED now. ### 1/5 — Poorly done WhatsApp clone *2022-06-12, version 1.18* I’m not sure why this app exists. Asking me to upload all of my contacts is gross. I’m not interested to share my personal photos with my plumber and handyman. ### 1/5 — Accesses your entire contact list *2022-05-09, version 1.16* Ex-Facebook employees made an app that requires accessing your entire phones contact list. ### 1/5 — You don’t need access to my Contacts for this to work. *2022-05-07, version 1.16* Let me manually enter the names and numbers of people I’d like to contact. I don’t believe your privacy statement when the first thing you do is ask for my full contact list. ### 1/5 — What *2021-08-28, version 1.8* Idk what this is supposed to be ### 1/5 — Add this to the list... *2021-07-22, version 1.7* ...the list of messenger apps you never use. I have 14 messenger apps on my phone at the time of writing this review. HalloApp provides nothing substantial that I can’t get from other apps. ### 1/5 — Again. Another social fail *2021-07-22, version 1.7* Can’t start a group. Limit to 50! Can’t ### 1/5 — You must upload your contact book in order to use this app. *2021-07-21, version 1.7* Otherwise the app doesn’t work. This is misleading from a privacy perspective. ### 1/5 — Same lame old WhatsApp limitations *2021-07-21, version 1.7* Can’t change phone number. You lose everything if you get a new number. Can’t delete comments after an hour. Despite access to my contacts it won’t allow me to invite anyone. Pure forced to allow ALL contacts access to your data unless you MANUALLY limit access. This is app is DoA. Deleted my account & uninstalling the app. You should skip this. ### 1/5 — Panire Kale *2021-07-20, version 1.7* Ax 3evom Panire Kaleee ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Best minimalist App *2022-02-05, version 1.14* This is one of the best minimalist social + friends & family feel App. ### 5/5 — Great new experience! *2021-07-24, version 1.7* I love the app so far, whenever I use it I I get discord vibes but with a new vibe! So far I have a few family members and I haven’t gotten any glitches so far! Overall 5 stars can’t wait to see what they add next. ### 5/5 — Naic *2021-07-22, version 1.7* ها هزار تومن ### 5/5 — برنامه سبک *2021-07-21, version 1.7* برنامه سبک و خوبی هست با توجه به نگرش و خلاقیت مدیران سابق واتس اپ بهتر میشه برای آموزش های آیفونی به پیج اینستاگرامی Tech.Hands مراجعه کنید 👌🏽 ### 5/5 — Problem in receiving verification code *2021-07-21, version 1.7* Hey, I'm living in Iran and I couldn't receive verification code. What should I do? Thanks ### 5/5 — It’s Great *2021-07-21, version 1.7* It’s Simple, it’s reliable & it Works great. ### 5/5 — Simple and straight *2021-07-21, version 1.7* Really easy to use and can be sure that my stories are only seen by the people I know directly. 🤗 ### 5/5 — Good *2021-07-20, version 1.7* Good ### 5/5 — Muy buena app *2021-07-20, version 1.7* Si hicieran una para el Apple Watch 😍 sería fantástico!! ### 5/5 — یادگاری *2021-07-20, version 1.7* بماند به یادگاری برای آیندگان! --- *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 2026-06-10.*