I wasted money on this app
I am livid. $13 for VIP. I set my privacy settings so that only people that speak the language I wanna learn would see my profile. Yet, I get messages from every other language except the one I want to learn! I also blocked certain countries and still get messages from people in those countries! I rarely get messages even though I post on Moments. I have a recent profile pic where my face is visible. I interact with posts by liking and commenting. Yet I rarely get profile visits much less messages. Then out of the few messages I receive, maybe 1-2 are from speakers of the language I wanna learn. I could’ve spent those $13 on something else! I know for a fact this app has shadowbanned me or something. Which is insane considering I paid $13!!!! I am so frustrated!!
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Creepy dudes and marketing
If you’re a man all you see are thirst traps and men commenting “Check your DMs”. Addictive design for the male brain. Like 10 taps on grey/obscure text to delete. Lots of strange messages from HelloTalk via email saying “come back, we miss you, etc”.
Too many notifications and questions. Pay to actually use. Can’t uninstall properly.
First off after being asked a million questions and verifications you get to the end and you have to pay to use. Secondly you can’t simply uninstall from your phone. Thirdly many useless notifications and welcome messages from the app. Horribly designed app, but great concept though.
死活注册不成功
老是网卡，加载不出页面
Stay greedy, HelloTalk
I’ve never written a review for anything, but I could not let this slide.
I just signed up today and within a couple of hours, access to key features were revoked. Why? Apparently due to “unusual activity” that the “Team” refuses to specify.
I have a simple profile with only the minimum necessary info - this is the Internet after all and I’m careful about what I share. I spent no more than an accumulated hour listening to some people talk in voice rooms and live. I hadn’t even tried reaching out to people yet or leave comments. None of my activity violates terms.
In order to regain access and “verify” my identity, they demand that I provide a VIDEO of myself explicitly saying certain pieces of info. Um, no. I did not consent to use of camera or microphone at sign up. They say FACE AND VOICE must be shown, otherwise rejected. There’s a serious violation of privacy here.
How is this a solution anyway? How would you verify that the face that I have is the user without violating privacy further and asking for a birth certificate? And all this for what? Activity they say is unusual but has just been normal use.
Here I was hopeful to find meaningful connections through language exchange. It’s unfortunate that with HelloTalk being most people’s top choice for language exchange, I had little choice but to try and use it too. This experience though has been appalling and alienating.
Stay greedy, HelloTalk.
(They let reported VIP members get away with violating terms of conduct).
I just signed up today and within a couple of hours, access to key features were revoked. Why? Apparently due to “unusual activity” that the “Team” refuses to specify.
I have a simple profile with only the minimum necessary info - this is the Internet after all and I’m careful about what I share. I spent no more than an accumulated hour listening to some people talk in voice rooms and live. I hadn’t even tried reaching out to people yet or leave comments. None of my activity violates terms.
In order to regain access and “verify” my identity, they demand that I provide a VIDEO of myself explicitly saying certain pieces of info. Um, no. I did not consent to use of camera or microphone at sign up. They say FACE AND VOICE must be shown, otherwise rejected. There’s a serious violation of privacy here.
How is this a solution anyway? How would you verify that the face that I have is the user without violating privacy further and asking for a birth certificate? And all this for what? Activity they say is unusual but has just been normal use.
Here I was hopeful to find meaningful connections through language exchange. It’s unfortunate that with HelloTalk being most people’s top choice for language exchange, I had little choice but to try and use it too. This experience though has been appalling and alienating.
Stay greedy, HelloTalk.
(They let reported VIP members get away with violating terms of conduct).
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Permanently blocked
I’ve had to delete my account because of the wrong flag and age I put on accident and because of that people spam reported me but now they banned my device so I can’t make another account
Deletes messages
Will delete all your messages in an instant. Be careful.
Connecting you to the world
I love this platform. A very fun place to be.
So bad app
It’s so bad app banning people without any evidence or reason and when you report people you got banned instead and they think the app is like intelligent app or something they ask you for real ids and you should record them a video about you and it’s so disgusting
Doesn’t work
App doesn’t work, can view initial questions to set up account
Got blocked for telling am searching for love if I find and secondly improve my German
People block me on the app when I say am
Looking for love why is that happening they say to much people reported me why this is nuts
Looking for love why is that happening they say to much people reported me why this is nuts
Location
I didn’t give the app my permission to use my location and it still does. I changed it to never use my account and it still shows it.
Meh
Overly complicated and designed to inundate you with unwanted free features while charging for what you fundamentally want: a pen pal. The audacity of basing your model on charging people to just message each other in this hyper-connected world…
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Login
I got this a couple years ago however at one point I got logged out and was never able to sign back in I’ve tried quite a few times ever since and it won’t let me in so I tried create a new account and it stops you from making a new account with the same IP which sucks because I did like this app I had made some friends.
Overall it was good when I could use it.
Overall it was good when I could use it.
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Payment sucks
Payment system fails to recognize my account payment. I told the staff here and they said it was apple’s fault however I checked multiple times with Apple and they said it’s not their system. Mind you I’ve used the payment system just fine before the last update. I believe this is a bug with HT and they refuse to recognize it
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Miss the old HelloTalk
Decided to use this again after years. This used to be an amazing app to connect and learn about other languages and cultures. It’s changed so dramatically, it’s uncomfortable to use. Bring it back to what it used to back in 2019/2020. Aside from all the pay walls, it’s just hard to tell who is real and who is fake now.
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It’s ok
It’s okay… but I don’t like the vip features that is only exclusive to people like the subscriptions is ridiculous expensive
£10.99 where I’m from
- the uk
Is too expensive I don’t mind if they offer £5.99 like most apps do. So if you change that I’ll give a 5 star review
£10.99 where I’m from
- the uk
Is too expensive I don’t mind if they offer £5.99 like most apps do. So if you change that I’ll give a 5 star review
My chat history keeps dissapearing
I’ve been using this app for a year, and this has happened to me before. When I changed my phone and had to reinstall the app on my new phone, all of my conversations disappeared again.
Today, I accidentally deleted the app, and even after logging back into my account, all of my conversations were gone once again. I’ve genuinely lost all the people I used to talk to and all the conversations I had with them. These were important conversations and people I had known for a long time.
How am I supposed to find all of those people again? I’m really upset and disappointed that this has happened more than once. Please fix this issue and help me recover my conversations.
Today, I accidentally deleted the app, and even after logging back into my account, all of my conversations were gone once again. I’ve genuinely lost all the people I used to talk to and all the conversations I had with them. These were important conversations and people I had known for a long time.
How am I supposed to find all of those people again? I’m really upset and disappointed that this has happened more than once. Please fix this issue and help me recover my conversations.
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Can’t sign in
After I put in my email and password and I press next it just shows me a blank screen and I can’t do anything.
