Pixelfed User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience47.9% of reviews
Neutral14.7% of reviews
Negative experience37.4% of reviews

~ Based on 238 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Pixelfed Safe?

Pixelfed appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Pixelfed is 83/100.

This assessment is based on 537 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.2/5.

Safety Analysis

78.0% of ratings point to a safe experience
7.1% of ratings suggest some concerns
14.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 537 App Store ratings for Pixelfed.

Is Pixelfed Legit?

Pixelfed appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Pixelfed is 60/100.

Based on 60 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Can’t make an account

The account creation process has me going in circles, so I can’t even try out the app. There’s gotta be an easier way to sign up if the goal is to have people switch from instagram.

was great but hasn’t functioned in awhile.

opening the app has said temporarily unavailable for months. it sucks cuz instagram has been banning some trans people and drag queens and I was hopeful about this app. i’ll be happy to leave a positive review if the app returns

App doesn’t work

It used to work for me, but hasn’t for a few months now. I just get a ‘the service may be temporarily unavailable’ message when my feed doesn’t load. Site works ok on a browser.

just horrible

just created an account and i haven’t even been using it for ten minutes and it literally won’t load. total waste of time

Unable to log in

Haven’t been able to log in for some time. But I get notifications when I have a follower. Please fix this issue!

I love it… but

But please update and add more to things to the app pleaseeee I having problems trying to post and it don’t do anything and I can’t see my followers or who I’m following please fix!!!

Doesnt work

Really trying to move away from IG but sadly this app will not allow me to create an account. Endless server error loop. I guess its back to IG -__-

COULD GO VIRAL

Due to Insta replacing all human workers with ai the platform is going downhill and removing users for no reason so this is probably best and biggest opportunity to compete with them and take in the users that Instagram let down! Please please fix how slow it is as it takes so long to load😭 I couldn’t use it to its full potential due to that! If the loading time reduces I reckon this platform will see a lot more users & go viral! I will personally tell everyone I know to use Pixelfed as I have a big following on other social media platforms and just want a safe space to post and use again 🩷
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“Temporarily” unavailable! Define temporary.

Have’t been able to use it for months. I notice all the automated replies “we have shipped a fix”. It’s the app that isn’t working” the service may be temporarily unavailable”. Simply update the app and fix it!.. or lose business.

Impossible to join

We desperately need an alternative to IG. Unfortunately this one doesn’t work. Have tried to create an account for a month. It just doesn’t work. It should be a simple fix, why isn’t it fixed by now? Hmm

Absolute shambles

You’d think trying to compete with Instagram you’d make it actually possible to open an account. I’m done trying. Nothing should be this hard. There’s clearly bugs with this app when you can’t even open an account properly.

Can’t even log in

I’d love to try the app but it took several minutes to load the log in page and then after I put in credentials, it looped back to the login screen again. I can’t get past that point. Reviews from a month ago say this was fixed but it doesn’t seem like it.

Pixelfed as a platform is great when it works. But on mobile or desktop it seems to be down a lot 😢
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confirmation email???

waiting for a confirmation email for over an hour, it's 2026, why is this still a thing that is not flawless? checked to make sure I inputted the right email, all good, nothing.... this is one of the reasons that things like meta keep winning unfortunately, If you want to be a better alternative, being better is the key word.
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# follow button broke ?

When searching a # and wanting to follow that # the app won’t allow me to follow?
after tap just keeps on follow and doesn’t change to unfollow?
previous follows of # show the button as black and saying unfollow and is able to be pressed to deactivate but then cannot be reactivated?

RIP

you were fun while you lasted! reminded me of VSCO-era instagram, but the last 6 months it hasn’t been able to load at all. so sad, time to offload from my phone 💔

Nice simple IG alternative

Very nice quiet photo sharing app without ads and I enjoy the simple UI. I have mixed feelings on the fediverse and the nature of posting here means automatically crossposting to other platforms like mastodon without being able to log in there. Polishing the stories feature a little more will get me all the way in!
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I wanna love this new alternative

Seems like the app is broken. Which is a shame

Log in errors

I can’t log in anymore, always an error

App crashes on start

The app crashes as soon as I start it, I have tried every troubleshooting option. It has been this way for close to s month now.

This could be the next photo sharing platform…

Can’t login, app doesn’t seem to be supported. Messaged dev on mastadon and no response. This app is dead.