# Play:Date Kids Social Network — user reviews > 17 indexed App Store user reviews of Play by Play:Date Kids Social Network, rated 2.20/5 from 18 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/playdate-kids-social-network/id1189879174/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/playdate-kids-social-network/id1189879174.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 3 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 9 ## Newest reviews (1 of 17) ### 1/5 — Special characters? *2017-07-03, version 1.5* Despite removing all punctuation it still won't allow me to create a profile saying 'you appear to have some special characters in your description, please remove them' ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Slow and unstable *2024-12-14, version 5.0.3* Downloaded it, deleted it. ### 1/5 — Don’t bother downloading *2023-08-30, version 5.0.2* so much potential but the app is too glitchy to use. It’s not possible to actually match with other profiles and message them. ### 1/5 — Scam app *2023-04-21* I believe this app is trying to get personal info about children. It doesn’t do anything to connect you with other kids. You can’t even get rid of your account. Do not get this app. Your kids livelihood could be at stake. ### 1/5 — Pointless *2021-08-14* You can’t narrow it down to your geographical location. It only lists the city, so not the state. My kids not gonna play with someone across the country. It’s a waste of an app if they don’t change that. Can’t delete your profile either. There’s no help or support options to select. ### 1/5 — Can’t set up *2020-10-30, version 1.9* Well downloaded the app. In order to set up the only option was to use Facebook, not another option like email. Anyway so did so only to be told that I cannot use is as doesn’t work for the app ### 1/5 — App not working *2020-10-19, version 1.9* App doesn’t work on IOS, “ Error App not set up: This app is still in development mode, and you don't have access to it. Switch to a registered test user or ask an app admin for permissions. ### 1/5 — Unable to sign in with FB *2020-07-19, version 1.9* Not able to even set up an account. Keep getting the following message: App Not Setup: This app is still in development mode, and you don't have access to it. Switch to a registered test user or ask an app admin for permissions. ### 1/5 — No people on the app *2018-10-15* It only lets you search by city and country. There is no one in my small city using it, so my only other option is searching by country. It won’t even let you narrow it to the state, or search by a different city. It uses your location to determine your city, so your stuck with that. I’m not going to go to a different state for a play date. ### 1/5 — Lame *2018-09-21* Requires I link to Facebook. Not a chance. I don’t allow apps access to all of my personal info. Allow us to use an email instead. 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻 ### 1/5 — No people *2018-04-04* There are literally no people on this app. However, I keep getting requests from 12 year olds with no photos or profiles. For my 3 year old. ## Most praised reviews (6 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Love it 😍 *2021-08-03, version 4.0* Such a cute app and much needed in a city like Dubai where it’s hard to meet new friends 🥰 ### 5/5 — Simple and effective *2018-07-25* Simple and awesome to find like minded friends my son is in Lego and playing outdoor. ### 3/5 — It’s good but a few problems *2022-06-04* I do not like the phone number login so I put my phone number in but it didn’t send me a code can you remove the phone Number ### 3/5 — Shows promise *2019-06-26* The basic architecture of the app is decent, but: 1) having a non-Facebook login would be great, and 2) being able to search in a radius from your city would be helpful (as others have noted, it’s either kids in your city or kids in your country — kind of useless outside of large cities!). Hopefully they keep working on it and make these simple fixes! ### 3/5 — Help *2018-08-08, version 1.8* App keeps crashing ### 2/5 — Good Idea Bad Implementation *2023-01-22* I was very excited to sign up for this app and possibly find friends for my son but it was short lived. Once you sign up for the app there is no way to search in your area. One person with a very vague description popped up in my city but then the next 50-100 swipes were all people that lived around the world. Like are you kidding me? Not wasting my time looking at people who obviously aren’t in my city. Come on!!!! I mean it’s a good idea but until you fix that I think the app is worthless. Also there is no way to delete your account you can only email them we will see how fast they respond. --- *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 2026-06-11.*