# Second Life — user reviews > 469 indexed App Store user reviews of Second Life by Linden Research, Inc., rated 3.50/5 from 437 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/second-life/id6499226173/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/second-life/id6499226173.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 204 · 4★ 53 · 3★ 54 · 2★ 28 · 1★ 98 ## What do users think of Second Life? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Smooth movement - 🎨 Good graphics quality - 💬 Ability to chat with friends - 🎵 Can listen to music **Cons** - 🐛 Rendering issues (black avatars, missing textures) - 🔒 Can't access adult regions - 🤖 Limited functionality (no inventory access, object interaction) - 🔋 Device overheating - 🤔 Buggy and unstable **Commonly reported bugs** - Login issues - Inability to close group chats - Unresponsive joystick controls **Most requested features** - Ability to create new accounts - Access to full inventory and object interaction - Improved camera controls - Background app functionality (notifications, etc.) - Support for more device types ## Newest reviews (17 of 469) ### 4/5 — All good things come in time *2026-08-31, version 0.1.309322* So far this app has been great. No you can’t build yet, no you can’t go into your inventory and Rez something or use some things but SL is a computer high graphics game played on a PC and this app will take time for developers to figure out so if expectations are lowered this app is actually quite helpful for checking in to read im’s, group notices, hanging out with friends, listening to music. Sure it would be great if you could build but that isn’t possible at the moment but who knows maybe in the future it will be but for now it’s still being fine tuned. I am happy that it is available for my iPad. The early days of SL (PC version) the development was slow and the similar to this but as time went by it grew into what it is today and I have faith that this app will do the same. So I will continue to enjoy the process. ### 4/5 — Second life app *2026-08-28, version 0.1.309322* I think it’s an improvement on the mobile app I had before , movement is better too. One thing I would like is to be able to change group tag names- is it possible to? ( rather than having to sign in on my pc ) ### 4/5 — J *2026-08-09, version 0.1.309322* Not bad, the worlds do not really fully load in but not a bad app. Could use some improvements ### 2/5 — Lack Of Features *2026-07-08, version 0.1.259026* Theres no inventory, hover height or AO options to fix your avi to suit. If you look crazy then you gonna LOOK crazy until you get on desktop. ### 3/5 — The game is okay but *2026-07-05, version 0.1.259026* The game is okay but, it really doesn’t need a lot of work, I hope you guys make it just like you do on computer because I know it’s possible. Secondly buying linden dollars is very expensive, it makes it difficult to get started on buying and making things. Also the game is complicated which makes people not want to play it so much which I believe you can make customization easy and still have it your way and the linden prices need to go down so things can be easier especially for beginners. You guys make it hard for beginners to really get started at that’s how you lose people, so please change that and more people will play, you have to paint the bigger picture when creating a game like this, when you create a game like this you make things cheap which is A+ for people and will bring more people in. ### 4/5 — Adult regions *2026-06-13, version 0.1.194450* Can you unlock adult regions and worlds ### 2/5 — Important *2026-05-16, version 0.1.163391* Le jeu dans l’ensemble est très bien les graphismes sont sympas mais je pense qu’on devrait ajouter l’option pour se changer s’habiller et tout parce que c’est grave, relou ### 3/5 — So So … *2026-04-02, version 0.1.1089* You are relegated to just texting and moving. You cannot detach things or access inventory… ### 3/5 — Login from 2011 still works! *2026-03-31, version 0.1.1089* Was absolutely stoked to find my old account and character still there albeit without all the mods I’d set my avatar up with. Disappointing at the poor try on the graphics and lack of character modification available. Fortnight stole your platform imo and you should up the anti! Please :) ### 4/5 — Crashing *2026-03-29, version 0.1.1084* App keeps crashing every time I open it I can’t do anything without it crashing ### 4/5 — Each Update Improves *2026-03-19, version 0.1.1081* I suspect I will upgrade the rating a few updates in the future. With each update the improvements and usability are significantly better. Would love to see inventory management in the future. Right now this is a great alternative to get inworld if I’m on the go and don’t have a laptop or pc with me. I’m happy I can make payments for rent, etc. Keep up with the improvements! ### 3/5 — Resource hog *2026-03-18, version 0.1.1081* Not only is this app a battery killer on my iPhone 16 Pro Max, running this app causes my phone to heat up very quickly to the point I get a warning that it is too hot to charge. ### 3/5 — 🎀When will inventory and shaping your avatar arrive?🎀 *2026-03-08, version 0.1.1081* (✨ Desktop Magic in My Pocket! ✨ )To truly elevate the Second Life mobile experience, the developers should sprinkle in all the magic of the desktop version by creating a fully immersive and intuitive avatar customization suite. This means giving us the same gorgeous precision of body sliders and the ability to perfectly layer our favorite looks directly from our mobile inventory, just like we do at home. By designing a chic, touch-friendly interface for HUDs and complex mesh attachments, every fashionista can maintain her signature glow without needing a PC nearby. Incorporating essential features like Bakes on Mesh and advanced inventory sorting would ensure our creative flow stays absolutely seamless and organized. It is so important that the mobile app feels like a high-end, portable studio where we can craft our dream identities with total professional ease. If they bring these sophisticated desktop tools to our fingertips, our virtual lives will be just as vibrant and stylish on the go!(Full Body & Face Sliders: Bringing that precise, professional shaping power to our fingertips so we can look perfect from every angle. • Seamless Bakes on Mesh (BoM): Essential for keeping our skins and layers looking flawless and high-quality on the go! • Chic HUD Compatibility: A touch-optimized way to use our mesh body and head controllers without the clutter. • Advanced Inventory Organization: Because a girl needs her search filters and folders to stay organized and stylish! • Manual Attachment Control: The freedom to add or remove individual accessories and props with just a tap. • Real-time Lighting (EEP) Toggles: To ensure our environment always provides the most flattering "golden hour" glow for photos.) Bringing the art of building and land management to mobile would be a total dream come true for every virtual homeowner and designer! We deserve professional, touch-friendly tools that allow us to rez our gorgeous houses and curate our land settings with the same effortless precision we enjoy on desktop.(The desktop version of Second Life is an all-encompassing virtual engine that provides high-fidelity tools for 3D building, LSL scripting, and intricate land management alongside deep avatar customization through hundreds of sliders, Bakes on Mesh support, and full interactive HUD compatibility.) I feel like if all this is added it will make the game better ### 3/5 — Extremely lacking compared to the official desktop viewer *2026-01-25, version 0.1.1075* I'm coming back to redo my review since I've had more experience with both the desktop viewer and mobile viewer. Using the mobile viewer, animations are weird and slow and the graphics on my avatar (with mesh parts) just look extremely strange and deformed. Not only that, but you can't access any huds or your inventory, and the chat feature is just... inconvenient. I get that some of these things will be naturally limited due to a desktop app having to be optimized for mobile devices, but the official desktop viewer is WAY better than the mobile app, the differences are like light and day. Aside from that, it works as intended doing the bare minimum; despite the graphic issues on your end, you still appear normally to other users. I simply recommend getting a PC instead or only using this version for text or voice chat only. ### 3/5 — It works when it works *2026-01-17, version 0.1.1075* I can’t visit crowded sims and I have to wait for five minutes for all the menus to load. If I tap on the menu before it loads, it sends me behind the blurred screen and freezes. Every time I want to log in after a crash, freeze or session, I have to delete and reinstall the app. Once I am in an empty sim and all menus loaded, I can message with friends and groups, although my balance is always 0L$ when in reality it’s like 2000 + L$ ### 2/5 — Naja… *2026-01-16* …da ist noch reichlich Luft nach oben. Trotz des neuesten IPhones nur ruckelnde Grafik und das Programm hängt sich andauernd auf. Ich hoffe, das wird irgendwann besser. **Developer response:** Thanks for sharing your experience. Ongoing updates are focused on improving stability and graphics. Please make sure you’re on the latest version, and feel free to share details at feedback.secondlife.com or in the app via Menu > Help > Give Feedback. ### 1/5 — Should’ve been a lean chat app, not a failed attempt at a desktop replacement *2026-01-10, version 0.1.1075* Continuous crashes/freezes. Heats battery quickly to unacceptable levels. This should’ve been a fast and light chat app only, not a failed attempt at a desktop replacement. Mobile phones cannot handle the resources that this silly app demands. Useless. It doesn’t even remember your personal settings between sessions. It always defaults to the most resource intensive settings such as Rez world, high LOD, etc usually crashing before login or before you can change the settings back to your own. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — App Does Not Zopen *2026-07-27, version 0.1.259026* A very bad app. Insists that I must allow notifications but there is no way to allow it. Opens after about 20 attempts and if I click to see messages it freezes. Basically a piece of junk. ### 1/5 — Bad update stops play *2026-07-06, version 0.1.259026* Can’t get past a screen asking to enable notifications, so doesent work at all now ### 1/5 — TRASH *2026-06-27, version 0.1.194450* absolutely do NOT buy! This game is genuinely awful. There are barely any words or choices at all, so you can’t even interact with anything in a meaningful way. You don’t get to customize your character or change anything—it’s just stuck like that no matter what. The graphics are terrible, like unfinished and ugly, and everything looks buggy and broken. Half the time it feels like the game is falling apart. There’s basically nothing to do except walk around, and even that feels clunky and pointless. The world is empty and boring with nothing interesting going on. It honestly feels like a rushed prototype that was never finished or tested. There’s no depth, no fun, and no reason to keep playing. Just overall a frustrating, low-quality experience that feels more like a glitch than an actual game. ### 1/5 — Crashes *2026-06-26, version 0.1.194450* Unusable sense it crashes after 30 seconds ### 1/5 — Terrible graphics and we can’t even create a NEW MESSAGE. *2026-06-12, version 0.1.194450* What’s the point of this app when it’s glitchy and we can’t make a new message to send to someone… not friends btw. ### 1/5 — Buggy and laggy *2026-06-05, version 0.1.194450* The game is buggy and laggy and the game runs slow and I don’t have a lot of stuff on my phone and it makes my phone overheat. ### 1/5 — Cant see in world anymore *2026-03-22, version 0.1.1084* When i log in now. I cant navigate my way out of all the chats and groups anymore. I cant even see in world to move around! Useless atp! Crazy to think sl has been around for over twenty years now i believe. And cant get anything right!! Every good feature they have had has been changed or taken away completely. They are truly out of touch atp! ### 1/5 — Owner *2026-03-07, version 0.1.1081* I don’t believe this app safe it’s way to hack into your SL account ### 1/5 — The game is bad *2026-02-12, version 0.1.1078* Every single thing in it is bad the animation is really bad the frames too they’re worse also the character choice and clothes is so limited and i don’t get what the benefit of the game it’s not even fun ### 1/5 — Worst app ever *2026-01-23, version 0.1.1075* Don’t download this game for starters you have to buy premium to play it second no sex functions all you can do it is sit and chat nothing Else ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Loading is really bad *2026-03-17, version 0.1.1081* I am having problems loading on my Apple phone 16 everything is really blurry onetime it was loading but now it’s not idk what’s going on but can u guys fixed it ### 5/5 — Nice improvements. *2026-03-13, version 0.1.1081* Release 0.1.1081 - great improvement. I am able to play Crystal Craze and empty my basket. I can also teleport via TP pads. Popup menus still aren’t working, but I will wait. ### 5/5 — ✨ Desktop Magic in My Pocket! ✨ *2026-02-06, version 0.1.1078* To truly elevate the Second Life mobile experience, the developers should sprinkle in all the magic of the desktop version by creating a fully immersive and intuitive avatar customization suite. This means giving us the same gorgeous precision of body sliders and the ability to perfectly layer our favorite looks directly from our mobile inventory, just like we do at home. By designing a chic, touch-friendly interface for HUDs and complex mesh attachments, every fashionista can maintain her signature glow without needing a PC nearby. Incorporating essential features like Bakes on Mesh and advanced inventory sorting would ensure our creative flow stays absolutely seamless and organized. It is so important that the mobile app feels like a high-end, portable studio where we can craft our dream identities with total professional ease. If they bring these sophisticated desktop tools to our fingertips, our virtual lives will be just as vibrant and stylish on the go!(Full Body & Face Sliders: Bringing that precise, professional shaping power to our fingertips so we can look perfect from every angle. • Seamless Bakes on Mesh (BoM): Essential for keeping our skins and layers looking flawless and high-quality on the go! • Chic HUD Compatibility: A touch-optimized way to use our mesh body and head controllers without the clutter. • Advanced Inventory Organization: Because a girl needs her search filters and folders to stay organized and stylish! • Manual Attachment Control: The freedom to add or remove individual accessories and props with just a tap. • Real-time Lighting (EEP) Toggles: To ensure our environment always provides the most flattering "golden hour" glow for photos.) Bringing the art of building and land management to mobile would be a total dream come true for every virtual homeowner and designer! We deserve professional, touch-friendly tools that allow us to rez our gorgeous houses and curate our land settings with the same effortless precision we enjoy on desktop.(The desktop version of Second Life is an all-encompassing virtual engine that provides high-fidelity tools for 3D building, LSL scripting, and intricate land management alongside deep avatar customization through hundreds of sliders, Bakes on Mesh support, and full interactive HUD compatibility.) I feel like if all this is added it will make the game better ### 5/5 — In love *2025-12-29, version 0.1.1075* It is the only metaverse with a real business model capable of changing people’s lives. ### 5/5 — We can't peek up our skirt just yet, but that dream will come true in the near future. *2025-12-09, version 0.1.1068* This app is currently undergoing evolution, and the avatar drawing accuracy are getting better and better. I hope that the selfie feature, which is the main content of Second Life, will continue to evolve. ### 5/5 — Not there yet-but works for messaging and hanging atleast. I believe we will see a full exp one day. *2025-12-07, version 0.1.1068* I’ve been a long time user of Secondlife (2008) and I believe that while progress is slow-this is a good thing. I can’t wait to have a fully functioning mobile client. We really need to be able to access our inventories and use huds though… Can’t wait! ### 5/5 — functional for a free new app *2025-11-12, version 0.1.1065* What it has: you can see full environments. full outfits, use saved outfits and landmarks, and sit/touch no menus. it can be glitchy but its very workable and quite good for chatting, idling, or seeing who is on. What it needs: it doesn’t have menu functions, or inventory access, so you cant use elevators. you cant shop, you cant rez or edit, or walk around with a cup of coffee ( unless thats in your saved outfit) no interfaces or AOs and no third party functions like rlv are not available. i look forward to this app minimally adding menus, and ability to interact better with objects. for shopping reasons if nothing else. maybe minimal inventory so i can pull out a holdable object. or remove a glitchy part of my outfit. to be fair my outfits glitch in pc game as well ### 5/5 — Outstanding *2025-11-09, version 0.1.1065* This app seems to have been tweaked slightly, so that it now offers a stipend every day, increasing by small amounts provided you log in daily for a week, to all users. The benefit to new users in particular is enormous, providing a good incentive towards their engagement in this simulated world. ### 5/5 — So… *2025-10-26, version 0.1.1065* What day will the inventory for the iPad version be released in? ### 5/5 — The reason why I’m giving you 5 stars *2025-10-24, version 0.1.1065* The reason why in giving you 5 stars is that I want you to give us some mesh inventories. It feels like you’re ignoring my/our requests. --- *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 2026-09-07.*