# Tapatalk - 200,000+ Forums — user reviews > 1,908 indexed App Store user reviews of Tapatalk by Everforo, Inc, rated 4.40/5 from 15,545 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tapatalk-200000-plus-forums/id307880732/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tapatalk-200000-plus-forums/id307880732.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 11,143 · 4★ 2,019 · 3★ 877 · 2★ 344 · 1★ 1,162 ## What do users think of Tapatalk? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Convenient forum access - 📚 Wide range of supported forums - 🗓️ Helpful for keeping track of forum activity **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes - 🔋 Drains battery quickly - 🤖 Aggressive and intrusive advertising - 🤯 Confusing and constantly changing UI - 🔒 Login and permission issues - 🕰️ Slow performance and long load times **Commonly reported bugs** - Inability to access password-protected forums - Duplicate/missing post notifications - Inconsistent behavior across iOS versions - Broken 'like' and 'quote' functionality **Most requested features** - Ability to start new threads - More customization options - Improved notification system - Better support for image/media uploads - Seamless integration with forum websites ## Newest reviews (20 of 1,908) ### 2/5 — Login Don’t Work *2026-08-18, version 8.10.55* Downloaded the app so I could have several groups in one app. But none of the groups I use logins worked. Tried them outside of the app and they worked fine. Glad I haven’t been billed for my subscription. What a waste of time. ### 2/5 — Lenta *2026-03-14, version 8.10.55* Lenta ### 2/5 — Glitchy and frustrating *2026-01-08, version 8.10.54* I've been using Tapatalk for a number of years to access three different forums. It's frustrating to use as it's full of glitches. Some of the threads I follow have hundreds of posts, but the preview always only shows the very first post, not the latest one. If there are photographs in the thread, then often the wrong photograph shows up on Tapatalk - if you go onto Safari the correct photo shows. The most recent messages in threads frequently repeat. The app frequently fails to load and needs to be closed and re-opened Threads that have been read often show up on the "unread" tab multiple times, making it really hard to find the threads I actually haven't read. The adverts are really intrusive and mostly seem to be for violent games or gambling. If there was any alternative app to access the forums I want to follow, I'd not use Tapatalk. ### 1/5 — Was great year ago, not now. *2025-12-08, version 8.10.54* I haven’t used the app in a long time and though I would give it a look again. It lasted only an hour… I received an upgrade page every time I got an alert and opened the app. It’s quicker and easier and much less invasive to use Safari. ### 1/5 — Subscribe Ad Spam *2025-11-07, version 8.10.54* Every few taps of your screen, you get spam to buy. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2025-10-21, version 8.10.54* The search function doesn’t find anything nor does it show the forum I’m subscribed to. Nothing shows up. Deleting this waste of space now. ### 1/5 — Diventata inutile *2025-10-18, version 8.10.54* Ormai non si trova quasi più nulla, credo che i forum affiliati si stiano azzerando ed anche i partecipanti! ### 1/5 — Overly annoying purchase prompt *2025-10-07, version 8.10.54* Uninstalled within 3 minutes. You get a full screen pop up every 2 or 3 clicks. I get it, if I’m not paying for the subscription I get ads, but literally every few seconds is too much. ### 1/5 — Popup insupportable *2025-10-03* Popup qui s’ouvre à chaque fois que j’ouvre une nouvelle discussion pour me demander de prendre l’abonnement payant afin de ne plus voir les pubs… ça m’ennuie encore plus que les pubs !!! ### 2/5 — Could be better. *2025-09-30, version 8.10.54* This app has issues. Go run notifications are useless when they point to a browser that then points to the app but the links all fail. Posting documents and images fail. Posting hyperlinks fail. And search us offline 40% of time. ### 1/5 — PLEASE *2025-09-18, version 8.10.54* Dark icon is the only app that looks bad on iOS26 ### 1/5 — Excellent … mais support commercial inexistant *2025-09-16, version 8.10.54* Vraiment une excellente appli pour regrouper les forums. Par contre, ayant acheté de longue date la licence « à vie »iPhone, puis la licence « à vie » iPad, mes licences sont devenues inopérantes, et le support est muet. ### 2/5 — Can find any of the forums I want *2025-09-13, version 8.10.53* You’d think lawn care would bring up tons of results but no, mostly just ads for local lawn care companies. Ody Forum, CR-V Owners, DIY Chatroom all big forums I’d like to use and none of them are on here. Another reviewer said forums were disabling Tapatalk from accessing their sites, it definitely looks that way. ### 1/5 — Scammers *2025-08-31, version 8.10.53* I was an early VIP member who supported Tapatalk from the start but they just decided one day to cancel my VIP membership and now constantly spam me in the app to sign up to VIP again. This behaviour should be illegal, I paid for lifetime membership and now they want me to pay again. ### 3/5 — payment bug *2025-08-20, version 8.10.53* pls help me i pay twice for a year vip but after hours i get lose, pls check i already send u to support team hope it fix, thxs :) ### 1/5 — Pésima *2025-08-18, version 8.10.53* Pagando y va lenta o falla a menudo. Una estafa. ### 1/5 — Need CloudFlare human verification *2025-07-11, version 8.10.53* Tapatalk needs to update their app and/or forum plugin to support CloudFlare human verification. This has been limiting access to forums that have enabled verification to avoid bot attacks. ### 3/5 — Fatal *2025-06-28, version 8.10.51* Despues de pagar por la app, me dice que no tengo permisos para contestar temas, total, que es una inutilidad, timo en toda regla ### 1/5 — BUG, LAG, AND CRASHES *2025-06-12, version 8.10.50* ALWAYS BUGGING, CANNOT UPLOAD PHOTOS, VIP SUBSCRIPTION IS ALWAYS CRASHING, WASTE OF MONEY ### 1/5 — To many issues *2025-06-10, version 8.10.49* Up until recently this app worked good now there’s too many issues and the company refuses to fix it. Skip this app. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Keeps popping up subscription *2026-07-11, version 8.10.55* Unusable unless you buy a paid sub. Otherwise it pops up every time you click a new thread ### 1/5 — Cloudflare compatibility is zero *2026-06-25, version 8.10.55* Trying to use forums that have implemented cloudflare is impossible, the software doesn’t allow login or present a login screen to allow interaction. ### 1/5 — Fake search results *2026-06-07, version 8.10.55* Tell me WHY the search feature in an app all about forums, does not work? I tried to see what forums existed, to see if there was anything of interest for me. I typed in a search word of interest…a handful of search topics were auto generated, as if they existed in this app… BUT if you were to tap on ANY of those individual results that returned, I consistently got this message : “Oops! We couldnt find ‘( insert whatever forum topic I tried looking for here) , try something else!” I tried about 20 different generic search terms with the same results. I guess the goal is to get folks to sign up for the lifetime, thinking there will be all kinds of topics of interest in the app? When in actuality there is no way to preview what forums exist without paying. I don’t know about you all, but I don’t pay sight unseen. Also when I created an account, it auto suggested a handful of forums to me…the only ones I could search through in fact. One of them was for Tapatalk support- ok, makes sense. Another was for guitars. I don’t play the guitar. Another was for beards… I am a LADY and I am not all that hairy, either. Well, maybe my legs in the winter. Get it together- if there were an actual way to browse forums before purchasing a subscription or lifetime I might actually do it…but this is very deceptive as it leads people to believe the search results that come up when they put in a term are actual forums, when in fact, they lead to an error message. ### 1/5 — Constantly down *2026-05-25, version 8.10.55* App no longer works. Even after giving money to remove the ad. So disappointed. ### 1/5 — New app new scam *2026-05-05, version 8.10.55* So Tapatalk made a new app, discontinued Tapatalk Pro, and once again if you want add free you have to pay again. This is the 2nd or 3rd time these grifters have done this. ### 1/5 — Unusable *2026-03-11, version 8.10.55* How do u even use this trash? Then give them money so their ad stops popping up every click? Come on guys do better. This is trashhhh. How can yall recommend this hot mess ### 1/5 — So so buggy *2026-03-04, version 8.10.55* Unfortunately, this is the only app that will allow me to access the forums I want to ### 1/5 — Virtually unusable without paid subscription *2026-02-17, version 8.10.55* Used to be decent, occasional ads while scrolling and the rare popup asking to subscribe for ad-free use. Not any more. Every, and I do genuinely mean every single time I try to access a thread/discussion group, everything - I get a pop up asking me to subscribe. Another decent app trashed by greed ### 1/5 — iOS 26.2 black screen *2026-01-02* App fails to work after recent iOS update. Black screen and nothing happens. ### 1/5 — Terrible App *2025-12-29, version 8.10.54* I tried this recently after not using it for several years. Wow, it’s horrible now. Nothing but spam ads to purchase. You try to read a forum and every few clicks you get a full screen ad trying to get you to purchase. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — App couldn’t push notifications *2022-08-11, version 8.10.21* For subscribed post, this app couldn’t push notifications from some months ago. Please fix this issue ### 5/5 — Broken *2021-04-11, version 8.9.3* Does not work all I get is network error ### 5/5 — compatibilidad con modo zoom *2020-10-22, version 8.8.10* cuando estará la aplicación adaptada al modo zoom? ### 5/5 — Essential ✨ *2020-09-03, version 8.8.8* Essential appka! ### 5/5 — Sympa mais... *2020-08-09* Bonne appli que j’utilise depuis quelques années mais depuis plusieurs jours impossible de me connecter sur mon forum à partir de l’appli L’assistance est informée mais toujours aucun retour... j’espère que ça se résoudra sinon à voir avec d’autres appli similaires mais pas sûr d’en trouver d’aussi sympa ### 5/5 — Ekranda donma *2020-04-19, version 8.8.3* İpad ana ekran donuyor ### 5/5 — R10.net *2020-04-10, version 8.8.3* Seomasters saygılar ### 5/5 — A few glitches at time *2020-04-09, version 8.8.3* Great app which makes following my forum much easier than the website ### 5/5 — افضل برنامح لتصفح المنتديات العربيه *2019-09-19, version 8.5.0* جميل جداً وانصح فيه. ### 5/5 — After last update *2019-06-13* Don’t work anything with old forum plugins (4.11.6 for example) **Developer response:** Please write to us to support@tapatalk.com with more detail and we’ll look into it.Thank you. --- *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 2026-09-09.*