Yik Yak Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience25.1% of reviews
Neutral6.1% of reviews
Negative experience68.8% of reviews

~ Based on 490 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Yik Yak

Is Yik Yak Safe?

Yik Yak appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Yik Yak is 78/100.

This assessment is based on 50,773 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.9/5.

Safety Analysis

72.2% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.1% of ratings suggest some concerns
24.7% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 50,773 App Store ratings for Yik Yak.

Is Yik Yak Legit?

Yik Yak appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Yik Yak is 88/100.

Based on 88 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

No free speech

Extreme censorship and prejudice presented by the admin.

Rewards perverts and bans women who speak out

Im starting to get tired of being banned for just existing as a woman but men can sexually harass and tell women horrible things with no repercussions. The mods on this app suck

Horrible Guidelines

They continuously ban me and I don’t break guidelines. I continuously read others who write foul things and aren’t banned yet I say one thing that isn’t foul or breaking rules and they ban me. Actually the dumbest app I’ve ever used. They genuinely just don’t want me to use the app so I deleted it. Don’t waste ur time on this app. Your welcome.
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very tolerant of racist behavior

it seems that spam of racist articles is tolerated on this app but the moment someone criticizes it without using a single insult the post gets removed for “privacy concerns” ? there is zero option to appeal to top it off. but they’re allowed to talk about how race mixing is “white genocide” ??????? disgusting
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Allows blatant racism

I reported a post that is racist and islamaphobic multiple times and stated the reason for the report. Mind you I’m not someone that’s even keen on reporting things often. The image was making fun of Gazans and insinuating that Muslims have sex with goats. I know it’s a common trope that some people might find funny, but it’s overall extremely poor taste and hateful. Seriously disappointed that Yik yak will at times remove posts and ban people over silly things, yet tolerate blatant racism simultaneously.
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Israel occupied app

I got banned for saying goy twice

Cesspool

Collection of the worst people on the internet, could be worse than twitter or reddit

Cup pong

fix the cup pong to rerack at 5 and 4/3 for diamond and triangle like cmon college app

Yikyak

I love u Yikyak

Awesome, just a few tweaks

I don’t have many issues with the app, it’s pretty great as is, but there’s somethings missed maybe by accident. I can’t recall the few right now except; we need an edit button, specifically for comments. Maybe that’s done on purpose, a dev let me know? If that’s the case then, alright you got it, we still appreciate the app.
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Do Better

I was banned for 48 hours for talking about ronnie radke. The guy from the band falling in reverse. Not a person from my school, a worldwide known celebrity. But the app took it as me giving the name of someone from my university. I beg of you do better to recognize names of celebrities so i can talk about it
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The new Reddit

You will be banned if you criticize migrants or any group left wing people support. I was banned simply for criticizing the French protesters of Oct 2026. However, when someone talks about hanging and shooting people who don’t support migrants, they get 60 upvotes and no ban. All the while the post stays up without the ability to support my viewpoint.
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People are way too sensitive

Get reported for everything

Banned

I needed up getting banned for warning the women on the app of a rapist who spikes drinks at parties. This app is disgusting for banning me on trying to prevent anything happening to other people. I sent an email and reached out to get unbanned and they have ignored me. For an app about free speech you should be ashamed on defending a rapist.
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best app ever

touse app

My fav school app

Actually makes my school feel like a community where we have the same inside jokes and can talk about what’s happening. Love the yak <3

Horribly Unoptimized, Laggy, and Poorly Moderated

This app used to be great, but since it was bought out, they’ve used this app to squeeze out every drop of profit, completely losing its identity in the process. The app is laggy, slow, and sucks enough battery life to be confused with a crypto miner. The app has made disabled jokes (from the app itself) and really doesn’t enforce much moderation, unless the topic is Israel.
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Hateful

It’s just a way for weak individuals to talk bad about others

Ritualistic Hazing

So not cute.

Horrible

App is filled with a bunch of racists and moderation does nothing about it. They have no problem deleting comments that are perfectly normal though. Says a lot about the people who run the moderation. The people on this app are terrible.