Yik Yak Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience24.7% of reviews
Neutral6.4% of reviews
Negative experience68.9% of reviews

~ Based on 498 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 79/100.

This assessment is based on 51,875 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.9/5.

Safety Analysis

72.5% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.1% of ratings suggest some concerns
24.4% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 51,764 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 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

ban appeal

i like the app, but i genuinely keep getting banned for zero reason and there is no appeal process to go through, so i just have to wait for no reason. pls fix

phone number

i’m trying to get the app and it keeps saying my phone number isn’t valid :(

Worst mods I’ve ever seen.

This app has the worst mods I’ve ever seen. I’ve literally been banned on this app for while talking about a Pro Athlete, because I stated his name. Their excuse was that I was mentioning someone by name. ( he is a public figure genius). I guess knowing how to read is not a requirement to be a moderator.
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got banned over a post calling someone out

i have been banned consistently over the span of TWO WEEKS over an old post of mine calling out two girls (who were not black) using the N word). I LITERALLY WAS NOT POSTING ABOUT THAT AT ALL, and then got banned again for two days. DONT GET THIS APP.

New Update

The new update makes chats laggy + the old design was better

Unable to disable games notifications

I finally updated the app and now I get daily games notifications that I have no ability to turn off.

Chats too glitchy

The chat update today SUCKS. Every time I press send the keyboard disappears and everything is super glitchy and ugly looking

Censorship

They’re ok with anything but objective truth. If it doesn’t fit
THEIR agenda, banned. Not
Worth the time.

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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