Amino: Communities and Fandom Reviews

by Ice Spirit11

So, years ago I made my account, and I actually loved it. Although as time went on, my mental health started to get terribly worse to the point of thinking about suicide. There was so many toxic people there, I had so many relationships with others and ended suddenly when I was at the worst of my mental health.
I didn’t even start talking about how terrible Team this app services are. Whenever I report an this app for valid reasons, they shrug it off and tell me terrible advice. Most of the time the this app I report isn’t even looked at. Like, I get that you have many other reports, but could you at least give a care about it? This is terrible service. One time I reported the leaders of an this app for being abusive, and apparently they just gave ME agent!? Best part is, later when I said I no longer wanted agent, they gave it back to an old abusive staff member!!
On this app, half the time there is a terrible staff, especially on the most popular aminos such as WA,EA, and BA this app!! On one smaller yet big WA I reported the staff because of how terrible they were as they were abusive and let people steal ocs, team this app didn’t do a thing!!
My advice to everyone is to not get Amino, it’s not worth the risk of your mental health, trust me on this one. I am still recovering mentally if at all to this day. Get any other social media, just not this one. A majority of people you’ll meet are just toxic relationships waiting to happen.

by Kaiokidx20

this app overall has been a very rich and well structured hub for various communities, but while I appreciate the experience overall, since an update around three or so years ago, its decline has been very frustrating and very difficult to ignore. Firstly. The formatting of Voice Chat has worsened. Now, instead of being able to choose whether or not to join a Voice Chat while texting in the chat room, all texting participants are forced into the call. This means you cannot text in other chat rooms that have VCs active without first leaving the call. Secondly. For whatever reason, editing is no longer viable on blog posts. Text and markup cannot be added, at least as far as I’ve tried to use it. Thirdly. Most importantly, within the last month, the servers have been crashing every five minutes. A maintenance was extended for as long as 18 hours, and there are never any forewarnings or notices for when this is happening until it does. This greatly cripples communication, deletes drafts, crashes people out of calls, and makes people opt for alternative apps like Discord. While I don’t want to discredit the work behind this platform, it’s becoming more and more of a joke, and that saddens me. I hope it sees a great turn around and picks up slack sooner or later, because I don’t see myself sticking it out much longer with this subpar quality.

by DaPokeMudkip1037

Every new update, it feels like this app takes away a feature and then adds a bug. Me and the members in my community always discover a new problem with Amino with every update that comes out. Amino crashes when I change who can comment on my wall, Amino freezes when I try to kick somebody from my chatroom. Some of these bugs can be minor, but some of them can be big problems. The lack of communication from Team this app to the community is worrying as well. Team this app never tells us what new updates really bring; we have to discover it ourselves, like bug testers or something. Team this app can ban people for whatever reason they want, even if the member doesn’t break the guidelines (I know this is true because it’s happened to me.), and when you’re banned it doesn’t tell you that you are; you don’t get an email or anything, no messages telling you why you’re banned. You’re just logged out and can’t log back in. In addition, if you check moderation history and try to see the profile of a member that Team this app has banned, it won’t let you. Team this app can ban people without anybody being able to see who it even was. It’s frustrating having to deal with the this app team doing things that nobody but themselves can see, and the lack of communication from Narvii Inc. to the users really shows how much they care about their community. 2020 is the year for social apps to really thrive, but instead I feel like this app has bombed.

by Concered User.

I’ve had this app for almost 4 years. When I first found it, it was amazing I found so many amazing people. After using for a long time, I noticed quite a bit of toxicity and problems with Amino. For Example, many younger kids use it and there are many older adults, this causes disrespect, also too much exposure to older content for the younger kids. Many people would talk about inappropriate topics even if kids were there. This causes many kids to be saying things that harm their future and innocence. I am aware that many people will say that kids probably already know that content, but I’m saying this as a 13 year old girl that has used this for 4 years. I have said so many things that I wish to take back, so many topics that I wish to never see again. I worry so much that 7 year olds will use Amino and get sexually harassed and hurt because of the things they say and the things they post. I’ve seen many people kill themselves because of the harmful comments. This overexposure and lack of security can lead to many harmful things. Honestly, it was tough choosing what I should rate this, but I do admit that I have made so many good, wonderful friends, but the way I was speaking made me get in horrible trouble.

Anyways, Amino could be a little better on security for the younger users. This is a great app, but needs a bit of work.

From, A Concerned Member from the this app Community.

by PinkiePie29

I have to say the newest this app update of October 2018, it’s not bad. I just don’t like the new format. I was just barely getting used to the one before it and I have to say I do have a complaint. Before the last two updates and versions, the voice calling, you could enter a chat and choose whether or not you wanted to listen to the call. But after the last update (Not October) you could not. You’d open a chat with a voice call and immediately be put in to listen to the call, and couldn’t actually just talk in the chat without having to listen to it. Now this is a big thing for me because I like to listen with headphones but if I’m out in public and there’s an incoming voice call, I can’t enter the chat to text because I don’t have anything to make the chat quiet with. I’d really like the old version back where the “my chats” was still in the top right corner instead of this bar that’s kind of slightly annoying on the bottom of my screen. It is slightly harder to navigate because instead of just swiping right on the side of my screen to pull up the menu to look at what I have notifications with, i have to click the bell then click out then go and click my chats on the bottom of the screen. Also the new feature where the exit of the comm button is right on the screen is highly annoying. Like if I accidentally click it while trying to navigate through the main part of the comm, I get exited out of the comm.

by IDCAbouMyNicknameJustPost

I’m a long time user, been here since Pokemon this app was originally launched.

So there’s some new issues with this Late November/early December 2019 update that I would like fixed. You see, I believe this app would be better effective and more manageable, at least on my end, if the format wasn’t changed every bloody six months and I had to get you to new buttons and all that excellent stuff that I should only have to do once or twice on an app. Secondly, the constant server shutdowns and seizures Amino has makes it aggravating and Amino is crashing too frequently for my liking. An app is going to crash every now and then but this app is the only app I have that crashes at least once every day. On top of that, there’s several glitches when it comes to making wikis. I am a role player, and this app is an excellent role play platform due to its number of communities. However, the aggravation that comes with making wikis, or Original Characters(OCs) is rather exhausting. First, every time I try to copy something the highlight will pop up, but when I let go instead of prompting to copy the keyboard closes and it disappears. Second, when I tap to type a weird cursor will pop up and the entire thing will glitch, won’t respond to my taps, and I have to save the post in my drafts before I continue. Before the new format change comes, I would like the glitches and bugs to be handled first please and thank you.

by Savv.how

Overall Amino is awesome when it comes to being able to communicate with other people about your specific interests including being able to make and design your own community around your interests as well. However, i was apart of this community for about a year and a half, and I did not choose to leave. First of all, i recieved a strike and wasnt able to communicate for a whole day. Within aminos rules you have to be given a warning before a strike, as well as an explanation. Amino did no such thing. A couple days later I received a Ban throughout the whole app; meaning they wouldn't let me even sign in without it saying “You have been banned”. I posted no inappropriate content, i did not talk inappropriately to other members, and i did not send any unfavorable pictures and messages on my page. I did as the rules followed and i gained a pretty good following and reputation. I helped out the community by providing my experience and tried to help the younger generation on their art and craft. After I was banned i sent many emails on how i was banned with no explanation. Its been 3 months still with no response from the this app team. I also emailed them with a long response telling them what had happened, and how i was disappointed with their business and app. Their “support” email is just a facade and emailing them will never get you a response. Just a warning.

by Xxmelx

It is overall a really good app when it comes to communicating and meeting new people whom share similar interests as you however there are a few things that I am not too big of a fan of when it comes to Amino. It crashes kind of often lately and the team never really takes in our suggestions to fix some of the issues. Instead we get an automatic reply and then after a few days another one from a staff member basically saying the same thing or suggesting something that isn’t even helpful. Amino really downgrades picture quality and the HD version you get within this app + doesn’t really make a lot of a difference. You can’t upload “big” files but Amino only tells you that once you’ve uploaded it all and hit post. It’s be extremely helpful to bring back the option to not be able to insert a picture or gif if it exceeds the limit. False reports are another thing. Sometimes people falsely report other members and this app does not really even review it thoroughly and I know this through an experiment I did with a fake account. I believe that this app is still a great app but they forget about the little details as they are overwhelmed by the big and that’s what is dragging Amino down slowly. There are a few more things I would like to address regarding Amino but those are just some I think concerns me and my experience along with my friends the most.

by Kalib.png

Hello, would like to start out by saying that I really love this app and have made many wonderful friends. However as a chat mod on one of my communities I have come across some bugs and even some suggestions that can help make this app much better. First off, me and the staff on a community have found that members we have permanently kicked from a chatroom are able to join back after about a month. This is not a permanent kick in this case and should be fixed immediately. Secondly, we have recently encountered a member who continued to make nearly 30 alternative accounts just to spam and harass the staff. I believe ip banning would be much better than just banning a member to prevent the same person to make different accounts just to troll. Asides from those two I also have suggestions for future features. Rather than having pinned chatrooms I think it would be a good idea to add a private chatrooms section and a public chatrooms section so that our chats can be organized better. I also think that it would be a really cool feature to add music to the background of our posts that members can turn on to listen to or have the option to turn it off. I believe that’s it for my bugs report and ideas. I hope you take my ideas and suggestions into consideration. Thank you for reading.

by Nahnaaaaa

Hello this app! I am known as Rachelle in this app but also Hani in Kpop communities. I really do love Amino and it’d be great if you took my advice! I’m a big fan of role playing on this app. So...some advice I have here is please please please moderate the sexual activity and bullying happening in communities. It makes the communities less fun as well as ruin experiences for others and force others to leave due to bullying. Also I want to bring up something else, please read our reviews when members flag certain things such as communities. I flagged Camp Crystal Lake 2.0 for a reason yet the leaders keep remaking it! Here’s my reason, the leaders were abusing their power and banning members!!!! Please do something about this such as removing those leaders from the community and bringing better moderators. That is just bullying!!! I was banned for just wanting to switch camps in that community! *note* Please don’t join but report camp crystal lake 2.0. Also another convenient thing is being able to hide your posts from certain members including certain leaders. I blocked the leader who banned me and fought for my justice by posting screenshots of the bullying and she was still able to see it and banned me before I could defend myself. Thank you and keep up the good work.

~Rachelle💓

by Steve Eyo

One of the most appealing things about Amino from the get-go is its engagement method. From whatever of the countless communities of personal interest you choose to get involved with, you are immediately provided connection with other members to follow and subsequently be followed by. A daily reward of in-app currency for customizing your experience encourages regular check-ins, as well as grants the ability to gift others for especially intriguing posts. Communities are simple and easy to join, creating your own community is by all means comprehensive, and the moderation of community content and guidelines is done by other users and creators of the communities themselves. Overall, an excellent resource for meeting like-minded strangers and uniquely expressing yourself.

The only gripe I have that prevents me from giving Amino a perfect 5-star rating is the user-interface. It suffers from the unpopular limitation of screen rotation, so operating on a tablet or large mobile device is awkward. This issue is magnified since some major icons and menu swipes are either smaller than anything else on the screen or located in regions that can feel unnatural, so navigation can be finicky. Other than that, among social media tools there’s really nothing else quite like it.

by Confusing_Brain

Overall, it is a good app. However, there are some things that make it relatively inaccessible for the blind and visually-impaired, at least for users of VoiceOver, such as myself. For one, it seems that only the creation of a question post is fully accessible, between questions, blogs, and stories; I have not attempted other types of posts. Creating a blog post was the most inaccessible, as there appeared to be 2 text fields, one for the title and another for the post. However, everything still ended up in the title. When I tried to submit my post as a story, everything seemed to be fine, until I had typed some of the story itself, at which point it just wouldn't type further. Additionally, when people use certain font styles, VoiceOver reads all kinds of weird symbols, making either parts or all of some posts entirely illegible with VoiceOver. Additionally, I have not been able to figure out a way to accessibly be able to reply directly to specific messages in chats of any kind, only in response to the comments of an actual post. There are also no image descriptions of any kind, for when someone posts an image. Also, I am unable to actually vote on any polls, so I write my votes in the Comments section instead. ALL that being said, the overall use of Amino and everything is fine, but some features are not as accessible as they could be. Please consider making Amino more accessible for the blind and visually-impaired.

by Dragons "R" Awesome

Ok so I want to say, this app is a great app with a pretty user friendly setup. This being said, there are a lot of issues too. One that I experience more often than not is whenever I close out of Amino and then reopen it more than 3 times, it gets super laggy and yucky. This is a problem for me because I’ve got multiple things going on, and have to switch back and forth rather frequently. Another thing that I’m not quite fond of is when you’re scrolling through the feed and encounter an ad. This wouldn’t be such an issue for me if it didn’t open up Amino Store every time I accidentally scroll and touch the ad with my finger. It helps the lag problem grow all the quicker, which is not appreciated. Lastly, for the past while, whenever I check my notifications it no longer highlights which ones are new. It’s been happening since one of my posts got featured, and it’s really frustrating when I’m trying to reply to comments and I can’t figure out which notifs are new and which I’ve already seen. After saying all this though, I can still say that this app is an overall good app with (mostly)friendly users. The chat rooms and their features work rather well, and it’s very easy to navigate through Amino . I suggest getting it if you’re fine with some occasional lag

by Hootyowle1

Well, I enjoy this app a lot! I have a ton of really, like, VERY good friends on there. But something about it is... off. I don’t exactly know if this only happens on my screen and it’s a glitch or something, but, I go to Amino at least once a day. This one day I see the notification, “Update this app,” and you have two options. Either remind me later or update. So I of course choose update, for less bugs and glitches, since some lags happen a few times. Well, I update it and it turns out all of the lag I used to experience is gone! It was a relief for me. Bad news is, once I got the notification, I updated it every single day. What? I mean, I don’t know why they make updates so much. I kept tapping the option update this app so I went to Amino store every day and updated Amino ..
Yeah. PLUS EDIT: I can’t even get used to one update format and now you’re making me get used to another. ANOTHER WHOLE FORMAT! Isn’t that too crazy? I first update it and don’t get so used to the format settings. So then, I get barely used to it and the next day you always are like, “UPDATE Amino ” and I update it and I’m so confused with the format again. Barely getting used to it, it tells me to update again. What? Anyways, this is just a small problem you should fix...

by TheodyBunghanoy

this app is truly a wonderful app! At first, I wasn’t that much interested in this, but after a while, I was addicted. You can check in daily and get coins, play quizzes and chat. You can post your art, make Wikipedia’s and write stories. It is really outstanding. You can find other people who have the same interests, and find all of the things you enjoy in one app. this app gets you connected with all of the people who like what you do instantly, by simply downloading this. I would highly suggest getting this if you are looking for a way to get in touch with your fandom or community. (I’ve found more people through this, some accounts having YT channels, and I can see their content.) There is so much you can discover on this, without hesitation I would advise you to get this! There are so many communities, and it wouldn’t be that hard to find yours. You can see your favorites artist’s posts, or a writer’s stories. Some users have amazing ideas, that I never knew had existed until I had joined Amino. Remarkable is almost an understatement. I can follow along with my community. Download this app, and try it out! Thanks to all the creators of this, this is absolutely amazing, I’m blown away!

by Kfjdbd

I’ve been on this app for years and I absolutely love it. There’s no limit to how many things you can join. If you love anime, drawing, k-pop, writing, singing, there’s pretty much an this app for everything. The this app communities, in my experience, are very welcoming. In my opinion it’s an overall positive environment. It’s a place where you can talk to people with the same interests as you. None of my friends love k-pop. They think it’s stupid and sometimes “tease” me about it (all in good fun) but it’s not like I can talk and fan girl to them about BTS or EXO because they wouldn’t care. this app is a safe space where I can do that without being judged and even make some new acquaintances along the way. Not to mention, Amino is fairly easy to navigate. If there was one thing I personally am not a fan of in this app, it’s where you can’t create your own this app page section thing. You’re the leader of the page, yes. And it can be fun. But it’s hard to get people to join the this app and be interested. And you can like invite a bunch of random strangers but I don’t know. That part just never goes well for me. I think there should be a thing that recommends other this app pages. Like if an account is following several black pink or BTS pages maybe they can get recommended other k-pop pages. This way other pages are able to get more mutuals and people can join if they’re interested.

by SmokeyRabbits

Most of The rules are great and there are some great people who monitor everything, if you don’t listen to a rule on purpose then you’re kicked out or if you accidentally do it they let you get a chance to fix it depending on what you did. Great app! Super easy! Super fun!!! In the beginning I made a post though and I was accused of lying and being a cheater, I was starting to get bullied a little bit so I just left that this app and never came back! But it did really hurt my feelings that people can be so mean but I’ve recovered from that incident. Besides that this app, they are all super friendly and I’ve kind of made some friends along with making a couple of my own Aminos called “Rabbit And Bunny Lovers this app”, And “ Horse Lovers this app” 😊❤️ I personally like the new update a lot but the ads get a little annoying. I’ve been in a lot of different communities and most of them are extremely friendly and nice. I have a decent follower count on all the communities that I’m in and has had a lot of fun making posts! I’m known as ~IVY~ on the Dog this app which is probably one of my favorite communities that I’m in. I have learned so much from the communities that I’m in and would like to someday be a profession animal photographer!

~Animal Fanatic💕

by Xushi1117

I first got on this app due to my liking of kpop and not many other people I knew liked it. So I joined kpop this app. Then I started to find other Animos on the this app platform for groups, then I joined for biases and when it asked me if I wanted to join another this app, say Overwatch this app I joined because I also love Overwatch and didn’t even know there was an this app for it. I then joined NCT this app which really made me happy because none of my friends liked NCT like I did and then I made friends on all the platforms and I couldn’t be happier with how it turned out. I heard of Amino from a friend thinking it was just another one of their games about some crap they had on their phone but then tried it out and had some of the best experiences of my life. I really think people should use this platform and be happy with the outcome because you can definitely find more than one person on this app who likes the same things as you or just needs a friend to talk to. It really just helped me meet people from different and interesting places and connect with others in a way I could never before. It could even help you leave your mark on the world if you try and work hard enough. But don’t take my word for it, try it out for yourself.

by Ghostiles

this app is very inspiring to all the communities and lots of other things and i have soooo many friends! and an this app girlfriend!
this app is great its just that....people are really getting mad at the photo and video quality like its so low and you cant see any good details in them it might take a while to fix it (if you do) but it would be great if you fixed that because it gets on my nerves and i wanna show the good details i put in my drawings so please fix that! thank you! And this is just a edit, so today I was on this app and I could text just fine but when I tried to text again it didn’t want to send and then I got a notice saying that, Like I had to stop texting and it said because of the photos i send. And the photos I send are just cute little drawings of neko’s so I really didn’t understand why I cant text or say anything. I don’t know if this is happening to anyone else because it’s really annoying because its either a glitch or something I really dont know and it’s starting to scare me because I been on this app for 1 in a half years and that never happened so please if its just a glitch and others are getting it please fix it because I was role playing and I dont want to leave my friend hanging from the glitch or something
-Dazani W.

by Kuma Blink

One of the apps that I actually enjoy exploring and getting involved in different kinds of communities and meeting new people! I have met really kind people in Amino, and overall I had an amazing experience, and hope that everyone does too! Overall it’s my favorite app, and recommend others to download and try it too! However, even though I think it’s an awesome app, and everything, it has its own flaws, or let me rephrase myself, weird people that make Amino a little dangerous for kids that are not aware of the internet predators and perils. I have come across one this app community that I have joined and one of the official authorities had given me an introduction, like they do for all other aminos, however this one was totally different. And that is because it stated something about that majority of the users are girls, and they wanted me to send them a picture of myself just wearing my bra. That offended me so much that I was ready to write a complaint but decided otherwise! That audacity of them even thinking that I was going to do such thing that might endanger my privacy is unacceptable and those people should be banned from an app that mostly young teenagers and kids occupy. That could be prevented of course, if the kids are aware of such ugly people, and I would highly encourage people using Amino and being careful on who chatting with.

by Istg-cant Find A Name

so idk honestly. i’m eating this 2 stars due to the fact that this app is good and all but banning and striking have become ridiculous. if you didn’t already know, this app will give you 3 warnings then ban you for any “sexual content” posted or shared in pms. you are supposedly able to appeal your ban, strike, or warning, by contacting team this app in Amino or by contacting them through their website. i have had my account banned before, for no reason, and tried to figure it out. i emailed and emailed and honestly it took weeks for them to respond. if you use their options they give you on their website, you will get an automatic response and i’m pretty sure they ban your IP address, when banning your account.
anyways, i have tried and tried to contact team this app due to this issue which results in them telling me once your account has been banned it’s permanent and that there is nothing you can do about it. team this app is also, i think, very vague and rude in some of their emails. they’re kinda aggressive at times as well. they don’t listen if there’s an issue and again, take forever to respond. i honestly don’t know what happened to the original this app team but the one there is now is horrible.
i’ve used this app and other similar apps to this for a long time. and honestly, this app is actually really good. what needs to be fixed is team this app.

by JadenJoy7

So first off, this is a real good app where u can express yourself and just watch what u wanna watch and, like follow people, post stuff for entertainment and stuff but, there’s some stuff I regret just looking at, so I closed Amino for a little while and then I opened it and it said choose three topics your in to, or you like I really didn’t want to!!! So I pressed next, it didn’t let me go... I was mad.. just because what if I pick these topics and I’ll just stick to those topics forever and be bored! :( >:c but I chose them anyway, because I thought no big deal right? So then I chose, gaming, art, and I think idk maybe roplay, and I regret what I saw.. it was literally so scary, and it was a scary photo or someone just did there makeup like that! But I regret just seeing that because I HATED IT AND I WAS SCARED! :((( >:ccc, I’m not a scardy cat or anything but HONESTLY it was scary, and then I thought oh wow someone probably drew something like that, but like LITERALLY I never said scary ART DID I? and there was also something else scary but I don’t wanna look back at it, I just wish I never would have to choose any topics, and I regret seeing that, so plz just fix it I’m very terrified by that.. but I’m still keeping Amino anyway, I hope all of you are alert about this because u might see stuff u regret seeing...

by TrinstY0

Yes I have to agree, this app is such a great and amazing app where you can find a subject that you like and express yourself in anyway you like but the one thing that really hinders that large expression of ones self is the speech bubbles, the frames, ect…
We find it an issue that this amazing app still has the same problem it has for a while now. Why do we have to use all the time we had to collect all those this app coins and then to have purchased a accessory for Your please on Amino and then to only have it for a month or a couple of days, it makes no sense to have all that time and patience to save up then to basically say back in there face that it doesn’t even matter. A lot of us old time this app users would love this change from temporary purchase to being able to just buy it the. We keep it because we’ve earned the right to have that we had the patience and the time to wait on our thing we want, we would love it.
I understand this is measly another review on Amino and will most likely be pushed back with more reviews but I wish that you at least took the time to read and understand the message I’m trying to give, thank you for you’re time.

by Uhhidkwhatsthisis

i had Amino before but due to some complications that had to do with my previous phone, i lost all the data i had on my former this app account. i tried logging into my old account but, i just gave up and decided to make a new account. i seriously forgot how welcoming this app was, so my mood changed drastically with all the comforting and welcoming messages that were sent. this app is also a wonderful app where you could make new friends and become introduced to other topics without feeling lost or left out (i’ve been there, trust me). thankfully, this app has many diverse topics so it’s not much of a hassle to get more into one fandom. i cannot fully express my whole gratitude towards Amino but hell, if Amino wasnt made, i probably wouldn’t have met many amazing people who changed me in many ways, for the better or worse. now, i must admit that im only making this for stickers but i cant help but feel a little sefish for not giving a genuine feedback. BUT all in all, i love your app, SO PLEASE CONTINUE DOING WHAT YOU’RE DOING COS ITS AMAZING. i purple you’!! 💜💜 [an army if you cant tell]