Kik Messaging & Chat App Reviews

by Katana0k

I have had and used Kik for many years and I don’t know what happened but KikMessagingChatApp is barely useable nowadays. There are 3 main issues but first let me state that for the last 2 years I had the iPhone 11 Pro Max. And I just got the 13 Pro Max. So these issues aren’t because of an old phone. 1: It’s so laggy! It freezes up all the time. While loading, while trying to type out a message. It just freezes. 2: With the new iPhone 13 Pro Max it will not notify me. At all. I never know if I have a message now unless I actually tap to open KikMessagingChatApp then it will refresh and be like “Oh! So n so messaged you about an hour ago.” - When I had my 11 Pro Max this only happened randomly. But with the 13 I have not once gotten a notification from Kik. 3: The ads make this almost unusable. I get that you need ads since this is a free app. However, the way you’ve put them in and load are making the experience difficult because of issue number 1 that I listed. The ad freezes and then you have to kill KikMessagingChatApp which you may or may not need to see another pop up ad. And some of them won’t even close even when you tap the X in the corner resulting in having to kill KikMessagingChatApp and restart it. I really hope this gets fixed soon because I really do love KikMessagingChatApp since I’ve used it for many years but I could seriously go to another app like discord and not have to deal with any of these issues. I’m trying to be loyal but it’s getting harder each day…

by Wilberdojo

I previously gave KikMessagingChatApp a 4 star rating. The actual “chat” feature works most of the time, but more on that later. I’ve had kik for over 7 years, and I saw it improve, and now it’s going downhill. I loved the video chat feature, then they got rid of it. I loved the custom emoji shop and kik points feature. They got rid of that. I loved the many game bots. Most of the good ones are gone. In the past year or so, they’ve added ads, which I noticed made KikMessagingChatApp slower and crash more. Also, pop up ads (usually for dating apps) come up when you open chats, and you’re constantly asked to personalize ads. Now, you can’t type while KikMessagingChatApp is still connecting to the internet/data. Half the time you can’t even go out/into different chats while it’s loading, either. This all started about a month or two before the whole “kik is leaving” thing, which is why I believed it. KikMessagingChatApp has been going downhill for a while. Beyond that, they’ve added some live video feature that contains a lot of sexualized content, some of which appears to be from minors based on the previews it gives in a banner at the top of the screen that no one can choose to remove. As it stands, I cannot recommend someone new download and use kik. For now, I say just use discord or some other chat app.

by Kinkyflman

If I could give this program a negative star I tke it to the store I would. KIK is one of the worse chat programs with absolutely no support. Many times as I sent a message earlier often just sit in the sending mode taking for ever to be delivered. I had made up a new profile because I was getting bothered by unwanted people on my first one. Unfortunately I forgotten my password so went to the help center to see how to get a new one I followed the directions. I did exactly as I was supposed to and according to the program my password was changed but it would not except my password during login. So I figured I would just go back and change it again but KIK only lets you change the password once a day, but I tried to change it again then it told me I had to wait three days. Then I wrote to the help center and all you get from them as an automatic response telling you to go back to the forgot your password website which of course does absolutely no good. Now I’m locked out of the program for the next three days so I’m not waiting that long. I downloaded Snapchat using that and much happier so anyone reading this I suggest you do the same as I did.

by Amandagirl999

Video chat isn't working again... It was fixed for a little, then it happened again. Furthermore, now Kik doesn't show "Camera" under pictures that I've taken on Kik.
Problem #1: I have been trying to start a video chat over and over, and it keeps saying "Failed to Join Video Chat" because of some "Problem Connecting to Network." Except my network is still perfectly fine. It's letting me send messages in a fraction of a second, so why does Kik suddenly say that my network connection is bad only when I want to start a video chat? The video chat feature was working perfectly fine yesterday, so why isn't it working now? Furthermore, why is it saying that there's something wrong with my own personal network? That's not right. Please fix this, because I'm positive that it's not my network that's acting up - it's the Kik app that's acting up.
As for the while camera photo thing, this is brand new to me. I've never had this issue in the past, but ever since today's update, it's happening to me. I was reading up on the update history of Kik and it says this was fixed in the past, but guess what? It's happening again and it needs to be fixed again...

by NoxSkyz

I thought KikMessagingChatApp was nice at first. After using it a while it became clear that you cannot use it unless you verify your personal information to the owner and admins of chat rooms. In order to stay you are asked to submit your age, exact location and a live picture or you will be removed from the group. I reviewed Kiks community standards and even wrote regarding this issue. I received a response that this is not condoned by Kik and that it would be investigated but it still goes on to this day. I do not feel that this is something that Kik should allow to happen. I feel as if the group owners/ admin are being predatory picture collectors gathering whatever information they can about you. I understand the need for safety but when I am asked to provide this information to admin that do not provide their own information then there is a problem. I do not have a problem with KikMessagingChatApp itself and think Kik has done a good job with it. I do however think that the way people are misusing it is discouraging. I would not recommend friends to use Kik unless they are comfortable with sharing so much personal information to individuals whom you have no idea who they are.

by Becca Bowles

i have used kik for many, many years. 2392 days, in fact, as of writing this. i’ve made so many friends and met so many people with the same interests and hobbies as me on KikMessagingChatApp. there have been ups and downs. but at this point? god, it’s awful. it’s not salvageable at this point. the ads are not only annoying and make KikMessagingChatApp incredibly difficult to use, but are also almost exclusively for scam porn sites. speaking of, what’s with that “live” feature? you just *know* everyone on those is gonna be using it like a free onlyfans. and that’s just scratching the surface. KikMessagingChatApp has been almost completely overrun by spam bots. they join your group chats, spam random emojis and nonsensical sentences (“i'd wanna dialog with hot guys 😇” real quote, copy and pasted) and flood your DMs with scam links. let’s not even talk about the creepy old men who use KikMessagingChatApp that make it unsafe and/or uncomfortable for anyone who might be even vaguely feminine-presenting to use KikMessagingChatApp , or how badly KikMessagingChatApp has been lagging for the past few updates, or the way the kik team has apparently, and rightly, jump ship and given up on KikMessagingChatApp. the community guidelines seem to not even exist anymore. sexual harassment is a staple. why is KikMessagingChatApp even available still?

by SLoggia

I’ve used KikMessagingChatApp for years and counting, I’ve seen it through its ups and downs. I’ve tolerated a majority of people migrating to Discord, seeing Kik almost go bankrupt and shut down, then get revived by a new foundation. I’ve seen the emergence of ads, which was a little jarring, but I tolerated it. The Kik Live feature was at first strange, but I was able to ignore it. Now, not only does the UI for the Kik Live feature take up almost half my screen, but it is now to the point where KikMessagingChatApp barely even loads because of it. I cannot even so much as connect to message anybody, and yet the live feature functions just fine. I’ve reset my phone, router, everything when this happens, and yet the issue will still repeat and last for hours on end. I’ve tolerated a lot of things about Kik, but the UI and basic functionality of Kik has passed the measures of awful, it’s closer to non-functioning. The Live feature needs to be tweaked or Nixed entirely, because it’s a horribly distracting UI for a feature I don’t care for, and it’s starting to make the messaging feature of the message app close to defunct by this point. I’ve defended KikMessagingChatApp for god knows what reason to the ends of the earth to keep groups intact on it, and the amount of negligence in maintaining a basic, functioning server to message on a messaging app is astounding. I seriously hope something is done about this soon.

by Drake Daggersblood

KikMessagingChatApp used to be very versatile and active but with the shutting down rumor many groups have members that no longer use KikMessagingChatApp even owners. Is there a plan for an an update to make it so users can take a group back if the owner is no longer around? Like after a certain time period the most active member in the group is promoted to owner if the owner has been gone and no admins are available to inherit the ownership. Also with the ban cap. Many people tire of having to manually remove bans so that they can ban toxic members. Could we get an update where when a new member is banned after the cap. The longest ban would be lifted as the banned member most likely won’t be back after that time. We also would like a feature to hand over ownership without having to leave a group. Some people just want to pass on that torch and be another member for a while. Oh. And groups would automatically be deleted if all members exceed 3 months of inactivity?

One last one. I highly recommend that the role play bot come back with a block feature that’s accessible. Even if the bot was misused. It was an excellent opportunity for role players to share their ideas and connect with people that had the same style. I loved the format personally of the old bot. Even just bringing that back would make my day.

by DevoidRyan

KikMessagingChatApp is eh. It has a decent text chat, with some nice emoji features and gifs and can allow for some decent groups. The texting is often fluid and there have only been a few app crashes here and there.
However, there seems to be a bug with the group texts. You have this option to mute the group for an hour, a day, and until you turn off the mute (forever). So, I have all my groups muted until I want to turn them on. However, I still get notifications from these groups despite muting the groups. I’m not supposed to receive these notifications. I’ve been forced to turn off notifications for Kik all together because I receive so many. I’m in a few large groups and so the notifications pile up. But this problem shouldn’t be happening. I’d ask Kik to look into it.
There is also, occasionally, a problem with KikMessagingChatApp itself. It’ll be stuck on the “loading...” State and you won’t be able to text anyone or receiver texts. Kik bugs out and basically you can’t do anything until it decides to stop. And so I hope Kik does something about these two issues.

by Qmab

I’ve used Kik for over two years now. Yes, the video chat option is now gone yet that hasn’t improved performance. Kik fails to get new message alerts to my locked screen. Even while in KikMessagingChatApp there are issues. I will get the alert sound or vibration if my phone is silenced that I have a new message yet nothing shows up in the chat I’m in and when I go back to my list of current chats there isn’t a new message there either. I have to leave Kik, close KikMessagingChatApp entirely and restart it to get the new message to show up. This delay is even noticeable when the alert that someone is typing goes up on the top of the screen yet the messages you just sent them stay on D for delivered instead of changing to R for read even after you receive a new message in the same chat! I’ve restarted my iPhone several times with no improvement in KikMessagingChatApp ’s performance.

There are now ads on every screen in KikMessagingChatApp so maybe so much priority is being given to their refresh rate that only the barest crumbs of KikMessagingChatApp ’s ability are left for my messaging functions. I’m actively seeking a replacement platform which saddens me as I was so excited to hear that Kik would be staying.

by Createnickname-SLK

Every update just makes the issues worse. I was getting notifications some of the time but now since I did the most recent one…none, nada, zilch, nothin. I don’t know for sure when it started getting so bad. Either when they added that ridiculous Live feature or started running ads again. Doesn’t matter the cause, they just never fix the problems, then create more the next time & have a severely awful contact feature (that’s on the web, not KikMessagingChatApp ). In the last 6 months or so I’ve also had issues where my messages are sent to the Server but just dangle out there for any length of time & might get Delivered eventually. MIGHT! This happens randomly & frequently. I’ve waited overnight for a message to be Delivered &, well, then it’s pretty useless. If the basics of delivering messages & sending notifications isn’t fixed ASAP I’ll just go w/out KikMessagingChatApp . Yes, developers, I’ve read all of your helpless FAQ & such & went through the steps provided fixing none of the issues. Even deleted & downloaded KikMessagingChatApp again, which, obviously, fixed nothing.

by Ciara Quack 💗

first off, i don’t get notifications for any on my chats even though i have them turned on. the ads slow down KikMessagingChatApp so much it’s unbelievable. kik constantly crashes on my phone to the point where i don’t even wanna use it anymore.. kik is nothing like it used to be.

UPDATE- bruh it says i’m at max chats but i dont even have any open please fix this. yall added live but the chats don’t even work anymore.

EDIT- as a new streamer, i’m struggling to keep a steady streaming schedule because of the lag i experience. my chat freezes, trying to make someone bouncer crashes my live, and i can’t even close my live without my live getting stuck.. i’ve done everything from clearing all my chats to deleting KikMessagingChatApp altogether but other than the bug related problems, the amount of racism me and my peers face on here is unbelievable. i don’t think theres a real banning system on here at all honestly. i have had over 30 fake accounts made of me with racial slurs threaten me relentlessly. they make accounts back to back no matter how many times i kick and block them. i’ve been sent videos of people getting lynched, shot, decapitated just for being a black woman on kik live. when will it stop? why can’t you IP ban these people? it’s been detrimental to my mental health and i can’t even enjoy streaming like i used to. fix this.

by Catestrophey

Troubleshooting with KikMessagingChatApp has completely crashed for me an my friend almost, and it’s become very annoying. Our messages will get stuck on Sent and it’s a gamble if they will arrive or not to the chat, and half of the messages never display Delivered and that’s also a gamble for if they actually arrived or not. We’ll get notification sounds for new messages and once we open that chat that we guessed it “arrived” in, it’s not there most of the time and we have to send the message again. I’ve tried doing what the help articles for Connection troubleshooting and Red Recipients along with the Notifications article which are all the same thing, but they’ve done literally nothing. The only noticeable difference was at the beginning whenever one of my messages displayed Delivered, but it never happened again and it appeared to only have worked for the first two minutes. I’ve had to redownload KikMessagingChatApp as well, which didn’t work in the slightest either. I can’t keep turning my phone on and off every two minutes in the hopes that my messages will actually reach my friends. Please make an effort into fixing this.

by Hi Im Irony

I’ve had KikMessagingChatApp for a bit now. On and off and through multiple accounts. It’s great in many ways, I’ve found many friends and had many laughs. The community overall is full of nice people. But lately it’s died down, sadly. There’s been an overrun of bots that kinda drove people away, and many of the bots- besides rage- just don’t work anymore. Now they’re pushing this new live thing that not many people even use. Sure, some do. But it’s really not that many. And the ads oh my goodness. It’s great. Has a good base and start and all, but slowly it kinda… fell apart. I hope it gets better soon. EDIT: Unable to make your own groups now because of the blacklist thing. I get it, but it’s annoying. I get that you use it to get rid of bots but it really messes with people. The info video basically tells you to either start a new account (and people have accounts for years and don’t wanna restart) or get a new device like. Seriously man? Stop this nonsense and work on it a different way rather than messing with good, creative people.

by 6.5 Year Account

Ive had my kik account for over 6 and a half years. I remember a time when everything worked and it was fantastic, and it still is but its not the same anymore. as far as issues currently in KikMessagingChatApp there are times when kik triggers a notification even though none of my unmuted chats had a message, and most of all there are times where kik simply doesn’t update chats, it will act as if there has been no update to a chat since say 7:33 pm the day before when that specific chat has a reliable history of being active, especially in the in the hours since and its not just that chat, it does the same thing for all my chats. Closing KikMessagingChatApp entirely and even shutting off my phone doesn’t fix it and theres been more numerous occasions where i had to actually delete KikMessagingChatApp and redownload it and doing so resets all the chat history. Ive had a lot of good times and KikMessagingChatApp still seems to be going strong despite same sizable hiccups in the past but these current issues have ended up pushing me away towards discord and frankly, the format and mechanics kik has for joining new chats is incredible streamlined and is one of the main reasons i stay. I really hope the dev team can manage to fix these issues, id hate to see such a fantastic app go down the drain

by LavenderSTITCH626

I like KikMessagingChatApp I’ve been a member for going on five years so I’ve definitely seen changes with the original developers compared to the current version. I understand the need for ads in order to pay for KikMessagingChatApp as it’s free however your website claimed they wouldn’t be intrusive i beg to differ as they appear inside of chats as ad banners this isn’t a good way to add apps into an app and it makes me want to uninstall it, however as i have friends on here I won’t. Instead I’m offering a different type of way to have ads a way that kik used to do ads. There used to be kik points which allowed you to get different emojis, and stickers. You earned these through both games and video ads which the user chose to watch or see. What if you did a system like this again? And have emojis, stickers, and custom themes we could get with points. It would be a great non intrusive way to include ads to keep KikMessagingChatApp running and add some more fun back into KikMessagingChatApp ! Hope this review helps!

by Kirtan Lover For Life

This is a great messaging app and I have made a ton of new friends who are into the same things I am.
HOWEVER: some MAJOR organization needs to happen. I really don’t like how unorganized it is!

1. It should be able to be organized by groups and direct messages, like two separate chunks, so you have your directs in the top and groups in the bottom, separated by a line or a category or something. I hate having to scroll through tons of messages just to see where the notification is coming from!!!

2. I wish I could flag messages that I want to return to at a later time. So I’d like to be able to read them but then flag them so I can keep them at my attention.

3. Wish I could pin certain groupchats to the top.

4. there should be options for “turn off all group notifications” so i don’t have to go into each one separately and do it manually. As well as would love an option for “alert all groups with this message”.

5. I’d like to be able to add people into a group chat FROM my singular chat that I’m having with them. There should be an option from the personal message to “add to a group” which then populates with all the groups I’m in, from which i can choose which one to add them to. Not having to exit the chat then go find the group then go to add people and find the person from a list of recent chats in order to add them, would be great.

Otherwise I love KikMessagingChatApp .

by Haley Jacoby

Ok so I’ve had Kik since 2 years back, it was awesome and worked amazing at that time. So I got a new phone and forgot about it and probably half a year later I got it again, it was great when I opened KikMessagingChatApp . It worked perfectly and I didn’t have any problems. So as time gone by I noticed a few bugs, example: I own a group so I’m the owner, sometimes when I open KikMessagingChatApp and a bot joins I try to remove it but it doesn’t give me the option so when I view the members, there’s two of me. The one that’s owner and the one that’s a member. So I ask the members if they see two of me in the members and they say no. I tried closing KikMessagingChatApp and reopening it but it never works so I just wait it out and let my admins do it for me. The update that I hated is when someone leaves a group chat, you can’t private message them. That update annoyed me a lot because I made some friends in some chats but they left but I can never get in touch with them unless I had them in my contacts which I do not. I’m only see that the bugs happen in the group chats. Also, the ads update, or what I think is a update is really annoying also because it really messed up al the chats I was in. I really hope they fix them because I love KikMessagingChatApp!

by Bskejfjsbs

Hey kik team I have some things that’ll make kik a lot better than it already is.

Allow people who use kik to add a story like off Instagram and Facebook. Allow kik to have a timeline like Facebook and Instagram. Allow kik to have a page where photos are located on and show how many followers they have and how many people they follow. Allow kik to have video call and audio call like Instagram and Facebook. Allow kik to show the number of messages they have unread like Instagram and Facebook. Allow kik to have message requests and private accounts just like Instagram and Facebook. Allow kik to go live just like Facebook and Instagram. Allow kik to turn on private accounts. Allow kik to make comments just like Facebook and Instagram. Allow kik to have a business account like Instagram. Allow kik to save videos or pictures that others post on their timeline or story like Instagram and Facebook. Allow kik to have a close friends list like Instagram.

by Steven Awesome Man

Let me start off by saying I am writing this not for my sake but for my girlfriends sake. I have been a member of kik for almost five years. I have always loved KikMessagingChatApp and enjoyed it a lot. My girlfriend, however, told me about the ban system set in place. I believe the perma ban system you have set up where if you prove there is wrong doing you can lose your account is acceptable. I do not, however, believe that the temporary ban system in place is fair. My girlfriend is an admin of a group chat and is worried because someone is falsely reporting them because their friend was removed from the group because they were rude to others. One of the admins has already received a temporary ban due to these false reports and quite frankly I don’t believe it is fair that they did. I believe a better system for temporary bans should be in place to prevent innocent people to be banned.
Thank you for reading this and I really do enjoy KikMessagingChatApp but I strongly believe that to make KikMessagingChatApp even better the temporary ban system needs to be changed.

by NiallsBunny69

Ok I've complained about this once & here I am complaining about it again, I loved how Kik messenger had no ads before it was about to shutdown you guys are ridiculous 👿👎 the flashing ads are useless there is no need to have these ads on my screen I don't want to see them ever Kik messenger was fine until the updates went back to the old thing 😖😖😖 I hate the ads just like all other apps they have ads but not where it blocks like half of my conversations with someone I talk to I recommend you take the ads down cause I don't want KikMessagingChatApp to have anything with ads I'm sure other people are complaining about it to I've sent a complaint also on your guys Twitter page & on the messenger app itself I'm furious 😤I'm giving KikMessagingChatApp a one star it's terrible how you guys have pointless ads FIX IT WITH NO ADS OR I'M COMPLAINING AGAIN 😒😒😒 I am glad there's a person who bought KikMessagingChatApp before it was shutting down but the stupid ridiculous ads have got to go.

P.S I'm NOT giving this a 5 star unless you guy UPDATE KikMessagingChatApp to NO ADS cause they are ridiculous & annoying like I said everyone who is giving bad reviews now is annoyed with the ADs

by Tessk5

So I got a notification to update my apps like I always do. Everything seems alright and I see this kik update promised a new feature. "Emoji express" so yeah I happily download the new version hoping I'll get some of the other new features. First off, I didn't. Kik why is your updates so spotty? There was a feature to send multiple pictures at once, a feature I wanted but every time I updated I never got it. There was also a feature that let you write a bio on the settings page, also never got. Then I see some people finally got the profile picture rings, something I had gotten weeks ago before the next update got rid of them. I get none of these but instead nothing but bugs. My profile picture will no longer change. Just like the emoji express when I go to change it I get a message that I have a network error and bad signal. But I'm hooked up to wifi with data support if it did need that. How is there a network problem when my messages send just fine? Kik you are breaking a good app and the few good features by trying to add more. Please fix the profile problem and just take awake emoji express.

by Gacha_girl_jenelle

At first when I got kik for the first time, everything was okay. Chats were working, no crashes, and I even joined one group that shared the same interest as me. People were really nice I guess-one person welcomed me, others just ignored me minding their own business and that was fine by me. I even started opening up and talking to some members and it actually wasn't awful, but I did leave because one people weren't really talking much though there were like more than 40 people that joined and two there was lots of cursing. After that, I decided to not join any groups for a while. But a few days ago, I was like"Hey, why not join another group like the one I joined?" So I searched up groups with that one same interest as the first group and found many. Some were full but I eventually found some that still had some space left. But here's the thing: when I tried to join it, it just kept saying that there was a problem and to try again. I thought that it just happened to this group for some reason but it didn't. The message still kept popping up to other groups. And that is also why I've given this 4 stars. I really hope I can get told why this happens and if it's just a glitch, please fix it for I would really like to join another group and talk to others again.

by Damndude73

I’m doing the review after seeing in the news they are being blamed for exploiting teens to sexual abuse and murder. How does an app get blamed for the actions of others. And why do people have to be held accountable for the actions of others.
But then again people say they don’t like social media because people are all i their business. That’s bull. Those people post their business. Not social media. It’s just a platform. Don’t post your business then. But yet blame social media and these same people go to a brunch and talk about their personal business there anyways. It’s the people that use the apps or the platforms. That’s all they are is a platform. People meet on Facebook and all the other apps just as easy. And as long as there are evil in the world. They will continue to do so.
Robbing people In a legal fashion such as law suits and closing down apps will not resolve that. But it will put money in someone’s pocket. They are not getting sued by people that care for and love people so much.

Rediculous! The same as blaming guns for killing. And saying money is evil. And peopelr blaming the spoons because they are fat !