Do you enjoy chatting with your friends online? Are you interested in sharing your moments with your friends? Are you looking forward to meeting new friends with similar interests? Kik, the messaging mobile app, meets all your needs. Kik is an instant messaging mobile app developed by the Canadian company Kik Interactive. The app can not only help you interact with your old friends, it also helps you looking for new friends. Moreover, you don’t need to worry about the safety issues, as various features were provided by the development team to keep you safe.
Download Kik right now, and you can enjoy chatting with friends in various funny ways!
On iOS AppStore, Kik’s rating is 4.3 out of 5.0, with 455,517 user reviews. On Google Play, its rating is 4.0 out of 5.0, with 2,516,705 user reviews and more than 100,000,000 installs. On Amazon, its rating is 3.2 out of 5.0, with 16,864 user reviews.
Judging from the data of iOS AppStore mentioned above, Kik’s performance is above the average level of most apps. While on Google Play, its rating is not that high, and it seems that the app still needs to be improved. But we should not ignore the fact that Kik provides its users with unique supports that other similar apps do not have. For example, it allows its users to register without asking for a telephone number of a valid email address.
In the latest update version, the developers of Kik-Messaging & Chat App have not only added a visually friendly dark mode to the user according to the needs and feedback of users, but also made repairs and elimination of new faults and bugs encountered by users.
Chatting becomes interesting on Kik, as you have various ways to chat with your friends. You can both chat one-on-one, and chat in a group. You can express yourself simply through words, through emoji, through GIFs, or even through pictures. In addition, you can use your Kik code to make new friends. (Scan the Kik code, a chat opens right away!)
On Kik, you can even chat with bots. Ask them the recent trending news, do quizzes, get tips on your health or clothing, you will find that they know almost everything! Moreover, if you bring a bot to your group chat, you can even play games with your friends.
If you have any safety concerns, Kik thinks ahead of you. In the app, you can keep your Kik account private, you can report a group of a user for safety concerns, you can even manage your kid’s friend list on Kik.
Pros
- Parents appreciate the safety feature that they can monitor their kids’ activities online.
- It’s very convenient that users can chat with their friends without logging in with their phone numbers.
- It's a great way to keep in touch with friends overseas if you don't like Facebook or WhatsApp.
Cons
- Some users find the ads on the app annoying.
- Some users pointed out that there are often freeze and stop errors during use, which greatly affects the chat experience that should not be interrupted and disturbed.