Messenger Kids

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Last verified 30 Aug 2026

• Free to download

Last verified 31 Aug 2026

4.3 115360 ratings · App Store

1. 4/5Good but some glitches

   I’m a kid myself. I use this app for my friends who can only have messenger kids. I am a kid and I think it’s pretty fun to have. Some games are cheesy and lame to be honest. MESSENGER KIDS NEEDS TO SEE THIS ONE PART! The glitches are super bad. I don’t know if it’s just mine, but on my phone and iPad and my moms phone, it was super slow. Whenever my friends would text me it would give me a notification just like any other. When I got onto the app and looked at the messages it wouldn’t show. Then a week to a month will pass later and the same exact notification will pop up. I get on messenger kids and it finally shows me what my friends are up to a month ago. One night I’m just watching a show when I hear a buzzing noise. The noise was my phone ringing. When I pick it up it stops. It was from one of my group chats I had on messenger kids. When I opened the app up, it didn’t say anything. When you usually call it’ll say “Missed Call”. This time it didn’t say anything. It kept calling, and calling, and calling, and calling over, over, over, and over again. The only way I could get it to stop was by powering my phone down and turning it back on. Then about 30 minutes later, it started doing it again. The games are slow, everything is slow, everything’s glitchy. Everything’s messed up. If I honestly had a child, I wouldn’t give them messenger kids. I would give them iMessage with parent controls on it. If you read this Messenger Kids (probably didn’t) then thank you! 🙏

   Samantha_:) · 30 Aug 2026

2. 5/5It doesn’t work for me…

   So basically, I was trying to sign in and create the account when when I pressed create account, it did not work for some reason. I do not know why, but basically I was just trying to make my account and it wasn’t working. I don’t know why so if this is working for you, please don’t know if you if you want to. You can talk about what happened, but I really hope Messenger Kids can update it so like re-update it every month so I could get like better and better and better so I could make my account and start doing it better and stuff so I could be in the account and talk with my friends and stuff because it’s not working for me for some reason, but I had an old iPad and it worked for that but it’s not working for my new one. I do not know why I don’t know if you like, mine is not working because it’s not working for me. I’m really sorry. But no, it’s not working for me. I’m just I’m just you know what I gotta do that’s it and yeah, I’m still gonna give it a five star because it is a really good and it’s a really fun messaging app to message your family and close friends and your friends, family and your close ones so I really recommend this and I really hope you guys I really hope you guys have nice things to talk to you about you know things to your close friends and stuff and also your family and your close to be your step siblings or step parents or you know all your relatives and you could really have fun because you could also add stickers and different kinds of things so I really might recommend this but it’s just not working for me so yeah.

   I think I need an update · 30 Aug 2026

3. 4/5things

   i used to use this app all the time before getting a phone. now that i have messages and i am able to talk to my friends, i don’t really use it anymore. I created a new account to talk to my brother when he is away because he doesn’t have messages or a phone/apple id yet so we have no way of communication when he is away besides this app. since i got it again there are just some things i’d like to talk about (mostly the problems that need fixing or just things that need to be changed) 1. Whenever someone is spam calling you (or just calling you in general) if you open the app then it just goes straight to the call and you’re not able to text the person calling you or anyone else until you decline the call or wait for the call to go away. It is very annoying and causes a lot of typos when that happens. 2. Whenever someone calls you and you answer, you can’t turn off your camera right as you answer. For facetime, when you are called, before you answer you have the choice to turn off your camera or flip it. Since this app is supposed to be used for kids who don’t have a phone or apple id to call/ text friends and family, some of these kids might be going through things where they don’t like their appearance. Turning off the camera right as you join the call should be added because it is very annoying not being able to turn off your camera when you want to. That is all I have today but I will be making edits as I use the app more and find more things that need work. Thank you for reading this.

   Robloxo Hermoso · 30 Aug 2026

4. 5/5Been a hot minute since I used this app and I loved it

   When I used this app I was probably in 3rd grade but now I’m in High School suffering yet surviving. Anyway, It was really good and it just kept getting better. Contrary to popular belief, I felt like Meta’s top priority of this app was privacy and online safety where parents are REQUIRED to have a Meta / Facebook account to monitor your child’s contacts, enable and disable features like games if you were to use Messenger Kids as a way to study with friends for example, and add more contacts. There is also safety features in place keeping inappropriate GIFs, Images, and Videos out of the mix. Also If your an adult, you don’t have to download Messenger Kids AT ALL to communicate with your kid, you can use the Messenger App or use Facebook built-in Messenger but the host parent has to approve you. So, if your a parent of the edge about random numbers texting your kid or you want an extra bit of peace of mind knowing who your kid is texting and what they are texting, download this app. And one more thing I’ve found the transition from Messenger Kids to normal iMessage to be fairly smooth as your kid gets into middle school and is begging you for a REAL phone I’d recommend in terms of money waiting til you or another family member gets a new phone, because there could be carrier deals. Or when they turn 13 and you as a parent feel that they are mature enough.

   YoBBJ. · 30 Aug 2026

5. 4/5My messenger kids review

   Hello! I am going to tell you what i think of this app. For starters, its definitely helpful cause when i had my tablet, i used it and i only had my parents, and our group chat and own chats, then my best friend, and my cousin, and another friend, and also other people im not really friends with. it was very nice and i loved all the cool stickers that it gave me to use. Also, the facetime is really nice too. okay now for the things i need to have fixed. since now i have a phone, i need some assistance. First, i have added more people on it such as another friend of mine who i recently became friends with at the beginning of the school year, who does not have a phone but has a tablet, and my sister who does not have a phone but it very close. when lets say my friend i recently became with, texts me and sends me a pic of something like her dogs and then she says like this is so and so. thats two messages but on my home screen, it only shows one text. from her. and me sometimes when i send her something like maybe ill reply to her saying like how cute or something then ill go to another app or something and then ill still say one message from it and i go into it again and i didnt get texted. i have to go back into my chat with her and then go back out of it. last thing, i wish the facetime thing would be like regular like i see my friend's picture clearer and more closer. mine and hers are the same size i dont like that. thats all for now byeeee. 😘✌🏼

   ℂ𝕒𝕥𝕃𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕣𝟛𝟙 ⋆🐾° · 30 Aug 2026

3.8 262272 ratings · Google Play

1. 5/5

   good

   Kaiden · 1 Aug 2026

2. 5/5

   👍🏻 nice

   Hassan Ali · 1 Aug 2026

3. 5/5

   BEST APPPPP

   Olajumoke Adelakun · 1 Aug 2026

4. 4/5

   a little annoying that you can't text offline

   Sophia · 1 Aug 2026

5. 4/5

   PLEASE. add the filter games back, my kid has been so confused why they are not there they have have been gone for a full year.

   jennifer harrington · 1 Aug 2026

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