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Last verified 6 Aug 2026

4.6 5052 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5Doubt they would read this but…

   As a new user search, it is very entertaining is different from usual social medias because it’s anonymous and you can only access it if you’re in college and I love that it has a community only for your college. The only feature I wish they were ad is something where you can see post that you never seen before. I’m not talking about the current tabs that they have but let’s say, for instance if I scroll through a good amount of old post, but not a lot, so on my feed or my main page, it would show Content that I never seen before and every time I hit refresh it would show me posts that I never seen before old or new kind a like Instagram if that makes sense not just going back to one day or five days

   Kayla0005 · 6 Aug 2026

2. 1/5End merge with yikyak

   YikYak and Sidechat were perfectly fine apps separate from each other and each served their own purposes, with Sidechat being for college students and YikYak being more community focused. This merge of the two apps into one serves zero purpose whatsoever. They were not the same apps to begin with and each had their own unique in-app features, but now basically all of these features have been stripped away. YikYak is entirely unrecognizable now and all previous user karma and history has been wiped. Sidechat is now overrun by people who were former YikYak users and are now being forced to post on Sidechat forums and streams. This merge is honestly beyond ridiculous and I’m surprised anyone at Sidechat actually thought that completely taking over another, (much older and well-established) beloved app and ridding it of all of its defining features and merging it with Sidechat was even a remotely good idea. Everyone on each app is posting on the same streams now and everyone is confused and frustrated trying to use the new versions of each of these apps. The only way to solve this problem without tanking the ratings and reputations of both of these apps is to return them to their previous states.

   Beatbeets · 6 Aug 2026

3. 1/5AVOID

   Let’s be real, you need an active college email to get onto your main community. With that being said, why are you putting adults in time out because of what they said. If i wanted to be treated like a kindergartner I would ask for it. I understand putting those in time out who violate picture rules, but based off something that was said by someone clearly old enough to be in college around worse? This clearly could not have been thought out all the way because no one in their right mind will try and get in between a college student and what they want to do or say. It’s not even like it helps, if the company actually cared, they would be more strict. I was put in time out for saying mild comments, when there are people on there daily begging to have sexual contact with someone. There are people who say highly explicit things, yet you see these same people and their emojis posting throughout the whole day. It’s honestly sad that companies now can try to control us because we signed (or esigned) their legal documents that 98% of students will not read. I highly encourage you to avoid this app if you haven’t gotten it already.

   Dev8990 · 6 Aug 2026

4. 2/5Bring back Yik Yik

   Yik Yak was historically a great hyper local app: a way to engage with people in your immediate community. The app’s acquisition by Sidechat has ruined this use case. Yik Yak poster are either forced into joining college communities (presumably that if the college from which they graduated) or into abandoning the app altogether after years of use. Way to alienate the user base! Additionally, the content moderation is far too heavy handed. I’m a political moderate; any political comments I’ve made are well within mainstream discourse. I’ve been given timeouts on multiple occasions, and as near as I can tell the reason is entirely because someone disagreed with the position I took. Meanwhile plenty of anti-Semitic and other extremist views are flourishing.

   Arete94 · 6 Aug 2026

5. 1/5Yikyak is dead and you have killed it

   How will you comfort yourself, the murderer of all murderers? The funniest and mightiest app that the App Store has ever owned has bled to death under your knife. Who will wipe this blood off you? In all seriousness, your act of pathetic corporate monopolization has destroyed a once precious communal app. You have butchered every good aspect of it. There is a reason why nobody cares about Sidechat when compared to Yikyak. This is due to your poorly designed user interface, your separation of colleges, which removes one of the most interesting elements of conversing, and the clear presence of bugs and glitches that you somehow ignored when vandalizing an app that people enjoyed. I'm sure that your dev team is comprised of sellouts who are only interested in advertiser money and are willing to plagiarize enjoyable elements just to make a quick buck. However, in the unlikely event that there was some little hope in one of your founder's hearts that you might create something special, I hope you feel the gut-wrenching emptiness of the disdain people have for your design. On the off chance that one of you cares enough to read your own reviews, I urge you to take the only positive step left to save the app - revert the update. Rest in peace, Yik Yak. You were once a beautiful space that allowed for true anonymous expression in an age of dwindling privacy. If nothing else, I hope your death exposes the insufferable sellout corporate conglomerates that have taken over our digital world and turned it into an empty business, devoid of the true spirit of free expression.

   TThhrriilleerr4477 · 6 Aug 2026

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