■ KakaoTalk – Korea’s no. 1 messenger
KakaoTalk is more than just a free messenger. It brings you instant connection, fun short-form content, and smart AI features—anytime, anywhere. Enjoy meaningful one-on-one and group conversations with friends, family, and colleagues, and discover new communities you're interested in via Open Chat. You can also share photos, videos, and files in just a tap!
■ Chat made easier, experience made better
Keep your chats organized with folders, and easily edit or delete messages you’ve sent. Keep discussions on track with the new Threads feature, so every topic stays clear and easy to follow.
■ Voice Talk & Face Talk with screen sharing
Hop on a group Voice Talk or Face Talk with up to 10 people. During a call, you can switch to Face Talk or share your screen. Make your Face Talk more fun with various screen effects.
■ See trends at a glance in Open Chat communities
Discover real-time trends in Open Chat communities without entering a chat room. Choose a topic of interest and dive straight into the conversation.
■ Your profile with extra dimensionality
Your profile is your own space to showcase your interests and tastes. Feel free to set your profile visibility by chat room.
KakaoTalk may request access permissions to deliver its full range of features. You can still use the app without granting optional permissions, though some functions may be limited.
[Optional permissions]
- Location Services: For searching and sharing location information
- Contacts: For adding friends, and sending contacts and profiles
- Photos: For sending and saving photos, videos, and files
- Bluetooth: For connecting to wireless audio devices
- Microphone: For Voice Talk, Face Talk, voice messages, and recording
- Speech Recognition: For speech-to-text transcriptions
- Camera: For Face Talk, capturing photos/videos, and scanning QR codes and card numbers
- Notifications: For receiving various alerts and message notifications
- Face ID: Biometric authentication for in-app security verification
- Siri: Access to read or write chat messages through Siri
* “KakaoTalk,” “Info Talk,” “Open Chat,” “Face Talk,” etc., are registered trademarks (®) and trademarks (™) of Kakao Corp. ® and ™ symbols are omitted in the app.
[KakaoTalk on social]
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kakao.today
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Kakaobrandmedia
[Kakao Customer Service]
https://cs.kakao.com/helps?service=8
The app itself is great and I have many friends in Korea so this really comes in handy. But since I don’t have a Korean mobile number, there are so many functions I’m not allowed to use. I couldn’t subscribe to the music station, and not even allowed to purchase Kakao Emoji???? What’s wrong with foreigner using Emoji and following K-pop?!??This is quite annoying.
Request for little improvement for chat room
Eden Jeon
I have been using this application since 2010.Everything has been greater and a lot better from the beginning. I am happy to say that this application is the best I have ever used.If I have a chance to say about little improvement, I would say this.While using it I have applied various designs of pictures as background wallpaper. Whenever I choose, I have to selet darker picture because of the number colour(yellow) which shows how many people do not read the message.If I can choose the colour showing the number, I would also have larger variety of choice for wallpaper for the chatroom.
The point of kakaoTalk is for Korean!😡
Mr_MouseJunior
The point is for Koreans to use more with this app not some random American going oh I wanna use this instead of what’s app or other so leave this poor app alone stop being annoying!
Poor
E.v.e!
The app is for korean users, the accounts from other countries get blocked in most cases from day one without any suspicious activities and almost no features are available, poor service support, poor interface, some important information is only available in korean. The verdict - if you have a choice, there are many superb messengers (i don’t, as all good ones are blocked in the country my parents reside) and it is the only way to chat with them atm
● You can now enjoy richer conversations in Open Chat with Chatbot beta.
: Open the side menu in an Open Chatroom where chatbot is enabled to access the “Chatbot beta” menu.
● You can now delete sent messages for everyone in Channel chatrooms.
: Within 24 hours of sending a message, press and hold it to delete it for everyone.
Version 26.6.0
The developer, Kakao Corp., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
Identifiers
Usage Data
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Contact Info
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Location
Contact Info
Contacts
User Content
Identifiers
Usage Data
Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
