Messenger Kids 4+

This app is great for the fact that your child can connect with their friends in a more restricted platform. It is a pain in the bum though that the adult account associated with the child account must be friends on their Facebook account with any adults that your child wants to connect with. My kids wanted their dad on their accounts so they could chat with him while at home but because we are not Facebook friends they were unable to add him.

The layout is full of bright colours which is appealing to the younger kids but my daughter who previously had a Facebook and messenger account [before it got deleted assumedly for being under 13 (she’s almost 12)] isn’t a fan of the big boxy layout on messenger kids compared to just the list of names on normal messenger.

It’s also a shame that she can’t play the games with me which are available on normal messenger through messenger kids. The whole reason why she got a Facebook account in the first place was so she could play draw something with me via messenger.

It’s a good starting point but it would be great if they made a kid friendly version of the whole Facebook app (or at least let us as parents decide whether to allow our children to have a Facebook account) so they can join groups and discussions and play more games then the ones that are restricted to messenger kids accounts.

This app is great for primary age children and above to keep in touch with school friends, your friends in general and of course family members.
My daughter uses Messenger Kids regularly, it’s a great way for her to interact with her friends and family, with various options to engage with entertaining activities whilst logged into the app, let alone ability to write to one another using its message service whilst logged in.
The app also encourages children to spell out there words when actively utilising the message service, available on the app itself.
Overall, fantastic app not only for children, but also for parents with many notification options to choose from that enable restricted access along with weekly reports that monitor screen time and friends in which your child/children speak to most on a weekly basis, enabling safe practice when utilising electronic devices…!!
Hope this review helps those in whom are in two minds with regards to safe practice vs a most concerning world around us, when it comes to inappropriate content readily accessible, online!

I enjoy the app, I have Snapchat and Instagram and all that kinda of thing however I need this to stay in touch with certain friends. I don’t have an issue with the app however I do think certain filters are a bit insensitive. For example the “emo” filter, the one where you turn from candy kid to dark green and emo is rather insensitive to actual Emo’s because of the way it portraits them. I would like to hope that you do something about this? Also maybe adding a few more cute filters, I get this isn’t Snapchat but it could try to be nearly as good so even though it’s aimed at 4-5 year olds it would still be nice.

Another thing that I find rather annoying is the fact that we can’t change each others contacts. For example, I have a friend (for confidential reasons I’ll use the name Cautlin for her) so her name is Cautlin <insert last name> however I wish that I could change it too Cautlin 👑✨🤍 but I can’t because of the fact we can’t change contacts. I hope this is a feature added soon because me and my friend groups being early teens would really appreciate being able to name each other our nicknames instead of just there actual name.