I haven’t had this for very long, but I’m really loving the community aspect already. As an autistic person, I’ve really struggled to date and make friends, and it’s awesome to have a space like this! (By “struggled”, I mean than I often get ditched or essentially bullied when I tell people I’m autistic.) Sadly, there’s not all that many people close to me, but that really has nothing to do with the app itself.There are a few things I dislike about the app itself so far. First, people I’ve already hit X on keep showing back up in the match section of the app. Like, near the top the next time I open the app. I wish that when I hit X, those profiles wouldn’t continue to show up. Second, I hate that I can’t specify any distance between 25 & 100 miles. That’s a huge difference, and I really would just like to be able to specify the distance mile by mile, not in set numbers with huge gaps. Third, I do wish the buttons didn’t disappear when I’m scrolling down on someone’s profile. It takes a good 5 seconds to pop back up, and I just wish they stayed there the whole time.

I was surprised to find an app for people on the spectrum would turn out the way it did. At first I was excited and it was pretty good until I started to notice allot of people talking down to people who were more developmentally challenged and made posts about it. Then I started noticing people chanting hate speech they didn’t understand and people were using when attacking and killing people in my area, so I started to flag these posts with no result so I ended up making a post about how these hate posts should be removed and how these posts relate to the attacks that where happening.My post was completely polite and non-aggressive, however it was met with extremist aggression and verbal attacks by some of the community, then my post was removed for what they said violating the terms of service. But angry hate posts are allowed?So I made another post asking if anyone else had this experience using the app, and my account was banned! And I sent a message asking why my account was banned and never received a reply… my only conclusion is this app is run by extremely immature people who support hate speech and believe it’s okey to verbally attack people who politely disagree with them.I’m a truly kind and caring person who believes being polite is the way to peace but this app is not a safe place for people who aren’t as tough skinned as me and I could see this app triggering self harm in people who suffer from Severe depression.

To be quite frank the two reasons I’m not giving this app 5 stars are: they caved to pressure from google and credit card companies to restrict freedom of speech. Hiki is an app for adults and we used to have a sexuality section. That section was removed and posts about sexuality are censored/removed which is very infantilizing and insulting to users. The second reason is that posts disappear after 5 months. I would like to see all of my posts. It’s entertaining to go back and see what I posted a yesr and a half ago. Why is my stuff going away after 5 months? Annoying. Other than that I really like this app because despite being marketed as a dating app, it actually works as regular social media for neurodivergent people. I’ve made some friends on it.

I really liked this app when I first downloaded it. It was a great way to meet other autistic people and it was better than dating apps that tried to charge you for everything. I also liked the friend, heart, and X buttons. I felt like it set it apart from other apps. I was new to the community and the people made me feel welcome. Now, the app has changed. I appreciate that it is also inclusive to other neurodivergent people now. I think they deserve to be part of our community too. What I really don’t like is that you have to pay to do just about anything now. At first, I thought it was just the extra stuff that they added that we would have to pay for, but it seems that we need to pay just to match with people. Hiki has become more like Hinge, but worse because there is no free version. I understand that the app needs to make money, but the price is not right. $44 per month and you can match with people. If it was a reasonable price, I’d pay it, but they have the audacity to charge more than a Netflix subscription. The only reason I haven’t deleted this app is because I still have one friend who I message on this app. I no longer would recommend this app as I find it exploitative