Messenger Kids – Safer Messaging and Video Chat
Parents Have More Control
• Parents approve every contact, so kids can chat in a safer, more controlled environment.
• Parents can remove any contact at any time
• Parents can use sleep mode to set times when their child cannot use the app.
• Messages don't disappear and can't be hidden in case parents would like to check in.
• There are no ads or in-app purchases, and the app is free to download.
Kids Have More Fun
• Kid-appropriate stickers, GIFs, frames and emojis help kids creatively express themselves.
• One-on-one or group video calls come to life with fun, interactive masks.
• The feature-filled camera lets kids create videos and decorate photos to share with loved ones.
Works with Messenger
• Parents and parent-approved adults chat with kids through Messenger.
• Works on all tablets and smartphones.
• No phone number is needed - you only need Wi-Fi.
Made Safer for Kids
• Creating a Messenger Kids account for a child does not create a Facebook account for them.
• Parents and guardians use their own Facebook accounts to create a Messenger Kids account for their child.
• Kids have the option to report or block contacts and report inappropriate content. If a child submits a report, their parent or guardian will be notified.
We're always working to improve Messenger Kids. If you'd like to share any feedback with us or for more information, visit messengerkids.com
Category : Communication
Reviews (30)
This app is great! Its an amazing way to connect with cousins, friends, and parents! It has so many great games to play, However it does have its issues. Lately I've been trying to change my favorite color but it has been failing every time. I don't know if this has to do with my device or anything, but yeah. But over all its an amazing app and I 100% recommend it!
This app is great overall, and it lets me contact my friends, but it has some issues that definitely need to be fixed. With my one friend, I've sent 4 messages to them and it only says 'sent' it has been this way since February and I have updated the app multiple times, and I have all notifications on and it won't ever send me a notification when a message comes through, so I have to check it regularly. If you could fix these issues, I would definitely appreciate it.🙂
I absolutely love this app, except for the fact sometimes when I go off the app to check sometimes when I go back on the call it doesn't let me turn my camera back on so I end up having to leave and rejoin the call. It's a minor issue but annoying, other than that it's a great app and amazing to connect with your friends.
Over all great app! Though I wish we could send GIFs made from our galleries. The app sometimes glitches out if I'm off it too long so I have to restart everything. And there are many bugs that could be fixed in this app, As call disconnecting when your off it too long, When writing it glitches out same as voice recording. And I can't hear anyone or they can't hear me. I hope these glitches get fixed. Thank you!
So recently I have been having problems where suddenly when I'm on call, It freezes and the the sound turns off and can't hear them. It makes it really hard to use this app 'cause I use it all the time to talk with my friends. I don't know if it is my chromebook or messenger. I'll look into it. Thank you.
I love the app! I do have two small update ideas though. For the color feature, keep the colors that are there, but add an optional color choice. For when you send something, if you tap on it, I want to be able to delete the things I send if I want/need to.
I really used to like the app but now it has to many glitches, first of all when I'm in a call I can exit the app and do other things while still in call, that's good, but my screen keeps flashing black when I do that and I can barely do anything, also the notifications glitch and I don't get them so often I'm convinced it's a new feature not a bug, and sometimes when my friend is trying to text me the messages won't send, and I'm pretty much sure it's nothing on my end.
I love the app. I can chat with my friends and call them, there are games and such but.. there are 2 issues for me. There is unable to send and it sometimes happen to me friends or me, and there is this thing that happened today. When someone called me I answered, but I couldn't hear them, turns out they didn't receive the answer. It irritated me so much. Please fix the bugs, otherwise I love the app!
I love the app but I wish there were more options for color and that you could save filters you want to keep cause after awhile they just dissappear,I also wish you could set the age different so that it is set up more like the adult messenger.i only say this because it is so frustrating to have to scroll through all those huge blocks that are people. If I could change any thing it would be to have an actual list if people for older kids .
This is a really great app and all but the reason for 4 starts is because I am on a Android tablet and for some reason I don't have to option to turn of my camera and I can't turn the app to dark mode. I have updated the app several times and it still says the same. But overall this is a really great app but I would like to be able to turn off my camera and have dark mode on Android devices.
It's a good app but multiple problems like; I can't change my favorite color or app color, all my games and other special things on the top disappeared, I can't see my chats with other people unless they send a notification to me and I can't call people or access my friends to make a group like used to be able to.
App won't ring or notify. At this point it's pretty useless. It seems they have changed their settings for notifications and sound because all the instructions I'm finding do not match what I see in the app by following the steps. Sound is all the way up and notifications are allowed.
I love the app but i have a problem that happens everytime i call somone this hlitch happens whenever i touch the top of my screen/camera it glitches and jus turns black. I know its not somthing wrong with my phone since it has happened to many others i have called and it only happens in this particular app. I love the app and all. But i just need this super annoying glitch fixed. -Annoyed reviwer/user
4 stars!!! Kids messanger is amazing.A fun way to talk to your friends!☺ Even though is choose 4 stars i think it should have more mature things on it. Also whenever i try to update it, it never works and says that i have to delete some of my apps if i want to update it. Also when i eventually update it, it does not even update anything!!!!!!!!Other than that it is a really fun app and an awsome way to chat to friends. Hope this helped you and you enjoy it because i know i have!!!!😘😙😚😍🐣🌹💐
Audio cannot be heard coming out of the phone's tiny earpiece (not speaker) during a video call. How do you enable speaker phone or Bluetooth audio options? The other person doesn't want to see video of the inside of Mt ear when I'm trying to hear what they are saying!
Its fine but there's not much filters and you have to video call and you can't even send videos you have to take pictures step by step from the video how is this supposed to be enjoyable for the pepole who use this app and if they use the app roblox and their screen blacks out and their screen might not turn or if they walk it will turn their screen up and have to rejoin and thats just annoying
This is so fun! i'm 11 and I love this. its easy to communicate on, and super fun with all the kid-friendly things like filters on calls. It is also good because my parents will allow me to text my friends because they can see what we send. I probably wouldn't be able to use it without that feature.
I think there is room for improvement. When i launch it on my 2 year-old chromebook it openes in a phone mode by default. when you try to put it fullscreen it comletely gkitches out. Sigh.
It is a great app overall. I am going to take away one star though because, two of my kids have the new messenger screen with the black background however, my other kid doesn't have it and it's the old white background. We've tried updating but that didn't work either. 🤷♂️ Also it states that you can delete text messages however, it doesn't let you. 😕
It's annoying because it can glitch on calls and my updates don't work. It's good to chat though. Also on some wifi, it doesn't send my messages and just says sending for hours until I go to another house and use the wifi, then it loads. It is very annoying!
So many things to work on, and it's FRUSTRATING. First I thought the invites were the chat invites, devs should take away that, it's confusing. Second, in the add option I can't add my (parent's) friends to add on my kids messenger. Limited friends to add, those are only with the kids messenger user whom I don't even know. Update this app more so it's useful.
This app is a great app for kids to chat with friends and family. I have used this app for over a year. I have a problem, though. I can't turn my camera off as there is no option for that, a few of the games don't work, somehow my friends have a dark mode setting but I don't, and my app turns on at 8 a.m., but when I open it up and message someone, it says that my message could not be sent.
(I'm a kid) Amazing app😍👌! I have a few suggestions that everyone who sees this will agree with#1 I think that you should add it so that you can have the main colour colour any colour you want. #2 Whenever I finish a grow your pet thing it just restarts the previous pet so pls fix that😘
Works well. Can keep an eye on messages sent & received & can control who connects with my kids, or, when they're older, the can connect. I like how I can control when the app sleeps. Annoyed that I keep getting notifications to download app onto my child's device when she has been using it, on her device for 6months!
This app is good but,we don't get notifications when were not in the app and I just wish all devices would show the same thing because if I'm on a phone it won't show the same things as a tablet or if i was on a laptop and if I compare it to a phone It just won't show the same thing! It would be nice to be able to delete messages just in case you did something by accident. Lastly,it would be fun if you had three player games for when you are in a call with three people.Over all the app is great!
I like this and all but my friends can put background music on their videos but I can't because one of my friends sent me a video and she showed me how she did it but for the options for me I didn't have it so can you please make it where everyone can do the same things. Thanks
I loved this app. But now the face filters don't work they just say "find a face" even though I'm staring into the camera. My calls and messages don't pop up in my notifications even though I have it to where it's supposed to. And when I try to put a profile picture on its turns sideways. My phone is up to date. Help!
I absolutely love using the app. I have 3 pre-teen girls and we've in Ohio and I have family that live up in Minnesota. Having Facebook Messenger for my kids is a huge blessing. Mybkidsbare able to now keep in touch with their grandparents up in Minnesota. Having the complete control on making sure my kids are staying safe is important to me. I love it, I absolutely recommend cause the app runs off of OUR Facebook accounts.
App worked great for one day. Then it started telling my daughter that she wasn't connected to the internet even though she obviously was connected whenever she tried video chatting her contacts. Now it doesn't work at all, whenever she opens the app all she gets is a white screen with her profile picture at the top and a few buttons. None of her contacts load at all. I've tried everything to try and fix the problem to no avail. App is seriously buggy and needs more work.
This app is garbage. Literally half the time I don't actually a notification, either it doesn't make a notification sound, it doesn't show me the text notification, or just doesn't show me that the message was sent until an hour later. Today somebody sent me a message and it didn't bother appearing until an hour later. If you're fine with this go ahead, but if you would like to actually get notifications do not use this.