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Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 575 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.

Messenger Kids – The Messaging

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Made for Kids.

3.8 ★263,371 ratings
50M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
FreeIn-app purchases

About this app

Made for Kids. Controlled by Parents. Parent Dashboard: Parents can manage their kids' contact list, and monitor messages on the Messenger Kids app. When kids block contacts, parents are notified.

Fun Filters: Kid-friendly filters, reactions, and sound effects make video chats with friends and family even better.

Worry Free: Parents can set usage limits when it’s bedtime, and there are no in app-purchases or ads.

Creative Convos: Stickers, GIFs, emojis, and drawing tools give kids more ways to express themselves.

Easy Start: No phone number required.

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.

Preview

Real screenshots from the store listing.

8 screenshots
Messenger Kids – The Messaging screenshot 1
Messenger Kids – The Messaging screenshot 2
Messenger Kids – The Messaging screenshot 3
Messenger Kids – The Messaging screenshot 4
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Messenger Kids – The Messaging screenshot 6
Messenger Kids – The Messaging screenshot 7
Messenger Kids – The Messaging screenshot 8

Independent evidence report

Evidence and review signals

This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.

Automated analysis in progress

Which version this describes

When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.

This analysis describes version 326.0.0.48.165 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 326.0.0.48.165, updated 2026-08-17.

What we measured

Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.

How these are measured

Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.

Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
No theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
Under 65% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the package we scanned

From the package we downloaded and read — version 326.0.0.48.165, scanned 2026-09-17.

Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
6 or more requested
Counted against the eighteen permissions listed in collect-package.ts. A dangerous permission is one Android asks the user to grant; requesting one is not itself a finding.
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
None found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
None found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.

Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured

What the analysis found

App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.

Methodology

Positive evidence 2

Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.

Developer says data deletion can be requested
Measuredfrom the store listingview evidence
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
No advertising SDKs
Measuredfrom SDKs in the app packageartefact 1485a3ff1d2a…
No advertising or mediation SDK of any kind was found in the package.
What we saw: No advertising or mediation SDK among the 1 SDK detected in the package

Assessment & version history

App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.

Store listing updated to version 326.0.0.48.165.

What this app sells

Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.

Business modelFree

Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.