Hoop - make new friends

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Total Reviews Found: 103

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yall need to do better with this app!!!

i was looking for apps to talk to online people and this app caught my attention. i met this girl on there (WHO IS ACTUALLY A CREEPY GUY) they ask for my number which i thought was strange but i was like okay. the conversation we were having was pretty normal then , it started getting really weird they would ask for pictures of me, personal pictures, and uncomfortable questions when i didn’t listen they would get really upset it got to the point where i got blackmailed. they we’re threatening to expose me to social if i didn’t buy them stuff. SO PLEASE PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM THIS APP THE DEVELOPERS DONT CARE ABOUT YOUR SAFETY ON HERE!!! also please add face verification because there are too many catfishes and scammers!!

Jul 4, 2025

Pedos on this app..

Dawg half the time these peope arent the age they seem they look 25 and their bio says 15 💔🥀

Jun 26, 2025

Trash.

I went here trying to find new friends, all I got were nudes, pedos, and AIDS. Do not recommend.

Jun 12, 2025

Bots

The app is good but the fact that every morning I wake up I see 5 to 10 bots that intice teens to add them on snap and send inappropriate pictures on snap is not okay whatsoever. They need to do a better job to protect teens from this situation!! Not Ok!!

Jun 25, 2023

Run by bots

Do not get this app!! You will constantly be spammed by fake friend requests from bots. It is so aggravating and pretty much impossible to even meet new people anymore cause of all the bots trying to sell you child porn.

May 31, 2023

Fake fake fake

Worst app out there. Full of Philippines stammers and pedophiles. Waste of time.

Jul 15, 2022

It's okay I guess except every few swipes is a link for child pornography? It's disgusting, I've reported and blocked the profile multiple times but it won't go away

Jun 8, 2022

Not really recommend, So a lot of people actually asks for my snap because people say Im attractive the experience with people who asks for your snap is so bad especially that Im a minor 25% of users there would like to be friends with you and you'll get close to them 25% of people just want to add people but dont chat them just someone to send snaps to and 50% those unattractive guys wanting minors to send them nudes.. Hoop I recommend having a search bar and bio and add to favorites

May 30, 2022

There seriously needs to be a change in how the app is managed. I’ve seen a rise in profiles advertising child pornography and no matter how many times I report them they keep showing up. Also, not as bad but the app only lets you pick friends based on their pictures. How does that make any sense? There are no real friends made on this app and that’s a guarantee.

May 20, 2022

Crack down on spam accounts

You need to moderate this app and crack down on the amount of spam and fake accounts that are being put up. You have constant child pornography ads and much more that appear everytime I get on the app.

May 16, 2022

I've been on the app for a little bit and ugh. It's full of people trying to sell child porn and honestly it's disgusting, I've reported so many accounts but more just keep showing up. Truly it isn't hard to just look at the profiles and read that they say, "Child porn here." The app makers should be ashamed

May 14, 2022

You need to keep an eye on the accounts on this app because I saw over 30+ accounts promoting child porn and its disgusting

May 10, 2022

Good idea, Terrible execution

Most, if not all, profiles are fake. There is constant child pornography being advertised. Constant profiles just selling sex, scamming, or attempting to get you to sign up to a sex website. This app is really annoying on so many levels. The layout is very clunky, and not at all, well rounded. It is an obvious cash grab from the development team that does not care how this app is ran nor the security being placed on the app. The app is falsely advertised as you are going to be “making friends“, but really all you are meeting is fake profiles of girls who are really just some random Asian or African guy (not even trying to sound racist, just really who it is) attempting to get money from you. The app has a long way to go to earn any respect from any of its customers. Being a developer myself, I feel slightly disrespected by even giving this app a chance.

May 6, 2022

I found an illegal and heartbreaking link

I was swiping and all of a sudden I came across a photo of what looked like a 5 year old and a caption saying “child porn” and then listed a website link. I don’t know if it was a real link or not but I’m not clicking it and I hope you take that user down because that was heartbreaking

May 5, 2022

quickly becoming unusable

from child porn advertisement, more fake accounts than real accounts, a very buggy UI, and the app not even doing what it’s designed to do, this apps got it all. every update for the last two years has made the app exponentially worse, and as of right now, it crashes before i can even press a button. tried reinstalling but that didn’t help. and the fake accounts are getting out of hand. there are more fake accounts than real ones now, even excluding the illegal pornography advert accounts.

Apr 18, 2022

Second Time.. RIDDLED WITH BOTS

Rating is falling.. I hate that because I LOVE this app. I love that you can watch videos to earn more diamonds and make new friends all day long, unlike most apps that have a limit. But despite me just downloading the “performance fixing” update, I’m now having more problems than before. Please fix your app! And find a way to ban these scamming accounts promoting being “sugar mommy’s” that send nude photographs to snapchat users, before you as the developer of this app are arrested for promotion of sexual exploitation and child pornography.

Oct 22, 2021

Sex workers and pedophiles

I had this app when originally it was full of real people now it’s account with stolen pics trying to get you to buy minor nudes fix your app problems

Sep 15, 2021

I love hoop I’ve made hundreds of friends on hoop but there’s this mysterious account that appears here and there and it’s telling you a link to child pornography can you please look into it I’m only 15 and I shouldn’t be seeing this pop up on my screen thank you other then that continue the amazing work🙏🏽🙏🏽

Dec 9, 2020

Whenever I first got the app it was cool it was working and everything and everything was chill but recently meaning the last couple of months I’ve noticed that the same pictures of women who claim to be 17 keep popping up and I’m not sure if they’re bots or if they’re just people trying to get nudes or sexual stuff like that when it’s an app made for kids to make friends so like I said there’s just too many bots or nude stuff but I’ve noticed something else just worse than that is that there’s sometimes pictures of CHILDREN who probably aren’t even teens bury but children who are probably still in elementary school I’ve see pictures of children in bikinis blurred with a website for child pornography and it’s sickening I haven’t went to the website but it’s just what I’ve seen please fix this now.

Nov 6, 2020

I have been using hoop for months and have been getting bots and fake people popping up on my app. They advertise illegal items such as child p*rn. I have emailed them and they said they are trying their best to remove them but they still have not done anything.

Oct 18, 2020

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