Kick - Live Streaming 17+

“This app stands as a monument for a better future for content creators.” Being apart of the live streamer era for quite some time now and as the culture evolves as well as expands—its hard to make an honest living. Kick aims to be a platform that always keeps the creator at its heart. With better payouts, familiar design principles that captivate an audience, the proper tools necessary to grow your community, and now; A mobile app that stands as a monument for a better future for content creators a like. The UI on mobile is entirely user friendly. The ease to navigate between tabs at your fingertips as well as edit parameters on your channel allow for total control at the push of a button. With no harsh downtimes/bugs yet to be seen, consistency with blazing fast load times. Its hard to not love what kick offers. As its only the first day of the apps’ launch I am thoroughly impressed and cannot wait to see what other innovative features the team at Kick brings to its consumers!

When it comes to using this app as a viewer, there's this one really important thing that doesn't work right. You know those notifications you're supposed to get when the streamers you follow go live? Yeah, they're broken. Hopefully, they'll fix it in the next update or something. So, here's the deal: you go to your profile, click on "Notifications," and then there's this option called "Live: Receive a notification on your phone when a channel you follow goes live." Well, when you try to turn that feature on, it just doesn't work. The app keeps turning it off by itself. Now, I never know when my favorite streamer is live unless I take a wild guess. And guess what? Most of the time, I check and their stream is already over. It's so frustrating because this app could be great, but this super important feature just doesn’t seem to work.

Kick as a whole is a breath of fresh air and I’m excited to see it grow. The streamers and community are great and Kick seems genuinely invested in both!

That being said, while the iPhone app is well designed and very user friendly, the same can’t be said for the iPad experience. Chat is occasionally bugged and not usable, watching a stream in portrait mode STILL zooms the stream making it a disaster to watch, and the app can only be browsed in portrait mode. I have no doubt these will eventually be addressed, but given how long these issues have been present - it’s a bit concerning.

Again the platform, the iPhone app, and the website are all A+ and I’m a huge fan of Kick! But as a primary iPad user for my everyday, this app effectively keeps me from watching and engaging with the platform and will until some of these bugs are addressed. Just a heads up for anyone in a similar situation.