Tumblr

- July 13, 2017

Mature 17+

Social

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Description

Tumblr is a place to discover and post about stuff you love, and join communities of people who love that same stuff. It’s pretty neat.

Q: What can I post on Tumblr?
A: Photos, videos, live videos, songs, text—pretty much anything.

Q: Can I make GIFs?
A: Yes, you CAN make GIFs! You can make them out of videos, bursts, live photos, or just shoot them on the spot.

Q: What’s the deal with “reblogging”?
A: It’s a way to take the stuff you find on Tumblr and make it your own. You can repost other people’s posts to your own blog. You can add commentary if you like. Other people can do the same with your posts. That’s how ideas spread on Tumblr, and it’s how communities form around them.

Q: Who’s on Tumblr?
A: People who are posting and reblogging about interesting stuff that you’re interested in. Politics. Movies. Memes and such. If you’ve ever seen anything interesting on the internet, chances are it came from Tumblr.

Q: How do I talk to people on Tumblr?
A: A few different ways. You can comment on a post, or you can reblog a post to your own Tumblr and add commentary, or you can send a private message. Whatever suits the occasion.

Q: How do I find stuff to follow?
A: Search for whatever you’re interested in. We’ll show you great posts about that stuff, and get you following the people who make those posts. Oh, you can also follow a search itself, and we’ll put sift the best material from that search right into your dashboard.

Q: What kind of stuff are people talking about on Tumblr right now?
A: Whatever’s happening in the world. The real world, the world of fiction, the world of pop culture, the world of academics, the world of safety and justice, the world of sports. Whatever world you live in, you’ll find it among all the trending topics in the search tab.

Q: Do all Tumblrs look the same?
A: No! You can totally customize your Tumblr’s appearance, right down to the colors and fonts you use.

Q: How will people find my Tumblr?
A: Tag your posts. Tumblr is full of passionate communities of people who are constantly searching through tags for new posts about stuff they love. Your stuff could be that stuff.

Q: Am I ready to download Tumblr, deepen my perspective, and forever change the way I think?
A: Yes.

Reviews

4.4

2,578,952 total

5 1,742,784

4 465,039

3 177,172

2 69,271

1 124,686

val kunimitsova

Like the app is OK if all you wanna do is look at your dash or upload a photo... But let's say someone sends you a link to their post. Try opening that in the app. Then let's say you manage to eventually find the post, but it has cool formatting like individual boxes that link to other pages related to what the box label was. That doesn't EVEN work on the app. Seems like nothing but text and photos are really viewable on the app. So you end up using your browser to look at tumblr anyway.

Eric Liu

Very easy to use. I have one suggestion to the dev team. Can you embed the navigation bar to the floating icon, so that it won't always occupy a solid 1cm wide space just for 4 icons which are rarely clicked on. If you cannot embed it, could you please make it narrower or able to hide itself.

Sira Q

You can easily use this app, update your blog, check your dashboard and view other blogs. Update: the new layout is horrible and makes it more difficult to use the app. I keep accidentally pressing the tabs now and it's more difficult to scroll and look at posts because my eyes keep going all the way to the bottom where the tab bar is! Totally unnecessary update.

Ansley Tran

I hate the new update. Completely pointless. It lost the functionality of being able to select the home button to return to the top of the feed. Now I have to scroll all the way back up to refresh it. No one asked for the nav bar to be moved. What we want is for the app to stop randomly crashing and for it to stop freezing, but all reads our finger taps so we end up somewhere random when it reconnects.

Jordan Koger

the jump to top on mobile feature is fixed, thankfully, but the home bar on the bottom is still frustrating and not helping anyone. the bar at the top was out of the way and easy to access; moving it to the bottom makes no sense and often causes misclicking on activity and takes me off my dash when i don't mean to. please move the bar back up top.

Apel

Gave it a 5 star rating before and now giving it one star. I might even uninstall it because of the ads and how annoying the pictures not loading is. Also wish the same features being on the pc had were available like posting photos when answering asks. Ugh... It's just worse than before I updated it. Also tabs on bottom is gross.

User reviews

val kunimitsova July 24, 2017

Eric Liu July 15, 2017

Sira Q July 13, 2017

Ansley Tran July 14, 2017

Jordan Koger July 19, 2017

Apel July 22, 2017

christie verbeek July 22, 2017

When you're scrolling through your dashboard and the pencil icon/options folder moves when you're scrolling, then comes back when you move but does that at the worst times. Like when you're trying to fave a pic only and not reblog its sitting right on top of everything. You can drag it along for fun but it goes right back to the corner and its actually mucho annoying

FURRYMAN119 July 13, 2017

The Tumblr screening of "NSFW" type things is now out of hand and is now blocking things that are also SAFE. I don't use a filter and never have, but all of a sudden over half my homescreen is blocked and they're all just artists! ... just give us the option to actually choose if we want to see it or not, not block us from even seeing it all together. Like that's just jerk programming there guys!

Pui Yii July 15, 2017

when i use my mobile and select 'under the cut / read more' the content underneath doesnt show up unlike when viewing through desktop. 5 stars if you can fix this UPDATE: the new layout is u-g-l-y. It is exactly where my thumb is when i scroll down and 9/10 times i will hit the wrong button and lose progress

Sascha-Alexander Couture July 14, 2017

I'm frustrated with having the navigation tabs on the bottom of the page. Nothing needed to be changed, it was working just fine. Usually, whether I like it or not, I can adjust to tumblr's many unneeded updates. But I just want to be able to change pages or scroll my dash comfortably. It's just been really bothering me. Please change the navigation tabs back.

Ramsha Imam July 14, 2017

This layout design is not good. It makes no sense to put the tabs on the bottom of the screen. It makes it look like there's less room to see anything. Also, you can't switch from your dash to your notes by flicking anymore, you have to press the actual buttons which is a lot more annoying. The biggest problem with this layout update is when I want to scroll back up my dash, I'll press the home button and it takes me up. But now that the home button is on the bottom it just doesn't make sense that I can press it to go up my dash.

C. Gray July 17, 2017

Why you gotta mess with stuff that doesn't need to be messed with? Icons back at the top, please. EDIT- AND we can't slide between tabs anymore? PLEASE STOP CHANGING THINGS THAT DON'T NEED TO BE CHANGED. Crickey. EDIT AGAIN- It's FULL of bugs and glitches now. It's messing with the appearance of my blog. It's gotta go. Like right now, please. And it was my favorite app, too.

Lauren Armes July 12, 2017

I love the app of course I've never seen Tumblr on a desktop so take it or leave it. I had just gotten used to the people I follow being in alphabetical order and now they're back to the order in which I followed them. Can you please put them back in alphabetical order please? I'll change my star rating to a 5 like I want to rate you.

J O'Rear July 14, 2017

twitter is able to keep my place in my feed after I hit my phones back button, why can't Tumblr? the number of times I just stop looking at the app because I'm trying to catch up on my feed but hit my back button and have to start at the top again is staggering. Tumblr is one of the most frustrating apps I have because of this.

jessica glenn July 13, 2017

I don't care about the navigation bar being on the bottom, but with the new update my screen has been freezing while I'm scrolling through and I have to close out the app. Very annoying and I can only see maybe roughly ten posts before it freezes.

Bradley McLean July 21, 2017

The navigation bar is on the bottom of the app for no reason now, which means the app looks super bottom heavy since its stacked right on top of my phones own navigation bar, and I can accidentally navigate to my own blog in the middle of a scroll much easier now. You won't change it because you're stubborn about your terrible design choices, but please change it back.

Jennifer Campbell July 25, 2017

Moving the navigation tabs was a terrible idea. It makes the entire screen feel smaller. And I can no longer slide between screen. Why make these pointless and awful changes? Why not fix something that actually needs fixing, like the functionality of the read mores on mobile?

Ingrid Gray July 19, 2017

The new update is horrible. Tabs on the bottom is better? Wrong. So wrong. It makes the app so much more difficult to use. It's not user friendly at all. And now you can't even tap the home tab to get to the top? You have to scroll all the way back up? That is SO tedious, and NOT user friendly. It has made this app WORSE not better. PLEASE change it back. As you can see there are dozens of other reviews all saying the same thing: tabs on the bottom is terrible. But the tabs back on the top!!!!!

A Google User July 12, 2017

I was wrong when i thought the last update was the wrist one yet. This new update is the worst one yet. Why would you put the notification/ home bar on the bottom of the screen? Why? Who wanted that? Fire them. I'm serious. It's the stupidest idea yet. It's like you are actively trying to get me to delete my app.

Ronni Cox July 13, 2017

I understand why they thought throwing the navigation bar at the bottom was a good idea, but so much of this apps navigation is still up at the top (switching between blogs, switching between activity pages, etc). if you're gonna do bottom-controlled navigation do it for ALL navigation please, you're giving my thumb whiplash.

Rebecca Seidl July 15, 2017

"Hey fix these these things please," the Tumblr community says. "Haha, sure," Tumblr replies and moves the navigation bar to the bottom. The "make new post" button still remains hidden from us, we must be very quiet and sit still to catch a glimpse of the legendary criptyd. Fix your site you ten year olds...

Kamogelo Mothoagae July 27, 2017

My android tumblr always refuses to refresh. I tryvto refresh 100 times but it still shows my feed from 5 days ago while my apple tumblr loads fine. It's like it's not connected to the internet but all my other Internet using apps work. Very annoying

Kelsey Tear July 13, 2017

I love Tumblr. I'm super addicted to it. So it's really upsetting when you keep hitting buttons because they are at the bottom now. This is a scrolling system so most people scroll up from the bottom. Now there are buttons in the way. It just doesn't make sense to put buttons in the way of the path. At the top is was out of the way. Please stop making changes that nobody asked for or was complaining about.

Reganne Clayton July 14, 2017

It looks way WAY better at the top, plus more convenient to be at the top than the bottom. You were able to navigate by sliding left/right to go to the other tabs and now you can't either. It's more of a hassle for it to be on the bottom. People will more likely hit the buttons by accident on bottom then when it was on top. Until it is fixed, the tumblr mobile app gets a 1

Case T. July 23, 2017

Honestly I think this is a pretty good app, but a lot of people I know keep complaining about how hard it is to get noticed no matter how many tags you use or how many times their popular friends repost their things. If there were a way to make unnoticed people and posts become noticeable then I'd definitely bump my rating up to five stars! This is why I like Instagram better tbh- it actually gives people that're under the radar a chance. Also, the interface feels a little misproportioned to me, but that could just be because of the size of my phone.

Aakash Shaw July 27, 2017

Was a great app before, most stuff are still good but the new updates have reduced the amount you csn search. I search for alot of stuff and before id get endless amount, but now the app only returns top 20 or so stuff. Very sure theres more than 20 things tagged with things we search.

Rachal Davidson July 14, 2017

So you still can't add photos to a post on mobile and staff refuses to deal with the aggressive porn bots, violently racist, antisemitic, pedophile, terf, and nazi blogs. Plus the whole flagging LGBTQIA+ content as nsfw but yeah. Tabs on the bottom was definitely the update we needed. Thanks for nothing.

Thea Soberano July 15, 2017

Why did you put the navigation bar on the bottom? Put it back on top. It makes it hard to go to the top and refresh the dashboard; you have to scroll a long time just to go to the top. The update was useless. I am also having a hard time with my queues, even when I add a queue it doesn't change the amount shown I have to logout then login again just to see the changes. The moving of the navigation bar was really just a pointless change.

Avallon July 15, 2017

The new "NSFW" and safe search settings are trash. This app was so much better before the crappy update. Please go back to how it was before the new update because I used to love Tumblr but now it's hard to use and pretty garbage. Would give five stars if update is reversed and the "NSFW" and safe search was back to how it was before the update. Maybe in the next update have the user decide if they want "NSFW" enabled and allow all users to enable or disable safe search agian. Thank you.

Jordan Prince July 17, 2017

My favorite app, although I would love to have time stamps within the conversation section of the app. But now I HATE the toolbar being at the bottom of the screen...we are ANDROID, it is supposed to be at the top. It just looks and feels all wrong now... 😡😠

Mendy Gragg July 16, 2017

I've been using Tumblr for years and once I started using the app I've loved it. But PLEASE fix the navigation bar back to the top of the screen. As a student in the IT field as well as Web design, I know how the mind of a person works with a website. They look from top to bottom, NOT bottom to top. The navigation bar on the bottom makes the design look very awkward and is overall just inconvenient for any user.

Wes M July 19, 2017

I wish this app worked better with low internet speed... whenever i reach my data limit on phone the app is pretty much unusable(nothing will ever load), which is sad and is also the reason i don't use this app anymore. Instagram works better even with slow Internet.(tumblr actually works better on webview within Instagram)

Unknown635 July 15, 2017

Yeah... Um if you could get the tab "off the floor" that would be great. It looks so messed up now and it's not an improvement whatsoever. Just look at the "mobile update" tag and you'll see that no one likes this terrible change.

Nicole Lassen July 16, 2017

I dunno, seems like the app is contradicting itself. It says the rating is 17+ Mature, yet you have the safe mode by default and people can't turn it off? Like, I don't care for it, but that sounds stupid as hell to me.

Maxwell Nieberger July 15, 2017

This app gets worse with every update. I've been using it for about a year now and they suddenly decided to move all the buttons from the top to the bottom of the screen. Now they're all in the way of me actually engaging with the content. This isn't the first time this has happened and I'm sure it won't be the last so I guess if you like unlearning old habits and muscle memory this app is for you

Traveling the Multiverse July 13, 2017

I love Tumblr. I would add these things though: 1) let us reblog with images and answer asks with images, and 2) let us open and close asks from the app, cause I had my ask blog open for a month before another blog told me they were closed.

iwtv July 14, 2017

Please put the navigation bar back up top. "We think it's better that that way" lol that's not even a reason! You have to scroll DOWNWARD so the bar is now in the way of your finger/thumb. Personally I would have preferred you move the circle of posting options to the top, because it's right in the way of my thumb when I scroll and I'm always accidentally hitting it. Very annoying.

Cappa Cap July 13, 2017

Last and current updates have 1 broke the gif, image upload system will not work. 2 device freezers for long periods 30sec to 1 minute will increase rating re do review once fixed

Mattie James July 14, 2017

Okay, despite some problems I still think it deserves around four stars, BUT only if the navigation bar is moved back to the top. Seeing as the dash is where you are the most, it should be well designed. Having the navigation bar at the bottom is irritating, because it rests at just the point in your field of vision where it's bothersome. Also, I like being able to swipe left and right to navigate between home and search and such, and you can't do that anymore. Please just change it back to how it was - different doesn't always mean better.

July 16, 2017

I think they should really fix the update of this app. The filtering is not being shown for everybody to turn on or off and content being randomly labeled "sensitive" when is not is really unacceptable. Also the layout is giving some of us trouble. Please do not ignore and fix this situation!