Peanut App: Find Mom Friends

Peanut is a great app to meet other mamas! After moving to a new city, I found it hard to make new friends, especially when busy with my babies and the overall day to day… and when you mix in Hong Kong’s social distancing measures, it’s almost impossible. Their community section also allows a great way to find advice or just chat!

The idea is lovely- a safe space for women to network and make friends. I was very excited to give it a go. But… the first stage of registration - define yourself. It’s disappointing to see that in 2022 women are still defined by stages of motherhood. What about the women who can’t or choose not to have children? What about those that lost children? Those who choose career or travel over motherhood? Apparently in this safe space, those women are not welcome.

I think Peanut app is a safe space for women and have been instrumental for me during quarantines and lockdowns.

This app is good but there are so many like way to many judgmental horrible people on it, and half the women don’t actually try to make friends with anyone, most of them sit there and argue with someone over their toxic ugly viewpoint and on top of it we have to worry about men being on there or no pictures, info etc being on profiles so essentially either scammers, men or predators using an app for pregnant people and moms.

I do not have to participate in your app especially if your condoning death on girls that being sex trafficked. I can get your app removed and deleted. This app is for pregnant mothers and pregnancy not abortion adoption or death.

I didn’t sign up for any subscription and this app charged me $19.99. I don’t have an email notification for this purchase or any thing. I’m disappointed and have deleted my account because I was blindsided.

If you want to meet other moms you can do that here, but they’ve made it harder and the UX was better before they (I assume) raised their series A or B, started charging, and changed the interface. I much preferred the app before the changes; it was more functional and much more focused on making real-life connections with people. Now it’s mostly a mom social media app, which is really disappointing. If you want to pay $15/month (an exorbitant amount) you can see who “waved” at you. I’d rather they move back to the old format, reduce the feed, and just charge to download the app. Prior to the changes I made a couple of friends through the app, but post-changes it’s been a real challenge to get the same functionality out of it. I won’t pay $15/month for something that’s less than what I used to get for free.

All is full of predators And hatred from other women on the app. They do nothing about hateful comments either.

You will get more notifications than you can handle and if you comment or post anything even mildly right wing (even if it’s in kind or positive) it gets removed and they threaten to kick you off the app. So biased

Had the app for a few weeks then when I got my new phone and transferred all my apps. It shows an error code and that it no longer lets me log in. Super disappointed because I had friends on there. :(