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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.
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.
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4.4
2,408,184 total
5 1,611,494
4 442,318
3 170,153
2 66,928
1 117,291
Ryan Hass
I loved this app when I had it on my old phone- it ran perfect. I got a new phone and it doesn't work. I can log in but then I'm stuck on a never ending loading screen. I've tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it, I tried restarting my phone (I have the new Samsung Galaxy s7 edge if that helps) all my other social media apps work just fine so idk what's up
Miles Feral
There are a few lagging moments in the app on my Nexus 6P in various places, but it is pulling down a large amount of media. I wish some of the deeper settings accessible on the website were present here, potentially behind a "simple/complicated mode" setting so there's a consumption setup, and an account management, massive post editing, etc etc mode. Love all the cute colors and animations. Great app with only a few places to improve.
David Griffiths
Just switched from iPhone to android. Had the exact same app on my iPhone and it worked beautifully. Opened this up and it's buggy as all hell. Only showed about 12 people I follow and then crashed. So far everything on android had work as well or better than on the iPhone except except this app. I love tumblr but if I can't use it on my phone I won't be using it a hell of a lot from now on.
Darren Kelly
**update - Still crashes. If it was possible to give zero stars I would, this is without a doubt one of the worst apps I've ever used. It's barley optimised which means almost 100% of the time I'm using it, it crashes loading images. And when it's not crashing loading images and videos it's just doesn't load them. Avoid like the plague, it's atrocious
Tracy Kreck
So limited and not as good as pc version. Doesnt refresh follower count and message count unless I uninstall and reinstall. I really get frustrated and annoyed by this app!!!! Has many bugs and kinks. Wont let me upload n post pics half the time. Fails. Frustrating! Have good LTE signal.
The tumblr mobile app sucks. I cant even click on a photo without being shot in some kind of html cannon about 20 posts up my dash, and this happens every time i click on a blog, a name, a photo, a link, you name it. Aside from the rampant beaking of federal laws involving federal minors and pornography, the staff dont really know their userbase at all, and keep shoving bad updates on the site. You'd think that an app based on endless scrolling would be better at that, but apparently not.
User reviews
I loved this app when I had it on my old phone- it ran perfect. I got a new phone and it doesn't work. I can log in but then I'm stuck on a never ending loading screen. I've tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it, I tried restarting my phone (I have the new Samsung Galaxy s7 edge if that helps) all my other social media apps work just fine so idk what's up
There are a few lagging moments in the app on my Nexus 6P in various places, but it is pulling down a large amount of media. I wish some of the deeper settings accessible on the website were present here, potentially behind a "simple/complicated mode" setting so there's a consumption setup, and an account management, massive post editing, etc etc mode. Love all the cute colors and animations. Great app with only a few places to improve.
Just switched from iPhone to android. Had the exact same app on my iPhone and it worked beautifully. Opened this up and it's buggy as all hell. Only showed about 12 people I follow and then crashed. So far everything on android had work as well or better than on the iPhone except except this app. I love tumblr but if I can't use it on my phone I won't be using it a hell of a lot from now on.
**update - Still crashes. If it was possible to give zero stars I would, this is without a doubt one of the worst apps I've ever used. It's barley optimised which means almost 100% of the time I'm using it, it crashes loading images. And when it's not crashing loading images and videos it's just doesn't load them. Avoid like the plague, it's atrocious
So limited and not as good as pc version. Doesnt refresh follower count and message count unless I uninstall and reinstall. I really get frustrated and annoyed by this app!!!! Has many bugs and kinks. Wont let me upload n post pics half the time. Fails. Frustrating! Have good LTE signal.
The tumblr mobile app sucks. I cant even click on a photo without being shot in some kind of html cannon about 20 posts up my dash, and this happens every time i click on a blog, a name, a photo, a link, you name it. Aside from the rampant beaking of federal laws involving federal minors and pornography, the staff dont really know their userbase at all, and keep shoving bad updates on the site. You'd think that an app based on endless scrolling would be better at that, but apparently not.
Glitches and shows posts in wrong order, and double posts. Photo post quality is suddenly very bad (unless you tap on the image). Glitches with mobile theme editing. Audio posts, dashboard and explore tab never load. Please smooth out these sort of bugs already.
Does anyone developing this app actually use it? Ads are getting out of hand. Bugs in infinite scrolling keep causing the app to crash or refresh to top of feed, rendering it practically unusable. Edit: two weeks into update that broke app, still no fix.
The dimension this app leads you to may be chaotic, it is a little glitchy, but it is AMAZING if you are a nerd, like comedy, or art of any kind. There is so much familiar art on here you might be surprised! But beware, once you get in you don't get out. (May also cause night terrors and new phobias)
Use to be easy and accurate posting on separate blogs but not since last summer. If you only have one blog it's okay, just want to scroll? Okay. Want multitude (even just one more) blog? Good luck. Very disappointed.
UPDATE 31.01: wow, everything loads even slower, crashes even more, and I see you added more ads, wtg👎 BRING BACK OLD SEARCH SYSTEM!!! Random crashes and looping apparently will never get fixed. "Read more" is still not working. Sometimes can't scroll tags to read them. Editing a post throws you back to the top of your blog. And it's freaking annoying that I have to reinstall the app everytime some porn blog follows me. Cause even if I block them they won't disappear from my activity feed.
ever since the update, my once perfectly usable app now never stops crashing. oh, and the redesign of the search tab? hate it. i cant swipe past the search tab anymore, cuz its filled with things to swipe past. also putting ads on peoples individual blogs? not nice. Young people use tumblr. young people hate ads. they especially hate them on their own blog that they created, not even getting paid for it. edit: new issue on top of these things, i keep getting teleported to a higher place on the dashboard and have to scroll past the same posts multiple times.
The app seems to worsen with every update, in my opinion. Photos, videos and gifs don't load regardless of internet connection, clicking on "Read More"s doesn't work, and somtimes tags beneath posts don't scroll. The dashboard abruptly stops scrolling as if it has reached an end point. While the app used to provide hours of entertainment, the abysmal loading times mean I spend less and less time on Tumblr.
The most recent version makes posts from other blogs you're not even following pop up and never go away even when closing them. You are still unable to know who is following you. You can not upload photos to text posts without it being from their Gif selector. Do not install right now until there is a later version.
Dashboard doesn't update anymore was great till that happened. I've deleted the app and reinstalled it multiple times along with doing what tech support told me to do... I have a Galaxy s6 edge plus so a newer phone
I really love this app, I use it every single day, and I especially find the messaging part of it very convenient and fun to use. The only problem I have with this app is with one person only, when I get messages from them, I'm not ever notified of it by a sound, vibration, notification, or anything. I've tried everything that I can, and since it's the only thing that I have wrong with this great app, I won't mark it down for it 😊
I have an S7 and this app freezes my phone. Please fix your app. This is the only app that takes almost a gigabyte of RAM on my device. That's a problem. That means that your programming doesn't allow for memory refresh which causes people's phones to stop responding and the app to crash. THIS HAS BEEN AN ISSUE FOR A VERY LONG TIME! Rewrite your code completely to fix these problems and take out the old stuff that's not needed anymore.
Out of all the S.N. this one is my favorite. Great place for the artist in you. Follow things you know you love and start with some new. It's okay because it will cheer you up wether feeling blue. Or you just want to check out something for your new tattoo.
Recommended posts are back. That is, people I'm not following are having their posts show up on my dashboard. Obviously I don't want this. Not only that, some people I AM following are having old posts show up at the top of my dashboard. ALL I WANT is to have to the people I'm following's posts to show up on my dashboard in reverse chronological order. Anything else is annoying nonsense.
Good content, unreliable app. Some functionality isn't accessible on the app and should be (such as blocking unwanted followers) and adding your own photos or gifs to replies isn't really available either. You can do a gif search from reblog but only on things already on Tumblr. Also, it crashes. ALL THE TIME. I keep hoping they'll fix this with all their updates, or add actual, useful functionality instead of fluff by way of Sounds! or Redisgned Buttons! which screw up your layout. So far, no dice.
Internet connection drops from 115 Mbps to almost 25 Mbps. There is no justifiable reason for internet speed to drop so dramatically just because I'm using the app. I don't care if it's a heavy data app but performance has been strait sh!+ the past 6 months. No other app gives me this type of connection/speed issues.
Give it --5 stars if I could!! iPhone to Samsung (iOS to Android). Crash after crash. Uninstall to reinstall again and again. Not worth getting annoyed by an apps useless programers/developers. Ditching Tumblr - by far worst app on Android since transfer over to Samsung. Love the phone though! Haha
annoying app. good content, but app crashes so often honestly. also for whatever reason there is no block button that would prevent me from going onto inappropriate blogs and block them from there. because of that (having to go on their blog) I ended up getting recommended blogs LIKE that. please fix that its so frustrating!
Downloaded the App but unable to login. After typing in the email and password, the screen just freezes blank. The internet and other Apps on my phone work just fine. Not sure what the issue is. Uninstalling this App. FYI the phone model is HTC Desire 828
The app has gotten better, I just wish the posts "From your orbit" would actually go away when you closed them. If I hit the 'X' I shouldn't see the same post when the dash refreshes.
It would be nice on your next update.u can comments on ppl post. I would like to comments on some of the post.just my opinion.it would be great thzfeb5...quick question..i been havin problem w the app it wont download the pic sumtimes it takes a few min or sec to see the pic..😠😭😢
I like using tumblr but the app is so bad. The only thing that loads are ads. Porn bot blogs constantly follow you. Tumblr needs to keep a better eye on that. Also anytime i reblog anything, it goes back to the top and i have to scroll down again.
The app won't load any pictures or text for me, I have waited for one picture to come up for 10 minutes and it just said failed to load image and it's for every picture. There's almost no point in the app if I can't see or read anything.
While it doesn't crash as much, it still crashes quite a bit. Not to mention now every time I try to scroll through someone's blog it shows me the same few posts over and over again and occasionally gets stuck and refuses to scroll past a certain point.
I jave had Tumblr for 5+ years. WHY is there no Tumblr Pro version that I cna buy that is better? It's back to looping the posts. You scroll down and keep scrolling and then all the sudden you're scrolling the EXACT posts as if it were on a treadmill, day and night cycle, Nascar laps, most songs nowadays. Catch my drift?
It keeps on stuffing up when I try to update my status and and want it to work please. Fix this or i will Uninstall tumblr and tell my mates to as well. Please try and become as popular as facebook my friends dont trust tumblr as much as they trust instagram more,and pinterest oh and twitter
Thank you for finally giving us the very useful block feature. However your old search function was better. In the past, we could specifically search for gif and select timeliness for current or top. Now everything is mixed up.
It's difficult to browse tumblr on this app. Pictures load very slowly, even with a decent connection. Often pictures appear, and then disappear as if were loading, same happens to videos. Picture saving isn't perfect either, only 40-50% of them are actually saved
i never recieve notifications from the app, ever. i even made sure i had the correct settings on, and even went as far as resetting the app and uninstalling it to try and fix the issue. nothing worked. plus now transparent images have an ugly grey background instead of the simple white one by default. i am not impressed
All the other reviews were right. I thought because my phone was brand new it would work for me, I was wrong. Signing in is the fastest part of this app, and the only things that actually load after 5 minutes are the ads. Don't waste your time and storage space. Use the online website instead.
It takes over 5 minutes for it to load the entire app, except for seach. The search option never loads. Uninstalling and reinstalling didn't change anything. This app is the shortest app I've ever used.
The app seems even slower than before... videos and pictures don't load regardless of connection, and sometimes the tags under the posts won't scroll and it crashes every 5 minutes. It's frustrating to use because the website is really good, but the app sucks. Solve those problems please
.....needs to invest in their very own cloud structure. I have a fibre optic connection so its all on tumblr to serve out files faster. This business of not wanting to stop/slow scrolling by refeeding "just seen" pics over and over in a loop like soooo many people posted doubles like a dummy. They didn't, its tumblr's so so slow server. Bad. Edit: vids & gifs! Failed panels and frozen gif images! Shame!
You know what? Your app is bullshit, it takes hours to load a single picture and even more for videos and gifs, I hate that I literally tried thirty times to upload a picture and nothing! I hate the way this app works, not only because of the slow loading, it crashes without reason since I had the update 5 and it still crashes! Solve this, dang it!
Why does it crash so much lately? A couple of times a day it will freeze for a second then disappear. And why is it so slow on a good WiFi connection but blazing fast when using mobile data? And yay its doing that thing again where it jumps back 20 posts as you scroll down. Why.... you fixed that damn bug ages ago....
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Removed a bug that was causing the app to beam customized nightmares to users.
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