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Kik wants to be your go-to messaging client (photos)

Kik has the looks and features of a modern messaging client and offers extras so you can include images, memes, and other fun content to your texts.

Jason Cipriani
Jason Cipriani is based out of beautiful Colorado and has been covering mobile technology news and reviewing the latest gadgets for the last six years. His work can also be found on sister site CNET in the How To section, as well as across several more online publications.
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Networking

After setting up your Kik account, you're immediately asked to upload your contacts to its servers. If you decline the first time, you're asked again (seen above).

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Settings

The settings screen contains options to control your account information, chat bubbles, notification types, and more.

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Conversation

As you can see, sent messages are marked with an R once they've been read. The default chat bubble is green, although you can change that in the settings.

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Extras

You can quickly add items to your conversation. Photos from your camera roll, camera or a Web image search are all possibilities. As are user-created memes and hand-drawn sketches.

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Menu

The slideout menu lets you browse between conversations and integrated services.

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Extra extras

If you're not satisfied with the default services for bringing extras in your conversations, you can search and add third-party solutions from the search bar within the app.

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Stickers!

You can purchase individual stickers for 40 Kik points (first 100 points are free), or pay $2 and get an entire pack.

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