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Is The Jump Safe? The Jump App Review for Parents

Overall Rating:
⭐ 3.0 / 5

Updated January 30, 2025

Overview

Overall Rating: ⭐ 3.0 / 5

Recommended Age: 13 and up

The Jump is an up-and-coming app claiming to be a healthy version of social media. Individual users can create a personal profile, but the app is marketed primarily for organizations, communities, and teams. Similar to GroupMe and Band, the Jump offers a space for large groups to communicate and share information all on one platform. Unlike other apps, though, the Jump lets users build their feed by joining groups based on their interests, like cooking or memes. It also promises to never offer ads or algorithms to help make users’ experiences completely customizable. It sounds appealing, but is the Jump really as healthy and unique as it claims to be?

Harmful Content 😲

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The Jump has strict Community Guidelines and promises to constantly review flagged content. However, since the app is still in the beta stage, it’s difficult to tell how well these guidelines are enforced. If your child searches for explicit content, the app likely won’t produce any results, but it’s unclear if the platform preemptively blocks content. If your kid doesn’t join any public groups, the likelihood of them stumbling across harmful content is low, but there’s no way to block the search bar or public groups from an account.

Predation 🚨

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Even though the Jump app lets users limit who they receive messages from, this setting can’t be locked, so your child can turn on the public chat feature whenever they want. Additionally, if your kid joins a public group, they can engage with other users in the comment section. These features increase the risk of your child being contacted by a predator.

Positive Value 💙

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The Jump can be an effective and easy way for groups to communicate, stay organized, share pictures, and more. Your child’s sports team, theater group, or other community can create a profile and then create different Jumps (groups) to help keep things organized. For example, your child’s theater group could create a Jump for every member and then create a subgroup only for the backstage crew.

 

For personal accounts, the Jump offers some unique features to help users have a more positive experience. The platform promises not to collect users’ data, show ads, or use algorithms. Users can also turn off the main feed. These features can certainly help reduce the spread of negativity and the desire to doomscroll.

Privacy 🔒

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The Jump promises not to collect user data, and it offers some privacy features in the settings. These include blocking friend requests and messages from unknown users, and the option to make your following and group lists hidden. Unfortunately, there’s currently no way to turn off commenting.

 

There’s also a setting to block keywords and content categories, like hateful speech. This of course begs the question, if the platform can detect hate speech, why not just remove it? Again, it’s unclear if the app preemptively blocks explicit content from being shared, or if it only removes harmful content after it’s posted.

Parental Controls ✅

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The Jump offers a variety of settings to make users profiles more secure and limit interactions with strangers, but none of these settings can be locked. This means, your child can change them at any time without your permission. The platform offers no parental control features, making it difficult for parents to ensure their kids aren’t encountering harmful content or talking to strangers. This is where Bark comes in.

 

With Bark you can:

  • Block the Jump app completely, if needed.
  • Manage when your child can use the Jump app throughout the day.

So, should my kid download it?

The short answer is, maybe. If your child is using it to connect with their club, team, or other organization, the Jump app could be a helpful resource. Joining public groups and connecting with strangers, though, is risky. If you let your child use the Jump, we suggest following the platform’s age requirement of 13 years or older, limiting what you can in the settings, and having continual conversations about online safety and boundaries with your child.

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