I think you Birthday app when recognizing sisters have become disgusting! Do you have to show so many women in compromising positions and being so sexual just to send a message to a sister?? I had to get away from my young grandchildren that wanted to send a message to her with me in order to locate an appropriate Birthday wish to her. May you should invest in a phonography sight if you need to show so much of that garbage! I will seek other apps if you all don’t get any better than this. Sad example to children today. ☹️😢😞😕😒

While there theoretically may be GIFs in GIPHY's database that aren't terrible, you are not going to find them using the app's "search" tool because it can only look up existing tags, and only one tag at a time at that. If the word(s) in your "search terms" aren't an existing tag, you will get 0 results. This also means your "search" results will be the most boring and/or unaesthetic GIFs from decades ago that you would be embarrassed to send to your aunt that still forwards Nigerian Prince chain emails. If you do manage to find a reasonable GIF in their database by searching with Google, attempting to 'Visit' said GIF from Google's search results will force you to open the app, and instead of showing that GIF, it uses the GIF's first tag and does a new look up on it. Your GIF might be in the results or it might not, but you will be presented with a slew of other awful GIFs that might be relevant to what you were looking for. And don't attempt to copy and paste animate GIFs as all you will see is the title (key) frame. TL;DR: GIPHY is the primary reason why most people think GIFs are lame.

In my first two hours using this app, out of 20 attempted uploads (editing and tagging every time) only one successfully uploaded, processed, and posted, and it was on an attempt that I did not add the tags that the GIF needed. I tried on Wi-Fi and on data, I am running the newest iOS on an iPhone 16 Pro Max. I don’t know why it wouldn’t be working, but that’s a big problem for new users, any users really. The editing is limited but good enough for what I would want in any GIF. The role GIPHY plays in modern social media is immeasurable, and in regards to a rating, their wide range of integrations and third-party support is far more impactful and impressive than their app’s quality could ever be a damage to their reputation. Thanks, GIPHY.