Limerino

Limerino Age Suitability

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This page describes what Limerino shows, who moderates it, and what you can control. It is written for parents and guardians, and for anyone deciding whether it suits a younger viewer.

What Limerino is

Limerino is a native, unofficial iOS client for Twitch. The chat and video you see come from Twitch and the people who use it. Limerino does not create, own, or control any of it, and it cannot remove anything from Twitch: moderation of the content itself belongs to Twitch, and the app’s own controls govern what reaches you inside it. Limerino is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Twitch Interactive, Inc.

What appears in chat and video

Chat is live, third-party user-generated content, and it can include mature language. Between that chat and the streams it runs alongside, what reaches you can occasionally include mature or suggestive themes, horror or frightening content, cartoon and realistic violence, references to alcohol, tobacco, or drugs, and weapons. Where a channel has Twitch’s AutoMod enabled it filters chat at the source, and each channel’s own moderators act there too — bans, timeouts, deleted messages, and chat clears all reach the app as they happen, because the app shows Twitch’s live conversation, not a copy.

The video player is Twitch’s own, so when a stream carries Twitch’s content-classification labels, Twitch’s viewer warning appears in the player before the video starts.

The controls Limerino gives you

  • Report is on every chat message and every user. It opens a sheet naming what you are reporting, with one button that takes you to that user’s Twitch page — where Twitch’s own reporting controls are, since Twitch hosts the content and moderates it — and one that blocks them. Limerino keeps no copy of your report.
  • Block takes effect instantly: it removes that user’s visible messages and filters out everything they send afterward, private messages included. Blocking also mutes that user’s mention notifications.
  • Word and phrase filters, in Settings → What you see → Blocked users & muted phrases, act on any message carrying a word or phrase you add: each rule either hides the whole message or obscures just the phrase, whichever you pick when you add it.
  • Third-party emotes from 7TV, BetterTTV, and FrankerFaceZ each have their own switch in Settings → Emote sources. Turning one off removes its emotes from chat.
  • Images posted in chat render inline only from a short list of image hosts, and pictures from the image-upload hosts stay off until you turn them on in Settings → Links & images. Anything else stays a plain link you choose whether to open.

Limerino has no browser of its own: no address bar, no search field, no tabs, no history. Its own web views have no user-enterable destination: Twitch’s sign-in pages — along with the Apple, Amazon, or Google page Twitch hands off to if you sign in to Twitch that way — and Twitch’s player, which cannot leave Twitch’s own hosts.

Most links you tap in chat open in the system’s Safari view. That view is Apple’s own component rather than a browser Limerino built, so the page loads under the web-content restrictions Screen Time applies in Safari — Content & Privacy Restrictions, including Limit Adult Websites and any allowed-sites list.

Twitch clip and video links are the exception: by default they open in Limerino’s own player, which loads Twitch’s player and goes nowhere else. Turning off Open Twitch clips and videos in Limerino, in Settings → Video, sends those links to the Safari view as well.

Accounts

Chat requires a signed-in Twitch account, so everyone in it has agreed to Twitch’s Terms of Service, including the minimum age Twitch sets there.

Not a social network

Limerino is a viewer for the live chat of channels you open yourself. It has no feed, no reposting or liking, and no way to push a message out to people who did not open that channel.

It does carry Twitch’s private messages, called whispers, between you and one other Twitch user — because Twitch does. They stay one-to-one; nothing in the app broadcasts them further. Blocking someone hides their whispers along with their chat.

The age rating

Apple assigns the rating from what we declare about the app; the current one is shown on its App Store page. It reflects the live, third-party chat described above.

Contact

For questions about any of this, or about the app:

To report objectionable content or an abusive user, use the in-app Report: it opens that user’s Twitch page, where Twitch’s own reporting controls are, because Twitch hosts the content and is the only party that can remove it. Limerino keeps no copy of that report. Writing to us instead is ordinary correspondence — the message sits in an email inbox or an X account like any other, we read it ourselves, and we can act only inside Limerino, never on Twitch.

The Terms of Use set out acceptable use and the zero-tolerance content policy. The Privacy Policy describes what the app stores, what leaves the device, and who receives it.