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BIXI

Lyft, Inc. · 2,652 ratings · ★ 3.9

3.9
★★★★★
2,652 ratings
5 ★
1,591 (60%)
4 ★
291 (11%)
3 ★
53 (2%)
2 ★
132 (5%)
1 ★
530 (20%)
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Top complaints - extracted from 35 negative reviews

Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.

1
"account"
7 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★ "For days I can't singup for account" - Ahmed Elbhje
2
"service"
7 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★ "I gave 2 years with bixi and it is the most unreliable mode of transportation ever. no matter what it will find a way to screw you over. and then they will charge you a lot more than your expecting for this terrible service." - Mark Legend
3
"bike"
6 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★ "For something that's suppose to be so convenient, the bikes always seem to not want to unlock l. Even with a full freaking terminal! It's so freaking annoying. No one's working on the app, hasn't had an update since I got it. Just constant …" - Aundray M
4
"bikes"
5 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★ "For something that's suppose to be so convenient, the bikes always seem to not want to unlock l. Even with a full freaking terminal! It's so freaking annoying. No one's working on the app, hasn't had an update since I got it. Just constant …" - Aundray M
5
"error"
5 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★ "I tried for 15 minutes to create an account for a single trip. didn't work and kept getting errors on the payment screen saying my account failed to create. I tried resetting my password just in case one got made and nope, no account associ…" - Nick C.
6
"work"
4 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★ "I tried for 15 minutes to create an account for a single trip. didn't work and kept getting errors on the payment screen saying my account failed to create. I tried resetting my password just in case one got made and nope, no account associ…" - Nick C.
7
"impossible"
4 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★ "terrible app that makes it impossible to cancel a subscription from it. I just ended up blocking my card instead. if you make doing a subscription easy please make cancel one easy too. I don't need to go always on my computer log in and loo…" - Yacine Hamani
8
"doesn"
4 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★ "Impossible to use during peak hours, stations keep getting removed, the mobile app doesn't have the "unsubscribe" option." - curious individual
9
"times"
4 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★ "Signed up, errored out many times before I could actually pay for a membership so I couldn't ride for a while, then I finally got it and when I decided to cancel that membership, it wouldn't let me do it on the app. I had to use the website…" - A

📋 All 35 negative reviews

Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").

★★★★ Ahmed Elbhje 6/24/2026 v2025.48.3.1765994815
For days I can't singup for account
★★★★ Pat Mogianesi 6/22/2026 v2025.48.3.1765994815
unable to make an account
★★★★ Mark Legend 6/12/2026 v2025.48.3.1765994815
I gave 2 years with bixi and it is the most unreliable mode of transportation ever. no matter what it will find a way to screw you over. and then they will charge you a lot more than your expecting for this terrible service.
★★★★ Ahmed Wagih 5/22/2026 v2025.48.3.1765994815
bad experience، charge for anything. you think that the trip ended but the docker is poor and you find $50 fees for the trip. Customer service is not helpful most of the time
★★★★ Nick C. 5/19/2026 v2025.48.3.1765994815
I tried for 15 minutes to create an account for a single trip. didn't work and kept getting errors on the payment screen saying my account failed to create. I tried resetting my password just in case one got made and nope, no account associated.
★★★★ Aundray M 5/18/2026 v2025.48.3.1765994815
For something that's suppose to be so convenient, the bikes always seem to not want to unlock l. Even with a full freaking terminal! It's so freaking annoying. No one's working on the app, hasn't had an update since I got it. Just constant bugs!
★★★★ Yacine Hamani 1/6/2026 v2025.33.3.1757612536
terrible app that makes it impossible to cancel a subscription from it. I just ended up blocking my card instead. if you make doing a subscription easy please make cancel one easy too. I don't need to go always on my computer log in and look for the cancel subscription button all the time.
★★★★ David Volpato 12/7/2025 v2025.33.3.1757612536
terrible app for the fact that you can't cancel your membership on it and there is no info anywhere on it to bring you to that option online
★★★★ curious individual 11/22/2025 v2025.33.3.1757612536
Impossible to use during peak hours, stations keep getting removed, the mobile app doesn't have the "unsubscribe" option.
★★★★ A 11/11/2025 v2025.33.3.1757612536
Signed up, errored out many times before I could actually pay for a membership so I couldn't ride for a while, then I finally got it and when I decided to cancel that membership, it wouldn't let me do it on the app. I had to use the website. Maybe some people would see this as a small thing, but this is dark UX design. it was a clear choice on the side of the developers to keep retention up.
★★★★ Taïb El Ouazzani 11/4/2025 v2025.33.3.1757612536
you keep the 100$ deposit for too long....
★★★★ Xavier Morin Duchesne 10/19/2025 v2025.33.3.1757612536
Application qui fonctionne à moitié. Mauvais service en général. Pas recommandé
★★★★ GoGo Frenc 10/12/2025 v2025.33.3.1757612536
Bixi is one of the best and very finest Montreal services. However, the app has been full of nonsense this entire summer. Entire stations don't work for taking a bike. Recently, I docked a bike but the app didn't register that I had returned it. About half hour on the phone sorting it out.
★★★★ Alexandra Turmel 9/30/2025 v2025.33.3.1757612536
I love bixi. Unfortunately ever since my credit card expired at the end of july, I haven't been able to use bixi. I can't change or update my payment method in my profile, it always says "unknown error, try later". It's been saying this for weeks now. When I try to rent a bike at the station without the app, it says my account was suspended when I tap my credit card. I have no idea why, it doesn't say anywhere in the app that it's been suspended. Can't even use it during the STM strike.
★★★★ Karl Brady 9/20/2025 v2025.33.3.1757612536
There are so many hidden fees. The app claims $1.50 per ride. Even with a 13-minute ride, there was over useage fees. As a tourist, I really don't recommend it.
★★★★ Sami LASSED 9/9/2025 v2025.15.3.1746560102
very limited features, very poor UI ux
★★★★ Mahdi Emran 8/12/2025 v2025.15.3.1746560102
No email notifications for e-bike usage charges, which is unfair to users. I reported this issue, but my request to have it fixed was declined.
★★★★ Joshua Calvin Koa 7/25/2025
The dock at Gd. Boul. / Sherbrooke will not accept my bikes. Had to wait for somebody to take a bike before I could deposit. My partner had to deposit the other bike at a distant dock station that she got lost trying to find, and we spent an extra 15 minutes looking for each other in an effort to park the damn bike. At the end, we spent more money and time compared to just walking. Our day was a complete disaster!
★★★★ Chris 7/22/2025 v2025.15.3.1746560102
i could not register at all. maybe because of foreign phone number (if not supposed then please openly say so). I tried multiple times and always get: Error message: "Signup failed - an error occurred while creating your account. Try again later."
★★★★ Mathis Qian 7/21/2025 v2025.15.3.1746560102
I had to try 3 times until my bike rent worked. Moreover, after I returned docked the bike, I have received a green light signal (which indicates that I returned properly), but there is no activity receipt at all. I have no idea how much I rode and how much would I be charged. This app is inconsistent and laggy, which shouldn't happen especially when many people rely on it.
★★★★ Daliah Katz 7/14/2025 v2025.15.3.1746560102
Impossible to use this app. My husband and I both tried to sign up. Once from the street and once from apt using wifi. Get all the way to the end there is a sign up error in creating the account. The error repeats even when we go back to the beginning and have confirmed multiple times that all information is correct. Android. See other Android users having issues.
★★★★ Guillaume Rocher 7/11/2025 v2025.15.3.1746560102
Bikes are never available, app glitches out often, preventing you from grabbing the few leftover bikes.
★★★★ Ryan Binter 7/11/2025 v2025.15.3.1746560102
the map will not load for me and I cannot create an account because of a vague error
★★★★ duluth duluth 6/30/2025
doesn't work to sign up. I miss when it was working well
★★★★ Gabrielle Plourde 6/11/2025 v2025.15.3.1746560102
Impossible de déverrouiller un vélo depuis 2 semaines sur Android...
★★★★ Román Jiménez-Oviedo 6/7/2025 v2025.15.3.1746560102
Pretty frustrating that you're paying for a service that you can only use while on Wi-Fi. They fully know of the issue with 5G / data usage when on VPNs or international roaming connected to local Canadian networks nonetheless, but haven't come up with a fix and many weeks now. They're fully aware that VPN or roaming or not, one should be able to use the app while on fully working stable data, but it's a big they created themselves with one of the updates and seem unwilling to fix until now.
★★★★ Conor Tomalty 5/27/2025 v2025.15.3.1746560102
one of the truly worst products available.
★★★★ Edouard Geze 5/27/2025 v2025.15.3.1746560102
très cher comparé à d'autres villes et le service crash très régulièrement.
★★★★ Laura Salas 5/21/2025 v2025.15.3.1746560102
Won't let me log in on the app, even though I am able to log into the web app.
★★★★★ Victor Manuel Toro Solano 6/20/2026 v2025.48.3.1765994815
muchas veces no libera la bicicleta me paso 3 veces hoy
★★★★★ Brent Edwards 3/6/2026 v2025.48.3.1765994815
Great when it works. Lately, I've had to scan the bikes twice for them to unlock. This is really inconvenient and confusing as I have to accept the charges twice. Please resolve this issue. Thanks!
★★★★★ Michaël Medeiros Charbonneau 10/26/2025
Difficile de créer un compte car bogues, facile de déverrouiller un vélo, compliqué de revérrouiller un vélo à une autre station, les corrections pour le temps d'utilisation après un appel pour régler la situation ne s'affichent pas immédiatement dans l'application (le compteur a continué jusqu'à 57 minutes pour un trajet de 15 minutes avant que la station ne soit reconnectée). J'ai dû appeler une deuxième fois pour obtenir une explication. Très bon service au téléphone au moins.
★★★★★ Steve Gray 7/11/2025 v2025.15.3.1746560102
map will not load. on a Samsung s24 / android platform and the map just spins and doesn't show. also our 2nd ride today for some reason the dock didn't end our ride. so now 6 hours later I just got notified the bike has been returned and we have a huge bill. I'm confident if this is a good company they'll see we returned the bike with our other bike and refund the money. if so then this would be 4 stars until they get the map fixed. then it'll be 5 stars! we really enjoy the service.
★★★★★ Jad Yasmine 6/17/2025 v2025.15.3.1746560102
No available bikes can be found in my area after work.
★★★★★ Katherine Curley 6/12/2025 v2025.15.3.1746560102
can't log in. get a " contact customer support error message". There's no option in the app for contacting customer support.

Sentiment summary

71%
Positive (4-5★)
4%
Neutral (3★)
25%
Negative (1-2★)

✓ Strong positive sentiment - clone path is harder, users like the existing app.