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Budget Car Rental

Quickly book a car rental with the Budget Car Rental app.

Avis Budget Car Rental LLC
Deletion (dev says) — Developer says you can request data deletion
Google Play rating4.6★17.6K ratings
PriceFreeListed price
Age4+Store age rating
CategoryLifestyle

At a glance

Full report

From our automated analysis, 4 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.

This analysis describes version 15.13 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 15.13, updated 2026-09-24.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

Quickly book a car rental with the Budget Car Rental app. Our commitment to great value means you’ll find affordable car rentals within your budget. Sign up for Fastbreak and get exclusive rates, skip the line**, make quick returns, and modify or upgrade your rental all through the app.

With over 3,000 locations and a wide selection of vehicles, Budget Car Rental has what you need to get on the road faster.

Rental car information in one place

Easily make, modify, or upgrade your car rental reservation 24/7

View your receipts and upcoming booking information

Find your nearest Budget Car Rental location, hours of operation, and phone number. Get directions with a few taps

Fastbreak benefits

Save time with our convenient pickup and drop-off system

Access exclusive deals to save more time and money

Earn Budget Bucks to make an affordable car rental even better…

From the developer’s store description.

For developers and the curious

The full report

The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.

Findings and evidence

1 published · 1 shown, not confirmed

Positives 1

Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.

Developer says data deletion can be requested

Measured

The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text

Sources
The store listing
Agreement
A measured fact from one deterministic, checkable source.
Where measured
From the Google Play listing
Definition

The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.

Open evidence

One source only — shown, not confirmed 1

Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.

Price keeps rising

One source only

Price keeps rising: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (1.4% of 432 reviews scanned)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
From Google Play reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

The price of the paid tier has been raised on existing users.

Open evidence

Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.

What reviewers report

432 reviews read · 1 review-based observation

432 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.

Price keeps rising

Shown, not confirmed

between the app and the website, it would not take any credit card payments! my rental went from $120-200 by refreshing, logging out back in, deleting the app redownload9ng it, every time the rental price went up down up down till it just…

1★ · Google Play · 2026-09-16

Rental prices have drastically increased in the past 6 months. The hidden fees are crazy. I am going to be booking through other companies

1★ · Google Play · 2026-04-19

Took forever for the website to send me the email to verify my account. by the time it finally came through, the cost of the renewal went up a $100!

2★ · Google Play · 2026-03-31

A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.

Measurements

5 measured · 3 not assessed

Supporting measurements. They are not a complete list of possible harms or positives. “Not assessed” means we could not measure it — never zero, never a pass.

From store data and reviews

Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the app package we scanned

No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.

Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app

Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Assessed 4 Oct 2026

This analysis describes version 15.13 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 15.13, updated 2026-09-24.

Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

Google Play

Version 15.13 · 2026-09-24

No release notes were provided for this version.

Assessment record

Status
Automated analysis
App identifier
budget-car-rental
Assessment date
4 Oct 2026
Sources used
2 independent signals: user reviews and the store listing
Reviews read
432
Package examined
No package scan
Measurement vocabulary
1.4
Human inspection
Not completed

Assessed 2026-10-04 from 432 user reviews and the store listing. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.

How this page was produced

Analyzed 2026-10-04 Version analyzed: 15.132 independent signals432 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: user reviews and the store listing. Not yet checked: SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest and the store privacy disclosure.

Store facts

Google Play

What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.

Google Play

Store rating
4.63 ★ · 17,563 ratings
Version
15.13
Updated
24 Sep 2026
Price
Free
Age rating
4+
Size
Not supplied
Open in Google Play
Developer
Avis Budget Car Rental LLC
Category
Lifestyle
Listing price
Free

No itemized purchase list is available for this listing.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How the automated analysis works

This assessment is produced automatically. Two independent signals are read — user reviews and the store listing — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.

No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.

There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.

Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.

Limits of this report

  • A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
  • Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
  • Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
  • A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A hands-on test can confirm or contradict a finding and adds its own measurements; it does not change a measurement row. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.

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