“Never buy from this company—it’s garbage. They’ll steal your money if you miss your bus or if it breaks down—like what happened to us on the road. They promise a refund and even a $25 credit for the inconvenience, but it’s all lies. No…”
Independent automated assessment · 6 signal sources · 1,288 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.7 ★1,131,623 ratings
50M+Downloads
4+Age rating
151 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Looking for a smarter way to book bus tickets? FlixBus makes bus travel simple, affordable and easy, with cheap bus tickets, live bus tracking and modern buses on routes across the US.
Need a bus from New York to Boston, Washington, D.C. to New York or Houston to Dallas? FlixBus has a reserved seat with your name on it. Book in seconds and pay your way.
Why travellers choose FlixBus - Comfortable bus seats with extra legroom, free WiFi and power outlets - Cheap bus tickets with clear, transparent prices - A reserved seat on every booking, with optional seat selection - Real-time bus tracking, so you always know where your bus is - Mobile tickets and mobile boarding, just show the QR code, even offline - Apple Pay and secure card payment - 24/7 customer support…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
App Store
This analysis describes version 10.8.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 10.8.0, updated 2026-09-22.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 9.86.1 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 9.86.1, updated 2026-10-06.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to at least 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 package we scanned
From the package we downloaded and read — version 9.86.1, scanned 2026-09-30.
Permissions Android classifies as dangerous
3–5 requested
Counted against the eighteen permissions listed in collect-package.ts. A dangerous permission is one Android asks the user to grant; requesting one is not itself a finding.
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
3 or more found
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
3–9 found
Counted as distinct SDKs in the package we scanned. One mediation bundle can contribute several, so this is not a count of advertisers.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
The catch list 2
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Multiple ad networks bundled
The package embeds several distinct advertising or mediation SDKs — a stack built for ad volume, not for a single house ad.
What we saw: Bundles 4 distinct ad networks / mediation SDKs: AppLovin MAX, Chartboost, ironSource / Unity LevelPlay, Unity Ads
Reported by users: Reports of unexpected charges
A large number of reviewers report being charged when they did not expect it — including being charged after cancelling during a free trial, or when a trial turned into a paid plan without warning. We cannot see anyone's billing, so this is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Raised by 36 distinct reviewers — 7.0% of the 517 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
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.
What we saw: 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
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“my bus never came and I waited for 8 hours. they don't issue refund they just give you voucher credit. you loose out on your money no matter if it is there fault. my situation was not my fault the bus never came and I still couldn't get a…”
“took my money”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 10.8.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.