“No car No refund — Terrible experience. Found myself and my family without a car in Dortmund. Sixt cancelled my reservation because I was around 1 and half hours late. Sixt representative said Rentalcar had not informed them about flight…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 500 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.7 ★32,114 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
30 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Rentalcars.com Car Rental App.
Need a great car at a great price – fast? Download our mobile app and you can...
1) Book the nearest car at the lowest price. Need a car on another continent? Or just around the corner? With over 49,000 locations worldwide, our app will find you the right rental car in the right place – at the best price.
2) Pick your car up with your phone. The Rentalcars.com eVoucher is accepted almost everywhere, so forget the printer. Just save your voucher on the app and pick your car up with your phone.
3) Enter your details once – and only once. Every booking, every driver, every credit card… our car rental app stores all the information securely, so you don’t need to re-enter your details every time you rent a car.
A great travel app for people on the go!…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
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Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 2026.7.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2026.7.1, updated 2026-07-20.
What we measured
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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 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 about the app, not a finding about it.
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.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (3 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
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: Surprise charges: raised by 26 distinct reviewers (5.2% of 500 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Very bad company — Never use this app they stole your money if you cancel your reservation they charge the entire amount. For one day rent (24 hours) they charged me $322.00 is so crazy. I chat with them I they don’t want to resolve the…”
“No follow up — No follow up on your side for your costmors. I book car rental from thrifty DTW . They charged me $200 as deposit and they told me it would be on hold and it was withdrawn from my credit card bank. Plus their treatment was…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2026.7.1.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.