Autotrader User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience17.4% of reviews
Neutral9.0% of reviews
Negative experience73.6% of reviews

~ Based on 860 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Autotrader Safe?

Autotrader - Shop & Buy Cars appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Autotrader is 94/100.

This assessment is based on 349,186 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

93.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
3.6% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 349,186 App Store ratings for Autotrader.

Is Autotrader Legit?

Autotrader - Shop & Buy Cars appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Autotrader is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

All scammers

I’m a car dealer devices to try Autotrader. I use to love Autotrader when I was a kid and they would put out the magazine once a week. So I figured I would give them a shot
I paid $29. To simply have scammers send me about 6 messages a day same messages copied and past with burner phone numbers wasting my time

I haven’t got a single legit possible customer from this app

I literally paid $29 to be hurassed
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One Stop

AutoTrader is the best out there, able to do everything in one huge marketplace, love it!

Scams are crazy on here

I paid to sell a car on your platform $50 in 2 days 20 messages and all were obvious scammers not a single valid inquire on the car you guys have to get control of this platform. Add a feature where you can not message a seller unless you present a valid drivers license. Come on I will not renew my listing if you can not controll the scams it’s insane.
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Ok w glitches

Pretty good search and save. The biggest issue is messaging w seller the stupid AI button is over the send arrow option. Why auto trader just why?????? Stupid F AI

Super Glitchy

Every time I use this app, it either is unresponsive or it glitches while I’m in it. Should happen especially if I’m using an iPhone 17.

Spam

The app is riddled with spam and regressive. Autotrader has been a go to for automotive sales in the past but they no longer care about user safety or app UX.

Everyone is a scammer

I am selling my car on AutoTrader and I’m not exaggerating when I say that 11 out of 12 of messages I’ve received have all asked me to come off the app and message them directly with a variation of I’ll pay you full price for the car.

How is AutoTrader not putting better controls on this. I’ve flagged every post. They have to know this is a major problem.
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Search by ventilated seats please

Search by ventilated seats please. That is a deal breaker in hot climates

How to make Autotrader better

Stop all the unwanted pop-ups whenever you open up a car to view and make the pictures larger and for modified cars leave a section in there where the owners can list the modifications

Good app

Saves time and money

User friendly

By far the easiest site to navigate. User friendly. I highly recommend this.

Very good app!

This app is user friendly easy to navigate!

Works

The app works but the reason I am giving it 4 stars is because the images sometimes don’t load and are very blurry. Still a good app to browse vehicles though.

Fantastic app for shopping cars

I love this app. I love that you can save cars and save searches. The best car app

Worst App out there.

Horrible way to sell a car. App crashes constantly. All spam and scam buyers. Ridiculous.

The Worst

This app is the absolute worst! All you get is scammers …no real potential buyers just people thinking you are as dumb and useless as this app

Buying a car sucks

Every car dealer is out to get you and nobody wants to make a deal that’s worth it for the customer.

App sucks iPhone battery like no other

I’ve been using this app on iOS regularly for several years, and it’s consistently the most “power hungry” app I have. It frequently slows down my phone even when just browsing listings. It runs the battery down by double digit percent over a few tens of minutes. There are frequent in-app feedback surveys, but I no longer bother: if the developer isn’t using monitoring to see how performance sucks then they have more fundamental problems then asking users to help prioritize the feature backlog. Please do better, you’re the market leader but it won’t last if you’re sloppy.
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DARK MODE PLEEEEEASE

This app is so fricken bright all the dang time, it’s one of my favorites, I will update this 4 star to a 5 star when I get a dark mode. Everything else is perfect.

One gripe

Have been enjoying the app for quite some time. I might go to the app to kill time searching cars. My biggest gripe is that the app doesn’t tell you which vehicle has been sold from your favorite vehicles. Just get an email that says “ fill in the blank vehicle” if gone. But if you had multiple vehicles of that model saved to your favorites, you don’t know which one it is. It has been sold. It doesn’t give you a thumbnail or show you the listing. And disappears from your favorites.
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