Bay Area Bikes User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience38.1% of reviews
Neutral4.8% of reviews
Negative experience57.1% of reviews

~ Based on 21 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Bay Area Bikes Safe?

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Is Bay Area Bikes Legit?

Bay Area Bikes — A One-Tap Ford GoBike App appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Bay Area Bikes is 80/100.

Based on 80 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

App keeps crashing!

App keeps crashing

Glitches and shuts down

Running on iPhone where all other apps run fine. Maximum of about 2 minutes before freezing and shutting down. Happened now 4 times and I just downloaded today.

Not Ford GoBike

Likely not the app you’re looking for

Useless and infuriating

As the companion to the service this app has one purpose: to help ppl find and dock bikes. It doesn’t do this. It’s effing stupid and useless.

Worthless, non-working app

This app doesn't work. Can't locate bike stations when I am standing at one.

Not helpful

This app is not helpful. The UI is confining - why show a map inside a small circle? You can't rent a bike from it, so it doesn't really provide that much utility. Lastly, I turned on notifications and a couple of hours i received a notification saying that I had 5 minutes left to return a bike. But I never rented one! I got fed up that the app doesn't let you rent and just walked home. So how am I receiving notifications saying that my bike rental is late? Horrible experience.
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Not the ford gobike app

Careful. Not the app you want if you want to rent bikes in sf Bay Area. Just some dudes way to try to make $ off of you.

Ford gobike app needs work

Two stars may seem harsh, but the app is more confusing than helpful at times. After returning my bike and getting the green light AND a notification from the app that I had in fact returned the bike successfully, I later received a notification saying my bike was overdue. But I think it just says that if you click the countdown timer, whether or not you returned the bike.
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Always tracks location

Why does the app need to access the location in background?

Kills battery

The app uses location services in the background. This cannot be turned off. Used 20% of all battery power on my phone.

Always requires location

Always requires location, quits when not supplied

Finally I got an app for my bicycle trips

Best app for the SF bike share

Easy and reliable

Simple and efficient

Perfection

Simple. Innovative. Great design. Highly functional.

Excellent App!

Reliable and amazingly intuitive!

Awesome streamlined interface

Bay Bikes really makes finding the few closest docks super easy… especially when using one handed on a bike.

Great when it works

Annoying when it needs to calibrate (almost every time)

Great little app

Very good quality app which does almost everything I want it to.

Would be awesome if it gave walking/biking directions to a bike station.

Basic functionality is OK, but tighter integration would be useful.

App does an ok job giving you an as the crow flies vector to kiosk. Not so useful in an urban environment where streets don't go through and direct paths are often misleading.

Being able to link to my account and know time remaining on current share automatically is a key missing feature. Sure, the in app timer helps... If you always remember to set it at the right moment.

Also the share program needs more kiosks in more of San Jose. Having nothing north of Hedding is absurd. Nothing south of 280 is ridiculous.
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So well done!

This app tells me exactly what I need to know, quickly! It’s also fun to use and looks so slick. Thank you!