# Blink Charging UK & Ireland — user reviews > 65 indexed App Store user reviews of Blink Charging UK & Ireland by Blink Network, LLC, rated 3.64/5 from 1,207 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/blink-charging-uk-and-ireland/id6499210491/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/blink-charging-uk-and-ireland/id6499210491.md ## Newest reviews (16 of 65) ### 1/5 — Worst App Ever *2026-05-06, version 3.1.35* Just useless, you need the app to charge but I kept getting a message ‘Woops we can’t connect you’ (something along those lines) and ‘network issue’. Strange that not one charger was being used, honestly in this day and age these things should just work. Support tried to assist but could not help in the end, advice to use touch pad to pay with card also failed trying 3 cards and it said nothing about being able to pay by card anyway but to use their own card which I do not have. Had stressful low battery drive to next location with a decent bank of chargers which worked using debit card and gave me a super quick charge to get home. ### 1/5 — Special talent to be this bad *2026-04-20, version 3.1.34* Possibly the worse out of strong competition for the least user friendly user experience. Impressive. ### 1/5 — 50% chargers offline *2026-04-18, version 3.1.34* Very poor service for the past 2 years 50% of their chargers are out of service and they never service them. Very frustrating experience most of the time lately. Please take your business seriously run service level checks weekly and go fix chargers that are never used for more than 7 days as they are out of network ### 1/5 — Poor charge rate *2026-04-18, version 3.1.34* Very poor charge rate. Barely rose above 2kw. Avoid. ### 1/5 — Useless *2026-04-11, version 3.1.34* By far the worst charging app I have ever used. Not only is it a pain to use it’s can’t even charge the car. Waste of time and effort compared to other AVOID ### 1/5 — Terrible Service. Will never use again. *2026-04-10, version 3.1.34* Difficulty connecting to charging point, despite being a robust and new location within a populated city centre multi-story car parking lot that I found myself on one afternoon. Once finally connected (over 30mins trying). A very slow 3kw charging speed was available. In addition to this, several days later, the pre-authorisation amount has still not been released back into my bank. And the significantly less 'actual cost of charge' was debited over several days ago. Blink Customer Support state they have no control over release of the pre-authorisation of £30 and it can take 30 days. It’s not a large amount of money. But the principle of an appalling service. First time using Blink. And will be my last. Other providers are much better, priced, more efficient, with much better charging speeds. I’ll stick with the multitude of other options in my area. And advise others to avoid Blink charging where possible. ### 1/5 — Another Poor EV App *2026-04-05, version 3.1.34* No Apple Pay integration, does not work No auto fill options Pain to use and set up ### 1/5 — very poor *2026-03-29, version 3.1.34* Awful to connect, has taken a £30 pre charge and not refunded the difference. Gives zero indication of the charge rate nor what the charge has cost me. Don’t recommend ### 1/5 — First use *2026-03-23, version 3.1.34* Super slow, offered 19kw delivered 6kw plus £30 deposit, ### 1/5 — Poor service and app *2026-03-22, version 3.1.34* Frustrating to have to use an app to pay for charging. The app itself is clunky and needed restarting several times to validate payment details and no Apple Pay option. 0 stars. Company don’t maintain kit either from experience. Very helpful customer service staff that tried to help despite issues. Took 35 mins to get resolved ### 1/5 — RIP off *2026-03-12, version 3.1.34* I had to disturb my charge this morning after authorising £30 deposit or whatever it’s called and then had to pay another £30 to start a new charge. Money is still not returned 4hrs later !!! Why should we have to pay £30 each time we connect. Daylight Robbery!!! ### 1/5 — Not recomanding *2026-03-07, version 3.1.34* Had my car on charge for 4 hours and come back to it after 4 hours and only 5% added and been charged for full charge, so disappointed of it ### 1/5 — Really not easy to use! *2026-03-04, version 3.1.34* Am using a workplace blink charger and none of the instructions were made clear anywhere! ### 1/5 — Too slow for charging *2026-02-28, version 3.1.34* Too slow for chargin ### 1/5 — Can’t sign up *2026-02-18, version 3.1.32* When creating an account it says verify email address, but nothing pops up. Resent 10+ times. Not good when you need to charge your car ### 1/5 — Awful app *2026-02-17, version 3.1.32* Unable to login to the app and glitchy. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Awful, avoid *2026-08-04, version 3.1.36* Been using public chargers for 6 months now, this one is far and away the worst yet. Card reader not working so spent half an hour downloading the app, registering email twice, registering card took another 5/6 attempts. They put £25 on hold and the charger didn’t work - still waiting for my money to be released. Customer service non existent. ### 1/5 — Q-Park sovereign square *2026-08-04, version 3.1.36* Charged my car all night and still on 25% ### 1/5 — Poor service *2026-07-25, version 3.1.36* This was extremely poor service and a significant waste of my time. I expected a much more reliable service and a higher standard of customer support. I would appreciate an explanation of what went wrong, reassurance that this issue will be addressed to prevent it from happening again, and appropriate compensation for the time, inconvenience, and stress caused. ### 1/5 — Just avoid *2026-07-19, version 3.1.36* I’ve tried charging at Blink chargers multiple times now, and as the “tap card” function never seems to work, have downloaded the app. App doesn’t actually show that the chargers exist around me until I type in the serial number, and then the app will not accept my card despite saying it’s one of the cards it does accept. That combined with the fact that the pricing is similar to a high speed charger (54p per kWh at time of writing) has killed any incentive to use it. Poor app and poor chargers. ### 1/5 — Poor *2026-07-12, version 3.1.36* Slow charge. Cant use the fast charge as it taxi only ### 1/5 — Absolute garbage *2026-06-23, version 3.1.35* I never review but felt compelled to in order save others. It didn't matter what payment card I entered it rejected them all. The address format doesn't match credit/bank cards so it fails. Their help is unusable. Instead get the Zapmap app as you can pay with them for the Blink chargers. If I could give zero stars I would have. ### 1/5 — Useless *2026-06-23, version 3.1.35* None of the chargers work ### 1/5 — Charger stopped *2026-06-05, version 3.1.35* Terrible ### 1/5 — :( *2026-05-25, version 3.1.35* Worst app I’ve used in years ### 1/5 — Disappointing experience *2026-05-19, version 3.1.35* Long term problems - staying logged in connection issues are frequent as well as aborted charging ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Wed the app but there’s a QR code on the box *2026-03-21, version 3.1.34* Need the app but there’s a QR code to set it up takes 5 mins but worked after app set up! ### 5/5 — Mr *2025-12-15, version 3.1.31* I just started using the app yesterday and it look Very interesting, it’s only that my bmw 330e is a slow charging vehicle but apart from that what I was billed in 3 hours is okay ### 5/5 — Great place to charge *2025-12-06, version 3.1.31* Great EV charging bays brilliant! & lots of them! ### 5/5 — Thornton Clevelys *2025-10-28* Downloaded the app and set up an account and charged the car all went well no problems and all charging points were available 👌 ### 4/5 — Charging machines only 1 available *2026-04-29, version 3.1.35* You have 3 machines but only 1 available when nobody else is using the other machines. ### 3/5 — Bit Stressful *2026-05-06, version 3.1.35* App not easy to negotiate especially in sunlight. Chargers with simple card payment at charging device much preferred. ### 3/5 — Good when it works… *2025-06-02* Have been using the app for the last 4 years but was faced with a problem today because it requested I register my details - as if I were using the app for the first time?! Needless to say when I tried to ‘register’ I was presented with an error message! I had in fact been logged out of the app (I guess following the 27th May software update) but was not presented with the option to log back in. ### 2/5 — Took ages to set up, took 3 goes to charge *2026-04-18, version 3.1.34* Not the most straight forward charger I’ve used. The app took ages to set up, partly because service at the location was 2 bars and also because they want to know every detail about you before you can start charging. It then took 3 goes before it would actually charge the car. Nowhere like as easy as GRIDSERVE for example. ### 2/5 — Hard Work *2026-01-24, version 3.1.32* Not easy to work ### 2/5 — Cannot report broken charge stations *2026-01-18, version 3.1.32* Tried to log a support issue. Completed all data entry fields. Was met with ‘Error Please try again’. It appears then, that both the app and the infrastructure need improvement work! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-30.*