Fife Bins Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience47.6% of reviews
Neutral23.8% of reviews
Negative experience28.6% of reviews

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

Is Fife Bins Safe?

Fife Bins appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Fife Bins is 73/100.

This assessment is based on 50 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.7/5.

Is Fife Bins Legit?

Fife Bins appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Fife Bins is 85/100.

Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Goodbye and thanks for all the fish

It’s been a brilliant app. Sadly I’m moving over the border to PKC and I’ll have to say goodbye. Please make a PKC app!

Response from developer

PKC are reluctant to give me any usable data but I am trying! Thanks for the feedback 😌

Decent app but not worth subscription

Been using the free version for a few months and was about to pay for the reminders but I see it’s moved to a subscription model. Everybody’s doing it. While I appreciate there’s maintenance work involved in an app, I thought £5.99 (if I remember correctly) was fine for a one off payment but £12 a year is too much for me. Sorry.
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Response from developer

I appreciate your feedback 👍🏼

So good!!!

ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT 🤩

Response from developer

😍🗑️🕺

Great🔥

Love the app, very useful for someone who forgets a lot, for the low one off price am more than happy to pay, thank you very much

Response from developer

Thanks Big John 🤘🏻

Doesn’t work

It says it can’t find the data and then spins endlessly

Response from developer

Get in touch. Happy to help try resolve your issue.

Terrible

Terrible

Response from developer

Tremendous feedback 👏🏼

Hidden behind subscriptions

Used to be decent in that you could see what was due to go out and what bins were upcoming. Now it’s all hidden behind a paywall. I’m all about paying the developer, but a one off fee or ads are ample for… a bin app. Shame, I’ll seek alternatives now!

Response from developer

You can always look out your window

Great App

Great app but sadly here in Dalgety Bay didn’t show the brown bin this week. It’s a real shame that Fife council aren’t providing the latest data

Response from developer

Brown bins go back to normal calendar on Monday so it will be back 👏

Winter brown bin dates

You are getting this wrong. For27/1/25 you say it’s blue bin. It’s blue and brown according to Fife council bin calendar.

Response from developer

Fife won’t share the winter collection dates with me so I’ve done a best guess & it appears to only be correct for half the Fife properties.

My da made this

I have to rate 5 stars

Response from developer

😍

Improve Notification Flexibility in the Fife Bins App

The Fife Bins app is fantastic, and I’ve purchased the Pro version, but one area that really needs improvement is the notification timings. The app only allows users to choose a time between 08:00 and 22:00 for the “Remind me on bin day” feature. This should be updated to allow users to select any time they prefer, such as 06:00 on the day. The same applies to the “Remind me a day before bin day” feature.
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Response from developer

Thanks for your feedback, very appreciated. I’ll get to work on it 👍🏼

Ok during the year, unreliable over holidays

Nearly missed a collection due to wrong info in app. Thought maybe I needed to update the app to fix, but not to be. Read reviews and tried developers suggestion of going to settings and notifying them of error. Only trouble with this solution is that the developer assumes everyone has a twitter account to contact them.
I thought I’d give the developer a chance and try something before reviewing but when they reply “cool story” to 1 star feedback you can gauge their professionalism. I reckon a lot of people will have missed their pick ups this holiday due to app.
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Response from developer

Fife council won’t give me winter collection schedule so it’s a bit of a hit and miss, about half the properties have it correct.

Unreliable Data

Showed my bins as blue and brown. Council site says blue only (new schedule since a month ago). Can’t report bugs unless you sign up for ‘X’. Doesn’t get holiday changes like Christmas correct. Forget it, it’s easier and more reliable to just use the council site.

Response from developer

Cool story, brown bin isn’t a bug but ok 👌🏼

Not correct schedule for me.

Tried this and the first week it is not correct.
Then the developer contacted me saying I can update the schedule.
The app seemed like a good idea but it’s just as easy and at least accurate to go to the Fife council page.

Response from developer

Go to settings. Hit “issue with collection dates” and I can fix it - it says it right there in the app 🤷‍♂️

Great app

Saves checking fife council website

Response from developer

🙏🏼

Incomplete details

Contacted developer via x with a problem re not displaying which bins going out on each available date. ( still no response)
The Also only going out 3 weeks. I paid to hopefully get a more detailed service but this made no difference

Do NOT pay for the extra service as it no difference to free service and certainly not accurate information
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Response from developer

You’ve not contacted me. Please do though and I take a look at your data > don’t pay for extra service as it’s no difference Upgrading to pro unlocks multiple additional features including 4 weeks worth of collection dates and reminder notifications

Dates

Would be useful if the data on collection days was up to date. Currently showing data from before the change of collection.

Response from developer

It’s being worked on

Great app

This app has made life so much more streamline checking what bin it is. Super clear and easy to use. If only the council could get web and app developers who could make things this user friendly!
Fingers crossed for an update for the new bin timetable and day changes. Doesn’t seem to have updated yet though and it’s only 3 days to go.
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Response from developer

Thanks for the feedback! I’m currently waiting on the new data from the council, will have it updated ASAP!

Great app, very useful.

Hats off to the developer for coming up with such a handy app. Navigating Fife Councils website for this info is cumbersome. This app makes it a doddle. Thank you!

Response from developer

Thanks for the great feedback!

Very useful app

So far this has been very helpful. Can ask if it will be updated with the new collection schedule after 14th October?

Response from developer

Yes new data should be available before 14th 👍🏼 thanks for the review!