Movatic User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience64.5% of reviews
Neutral4.2% of reviews
Negative experience31.3% of reviews

~ Based on 166 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Movatic Safe?

Movatic appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Movatic is 97/100.

This assessment is based on 7,283 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.9/5.

Safety Analysis

97.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
0.8% of ratings suggest some concerns
1.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 7,022 App Store ratings for Movatic.

Is Movatic Legit?

Movatic appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Movatic is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Worst experience ever. Stole my money

The pickup and return process is so complicated. It allowed me to take only 2 at a time while it said the limit was more (4 think).

They need your phone and yourself to be physically present at the place of returning for it to work. For example you can’t rent for your kid or friend and let them return at a hub without your presence. They need so many pictures and GPS and all that and it’s just horrible.

Also my wife’s phone had a GPS issue and the app failed to locate her for her to correctly return. But it didn’t have a problem in letting her pick it up. GPS issue was never a problem for pickup but a problem when you return. How convenient.

This caused major delays and it charged extra due to the delays.

Avoid at all costs.
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Renting but led on this app is not a good idea

I rented bikes in West Concord Massachusetts and it took over 40 minutes to unlock four bikes. After our bike ride, it took forever to return the bikes. The app wouldn’t let me end the ride in order to lock the bikes back up. Customer service was not helpful. They would tell me the steps to returning and locking but couldn’t understand that these steps weren’t working. There’s no one to speak to, only a chat options that takes a long time to communicate back and forth. I will never rent using this app again. Hopefully the Town of Concord can find another company to use to rent bikes.
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Glitchy app, fun rental

I used this on a kayak rental in Kansas. It was fun check out worked well. App just froze on one of the instruction slides.

Then return the camera through the app kept going black, my camera app worked fine but was black in the app. So my friend logged in on his phone to do the return. Got one returned and put away then the second didn’t take so we had to remove it all from the lockers again take the pics and it took the second time.
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Bike Rentals

The Movatic app allows you to rent bike lockers in various cities. It’s easy to use! They have a good customer support that helped me when I experienced an issue. I think this is a great idea and service to encourage people to bike more! :)

Trash app that doesn’t work

I rented a kayak but there was nowhere in the app to start the return. All the kayak lockers had issues. Some don’t lock at all. Customer service kept telling me to re-rent it so I could end it. Couldn’t re-rent, couldn’t end. If I get charged for extra time, I’m going to be soooo livid.

Terrible Experience

I rented a bike on the waterfront in Newburyport. When I returned the bike there were 3 slots open to return it to, but all 3 of the cables were broken. I had to wait an hour until someone rented one of the other bikes that had an unbroken cable. After I finally locked it and left, I started getting messages from Movaic saying that I needed to return the bike. It’s 24 hours later now and I’m still getting the messages. There’s no one to call to clear up the mess. I’ll never rent another bike through them.
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horrible

the app never works properly, i just had to wait 10+ minutes for the app to load just so i can end my rental.

once my phone nearly died while i was trying to end the rental after 20 minutes of trying to get to lock to work when putting the bike away. i tried to contact help, it told me i would get a real person, instead i got an ai who told me to “try locking the bike” after i explained it would not lock even after looking up tutorials and doing everything right.

it would be very helpful to have a app like this if the app bothered working
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Glitchy app, lots of kayaks in maintenance mode, very heavy

Used for the first time and I signed up for the annual membership. I was able to reserve 1 kayak and tried reserving the other 3 and kept having issues. Reached out to support, apparently it was my bank denying it. Reached out to my bank, they said everything was fine. I could only reserve the other 3 if I unchecked ‘join’ on the membership option each time. By the time I finally got them reserved, the first was into 30 minutes or so. If I’m paying $100 for 4 kayaks to use once, I’d be better off paying $99 a yearly membership but it wouldn’t work. I’m just going to avoid this app as much as possible
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Can’t cancel

Within the app the can auto renew is nonfunctional. There is no way to confirm cancellation. You can only report problems to a chat internal to the app. It’s useless. They forward it “to the team” but tell you they can’t cancel on their end. Feels like a scam.

Very unresponsive

The concept behind the app may be fine, but the app itself is sluggish and unresponsive like it was built by an amateur

Doubles don’t work if they are in maintenance mode

Want to rent two things? Like Kayaks? This app lets you rent one only to find that all of the others are in maintenance mode and you are out of luck having already paid for the first.

no apple pay

does not support making a Sign In With Apple account, and does not support apple pay. why do they need to store my credit card number?

Locking bikes up

I have had a difficult time locking bikes up several times and I shouldn’t have to try different cables before I get it to lock.

They took my money and it took me an hour to rent a bike

It’s not worth it

Unapproved charges

I rented 2 bikes in Baton Rouge. After returning them to the indicated location and taking the instructed pictures, I received additional charges 3 days later for “incorrect pictures taken upon return.” I disputed the charges with Movatic through the online chat. The chat told me that they have a picture review team that verifies the validity of the pictures, which were previously accepted by the app. When I was shown the pictures I took, the online chat told me I did not include some portion of the bike. I was instructed to email the company to dispute the charges, which I did. Movatic has never responded to my disputes. I still don’t know what I did wrong. This is a sketchy, fraudulent charge. I will absolutely never deal with this company again.
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To expensive

They want you to rent but they only have one renting option for the conventional bikes it’s only 25 for 2 hours when you don’t need it for 2 hours they think that’s to bad they don’t offer .50 base pay and .50 for every 30 min like there sign Says the only option is the 25 for 2 hours witch dose not add up 25 for 2 hours but .50 for 30 min where is the math in that I don’t need the bike for 2 hours I needed it for barely even an hour but the company just locks the price and tell you there is no other option that is a scam
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[Fixed] App Charged $50 for Non-return

Increasing this from 1 star to 4 stars. Got my little mistaken charge fixed! Took a while – lots of automated responses. Will up this to 5 stars after a year of no issues. Set a reminder.

I love the service this company does for the community – but recently I was charged $50 for not returning a bike that: (1) I never used, (2) and was never unlocked. I attempted to rent a bike. It never unlocked. So I returned the bike using the app. I then was charged $50 for a non-return. Some weird signal issue. I wasn't so upset with this, but the customer service is refusing to refund the charge which is very given that I've been using this app for over a year with no issue.
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App Charged $50 for Non-return

I love the service this company does for the community – but recently I was charged $50 for not returning a bike that: (1) I never used, (2) and was never unlocked. I attempted to rent a bike. It never unlocked. So I returned the bike using the app. I then was charged $50 for a non-return. Some weird signal issue. I wasn't so upset with this, but the customer service is refusing to refund the charge which is very given that I've been using this app for over a year with no issue.
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50% reliability rate

these bikes are genuinely useless unless you like user frustration and extra mileage added to your trip. the bike locking mechanisms only work maybe half the time, meaning you’ll “rent” a bike without it ever unlocking for you, and then you can’t end the rental because you can’t re-lock the bike. in the year 2025, i am appalled that Movatic would rather make a dysfunctional locking system that creates user frustration than simply put trackers in their bikes and charge people for stealing them.

and don’t get me started on the terrible model that is having a few scattered bike stations rather than allowing people the freedom to park wherever they want. i regularly have to go way out of my way to find a bike, and by the end of my trip i haven’t saved any time and i’ve only made myself sweaty and tired.
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Wonderful time!

Great way to tour beautiful historic Beaufort! Rental process was seamless and easy!