Rakuten Viber Messenger User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience39.3% of reviews
Neutral7.7% of reviews
Negative experience53.0% of reviews

~ Based on 3,023 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Rakuten Viber Messenger Safe?

Rakuten Viber Messenger appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Rakuten Viber Messenger is 92/100.

This assessment is based on 831,027 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

89.5% of ratings point to a safe experience
4.4% of ratings suggest some concerns
6.1% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 831,027 App Store ratings for Rakuten Viber Messenger.

Is Rakuten Viber Messenger Legit?

Rakuten Viber Messenger appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Rakuten Viber Messenger is 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

App failed

Had this app for a while, and now it says “Activation failed”. Plus this app collects a lot of my private data

Very disappointing experience with Viber Out 👎👎

I purchased a Viber Out package to call Nepal, but when I dialed the correct Nepalese number, the call connected to a completely different person. Sometimes, after the call was answered, I even heard what sounded like a recorded phone call or automated message instead of the person I was trying to reach.

This appears to be a serious call-routing problem. I contacted Viber Support expecting them to investigate or refund my unused credit, but I was simply told to contact Apple because the purchase was made through the App Store.

As a customer, this is extremely frustrating. I paid for a service that failed to connect me to the correct numbers, and when I reported the problem, I was passed to someone else for the refund.

Do not purchase a Viber Out package. In my experience, it feels like a scam you pay for the service, it doesn’t work properly, and then you are left to deal with the refund yourself.
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Marked as Spam

Number for marked as spam. Haven’t had help whatsoever to resolve it. Sent multiple tickets, one said it was resolved. Don’t recommend the app, I just use it for work. Otherwise I wouldn’t be involved with this bs.

Poor

The app is asking me to purchase it and I have to do a payment to upload it why should I give my payment details to Viber it’s my personal information

Kann mich nicht anmelden

Seit eine Woche kann ich mich mit meine Nummer nicht anmelden weil meine Nummer ohne Grund gesperrt wurde! Trotz Kontakt Aufnahme mit Viber Hilfe passiert nichts

Problems

App has always problems with wifi and with mobile data, horrible.

Chat GPT has no place in a chat app

I think I have just about had it with AI.
I use it at work purely because I have to I do not want to have to use it at home and I do not appreciate it being shoved down my throat every five minutes whilst using this app to talk to my friends.
I have made in settings that I do not want to use ChatGPT and yet every two minutes I get a prompt coming up telling me to connect to AI.
Does Rakuten really think that people are so stupid that they don’t know how to write a quick message anymore?
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Absolutely disgusting decision to force ChatGPT into the interface with no way to actually remove it

I have used Viber for many years, but this is an absolutely unacceptable product decision.
Forcing ChatGPT into the Viber interface, with no way to actually remove it, is intrusive and shows a complete disregard for user choice. Users may be able to opt out of using the ChatGPT functionality, but they cannot remove the ChatGPT folder from their conversations or remove the ChatGPT button from the main bottom bar.
If I want to use ChatGPT, I can use the ChatGPT app. I do not need Viber forcing it into the middle of my private conversations and permanently occupying space in the interface.
There are plenty of alternative messaging apps available if Viber continues making decisions like this without giving users a genuine choice.
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Notification

If the app is closed, I can't receive any messages. This is not true for WhatsApp and other apps. And it is not about the notifications.

Awful customer service - number blocked and no one will help unblock it

I just moved to Myanmar where most people are using Viber to communicate. After only three days of using the app my phone number was blocked. I tried contacting Viber Support multiple times but with no response. It has been eight days and I continue to miss out on critical information for my job because of this issue. Do not download this app.
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“Optional” AI features

Make them actually optional instead of pushing them front and center, there is no “issue” with this besides your developers doing their jobs and putting it in the options settings as something to be toggled off, and you still expect me to pay for it?

Poor

The app is asking me to purchase it and I have to do a payment to upload it.

Non existent customer service

After 7 years of use, all on the same number, they incorrectly blocked my number due to spamming activity - which did not exist.
Process to unblock is an impossible loop, all emails are automated and no resolution. Impossible to speak to an actual human. Disgusting.

Ruined chat gpt

ads and ai will soon let me retire this app from my device

Relogging is a nightmare

Completely locked out after delete and reinstall of the app. No way to know what is going on.

The desktop to phone link does not work at all

Remove the photo filter of AI

App is awesome but this AI thing getting everywhere with AI filters, as soon as you are trying to sent new photo to someone the filters are floating there and take some seconds to unstuck the phone and say no thank you, just to sent normal pictures. Wish this feature would be optional based on enable / disable in the settings menu
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Confusing

There is too much junk cluttering up every page. It’s not user friendly. Often have problem making calls from Europe.

Не улучшения

А ухудшения. Верните старую версию. Новая тупит и на андроиде, и на iOS

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App absolutely destroyed by AI

Phone number

For some reason it won’t let me activate an account. And I need it for work.