redBus User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience52.7% of reviews
Neutral2.6% of reviews
Negative experience44.7% of reviews

~ Based on 387 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is redBus Safe?

redBus: Book Bus/Train/Hotels appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for redBus is 94/100.

This assessment is based on 7,133 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.7/5.

Safety Analysis

94.2% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
3.5% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 7,133 App Store ratings for redBus.

Is redBus Legit?

redBus: Book Bus/Train/Hotels appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for redBus is 100/100.

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

Top reviews

Best service

Good

Unreliable service.

I had chosen the pickup point from Hyderabad jublee hills metro LVP travels called me and told me to take metro to Miyapur metro and mentioned theyll pay for metro Which is wrong I had to take a rush hour metro with my luggage to Miyapur The bus arrived at around 9 30 pm My luggage was loaded by a drunk conductor from LVP travels Then I got my sleeper birth with all clothes smelling bad I even check the ac vent and the ac air was smelly itself And difficult to breathe AC filter must be dirty then the sleeper seat was too small Then when I reached Bangalore I was told they lost my bag and gave it to someone else and the drunk conductor gave it to a woman Then they dropped me before my stop at Electronic City and sent me with a drunk conductor to pick up the luggage Had to walk a km and the drunkard was walking as if running away from me I had to take a lift to catch him Then I forced him to take an auto which we took for another 2 km which the drunkard was going to make me walk Finally I got my luggage and had to take a taxi by paying extra as I had to pick my luggage from previous stop I called red bus customer care and they said were just a booking app
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Response from developer

Hey! We can understand this has been an unpleasant experience for you. Please share the details on the link https://bit.ly/3YdD8hy so that our team can check and assist you further. Team redBus

Good platform

Easy ticket booking

3X refund

It is a scam

Good

Good

Room booking

Last night i was booked ka room in delhi this price was a 529 after discount i was pay 1st but when i was reached hotel reception hotel staff demand 400 exter ,if i was not pay him 400 then he was not giving me my room ,i have not a other option for stay bucz night then i was pay 400 him.

This didn't happen just to me, they were doing it to everyone."

I was very old user for red bus I always chose red bus but this time very disappointed 🥲🥲..
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Excelente

Súper

cant even create an account

right out the gate the app goes sideways. the app defaults to india (im in the US). if you manage to get thru this screen and put in US +1 and your US # the OTP never gets sent. so you can't even create an account unless your on a list of six countries?

Worst experience with the app

Cannot acceess a customer care rep at all, the numbers don’t work, and even if it connects, it wont connect you to a live agent . Stay away from redbus

High cancellation charges

High cancelation charges

Terpercaya

Cepat dan ada diskon serta banyak pilihan bis

I’ve never submitted a bad review in my entire life until today.

My background is programming and business operations surrounding bookings. The funnel for me to secure a booking using red bus for the first time has been problematic.

Problem statement(s):
1) Red bus rejected my same-day booking citing “technical issues”.
2) After rejecting my same-day booking, there is no CTA for me to do. What do I do if I urgently need to book a same-day booking?
3) App crashed - I had to re-input all of my credentials all over again.

I urgently needed to book a same-day ferry ticket on July 20th, 2026.

After inputting my credentials twice (the first time the app crashed), the payment page states: “Status: Payment not received. Ticket not booked. We could not book your ticket due to some technical issues”.

My solutions proposed:
1) give the user an option to save their user profile they are building so that if the app crashes the user does not have to re-input their credentials from scratch
2) I haven’t had an app crash on me, completely taking me back to the home screen since 2024. This app was freshly downloaded so there was no update pending. Please fix errors surrounding crashes taking me back to my phone’s home screen.
3) If there are “technical difficulties”, give the user the option(s) (i.e., radio buttons) under a statement “Report this crash” and/or “Report this bug” to report that there were technical difficulties in booking so that you can use ML to detect patterns in failed payments from users that stem directly from the platform. In other words, if enough users are reporting that their payment failed citing “technical difficulties” for a specific ferry route, then prevent people from attempting to book in the first place for that specific ferry route. I do not want to spend 45 minutes re-inputting my credentials twice only to see a screen citing “technical difficulties”.

I look forward to your response.
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Promo codes don’t work

None of the passcodes work

No Responsibility

I booked ac sleeper from Thiruvarur to Ernakulam in skanda bus. The pickup point time was on 8 45 pm but on 8 pm they informed that there bus got breakdown . Please think Just before 1 hr of journey they informed the issue , i got panicked becasue its late ni8 and i want to Reach ekm the very next morning cause i want go to job. And later they called and told me that they had arranged another bus from thiruvarur to thanjavur and then from thanjavur there will be skanda bus to ekm. And the bus arranged by them was late and we hadn't got any seat in that bus, we travelled on siting in driver cabin and travelled from thiruvarur to thanjavur for that 1 hour while we paid for ac sleeper. Very pathatic situation. And later when we reach thanjavur we came to see that the skanda bus was totally different from the picture the show while booking. An old bus with dirty interior and dirty pilloe and blankets..very bad experience from skanda bus and redbus. And when i tell this to my friends they told that skanda bus is always like this , last moment they will cancel the trips by saying lies like this .
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Nice

Neet and clean

Terrible service and glitchy app

I booked my trip home. Says the payment error, app glitches out and then I go to buy the ticket and after purchase then the payment error ticket suddenly is taken out of my account. I’ve discussed about a refund for the last 4 days and they keep pinning on me and asking me for screen records of the glitch like I knew before the glitch would happen. I’ve shown the payment come out of two accounts, messaged straight away so obviously I wasn’t trying to buy two tickets in two seperate goes back to back
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Cant get help from customer care

Regret booking rail to ket with this app. Payment success and irctc issue so ticket was not booked. Redrail initiated refund but it never reached me. I could not help from chat or call centre as i never got chance to speak to a human. Looks like there is no place to reach them no email address and everywhere i get an automated response that refund initiated. Is there any human behind to look at my issue?
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Miss my bus because the stop location was not clear

I arrived 1 hour before the bus arrival and I couldn’t find the exact bus stop. No pedestrian nor official was able to help the find the exact bus location. I miss my bus. Bad experience, I will not use this app again.

Cool

Great experience!!!

Nice

Nice