# RedFlagDeals - Flyers & Deals — user reviews > 78 indexed App Store user reviews of RedFlagDeals by VerticalScope Inc., rated 2.30/5 from 3 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/redflagdeals-flyers-and-deals/id477488511/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/redflagdeals-flyers-and-deals/id477488511.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 2 ## Newest reviews (19 of 78) ### 1/5 — Intrusive banners in forums *2025-07-13* Completely unusable now that they keep displaying banner ads when reading the forums ### 1/5 — Was good, now sucks *2025-05-12* Banner for commission notification has made the app inconvenient to use. Otherwise as well, it used to not recognize signed in status on forums unless you refreshed. Maybe these guys changed their devs. Better off using the website. ### 1/5 — Video Ad Blocks everything *2025-04-02* They added a pop up video ad makes it unusable. Trying to scroll down to read a post and a video ad pops up for RedFlagDeals. Trying to swipe it away and then start scrolling down and immediately it pops up again. Swiped it away again and immediately it comes up again. After 10 times in a row without being able to read anything I gave up and had to just go to the website on my computer. ### 1/5 — Dark mode workaround *2025-02-20* Accessibility>Per-app Settings>Add app>RedFlagDeals>Smart Invert>ON ### 1/5 — Full of ads & no dark mode *2025-02-19* The tittle sums it up like other users pointed out. ### 2/5 — We may earn a commission banner broke the app *2025-02-19* The banner is displayed twice when going through hot deal posts and has made the app somewhat unusable. ### 1/5 — Full of ads *2025-02-14, version 6.3.1* Ads throughout the app, everywhere you look. It’s ridiculous. A pop up video ad appears when you click on a forum post now. You can’t save your favourite forum topics on the home page anymore. It’s always been a janky and visually unappealing app, but the proliferation of ads is unforgivable. Total garbage ### 1/5 — No dark mode *2025-02-09* No dark mode ### 1/5 — 2025 and still no dark mode. *2025-01-13, version 6.3.1* Lazy website and app developers. All they care about is ad revenue, not user experience. ### 1/5 — No flyers *2024-12-26* How is it possible there are “no flyers” on Boxing Day. This app is terrible ### 1/5 — Mars2012 is an abusive admin *2024-12-23* This guy needs to go. Abusive admin who uses authority over reasoning. Zero IQ. ### 1/5 — Ad infested *2024-12-14* Skip the app, it’s not worth it anymore. Too many crappy ads. The recurring pop-up ads are EXTREMELY annoying. I see others agree. ### 1/5 — Pop Up Ads in an App?! *2024-12-06, version 6.3.1* They have virus looking ads pop up in the app. Never seen such horrible and annoying advertisements built into a mobile app. ### 1/5 — Insane amount of ads. *2024-11-29, version 6.3.1* What happened to the original RFD?! ### 1/5 — Ads ads ads *2024-11-23, version 6.3.1* So they did not fix google signin for the forums. But they were able to add more pop-up ads including fake google ads that saying you won a free phone. Com’on !!! ### 1/5 — Spam and Spyware *2024-11-21, version 6.3.1* Can’t scroll without being forced into adware or malware popups. ### 1/5 — No dark mode in 2024 *2024-11-02, version 6.3.1* Pretty close to 2025 and there’s no dark mode yet. ### 1/5 — Crappy app! *2024-09-30, version 6.3.1* The app stop showing flyers. ### 1/5 — Login does not work *2024-09-13, version 6.3.1* Please fix the login with google, it does not work. Just brings me to a blank page after entering email. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Zero stars *2026-08-19* App sucks. Won’t load the comments now. Really ugly ui and no dark mode still. Someone should make a better deals app! ### 1/5 — Absolute trash *2026-07-29* The app crashes anytime you click on a thread, past or ongoing. Downloaded and reinstalles 3x and still does it. This is on the latest iOS 26.6 as well ### 1/5 — Annoying ads *2026-05-20* Pop up ads are making the app unusable. Had to ditch the app and switch to web browser **Developer response:** Hi Gmappes, We had a nasty ad bug that caused users to get booted to the App Store. Luckily we fixed the problem! Sorry for the hassle. ### 1/5 — Unusable: Full of ads *2025-12-24* Ads throughout the app, everywhere you look. TOTAL TRASH. A pop up video ad appears frequently in the lower left while browsing a forum. Out of no where a video ad will take over the entire screen and the only way out is to close the app. Before and after every response in a thread is an ad. And there’s always an ad at the top. Totally unbearable. It’s always been a janky and visually unappealing app, but the proliferation of ads is unforgivable. And I don’t remember a single brand or ad I saw! If you dare open the app I recommend hovering your thumb over the lower left so you don’t have to look at the pop up video ads. But really, don’t bother with the app if you care about your sanity. Someone needs to create a better deals platform and put this one to rest. EDIT: The trick is to have a VPN enabled to get rid of most of the ads. But ideally people could just post the deals on Reddit or someplace else instead to avoid this altogether. ### 1/5 — Ads have been ruining this once wonderful app *2025-12-10* You navigate to the forums tab and it’ll display all the categories immediately. You go to select hot deals and what happens? Just before you do, an ad appears, shifting the list of categories down. So instead of going into hot deals, you’ve opened an ad. This seems intentional and strategically placed in order to get clicks. Additionally, there’s other issues such as the status bar on iOS being white on white, hiding the clock and other info displayed there. Pages also aren’t properly sized to fit the screen (for a 5.4” mini at least) and is slightly zoomed in so unless you zoom out, you can’t swipe back as that will just move the page. ### 1/5 — Videos keep popping up *2025-11-08* Make full screen videos stop ### 1/5 — Buggy, keeps kicking me out after logging in, new interface is worse *2025-08-24* Auto-update kicked me out of my account. After I log in and verified, it’ll jump back to being logged out with token error. New interface is also horrible and breaks the existing forum schema making it difficult to find things. ### 1/5 — Nuisance ads *2025-08-20* As if the forum was not making enough money, they had to bombard us with useless ads rendering it unusable. ### 1/5 — Ads have broken the app *2025-08-04* Auto play video ads in the middle of browsing threads have made the app basically unusable. ### 1/5 — Annoying ad *2025-07-19, version 6.3.2* Ads are more annoying than porn sites, video ads popped up when scrolling. Done with rfd app ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — You can interact with posts now! *2024-07-05* Love that the app was updated to increase functionality by commenting, upvoting, and creating new posts. Thanks to the devs for making this happen! Dark mode next... Please! 🙏🏼 ### 5/5 — Permanently Ban for sharing a good deal? *2021-01-28, version 6.1.7* Found a good deal on Costco. Registered an account with my apple id and posted the deal. Then I got permanently banned?! For having multiple accounts?! If I have multiple accounts how am I going to register with my apple id in the first place? Extremely Disappointed ### 5/5 — A must have *2015-05-21* Finally! They have all the goodies you'd expect from RFD. Must have for the informed shopper. Way better than earlier versions! ### 5/5 — LOVE this APP *2013-08-23* Easiest way to find the best price... Not once have I ever had an issue with anything being buggy, or malfunctioning, or any kind of problems. Just simple, straight forward and easy to use. ### 5/5 — Great *2013-06-04* Great app for looking up quick deals ### 5/5 — Great app *2013-02-04* Love the fact dont have to be on PC to look at deals ### 5/5 — Update resolution ! *2012-10-12* App works perfect, but is not taking advantage of the retina display ### 4/5 — PERFECT *2021-07-04, version 6.2.6* This app got me a $90 course from udemy and I got it for free using a coupon code. Truly amazing app! ### 4/5 — Smart app *2012-07-02* Helpful, works well, pretty smooth. No real suggestions, but I'm not a heavy red flag deals user. Overall great though. ### 3/5 — Cant sign in with Google on ios app. Please fix. *2025-02-20, version 6.3.2* Again, i am unable to sign in with google. It will just show a blank page. Please fix. --- *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 2026-08-27.*