Rinnai Central Reviews: Is It Legit?

Rinnai Central
Rinnai Central
Rinnai America Corp

Customer Experience

Positive experience9.1% of reviews
Neutral4.5% of reviews
Negative experience86.4% of reviews

~ Based on 220 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Rinnai Central

Is Rinnai Central Safe?

Rinnai Central does not appear safe based on available data. AppsHunter Safety Score for Rinnai Central is 34/100.

This assessment is based on 341 user ratings, with an App Store average of 1.6/5.

Safety Analysis

12.6% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.5% of ratings suggest some concerns
83.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 341 App Store ratings for Rinnai Central.

Is Rinnai Central Legit?

Rinnai Central appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Rinnai Central is 85/100.

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

Top reviews

Useless

Downloaded this app to control my newly installed RXP199i Hot Water tank as advertised on the unit. It’s telling me that I need a professional installers account to connect to the tank. Sure, I can register the tank through the app, but I could do that through a website too. Why can’t homeowners access their own device?
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Broke my unit, cost me $$$

Whatever they did recently to the Wifi module/app caused my water heater to go into a test cycle with no way of turning it off. Had to have a tech come out to reconnect the manual triggers.

Open

The app is frozen and not working for some reason and called the company but don’t know why it’s doing it or what the solution would be, very frustrating and disappointing

Broken Again

They fix it and break it repeatedly. They broke it again. This time the timer to recirculate is grayed-out and unavailable. Repeatedly restarting the app sometimes helps. If you don’t allow notifications it pesters for it on EVERY use. Logging out and logging back in doesn’t fix it. Horrible developers.
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Bluetooth won’t connect

Set up the apparatus- yes, it is possible on your own. The apparatus works great except the bluetooth won’t connect. Pretty lame in 2026 you can’t get the digital part right.

Trash. Useless can’t rate 0

I couldn’t imagine a more useless app. As far as buying Rinnai ever again I don’t think it would ever happen. It’s 2026, technology is not that difficult. Maybe you should get a new IT team. A 12 year old could make a better app. Expensive and non conforming… great combo.

Won’t work with Alexa

Everyone else is compatible with voice apps. Plz make this a priority! We have three tanks.

Complex useless

Despite claiming you can connect an RXP199i water heater via bluetooth with the app, there appears to be zero support for Bluetooth connectivity.

I’m embarrassed for whoever developed and documented this useless piece of code.

Terrible app WiFi issues

This app is terrible lately. It never connects to WiFi and you have to force close the app like 5 different times until it finally connects to your phone. Completely useless and unreliable. Who are the developers??

Worthless

This app is worthless. You’d think a company like Rinnai that makes decent tankless water heaters could develop an app for the end user. Understanding how rot navigate the app sucks. It doesn’t allow the end users to adjust parameters. The connectivity is spotty with the WIFI module. Go back to the drawing board Rinnai and give us something that can function other than toggling buttons.
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No Notifications

Whenever there’s an error on my water heater, the app, although connected properly and into the Internet, does not send out any notifications whatsoever as the entire reason I bought the wireless module.

Connectivity

Horrible app. Wi-Fi loses connectivity all the time even though my mesh router is extremely close to the unit. Customer support is extremely difficult to get hold of and no option for telephone call.

Recirculation still not right

App shows disconnected 50% of the time when you open it. Have to close and reopen it to use it.

Ridiculous

I’ve used this app for more than a year without problems. Now it wants me to associate my company, which is in their registry. app refuses to save changes, and is locked up now I have to take the panel off every water heater. I do to manually push buttons to set something up that takes two seconds with the app. Not a big deal. Set up 20 of them for at a time. Unacceptable. Tech Support for this company is absolutely outstanding. However, whoever’s running this app is rapidly eroding the Goodwill you’re fantastic Tech Support department has built up. Fix this, or Fire, the person in charge of it, and find somebody who can.
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Useless

I had thought it would give me access to my boiler without having to use the keypad. It does almost nothing except provides a little blue night light. Waste of money.

Rarely works

One of the draws for me of a tankless water heater was the ability to be able to start the recirculation process from my phone with this app. Unfortunately, the app only worked for a few months. I have tried every single suggestion to get the “start recirculation“ button to be usable again to no avail. This app is worthless and has nullified the benefits of having a tankless water heater.
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Update the App!

Please, for the love of GOD, allow end-users to delete “alerts.” There was an annual alert that was triggered and I must have over ~100 notifications from 10 months ago that I cannot delete !! Get with the times you guys/gals and allow end-users to clear out old notifications. Even if I had a new alert, damn near impossible to know if it’s an old one a new or what!

Secondly, make the update WiFi module button more dynamic! If I don’t a firmware upgrade, get rid of the button! It’s constantly present even after I’ve updated the module making it appear as if I need to update the module still.
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Can’t get through registration

State/Province selection does not work, cannot even start using this app

Terrible app WiFi issues

This app is terrible lately. It never connects to WiFi and you have to force close the app like 5 different times until it finally connects to your phone. Who are the developers??

PITA

I’ve been using the app for years and it has been nothing but frustrating.
Continual connectivity issues.
The app has been a thorn in my side and a total “pain in the * “