Venmo Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience14.4% of reviews
Neutral3.9% of reviews
Negative experience81.7% of reviews

~ Based on 7,518 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Venmo

Is Venmo Safe?

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

This assessment is based on 15,473,449 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

97.0% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.4% of ratings suggest some concerns
1.7% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 15,473,707 App Store ratings for Venmo.

Is Venmo Legit?

Venmo appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Venmo is 93/100.

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

Top reviews

Business accounts

Does not work can’t get assistance cannot pay vendors

They steal crypto

It doesn’t matter how much crypto you buy or how long you wait, you’re not able to transfer move or use it in anyway. Nothing. They literally built a scam into Venmo. Do not consider this app for crypto under any circumstances.

Worthless

Cash app is much better. I use the cash app card for my employees, if they need something I send that amount to the card and they can instantly purchase what’s needed. This Venmo card is worthless as you need to wait 3-5 days to load money. It just makes no since why you would need a card that has no instant access to load. I hate cash app but it is far better than this horrible company
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Yup

Good money app

I need to unfreeze my account

Venmo has my money held hostage, and this is the most disrespectful and worst bank I have ever used I will never use Venmo again after I get my money

Shipping issue

Any shipping by USPS won’t be delivered to my street address. It’s very frustrating that I can’t use my PO Box. I am a digital nomad. I understand PO Boxes could be used for fraud but it’s time businesses become more flexible for those of without a permanent home address. And I don’t want to ask relatives to manage my mail. That’s just rude. Fix this issue.
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Unable to login due to phone number change

As title says, I am locked out of my account because I changed phone numbers and Venmo has no accessible customer support team and no other way to change phone numbers without having already been logged into my account. There’s not even a way to verify identity using ID, you’re just straight up locked out. Can’t login using just email verification either. Entirely stupid design
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Who’s the designer that made it so difficult to find the payment history?

Venmo used to be so intuitive. After the most recent UX change it’s become so hard to locate the payment history page - one of the most frequently visited pages. Blows my mind how this decision was made. Who are you designing for?

New platform is horrible!

The old platform was great, convenient and very easy to use. In the new platform I cannot find my Venmo balance or payment history. I spent a half hour trying to find how to transfer money back into my bank account. Making this information readily available on my account page would be extremely helpful.
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Holds my money all the time

Holding money for a week is stupidity

Hate Venmo

They froze my account and told me to wait for email. Never received email in any folder spam included. I’ve tried every avenue supposedly available to rectify this and nope, nada and nothing works. The company sucks to high heavens. I can’t believe the number of complaints about them that I’m seeing online. Worst customer service ever! I can’t even shut down my account.
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New layout

The new layout is not user friendly for the majority of people who simply want a cash transfer app with friends.

Better

Ha menorah mucho esta app en comparacion de antes y otras app

It cannot be this difficult…

From opening my Venmo account to navigating an immediate account freeze to trying to simply add a credit card to my wallet - joining Venmo has been unnecessarily difficult and truly frustrating. I’m 53, financially secure & savvy, disciplined, no debt, high net worth and an 800+ credit score. Financial institutions woo me like a homecoming Queen. If my adult kids and many of the students and young adults I work with didn’t utilize Venmo, I would never ever choose to stay a Venmo account holder. What should have been a simple process continually leaves me shaking my head. Do better Venmo.
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Needs work

Better ways to send cash exist. This app needs more features to prevent mistakes

Dysfunctional

They have a hold on money that someone else sent to my Venmo account and it says it is on hold for verification purposes because it’s not a Venmo business account and I don’t have a business so I’m furious about this. They have no right to hold money that somebody else sent to my Venmo it’s unfair I’m furious.
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Fraud

Did not protect my funds during fraud.

Awful

I’m getting charged for random unexplainable transactions then my account gets suspended and I can’t transfer my own funds out of Venmo to my bank???? That’s absolutely absurd

Sucks

They plain suck

horrible customer service

they will lock you out of all your money for days and not respond or give you any information on why or how to fix it!