Blink Charging Mobile App

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Last verified 30 Aug 2026

4.1 25365 ratings · App Store

1. 4/5Thankfully I’ve physical card instead

   Since this review they got their app in order insofar as it’s functionally useful as before (and nicer UI etc.). No hang up on being required by having no way of re-identifying yourself. If you have an account, email login & credentials get you back to your account as a funding source for charging & no special requirement for a physical RF card to start every charger. Changed from highly generous 2stars to now 4stars for functionality (eventually) Resolved Review post-new app rollout is below for context: “Briefly worked fine for me after its roll-out a wk ago or so but since then it no longer has my acct info & (like other reviewers note) I’m unable to complete the sign-in process (again) because it will not let me proceed past an empty set of choices for vehicle make. Have alerted humans on the always helpful customer svc side of things & hopefully it get resolved soon for right now the app is useful only as a locator of stations on a map”

   wobblyrock · 30 Aug 2026

2. 3/5Still not enough info

   *No app indication of charge status ongoing *No symbol key to indicate what blue, green, or a lock key indicate with any clarity *Consistently told me a charger was unavailable when it wasn’t in use Usually we trickle-charge at home but due to circumstances we decided we’d run our Leaf next door to use a Blink charger. The app indicated there was 0/1 available. There are two chargers but one was offline. Thing is, after waiting 90 minutes, I took the car over and saw no car charging. Fine, whatever. Hooked up and started charging. Then realized the app tells me nothing about how far along we are in charging. It barely tells me it’s on a charger at all; just a lightning bolt on the map. Other charging network apps tell us how much charge has been dispensed (and how much the cost is so far). Disappointed, especially when these two units had just got back online, now one is offline again and the app had just been updated. I finally unplugged after 90 minutes with no indication of how much had been dispensed, to find my car was at 100%. Why was it still charging, then?

   1968raynebow · 30 Aug 2026

3. 1/5Non-interactive UI, Significant issues searching, overall not a great user experience

   I have tried using the Blink app a few times, and it has consistently been an extremely negative experience. My main issues with it are: 1) Terrible experience trying to search chargers. It shows my location properly, but is just completely unable to show chargers in my area at all. I have had several instances where I would be standing next to the charger with my location showing up correctly in the app, but when I would hit the Location button it would go somewhere else entirely. In addition, when I manually found the chargers, clicking on the icons would do absolutely nothing, even after clicking and waiting for up to a minute 2) No manual search. Because of the above issues, I tried to manually search for the station by id, but for the life of me could not even pull up the search bar 3) Issues logging in. Trying to create an account was a massive pain. The account button would not work, and I’m pretty sure I hit the login function entirely by luck (clicking the search screen several times in succession)

   Cals862 · 30 Aug 2026

4. 3/5Waitlist function needs a lot of improvement

   The waitlist function for private chargers could use a lot of improvement. You have like 1 or 2 minutes to accept the waitlist once you get the notification, but no matter what you do the notification will not play a sound or vibrate my phone or Apple Watch no matter what i have my notification volume at. If it isn’t going to give me a proper alert it would be nice to get a text message for the waitlist like it does for stopping or starting charging. There also seems to be problems with the waitlist, where the charger won’t activate for some people at my location. Not sure if this is because if someone accepts the waitlist the charger still shows as “available” in the app until they actually plugged in. But it is very common where we get people plugging in and not being able to charge, leaving their car on the charger for hours in the “connected” state.

   JacobB9494 · 30 Aug 2026

5. 1/5Starting/stopping charge never works

   When using the chargers at my work, I have never had the app work successfully. When you press the button to start the charge, it tells you to connect to ev even after it’s already plugged in. If you wait on the app until the loading circle has completed, it says that the session has timed out. After a few minutes the car will start charging without any indication that it is on the app and only shows that the station is connected. Then exactly an hour after plugging in every time, I receive the notifications that it is indeed charging. There have been multiple occasions where the app tells me my car has finished charging, the status says stopped and occupied, and to move despite my car still being delivered energy. When I go to stop my charge via the app, it doesn’t respond at all and it will only stop if I use my car’s app or physically unplug. On other occasions, I’ve unplugged and it shows that I’m still connected hours after leaving. I’ve used the report issue button and I’ve never gotten any response.

   ashmat05 · 30 Aug 2026

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