Yandex Go
Yandex Go offers a generally reliable ride-hailing service with polite drivers and clean cars, but recent user reviews highlight significant issues with pricing, customer support, and the scooter rental service.
Yandex Go maintains a high lifetime rating, but recent user feedback indicates a downward trend, particularly concerning fluctuating and high prices, unresponsive customer support, and persistent problems with the scooter and food delivery services. While many users praise the quality of rides and drivers, the app's reliability and customer issue resolution are frequently criticized.
What users like
What users complain about
- Prices for rides are frequently criticized as high, inconsistent, and subject to sudden increases, sometimes after cancellations or for short distancesR2R10R25R26
- Customer support is widely reported as unhelpful, unresponsive, and relies on automated or copy-pasted responses, failing to resolve issues like incorrect charges, lost items, or service problemsR4R11R15R22
- The scooter rental service is buggy, with scooters failing mid-ride, incorrect charges, and issues with parking or age verificationR4R16R24R31
- Drivers sometimes cancel rides, don't reach the exact pickup/drop-off location, or drive off without the passenger, leading to charges and inconvenienceR9R15R288R607
- The app has issues with geolocation accuracy, leading to difficulties for drivers and passengers finding each otherR305R423R428R695
- Food delivery and other services (e.g., intercity shuttle, cargo) experience delays, incorrect orders, or poor service qualityR30R39R44R51
- The app contains excessive advertising, even for paid subscribers, and can be confusing or laggyR3R59R74R75
- Some users report unauthorized charges, difficulty changing payment methods, or issues with subscriptionsR11R32R35R43
- Specific features like pre-ordering taxis, changing addresses, or finding child seats are problematic or missingR21R23R30R41
- The app's interface can be difficult to use, with issues like login problems, non-functional features (e.g., 'Afisha' section), or poor tablet optimizationR3R13R177R317
Latest update · v700.149.1
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
If you forgot to update the app, do it now! And if you forgot something in a car, call the driver and agree on when and where to get it back. The call button is available for 48 hours after the ride in the History section.
Recurring themes
Who it's for
Yandex Go is for users who prioritize a wide range of services within one app and often have positive experiences with drivers R1R5R8. It is not for users who expect reliable customer support for issue resolution, consistent pricing, or a flawless experience with scooter rentals or food delivery R4R10R22R31.
Evidence note: The recent reviews skew significantly negative (51.2% negative), which contrasts sharply with the lifetime rating of 4.9. This suggests a recent decline in user satisfaction, particularly concerning customer support and pricing. While positive reviews are plentiful, they often focus on individual driver experiences rather than overall service reliability, making the negative points more impactful for current user sentiment.
Frequently asked
Why are Yandex Go prices so high or inconsistent?
Is Yandex Go customer support helpful?
What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R1] Excellent: Clean, good smell, pleasant driver, good music. · translated
- [R5] Nice: Comfortable ride, clean car, and a pleasant experience. Highly recommended!
- [R8] Great ride: On time and polite. Nice car and cool inside!
- [R17] Review: The trip went great. The driver was very careful, calm, and attentive. Confident and safe driving style! The car was clean. Thank you for your professionalism and a pleasant trip! Recommended. · translated
- [R6] Review: Excellent trip. · translated
- [R7] Yandexk: Comments.
- [R2] Scum: If you cancel your ride then try again price is higher:/ then i will use Bolt
- [R10] .: Excellent service that has gone downhill. They inflate prices for a 6-minute trip, it's completely unreasonable. Why should I pay for half a tank of gas for the taxi driver for a 6-minute ride? · translated
- [R25] Terrible app!: Stupidity!!! Why do I have to overpay to "attract drivers" according to the support operator? · translated
- [R26] Have you seen the prices?: The price changed by 50% in 5 minutes. At two in the morning... · translated
- [R4] Unjustified parking fine: I parked the scooter at a parking spot in Yekaterinburg on Bilimbaevskaya street 14. There are 2 parking spots marked with a "P" on the map in this location. I tried to get a refund for the fine through tech support, but your colleagues, who generally can't communicate in their own words and only use copy-paste, couldn't help because they don't care about any of this. The service works... · translated
- [R11] Accused of an offense: Accused of an offense that didn't happen, charged a fine, and refuse to refund, even with evidence provided. · translated
- [R15] Yandex: Accepts orders and doesn't arrive, but still charges a fee. Support responds in no less than 48 hours, asks a clarifying question, then disappears again. · translated
- [R22] App is OK, support - don't even hope to solve any issue: The worst customer support. They don't solve problems, passing them off to a bot or automatic replies. · translated
- [R16] He scooters: I rented a scooter for 30 minutes, it turned off after 17 minutes, they didn't refund the money, and they didn't give a promo code. Just a terrible app, don't use it. · translated
- [R24] Scooter: After the last update, I can't rent a scooter. After pressing the "take photo" button, it's just a black screen and nothing else happens. · translated
- [R31] Terrible scooters and terrible support: Good day! First, every second scooter is a glitchy piece of metal that can stop mid-ride, and you can't park it, so you have to carry it and pay for it yourself. Second, the app has become completely spoiled. Support only has AI that can't solve problems and replies with generic phrases and annoying emojis 😊😊😊 · translated
- [R9] Don't reach the destination: The first one arrived at the location but stopped 100 meters short and couldn't wait, even though I messaged the driver in the chat to wait. In the end, the driver canceled the order. They charged money for both waiting and pickup. Very nasty, it's raining outside, and the service is at zero. The next driver was only found after 15 minutes. It would have been fine, but he stopped 50 meters from the entrance in heavy rain, apparently couldn't drive up. · translated
- [R288] Maxim: I called a car, it arrived, and the driver canceled the trip right in front of me. I had to wait for another car. · translated
- [R607] Quick reaction of tech support: A cab driver can still skip the ride and abuse the terms with zero impact on his or her rating by stoping in a substancial distance from a customer. The customer in this situation obviously can't give a fair one-star feedback to the driver. However, there's another marginally accessible way to get into driver's ear: to set one star at Apple AppStore. In this case
- [R305] Location: My location shows completely wrong, sometimes here, sometimes somewhere else, I can't even figure out where I am. · translated
- [R423] Geolocation: Automatic geolocation for the starting point didn't work, even though location access is enabled in the app settings. The driver had to pick us up from the actual location, which differed from what the Yandex app showed. · translated
- [R428] GPS and Driver issues: I use the app in Georgia. The interface works pretty well but the GPS always has issues finding my place and I have to have a conversation with the driver. Most rides have been fine, but I recently had a driver who payed no attention to the navigation, then complained when I showed him where the destination (which I had booked and showed on the GPS) actually was. When he eve
- [R695] Delay in showing taxi/car is coming. Location Chisinau/Chisinau: In the new update, version 4.19, there's a delay in showing the taxi on the map. The taxi doesn't move, freezes, drives through a lake, a forest, but not on the road, the route is displayed incorrectly. Location Chisinau, Moldova. Chisinau residents hope for adequate and quick fixes. Overall, the app is very convenient. · translated
- [R30] Worse and worse: Why did they remove the "call in advance" button? It was the most convenient tool on the market, allowing logistics to be built without having in-house cargo vehicles. Now we have to use the services of local carriers, which takes a lot of time. · translated
- [R39] Lost parcel: Terrible parcel delivery services, lost a parcel a month ago and are "looking" for it with bot spam, there's no hotline, wasted money (sent an Apple laptop). · translated
- [R44] WORST FOOD DELIVERY APP: Been using this app for some time and the service continues to get worst. They hire or subcontract to delivery people that doesn’t use any common sense. Practically every order I’ve made this year had some issues. From spilled soup all over my sandwich to brownie, to delivery person contesting where I live and arguing with me because he couldn’t read instructions, to deliv
- [R51] Raw intercity service: Booked a Moscow-St. Petersburg trip on the intercity (shuttle) service 1.5 weeks in advance for 4000 rubles. A few days later, the driver unilaterally allegedly canceled the trip, the booking was lost. In reality, the trip for the same time remained, but now for 6400 rubles. I don't want to go for that money on principle, that's not how a service should work. Thus, the driver really let me down, because... · translated
- [R3] Terrible.: They added gas stations. 1. They didn't add it to Yandex.Maps, only to the obscure "Gas Stations" app that no one uses. They advertised a useless app and ignored users. 2. The recommendation system based on reviews is definitely near zero; there are already competitors who solved this problem so clumsily, why do this at all? 3. On iPhone, the filter works hit or miss. Complete shoddy work. · translated
- [R59] Good clothing store: Some useless marketplace instead of a taxi ordering app. · translated
- [R74] No one is working with the app.: The app has become confusing with a lot of ads. Support is no help at all. Promotions are written incorrectly. · translated
- [R75] What kind of coercion?: Yandex, why do you forcibly make Yandex the homepage every time you open the browser on mobile? And you can't refuse this service? And then from the browser, you're directed to Yandex Go? · translated
- [R32] The app is good, but the company's policy is terrible: I bought a yearly subscription, the year passed, and of course, without warning, they started debiting 799 rubles a month. Well done, you work well, and it's not the first time. Last year, they even attached a fake subscription to me and debited for 2 months. · translated
- [R35] Service is disgusting: The most disgusting taxi! The trip receipt was charged 4 times more! A 7-minute drive in a village!!!!!! Not a city, for a second! It's very hot, a child called a taxi! And they steal money this way! · translated
- [R43] Taxi: Are taxi prices randomly generated? And is it normal, in your opinion, for the map during a trip to lose internet signal, making it impossible to pay for the trip? · translated
- [R21] Pre-order taxi: How do I pre-order a taxi? · translated
- [R23] Lousy app: Can't change address or cancel an order once it's placed. · translated
- [R41] Terrible: Since my child was born, there have been constant problems. It's impossible to find a taxi with a car seat. The search takes hours and results in rejections! Why do you neglect little ones so much? Even though the fare for them is much more expensive! · translated
- [R13] Me: The worst of the worst app, nothing works. · translated
- [R177] Products broken?: There is no catalog in the store section. · translated
- [R317] Could be better: The events section in the app hasn't worked for over a month - I have to go through the browser to see everything I need. I'll change my rating after it's fixed. · translated
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store