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Venmo's new Android design swapped the contact list for profile bubbles, split payments over several screens and added a sound you can't turn off. We read 54 negative reviews from October 2026 to see what changed and what still works.
We read the 300 most recent US Google Play reviews for Venmo. 130 were 1-3 stars, and the expensive part is not the posted fee schedule. It is the money reviewers cannot reach: holds, frozen balances and a support queue with no human at the end.
1-3 star reviews of 5 payment apps: Venmo, PayPal, Cash App, Zelle, Apple Cash. See which app freezes accounts and stalls transfers most.