BIXI

Lyft, Inc.

About this app

Official mobile application for Montreal metropolitan area’s bike share system.

It allows users to purchase one-way passes and memberships and to rent a bike. A map of the stations shows, in real time, the number of bikes and docking points available at each station so you can plan your routes. Access your personal space to learn more about your trips and usage statistics.

Ratings and reviews

Although not perfect in UI and UX, gets the job done. I would have given it 5 stars but around my area there almost none classic bikes, so I always have to go further and that constantly changes my plans. Customer service is great, though! I've had trouble docking a few times and they have solved the situations appropriately. All in all, is worth it for $22 to not to have to fix your own bike or even invest in one, considering the weather here (Montréal) is so harsh for 60% of the year 😂

Far and away the best way to get around Montreal on a budget. Bixi locations are also integrated into Google maps so if you have wireless earbuds you can navigate the city via audio prompts. The manual bikes are geared easily enough for most and the electric bikes are great if you need a boost. The system is super simple to use on a trip by trip basis, or with a monthly membership.

Pretty frustrating that you're paying for a service that you can only use while on Wi-Fi. They fully know of the issue with 5G / data usage when on VPNs or international roaming connected to local Canadian networks nonetheless, but haven't come up with a fix and many weeks now. They're fully aware that VPN or roaming or not, one should be able to use the app while on fully working stable data, but it's a big they created themselves with one of the updates and seem unwilling to fix until now.

What’s new

Various improvements and bug fixes