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FonePaw Reviews Summary

FonePaw has a rating of 2.6 stars from 62 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with FonePaw most frequently mention customer service, refund policy and credit card. FonePaw ranks 14th among Mobile Repair sites.

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Missouri
1 review
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I downloaded Fonepaw and got an error message about not having the right verification. When I reached out to them I got NO response. I ended up having to buy a new phone and when I asked for a refund they said if I used the License Key I could NOT get a refund. How do you know if the product is going to work or not if you don't use the license key?

Date of experience: August 10, 2022
Arizona
3 reviews
0 helpful votes
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FonePaw Android Data Backup and Restore
July 11, 2022

DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT. It will not backup your group messages so you will not be able to restore them. I have tried working with the customer support team and it is almost impossible. It takes anywhere from 7 to 10 days to get a response and then the response is to view the product videos on their website or on YouTube. That does NOT show me how to backup group messages. There is no distinction on any of their material that indicates that group text messages are not included in the backups. After 1 month, I finally received this response: "We have verified your order information, your situation meets our company's refund policy condition. We will handle refund service for you. Please wait patiently." that was on July 11,2022. On July 19,2022, I asked for the status of the refund. On August 1,2022, I received a response telling me that they wanted to do further troubleshooting and gave me detailed instructions on what to do to provide them the logs needed to troubleshoot the problem. The problem with their detailed instructions was it requesting logs for the FonePaw Data Recovery product which is not what I purchased or even mentioned in any of my communications. This company should NOT be allowed to exist based on their lack of knowledge of their products and more importantly their HORRIBLE customer service.

Date of experience: July 11, 2022
Illinois
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Does not follow their return policy
April 15, 2022

The product doesn't work as described on the website and after many emails, customer service is not following their refund policy while playing dumb in an attempt to not refund my money. Do not give these people your money! They lie about the capabilities of their product and don't follow their own return policy.

Date of experience: April 15, 2022
Illinois
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Trial version is too limited. Purchased full suite & got no results whatsoever. Been trying to contact company with no luck at all. Website gets nowhere & no one responds to emails. B. s. Company with b. S. product.

Date of experience: December 25, 2021
Czechia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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The only thing I was able to recover with this software from my lost photos was the photo thumbnails. I asked FonePaw for help and they requested some additional information to solve the issue. After some time, I asked what the situation was and I received the following response (30.4.
2021):
"Hi,
They are still working on it, and please don't worry, if the issue still can't be fixed in 30 days, they will proceed the refund.
Regards,
Emily Watson "
After passing the 30 days, I have asked multiple times what the situation is and I never received any response. I was shocked at how unprofessional a company this is.

Date of experience: October 21, 2021
Wisconsin
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Total rip off
September 8, 2021

I purchased this to help recover data from my husband's old phone that crashed. It did not work at all. I had reached out to fonepaw to get a refund and they completely turned it down. I would NOT recommend them to anyone I know. It was a huge waste of money and the company does not back up its guarantee.

Date of experience: September 8, 2021
New Jersey
1 review
1 helpful vote
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First of all, one star rating is way too high. Their website states that Do Trans can transfer all Andriod files to another phone easily and quickly. Do Trans will not even recognize my phone. Their "tech support" doesn't exist. They were unable to get the software to work as they advertised. As soon as I told them I wanted as refund, they stopped communicating with me. I filed a complaint with my credit card company. I dealt with Emily. She has been completely useless. Avoid these people. They are literally steeling peoples money. The sell software that doesn't work, then they keep your money then they refuse communicating with you.

Date of experience: June 27, 2021
Illinois
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I paid $80 for this program that let me see what was already visible on my phone! SCAM! Won't refund.

Date of experience: March 28, 2021
Australia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Didnt work
March 18, 2021

Tried to retrieve a message i had just deleted (with photo attachment). Did not work. The message literally deleted only 1 hour earlier

Date of experience: March 18, 2021
Colorado
1 review
1 helpful vote
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This company has the worst refund policy I have ever seen. Won't refund even though it won't work. Do not buy!

Date of experience: March 5, 2021
California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I had high hopes that this program would help restore all my data off a phone that got dropped and the screen went black. From the website that had FonePaw advertised, it never gave me a list of phones that they do not support. So I buy the program for $70, go through the process to try to get my data back. But when I get to the part that says to pick the type of phone, mine was not listed and I couldn't put other. So I contacted Customer Service about this and they said oh we don't support your type of phone. Its written below on what we do support and what we do not. Well this was never advertised on the site I got everything off of. For 2 months now I have been going rounds with them in trying to get my money back. Wasn't my fault it wasn't advertised correctly, maybe they shouldn't have it advertised on websites that don't follow their policies. Not backing down until I get my money back, this is bull crap.

Date of experience: January 12, 2021
New Jersey
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I purchased the program because I thought it would be better. I purchased the program the company said to. Well the company said it was the wrong program and would t work. They wouldn't tell me the correct program and wouldn't refund. Then they got rude and nasty. Find a program that works on a droid and stay far away from this business. I would give zero stars but that wasn't an option.

Date of experience: December 23, 2020
FonePaw T. FonePaw Rep
over a year old

Dear customer,

Thank you for shopping on FonePaw. My name is Lucy and I’m the Customer Service Manager of FonePaw.

I am so sorry to hear your case. Would you mind to email the case details to my email: lucy@fonepaw.com.

I hope we can make good communication with each other and help you solve the problem in a considerable solution.

Hope to hear from you again.

Best regard,

Lucy

Idaho
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Run away, Run FAST!
December 11, 2020

Customer service stinks, non existent. Only contact is send Email to them and wait, wait wait... I uninstalled same day of paying for junk.
Software is BAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!
Company needs to close up and disappear.
Don't waist your money for getting absolutely nothing.
I stopping payment.

Date of experience: December 11, 2020
FonePaw T. FonePaw Rep
over a year old

Dear customer,

Thank you for shopping on FonePaw. My name is Lucy and I’m the Customer Service Manager of FonePaw.

I am so sorry to hear your case. Would you mind to email the case details to my email: lucy@fonepaw.com.

I hope we can make good communication with each other and help you solve the problem in a considerable solution.

Hope to hear from you again.

Best regard,

Lucy

New Jersey
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I purchased the FonePaw Video Convertor and despite installing it on two separate PC's, it took over 24 hours to complete upscaling a 1080 mp4 file. Yet when I used a different program, it took way less time. When I requested support to refund my money, they refused with the explanation that event though it took 24 hours to complete, the software works, despite the fact they supposedly offer a 30 day money back offer. Terrible customer service and in addition, deceiving as well.

Date of experience: December 9, 2020
FonePaw T. FonePaw Rep
over a year old

Dear customer,

Thank you for shopping on FonePaw. My name is Lucy and I’m the Customer Service Manager of FonePaw.

I am so sorry to hear your case. Would you mind to email the case details to my email: lucy@fonepaw.com.

I hope we can make good communication with each other and help you solve the problem in a considerable solution.

Hope to hear from you again.

Best regard,

Lucy

Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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So the software did not work for my case and the support wasn't able to help and they did not refund or stand behind their product

Date of experience: September 25, 2020
FonePaw T. FonePaw Rep
over a year old

Dear customer,

Thank you for shopping on FonePaw. My name is Lucy and I’m the Customer Service Manager of FonePaw.

I am so sorry to hear your case. Would you mind to email the case details to my email: lucy@fonepaw.com.

I hope we can make good communication with each other and help you solve the problem in a considerable solution.

Hope to hear from you again.

Best regard,

Lucy

California
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Terrible Service - didn't work on our Galaxy S5 - no refund - said I should have read their policy better...
TERRIBLE COMPANY!

Date of experience: August 24, 2020
FonePaw T. FonePaw Rep
over a year old

Dear Debbie,

Thank you for shopping on FonePaw. My name is Lucy and I’m the Customer Service Manager of FonePaw.

I am so sorry to hear your case. Would you mind to email the case details to my email: lucy@fonepaw.com.

I hope we can make good communication with each other and help you solve the problem in a considerable solution.

Hope to hear from you again.

Best regard,

Lucy

Washington
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Unexpectedly, I got a full refund as of 7/23/20. Don't know why. Never thought they'd do it after fighting me on it for 70+ days. At least they finally did the right thing. This company still derserves 0 stars after the way they treated me. It's like taking a test and you improved from 0 of 100 questions right to 5 of 100 answers right. That grade is still a bad F! I got the refund eventually, but they were still extremely rude and dismissive. Worst customer service of my life by far. I say "they" but really, I worked with only one person. Maybe there are some decent people who work at FonePaw, but consumers, BEWARE!

Date of experience: July 23, 2020

DON'T EVER BUY FROM FONEPAW!
July 16, 2020
Previous review

THIS MESSAGE IS TO WARN AND PROTECT POTENTIAL FONEPAW CUSTOMERS AGAINST BEING ROBBED

FONEPAW IS A SCAM. I tried to get help from them for the technical malfunctions of the screen recorder I bought from FonePaw for 70 days. I emailed with EMILY WATSON from support@fonepaw.zendesk.com in about 40 emails and in customer support tickets I submitted on fonepaw.com/contact. She cheated me out of my money, and worse, she sneakily lied, deceived and led me on, trying to tire me out until I gave up on all of our communications. She didn't even have the decency to admit it. I'm going to warn everyone I should about FonePaw. To protect them, I'll tell them to never buy anything from FonePaw. EMILY WATSON at FonePaw is a liar and a thief. She is a swindler and a coward. I hope she quits her job and finds another where she doesn't willfully hurt people for a living. She's a horrible employee. I hope there are decent people working at FonePaw and that she's not a common representation of the other employees at FonePaw.

But after reading others reviews about FonePaw, I believe the whole company is likely led by crooks who are out to steal your money and time. After weeks of trying to get a straight answer from them, they refused to answer my simple yes or no question. "Will you give me the refund I am eligible to receive or break the FonePaw Refund Policy and not refund me?". Emily Watson at FonePaw never answered this question even though I asked and emailed her multiple times over several weeks. She would respond to my emails, but never answer my questions or respond to other subjects I brought up in the messages. She always tried to wear me down so I'd give up. Dragging the pretend help on and on. She was extremely rude and condescending. She thought I didn't know she was cheating me. Even though I called her out on it at least a couple times, she'd still pretend she was caringly trying to help, treating me like an idiot. She's a coward for not being forthright. I wanted the refund of course, but more than anything, I wanted to be treated with respect, courtesy, kindness. I was her customer for heaven's sake! She could've at least been straight with me and said no, we won't refund you. She dragged me on like this for weeks and weeks. I never got the refund even though my circumstances clearly applied to their own company refund policy. I provided what they asked for and followed their directions. And they only used my compliance as a method to deceive me longer. It was a cruel, long con.

If you're considering being a FonePaw customer, don't ever give them your money and run for dear life! Even if you bought something from them and it works, whenever you'd need maintenance or customer support for other reasons, the way they treat and communicate with their customers is abominable! FonePaw should be ashamed.

Anonymous FonePaw customer who bought the broken FonePaw screen recorder program in May, 2020.

Date of experience: July 16, 2020
Hawaii
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Product didn't work, tried to get and never did receive a refund! No success and asked to work with R&D. Who does that? How can you sell a faulty product? Dr. Fone worked first time. Anyway the general public need to know.

Date of experience: May 3, 2020
FonePaw T. FonePaw Rep
over a year old

Dear D F,

Thank you for shopping on FonePaw. My name is Lucy and I’m the Customer Service Manager of FonePaw.

I am so sorry to hear your case. Would you mind to email the case details to my email: lucy@fonepaw.com.

I hope we can make good communication with each other and help you solve the problem in a considerable solution.

Hope to hear from you again.

Best regard,

Lucy

Kansas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I downloaded this app, and it forced me to purchase it. The whole transfer for the free thing is a scam. They only allow a very short amount of data to get transferred for free. Even after I paid, it kept giving me errors. They only have emails for customer service. They answered after 4 days and had me go through a lot of hoops. They still can't fix the issue and refuse to refund me even though it's been a month of going back and forth with them (usually waiting 4 days to a week for a response)... I called Apple customer service and they were able to help me immediately with my data transfer for FREE. I would never recommend them to anyone.

Date of experience: April 24, 2020
FonePaw T. FonePaw Rep
over a year old

Dear Max,

Thank you for shopping on FonePaw. My name is Lucy and I’m the Customer Service Manager of FonePaw.

I am so sorry to hear your case. Would you mind to email the case details to my email: lucy@fonepaw.com.

I hope we can make good communication with each other and help you solve the problem in a considerable solution.

Hope to hear from you again.

Best regard,

Lucy

West Virginia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Software is TRASH
February 26, 2020

Software does not work on anything newer than a Galaxy S6. And they will not refund money when their system doesn't work. Basically you can use it on a working phone. Total trash. 100% Worthless

Date of experience: February 26, 2020
FonePaw T. FonePaw Rep
over a year old

Dear customer,

Thank you for shopping on FonePaw. My name is Lucy and I’m the Customer Service Manager of FonePaw.

I am so sorry to hear your case. Would you mind to email the case details to my email: lucy@fonepaw.com.

I hope we can make good communication with each other and help you solve the problem in a considerable solution.

Hope to hear from you again.

Best regard,

Lucy

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FonePaw provides a package of phone solutions, including data recovery and transfer.