But first*

There are lots of transit apps out there. What makes ours so special?

Instead of forcing you to plan a trip to get transit information (like Google Maps and many others) we display nearby departure times instantly. As the overwhelming majority of transit trips are commutes to work and school, most riders already know where they’re going and how to get there. What they really want to know is exactly when their ride is coming.

How’s that possible? In the last few years, most North American transit agencies have started publishing real-time transit data. But how do you access that real-time data? Google Maps only has real-time transit data for some cities. Apple Maps doesn’t have any.

But Transit App has added more real-time data than anyone else — which means we can tell you exactly when your ride will show up.

Transit App is often the first and only app to support real-time data in a city. After all, we aren’t afraid of getting our hands dirty. Our team can integrate obscure, cryptic data better than anybody.

Our chief data integrator. (The search for better data never ends.)

But transit data is just the icing on our delicious, multi-layered transit cake:

Our proprietary compression technology shrinks transit data files up to 100X, making our app blazingly fast 🔥

🔥 We built the world’s first ever (non-hideous) computer-generated transit maps. They’re markedly better than Apple’s and Google’s 👊

👊 We’re the only app that lets you buy bikeshare passes and unlock bikes in multiple cities (5 for now… but plenty more on the way) 🙏

in multiple cities (5 for now… but plenty more on the way) 🙏 Transit App works in 125+ metro areas… and counting 🌐

Cool cool cool cool. Yet none of these features can compete with GO.

1. GO

Taking public transit is stressful. There are so many variables. Am I running late? Should I start sprinting? Will I make it in time to catch the express, or will I have to take the slow local bus? How many stops are left until my destination? Did I miss my transfer? Why am I not wearing pants?

That’s why we built GO: your new personal transit companion.

Using voice and push notifications, GO manages each aspect of your trip so you don’t have to think about….

when to leave

where to get off

or whether you’ll reach your destination in time

Which means less time stressing out. And more time finding pants.

Let’s start with the first part of your journey: leaving your house. GO tracks your vehicle’s position in real-time, then tells you exactly when you should start walking to your stop.

And if you’re walking too slow? GO monitors your walking speed and your vehicle’s real-time position to make sure you stay on pace.

We’ll also tell you to hurry up if an arrival time skips ahead. Sometimes, the real-time data provided by cities can be unreliable. ETAs jerking up and down like a mattress at summer camp. If that ever happens, we’ll let you know.

What about once you board your vehicle? No need to obsessively check your phone (or look out the window) to remember when to get off. Because once you type in your destination, GO will monitor your progress.

You’ll get a voice alert (and push notification) a few minutes before you arrive. So if you want to nap, GO ahead. We’ll wake you up with a luscious, robotic British accent.

If anything else happens to go wrong during your journey, GO will tell you.

If your ride gets detoured: we’ll send you an alert.

we’ll send you an alert. If you miss your ride (or transfer): GO will update your itinerary and give you an adjusted ETA. We’ll even compare arrival times between express routes and local ones, and tell you which to take.

No matter how unpredictable your transit gets, GO will keep you on track.

GO is a completely new way to travel your city. It’s the first ever real-time GPS for public transit. It manages every aspect of your trip so you don’t have to worry about a thing. Our voice alerts make sure you don’t have to pull out your phone ten times per journey, and our hyper-smart riding predictions are getting smarter by the day.

(So why haven’t you tried it yet? Download here.)

2. Real-Time Trip Planning

Transit App is the king of real-time transit data: you can see real-time arrival predictions for nearby routes as soon as you open the app. However, until now, you couldn’t see that real-time data in our trip planner. But those dark days are over.

When you were planning trips before, Route A might’ve always been “theoretically” faster than Route B. But the fastest trip in “reality” is often quite different. Now, with real-time trip planning, you won’t have to gamble on which trip will be fastest. You’ll know for sure. Save your luck for bingo.

(We’ve added service disruptions to the trip planner, too.)

Our trip planner is more powerful than ever. But it’s also easier to use.

Some trip planning apps overwhelm you with too many options. Others make you tap through a million screens to access the info you care about: Departure times. Trip length. Time between transfers. Walking distances between stops. Arrival time.