Public Transit Apps

Discussions recommend and praise apps like Citymapper and Transit for superior public transportation routing, timetables, real-time data, and UI compared to Google Maps, while mentioning transit APIs and data sources like GTFS.

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gnovel Nov 9, 2024 View on HN

The Citymapper transit app shows this information for most cities it supports

blt Sep 30, 2018 View on HN

Transit App for public transport route choosing and timetables. In fact, it is much better than Google maps for this purpose.https://transitapp.com/

ant6n Dec 29, 2015 View on HN

For transit, how about using a Transit App that covers those cities.

dotcoma Apr 21, 2024 View on HN

Have you tried Transit App ?https://transitapp.com/

namanaggarwal Oct 8, 2019 View on HN

This is pretty nice. Are there providers that can provide transit data publicly for other cities as well.

dashundchen Mar 23, 2023 View on HN

Look into Transit app for public transit. The UI for transit wayfinding and exploring nearby stops/lines is way better the Maps in my opinion. For agencies that don't have realtime arrivals, Transit also supports opt-in crowdsourced time estimates.

loloquwowndueo Jul 9, 2025 View on HN

HTTPS://transit.app is amazing for public transport routing. Gives you a lot more information than the stock mapping apps. Some of the things they do are pure black magic.

jacktheturtle Nov 10, 2025 View on HN

this is great. I've wanted to build something similar for the trains outside of my flat. I have not been able to find reliable apis for this

burkaman Dec 17, 2019 View on HN

https://transit.app/

r0ffles Apr 3, 2019 View on HN

Are we talking about OneBusAway?