What is the best public transit navigation app for iPhone?

Citymapper: All Live Transit, S tier, ranked #1 of 40, rated 4.9 by 109,817 people.

Which public transit navigation apps are free?

40 of 40 are free to download: Citymapper: All Live Transit (S), Transit • Subway & Bus Times (S), Moovit: Bus & Transit Tracker (S), Paris Metro Map and Routes (S) and more. 13 of them sell in-app purchases. 8 report no in-app purchases.

Which public transit navigation app has the best App Store rating?

NYC Ferry at 4.9 from 54,610 ratings.

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Best Public Transit Navigation Apps for iPhone (2026)

40 apps ranked S through F · Updated 2026-10-19 · Ranked by AppTierList, computed, never sold · JSON

Citymapper: All Live Transit is the top-ranked of 40 public transit navigation apps on iPhone, at S tier with 4.9/5 from 109,817 ratings.

1
Citymapper: All Live TransitS
Free download · ★ 4.9 · 109,817 ratings · score 98
2
Transit • Subway & Bus TimesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 1,027,910 ratings · score 98
3
Moovit: Bus & Transit TrackerS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 60,580 ratings · score 95
4
Paris Metro Map and RoutesS
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 11,564 ratings · score 94
5
Île-de-France MobilitésS
Free · ★ 4.7 · 4,717 ratings · score 94

What belongs in this list

Get around a city by bus, metro, tram or train and know which line to take.

Not here: Car driving directions alone; A general map app alone; Ticket purchase alone; Bike or walking directions alone; A static transit map image alone

How we pick

For this list we ask the App Store the same searches a person would, in several countries, and keep every app it returns. A model reads each app's listing and rejects the ones that only mention the use case. Every app that stays is scored out of 100 from four parts, each 0 to 100 and averaged with no weights: its App Store rating, how many people rated it, where the App Store itself ranks it for this list's searches, and how recently its current version shipped. An app showing Apple's Editors' Choice badge gets a fifth part of 100, which can only lift its score. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier. Read the full method →

Compare every app

1
Citymapper: All Live TransitS
Free download · ★ 4.9 · 109,817 ratings · score 98 · best in class
2
Transit • Subway & Bus TimesS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 1,027,910 ratings · score 98 · best in class
3
Moovit: Bus & Transit TrackerS
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 60,580 ratings · score 95 · best in class
4
Paris Metro Map and RoutesS
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 11,564 ratings · score 94 · best in class
5
Île-de-France MobilitésS
Free · ★ 4.7 · 4,717 ratings · score 94 · best in class
6
Valley MetroA
Free · ★ 4.7 · 10,264 ratings · score 86 · excellent
7
TfL Go: Plan, Pay, TravelA
Free · ★ 4.8 · 12,217 ratings · score 86 · excellent
8
Transit & Subway Times: MomegoA
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 5,391 ratings · score 85 · excellent
9
Transit Watch for MUNIA
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 5,706 ratings · score 83 · excellent
10
New York Subway MTA Map NYCA
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 109,398 ratings · score 83 · excellent
11
Umo MobilityA
Free · ★ 4.6 · 6,048 ratings · score 83 · excellent
12
NYC Transit: MTA Subway & BusA
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 39,135 ratings · score 83 · excellent
13
Transit Stop: CTA Tracker.A
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 32,660 ratings · score 82 · excellent
14
NS Travel PlannerB
Free · ★ 4.8 · 6,820 ratings · score 81 · good
15
Washington DC Metro Route MapB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 12,238 ratings · score 80 · good
16
The Official MTA AppB
Free download · ★ 4.4 · 12,606 ratings · score 79 · good
17
Denver Transit: RTD Bus TImesB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 5,914 ratings · score 76 · good
18
DC Metro and Bus - TrackerB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.5 · 37,107 ratings · score 75 · good
19
NJ TRANSITB
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 269,605 ratings · score 73 · good · provisional
20
Passio GOB
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 10,974 ratings · score 73 · good
21
LA Metro & Bus - Rail TrackerB
Free + IAP · ★ 4.4 · 4,741 ratings · score 72 · good
22
NYC FerryB
Free download · ★ 4.9 · 54,610 ratings · score 72 · good · provisional
23
CATS-PassC
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 16,388 ratings · score 70 · situational · provisional
24
DB NavigatorC
Free · ★ 4.6 · 15,932 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional
25
MyJTAC
Free download · ★ 4.6 · 4,957 ratings · score 69 · situational
26
Tube Map - London UndergroundC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 18,721 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional
27
RuterC
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 3,848 ratings · score 69 · situational · provisional
28
BART (Official)C
Free · ★ 4.6 · 27,608 ratings · score 68 · situational · provisional
29
Japan Travel - Smart TransitC
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 2,620 ratings · score 67 · situational · provisional
30
GVB reis appC
Free download · ★ 4.7 · 2,514 ratings · score 67 · situational · provisional
31
ProximiT: MBTA Boston TransitC
Free + IAP · ★ 4.6 · 24,601 ratings · score 65 · situational · provisional
32
myStop MobileC
Free · ★ 4.4 · 12,247 ratings · score 65 · situational · provisional
33
Transit.TrackerC
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 3,375 ratings · score 64 · situational · provisional
34
MARTA - OfficialC
Free download · ★ 4.2 · 7,989 ratings · score 64 · situational · provisional
35
Barcelona Metro Map & RoutingD
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 3,047 ratings · score 63 · weak · provisional
36
RTA Le PassD
Free download · ★ 4.1 · 5,156 ratings · score 63 · weak
37
Subway Time NYCD
Free + IAP · ★ 4.7 · 14,822 ratings · score 62 · weak · provisional
38
New York City SubwayD
Free download · ★ 4.8 · 4,055 ratings · score 62 · weak · provisional
39
Boston T Subway Map & RoutingD
Free download · ★ 4.5 · 4,330 ratings · score 62 · weak · provisional
40
Metro Paris - Map & RoutesD
Free + IAP · ★ 4.8 · 3,037 ratings · score 60 · weak · provisional

Beyond the top 40

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Questions people ask

What is the best public transit navigation app for iPhone?: Citymapper: All Live Transit, S tier, ranked #1 of 40, rated 4.9 by 109,817 people.
Which public transit navigation apps are free?: 40 of 40 are free to download: Citymapper: All Live Transit (S), Transit • Subway & Bus Times (S), Moovit: Bus & Transit Tracker (S), Paris Metro Map and Routes (S) and more. 13 of them sell in-app purchases. 8 report no in-app purchases.
Which public transit navigation app has the best App Store rating?: NYC Ferry at 4.9 from 54,610 ratings.
How many public transit navigation apps reach S or A tier?: 13 of 40. Tiers follow fixed score bands: S from 90, A from 80, B from 70, C from 60, D from 50, F below. The list's leader is S if it scores 80 or more. On a list of 20 or more ranked apps, a tier from S to D takes in new apps only up to a quarter of the top 40: an app pushed out of a full tier falls to the next tier with room, and F takes the rest. An app already in a tier keeps its place while the tier is at most 2 apps over a quarter; past that, only the apps over that margin go down, lowest score first. Equal scores share a tier, and no app has a better tier than an app ranked above it. An app keeps its tier until its score passes the band edge by more than 1 point, or a full tier or the order above moves it. Only the top 40 of a list get a tier.