Linesider is the modern companion for transport spotting.
Photograph a bus, train, tram, aircraft or ship and Linesider identifies it, cross-checking what it reads against live vehicle movements and your own catalogue before it fills in the details. What used to be a notebook and a lot of guesswork is a tap.
See what's around you, live
Open Around Me and Linesider shows the vehicles near you right now, with real fleet numbers, across a growing set of regions: today the UK, the Netherlands, Germany and the San Francisco Bay Area. Tap one and the spot is already half-written.
Boards at airports and stations
At an airport, see a map of the airfield with every aircraft landing, taking off, taxiing or parked. At a station in the UK, the Netherlands or Germany, see every train due now, with its platform and how late it is.
Identify from a photo
One photo is enough. Linesider reads the vehicle, matches it against the catalogue, and hands you a filled-in form to check rather than a blank one. Identification only ever runs when you ask it to.
Ask Inspector Sands
Inspector Sands is Linesider's AI. Ask him about your collection and he answers from your own records, or ask what is at an airport right now. Then try to beat him, naming the vehicle in real spotters' photos.
Whole-train spotting
Spot one unit and, where formation data is available, Linesider knows the whole train: carriage numbers and consists land on the record automatically, locomotives and coaching stock included.
Fleet lists with a memory
Operators, classes and individual vehicles live in one catalogue. Every spot ticks off progress against the rosters you care about, and an importer builds a fleet list in minutes instead of an evening.
Journeys and achievements
Rode it rather than just saw it? Log the trip with its route and stops. Badges arrive as your collection grows.
A shared catalogue, kept clean
Publish operator fleets and lists for other spotters, or keep yours private. Shared sets are reviewed before they land, and rosters kept current from official sources are badged as such, so you know whose list you're ticking before you trust it.
Your log is yours
Your spots, photos and journeys are private unless you choose to share them. Location on a spot is optional. You can delete your account, and everything in it, from inside the app.
Linesider covers buses, trains, trams, aircraft and ships. The bus and rail catalogues run deepest, refreshed from official sources. Aircraft and ship fleets are lighter for now, and yours to build as you spot them.
Free, Pro and credits
Free includes a taster of the AI features, 3 operators and 200 MB of photos. Linesider Pro adds 1,500 credits a month for the AI features and 20 GB of photos. A day pass unlocks Pro for 24 hours.
Linesider Pro is an optional subscription, monthly or yearly, with a 14-day free trial. It is paid through your Apple ID and renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. You can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://linesider.app/privacy
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