# Platform: NYC Subway Times — Live arrivals on lock screen

> Live arrivals on lock screen (iPhone/iPad app by Chinmay Inamdar.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/platform-nyc-subway-times/id6829831724 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Chinmay Inamdar](https://appshunter.io/developer/6829831726)
- Category: Navigation, Travel
- Price: Free
- Rating: 5.00/5 from 2 App Store ratings
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.4 · 39 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-11-06
- Data updated: 2026-11-10

## What is Platform?

Platform is an unofficial app for the New York City subway. It is not
affiliated with or endorsed by the MTA.

Set the train you actually take — station, direction, the lines you would
board, and the time you leave the house. Fifteen minutes before that time, a
live card appears on your Lock Screen by itself with your next trains, each
one counting down to the minute. Open the app and it checks the feed again,
more often the closer your train gets. Fifteen minutes after you leave, the
card clears itself away.

REAL TIMES, NOT A TIMETABLE
Arrivals come from the MTA's own live GTFS-realtime feeds, and the app tells
you how old that data is. If a feed cannot be read it says so, rather than
showing an empty platform and letting you think no train is coming. A
scheduled time nobody is running is worse than no time at all.

THE RIGHT PLATFORM
All 496 stations. Four separate stations are called "Times Sq-42 St" and three
are called "14 St-Union Sq" — the picker tells them apart by borough and by
the lines each platform actually serves, so you never set a reminder for a
platform you do not use. Direction is shown as the real destination on the
front of the train, never as a raw "N" or "S".

ONLY THE LINES YOU WOULD BOARD
Pick N and Q but not R, and that is what you are told about. Whichever of them
comes first.

NO ACCOUNT, NO TRACKING
There is no sign-up. Your reminders are stored on your phone. The app has no
analytics, no advertising and no third-party SDKs, and the only server it
talks to is the MTA's.

Platform is unofficial. Train data is published by the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority; service changes, delays and planned work are theirs,
not ours.

## Is Platform safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Platform.

## Is Platform legit?

Platform: NYC Subway Times has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Platform is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-11-06

No release notes.

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