Been fighting with this app for two years and I can’t figure out who it’s designed for. Certainly not Central Belt commuters. The app has two main use-cases: finding train times and using for e-tickets. Both are a struggle. Train times, ok, you can search for a journey from A to B. The times fall apart if your journey has multiple possible start/end stations eg. Two nearby stations in the centre of town, but you can at least use “recent searches” as a workaround. Then you buy your tickets and the fun really starts. If you want a return you have to specify return date and time (even for an “anytime” ticket), and the default is often “not selected” or “yesterday” which leads to errors and more clicks than should be necessary (a recurring feature of this poorly designed app). And then you buy your tickets. If you can. The app will often only let you buy for a journey well in advance, so no turning up at the station and buying a ticket for the train arriving in a couple of minutes. Then you flick between ticket and checking times, using lots of back clicks, instead of the “search” and “tickets” tabs. But wait, there’s more! It’s even possible, if you’re not extremely careful buying your ticket, to end up selecting “collect at station” instead of “in-app” ticket, even if your journey is from a station with no ticket collection facilities! Of course, there are alternatives to this app, if you’re lucky enough to be boarding at a staffed station, or one with a ticket machine. Use those if possible, because this hopeless app is a long way from being a functional alternative “ticket machine in your pocket”.
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