The Official MTA App Reviews: Is It Legit?

The Official MTA App
The Official MTA App
Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Customer Experience

Positive experience18.1% of reviews
Neutral8.8% of reviews
Negative experience73.0% of reviews

~ Based on 656 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about The Official MTA App

Is The Official MTA App Safe?

The Official MTA App appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for The Official MTA App is 87/100.

This assessment is based on 12,612 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.4/5.

Safety Analysis

84.2% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.5% of ratings suggest some concerns
13.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 12,609 App Store ratings for The Official MTA App.

Is The Official MTA App Legit?

The Official MTA App appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for The Official MTA App is 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Dessy

It works quite a few times but the only thing that irritates me are the delays . One day they’ll say the bus comes in 5 mins and once it passes it never arrives 🤦🏽‍♀️

Unreliable

Unreliable just like the Mta. They have times where buses and trains are supposed to leave and they don’t line up. Wrong trains come, buses don’t arrive, timer just keeps feeding us lies.

works better for trains than buses

Decent app but the b44 line rarely shows up when the app says it will, no idea what's wrong with the b44

Please fix widget

Great app, simple design with the most accurate timing. PLEASE FIX YOUR WIDGETS! As of now, the widget only sorts buses by line, not by next arriving, and only 2 fit on the screen. Please allow sort by arrival time so I don’t have to launch the app. Widgets are very important, please fix.

Question

Can the brain trust behind this app explain what purpose “favorites” has in the “new” version? If I only get nearby stations and every single train at said stations, why is “favorites” still an option other than to mock me?

Fix Location

Since the latest update, the app shows the subway line that is one stop away; not the subway closest to current location.

No Service/Wifi on Trains, Useless

The app needs service or WiFi to use… there’s no service or WiFi on the trains or the stations, when you would most need the app.

dysfunctional

The OMNY cards do not work, I put $20 on an OMNY card, used it twice, and it's at negative one dollar. They scammin!!

No schedule?

This is not good. Why isn’t there a schedule? The mat’s Justine website is far better than this app. What a waste of a download.

Official app is correct 50% of the time

Half the time, the app works fine and is good at tracking buses and subways, the other half it is wildly incorrect, has incredibly out dated information and tracking buses that don’t exist. Support team always takes a minimum of 10 minutes to respond and don’t seem to know any better than users do.

Doesn’t work on cellular

Prior to the major update to this app it worked on cellular only. Since the update it won’t load bus or train information unless connected to wifi making it mostly useless

no bus

it says the bus will be there but it never is ugh

Worse

This app is so dreadful you cannot even rearrange your favorites, not in favorites—duh—or search. Hmm where else could it be? Just a terrible app not befitting of even the MTA.

Doesn’t give accurate information

I had to to send information to the app many times, the app is fine when there is no delays, but it is slow on updating when there is some delays.

Fake updates

How do you publish that widgets can be added when the function DOES NOT WORK?! My phone and apps are up to date, but that widget addition eluded me. Horribly managed app

MTA Trains

Delays

Design DISASTER (and how to fix)

The old version was so much better!
Why does the MTA always need to ruin good things?
Here is what should happen.
-Make Favorites lists prominent and fast loading! Right now I can’t even find my Favorites.
-Make the bus and train directional icons bigger and scalable with zoom, bc they are like 2 point font sized now, so you cannot see which way they’re traveling.
-Make arrivals show based on real time! Don’t even bother listing the always-irrelevant published schedules.
-Make it easy to look up a full Route.

(Let me know if you want more ways to make MTA work better.)
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Not paying for the train anymore

Please go ahead and jump the train. Paid and waiting almost an hour for a train that keeps getting delayed?

Poor info

Would be better if it had up to date info and info on delays. It often doesn’t even suggest the best route or an opportunity to give feedback if the subway doesn’t come or bus never arrives. This new app is a downgrade from the last one.

Great upgrades

I love how they continuously improve the app features. Well designed and very easy to use.