Ventra vs Metra Times

Ride CTA, Metra & Pace with Ventra: Manage your fares, buy Metra mobile tickets, get arrivals and add your Ventra Card for riding CTA and Pace to iPhone and Apple Wallet. Use transit in and around all of Chicago: It's easy to manage and pay your fare on CTA, Metra and Pace buses and trains with the Ventra app. Find all the features you're used to on the Ventra website and more, including mobile ticketing for Metra trains! With the Ventra app, you can: • Check your balance and available passes in your Ventra Card's transit account. • Instantly load value or passes to your Ventra Card's transit account. • Switch autoload for transit value or passes on and off. • Buy and use Metra mobile tickets to ride any Metra train. • Use transit value you've loaded to buy a Metra ticket. • Get real-time account notifications so you know when it's time to load more fare or buy more tickets. • Get real-time arrival/departure information from CTA, Metra and Pace all in one app—by picking a stop, using favorites or looking at service near where you're standing.

Metra Times is a fast, clean way to see when your next Metra train leaves: a live departure board for every Metra line in the Chicago region. Build a board around how you actually commute. Favorite the routes you ride and they're one tap away, with live status the moment you open the app. FEATURES • Live departure board for all Metra lines • Network map: see every Metra line and tap any station for live departures • Track a train and watch it on your Lock Screen. A Live Activity counts down to arrival and advances stop by stop as the train moves, even with your phone locked • Favorite the trips you ride for a board that's all yours. Where two lines serve the same trip, you see both together • Full schedule browser: pick any line, station pair, and date • Real-time service alerts • Dynamic Island support • Choose your look: a clean classic board or a split-flap departure-board theme • Get-off alerts: be notified N stops before your destination, even when your phone is locked • Precise on-board tracking (optional): once you confirm you're riding, your phone's location makes get-off alerts more reliable and can detect boarding automatically PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No tracking. Your data stays on your device and isn't collected or shared. Metra Times is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Metra or the Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad. Schedule and real-time information come from Metra's public data feeds.