Helsinki Bikes vs Eckerö Line
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Helsinki Bikes
Discover HSL City Bikes in Helsinki with real-time station locations, available bikes, and parking space updates. Receive timely notifications about your ride duration and potential extra charges.
- Find city bike stations on map
- Real-time bike availability
- Real-time parking space availability
- Notifications for ride end
- Notifications for extra charges
- Extra charge calculation
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Helsinki Bikes is an easy to use app that helps you find HSL's City Bikes around central Helsinki. It shows all the bike stations near you or anywhere in the map with a realtime update of available bikes and free parking spaces in the stations. Helsinki Bikes can also give you notifications when your free ride time is about to end or when you are charged certain amount of extra money. In addition to that it also calculates the extra charge that is due depending on the time. The app is made using the open data provided by HSL and is not in anyway affiliated with HSL. More info about city bikes from https://www.hsl.fi/en/citybikes .
Eckerö Line
Manage your ferry bookings and access digital boarding passes directly on your mobile device. Streamline your travel experience by checking in easily and adding onboard services.
- Digital boarding cards
- Advance boarding
- View upcoming bookings
- Add onboard services
- Book new trips
- Finland-Estonia routes
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Fetch your ferry booking into the app and receive the boarding cards in advance. Go straight to boarding gates in the terminal. All the passengers in your booking can load their own boarding cards by loading the app to their mobile phones. MY BOOKINGS Sign in with Eckerö Line customer account and view all your upcoming bookings in the app. You can also fetch bookings where you are booked as passenger by entering the booking number and your date of birth. EASY CHECK-IN Find your boarding card in the app and go straight to boarding gates at the terminal. BOOK A TRIP OR ADD SERVICES Create a new ferry booking or add onboard services like meals, cabins or seats in lounge to an existing booking. ROUTES Travel smoothly between Finland and Estonia on M/S Finlandia or M/S Finbo Cargo.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Eckerö Line at 5.0 against Helsinki Bikes's 3.0. Helsinki Bikes's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Eckerö Line holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.
| Parameter | Helsinki Bikes | Eckerö Line |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Anteneh Sahledengel | Rederiaktiebolaget Eckero |
Customer experience
Helsinki Bikes
Eckerö Line
In-app purchases
Helsinki Bikes
No in-app purchases
Eckerö Line
No in-app purchases









