Skånetrafiken vs Nova Circle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Skånetrafiken
Purchase various public transport tickets, including single, daily, and monthly passes. Plan your journeys with route finding and receive real-time disruption alerts. Manage your tickets and protect them with a lost ticket guarantee.
- Buy various ticket types
- Multiple payment options
- Route planning with map view
- Real-time disruption alerts
- Favorite journeys
- Lost ticket protection
- Lend tickets to others
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With the Skånetrafiken app you can: * Buy all types of tickets, including: Single, 24-hours, 30-days, Flex 10/30 and more. * Pay with Swish, card (Mastercard or Visa), or invoice from Swedbank Pay. You can also get email receipts of your purchases. * Find the quickest route on a map, and view the entire journey from door to door. * Create shortcuts (favorites) on the front screen for your most common journeys. * Receive information about ongoing disruptions affecting traffic, or journeys you have chosen to monitor. * Log in to My Account to have your tickets protected by our lost ticket guarantee, in case you lose your phone. * Lend your active 30-day ticket to a friend or family member (requires that you are logged in to My Account). Your views are valuable to us. Please give feedback, or ask for help via Skånetrafiken’s customer services.
Nova Circle
Discover and share genuine recommendations from trusted friends for places to go, eat, and drink. Organize your favorite spots globally and get inspired by like-minded individuals, saving you time on endless searches.
- Save and share top recommendations
- Organize favorite spots worldwide
- Get inspired by like-minded people
- Follow friends and expand your circle
- Create wishlists for future visits
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We believe that a recommendation from a real friend is worth more than the opinion of a thousand strangers. Nova Circle is your single space for saving and sharing top recommendations around the world while getting inspired by likeminded people. Our app simply gathers genuine recommendations from people you trust, allowing you to save time and skip the endless search for the best places to go/eat/drink/stay. - Organize all your favorite spots around the world - Share your top picks with friends - Expand Your Circle: Follow your friends in the app and invite those not here yet - Wishlist: Save the places and recommendations you want to remember and visit in the future
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Nova Circle at 100% against Skånetrafiken's 20%. Nova Circle also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.2) and monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). Skånetrafiken's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (34 vs 1). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Nova Circle holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Skånetrafiken has 34 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 20% of Skånetrafiken's written reviews are positive against 100% of Nova Circle's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Skånetrafiken | Nova Circle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (34 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 34 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 113 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Region Skåne | Nova Circle Technologies AB |
Customer experience
Skånetrafiken
Nova Circle
In-app purchases
Skånetrafiken
No in-app purchases
Nova Circle
No in-app purchases
