METRO Splash Pass vs Routebook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
METRO Splash Pass
Pay for bus rides directly from your phone using a credit or debit card. Avoid the need for exact change or visiting ticket machines to purchase passes.
- Credit/debit card payment
- Mobile pass purchase
- No exact change needed
- Convenient ticketless travel
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- No more need to carry cash in exact change to ride the Hwy 17 Express - just pay with a credit or debit card - No need to go to a TVM or order a 31-day pass by mail - just purchase directly on your phone
Routebook
Connect with verified members to share rides and discover others traveling in the same direction. Make your existing journeys more social and cost-effective by finding fellow travelers.
- Verified member trust
- Shared trip planning
- Cost-sharing for drives
- Discover fellow travelers
- Social travel experience
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Someone's always going your way. Every day, people make the same journey without ever knowing it. Routebook changes that. Built on trust with verified members, shared trips, and contributions priced to cover the drive, not profit from it. The drive you're already taking could become someone else's way home.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Routebook at 100% against METRO Splash Pass's 40%. Routebook also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.5) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 9 months). 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.
Routebook holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of METRO Splash Pass's written reviews are positive against 100% of Routebook's.
METRO Splash Pass ships an update every 9 months, Routebook every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | METRO Splash Pass | Routebook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (18 ratings) | 4.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 107 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District | Rajiv Kataria |
Customer experience
METRO Splash Pass
Routebook
In-app purchases
METRO Splash Pass
No in-app purchases
Routebook
No in-app purchases
Questions
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