TAP LA vs Daylight Trip
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TAP LA
Pay for transit fares across Los Angeles with your mobile device. This app allows you to purchase passes, manage multiple cards, and use touchless payment on numerous bus and train systems. It also offers trip planning and access to multimodal programs.
- Touchless payment
- Add TAP card to iPhone/Apple Watch
- Purchase transit passes
- Manage multiple TAP cards
- Add TAP card to Apple Wallet
- Trip planning tools
- Reduced fare support
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Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority ("LACMTA"), a government agency, is the owner and developer of this app. TAP is your ticket to ride transit in greater Los Angeles! It is accepted on 27 systems including LA Metro, providing a vast network of buses and trains. - Make your travel safe and easy with touchless payment and card management. - Add a new TAP card to your iPhone and Apple Watch and use your fare immediately. - Use your iPhone (8 and above) and Apple Watch (Series 3 and above) to tap with Apple Pay when boarding a bus or train. - Enjoy flexible payment options including credit/debit cards, account cash and Apple Pay. - Purchase a transit pass or Stored Value for any agency in Los Angeles County. - Manage multiple cards in your TAP account (iPhone 5 and above). - Add your TAP card to Apple Wallet, enable Express Transit and quickly tap and pay when you board. You don't even have to wake up your phone! - Supports reduced fares for seniors, students, persons with disabilities and low-income riders. - Transfer a TAP card in your account to your Apple Wallet and leave the plastic at home. - Access multimodal programs such as Metro Bike Share. - Use Trip Tools to plan trips, find nearby transit options, view real-time arrivals and save favorite destinations and stops. - Enjoy the benefits of a TAP account, such as Balance Protection, card management, discounts, promotions, transaction history and friendly customer service. - Accepted on 27 transit systems in LA County including: Angels Flight Railway Antelope Valley Transit Authority (AVTA) Baldwin Park Transit Beach Cities Transit Burbank Bus Carson Circuit Compton Renaissance Transit System Culver CityBus Foothill Transit Gardena GTRANS Glendale Beeline Glendora Transportation Division Huntington Park Transit Unlimited LA County Department of Public Works LADOT Transit Lawndale Beat Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) Long Beach Transit Metro Montebello Bus Lines Monterey Park Spirit Bus Norwalk Transit Palos Verdes Peninsula Transit Authority Pasadena Transit Santa Clarita Transit Santa Monica Big Blue Bus Torrance Transit
Daylight Trip
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Daylight Trip is a travel timeline that visualizes daylight and darkness at your destination, so you can plan a safe and comfortable itinerary. - The timeline paints each day in a 4-color gradient: night, morning twilight, daylight, and evening twilight. Just add your plans and instantly see which ones overlap with dark hours. - The overview screen stacks one 24-hour bar per day, revealing how daylight shrinks as you travel north — perfect for planning winter trips to high latitudes. - Works 100% offline with 34,000 cities built in. Time zones and daylight saving time are handled automatically. - Flights across time zones show departure and arrival in each city's local time. - Export your itinerary as a printable PDF (one overview page plus one page per day), designed to stay readable in black and white. - Built-in packing checklist with progress bar. Register your own regular items and reuse them on every trip. - Save multiple trips and switch between them with one tap. - No account, no data collection. Your itinerary stays on your device. Free: plan one trip up to 3 days, with PDF preview and packing checklist. Premium (one-time purchase, no subscription): unlimited days, PDF export and printing, custom packing items, and multiple saved trips.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TAP LA at none against Daylight Trip's 1. TAP LA also leads on chart position (#202 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (13 vs 15.0). Daylight Trip's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 months). On price, ads 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. Daylight Trip sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. TAP LA asks for nothing beyond the download.
TAP LA ships an update every 5 months, Daylight Trip every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TAP LA | Daylight Trip |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.9 (838 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 11.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 838 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Best chart rank | #202 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority | SINQWELL |
Bugs and requests
TAP LA
Reported bugs
3 issues- Card registration and activation issues
- Disappearing funds and balances
- Inconsistent app performance
Requested features
4 requests- Allow multiple devices for one account
- Improve reliability of fund loading
- Provide more transparent transaction history
- Integrate with more payment methods
Daylight Trip
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
TAP LA
No in-app purchases
Daylight Trip
- Daylight Trip Premium$9.99









