Comparison

TAP LA vs Daylight Trip

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
Currently charting
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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

About

Daylight Trip

Features
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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.

Screenshots

TAP LA4 screens
Daylight Trip4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Daylight Trip sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. TAP LA asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
TAP LA versus Daylight Trip: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTAP LADaylight Trip
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.9 (838 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews11.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings838 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
Best chart rank#202 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS13 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLos Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation AuthoritySINQWELL

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

None

TAP LA

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Daylight Trip

One-time1
  • Daylight Trip Premium$9.99

Questions

Is TAP LA free?
TAP LA is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Daylight Trip free?
Daylight Trip is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do TAP LA or Daylight Trip have ads?
Neither TAP LA nor Daylight Trip shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TAP LA or Daylight Trip?
TAP LA ships an update every 5 months, and Daylight Trip every 2 days. Most recently, TAP LA was updated on October 18, 2026 and Daylight Trip on October 7, 2026.

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