Mengedegna vs AddisMapTransit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mengedegna
Easily book and purchase bus tickets across Ethiopia online. Reserve seats, check availability, and manage your bookings with multiple payment options. This app digitizes bus travel, eliminating the need for physical queues.
- Online bus ticket booking
- Multilingual support (English, Amharic, Afaan Oromoo)
- Multiple payment integrations (Banks, Telebirr, M-Pesa, PayPal)
- Cancel and reschedule reservations
- Check bus availability and departure times
- 24/7 customer service
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Mengedegna is an online bus booking application that helps internet users to reserve and purchase bus tickets across Ethiopia using their phones or computers through the bus reservation system. It is multilingual (English, Amharic and Afaan Oromoo) and works with most bust operators in Ethiopia. The app was developed by Walia Technologies PLC with the goal of establishing a safe and simple bus reservation system. The app's main purpose is to help users reserve and purchase bus tickets utilizing an online system with just a few clicks of your phone that eliminating the need to queue at a counter to buy a bus ticket. Customers can also use this simple app to check the availability and types of buses, as well as the departure time online. The application is integrated with various local Banks, Telebirr, M-Pesa and PayPal, and it also allows customers to cancel and reschedule their reservations at any time. With our dedicated customer service, the application is available at all times, 24 hours a day. Our mission is to transform Ethiopia's bus transportation system from an offline to a digitized and modern system, as well as to establish a user-friendly, easy-to-use system for the state's transportation sector. This application will provide hassle-free bus ticketing transporation system and play a huge role in digitizing Ethiopia’s Bus ticketing system.
AddisMapTransit
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- Complete door-to-door navigation - Different means of transport (Anbessa Bus, Sheger Bus, Minibus, Lightrail)* - Alternative routes - Multilingual (Amharic is currently partial) - Store locations, like home, work place - Search suggestions for street names, intersections and POIs - Saving search favorites - GPS to show the location on the map - Display of routes by car * Complete coverage coming soon
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Mengedegna at every 2 weeks against AddisMapTransit's every 10 months. AddisMapTransit's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, 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.
Mengedegna ships an update every 2 weeks, AddisMapTransit every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mengedegna | AddisMapTransit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Walia Technologies PLC | BANDIRA ADDIS MAP ENTERTAINMENT PLC |
In-app purchases
Mengedegna
No in-app purchases
AddisMapTransit
No in-app purchases
Questions
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