OmniRide OmniPay vs MTA Mobile Ticketing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OmniRide OmniPay
Purchase and utilize bus tickets and passes directly from your smartphone. Securely register your payment methods to buy tickets anytime, anywhere. Future updates will enable the use of WMATA SmartBenefits® for purchases.
- Buy and use tickets instantly
- Store multiple tickets
- Secure debit/credit card registration
- Future WMATA SmartBenefits® integration
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With the OmniRide OmniPay ticketing app, you can buy and use tickets and passes on OmniRide buses at anytime, anywhere directly from your smartphone. Just download the free app, register your debit/credit card in our secure system, and you are ready to go. OmniRide OmniPay will eventually also allow you to use your WMATA SmartBenefits® account to purchase tickets and passes. APP FEATURES: • Buy and use tickets and passes instantly on your smartphone using a debit/credit card, and COMING SOON WMATA SmartBenefits®. • Store multiple tickets on your phone for future use. • Securely register your debit/credit card(s).
MTA Mobile Ticketing
This app allows users to pay for trips on MTA buses directly from their smartphones. It offers a secure, cash-free payment method using major credit cards.
- Pay for MTA bus trips
- Secure mobile payments
- Cash-free transactions
- Use major credit cards
- Convenient trip payment
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Download the MTA Mobile Ticketing app to easily pay for your trips on MTA’s buses! The mobile app provides an easy and convenient way to securely pay for your trip, right from your phone, cash free, using a major credit card.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: MTA Mobile Ticketing at 2.0 against OmniRide OmniPay's 1.4. MTA Mobile Ticketing also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). OmniRide OmniPay's advantage is review sentiment (17% vs 0%) and ratings volume (20 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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.
MTA Mobile Ticketing holds the better App Store score, 2.0 against 1.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: OmniRide OmniPay has 20 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 17% of OmniRide OmniPay's written reviews are positive against 0% of MTA Mobile Ticketing's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OmniRide OmniPay | MTA Mobile Ticketing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.4 (20 ratings) | 2.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Transportation Technology Partners | SPX Technologies |
Customer experience
OmniRide OmniPay
MTA Mobile Ticketing
In-app purchases
OmniRide OmniPay
No in-app purchases
MTA Mobile Ticketing
No in-app purchases
