Comparison

RTA Le Pass vs Bhopper

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

Head to head
About

RTA Le Pass

Purchase and use digital transit passes for buses, streetcars, and ferries directly from your phone. Plan your entire journey with real-time service alerts and step-by-step navigation. Simply tap to pay your fare and show your phone when boarding.

Highlights
  • Buy bus, streetcar, and ferry passes
  • Digital fare payment
  • Journey planning
  • Real-time service alerts
  • Step-by-step navigation
  • Get-off alerts
Features
Currently charting
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With Le Pass by New Orleans RTA, you can easily buy your bus, streetcar and ferry passes right on your phone. No need to wonder about where your ride is or fumble with cash. To pay your fare, just tap to use a pass and then show your phone when you enter the vehicle. Plan • Plan your entire journey without leaving the app. • View all lines running at stops near you. • Service Alerts keep you aware of issues ahead of time. • Save your favorite locations and lines for quick access. Pay • Purchase bus & train tickets and validate your digital pass with a tap. • Just show your digital pass to the operator when you board the vehicle. No scanning required! Ride • You’ll always be informed with step-by-step navigation. Get-off alerts are offered so you never miss your stop.

About

Bhopper

Discover real-time cover charges and wait times at Boston bars. See what's happening live and make informed decisions before you go out. Share your own reports anonymously.

Highlights
  • Live cover charge and wait time feed
  • Map view of bars by status
  • Anonymous report posting
  • Bar detail with individual reports
  • Favorite bars for quick access
  • User data privacy controls
Features
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Bhopper shows you what's actually happening at Boston bars right now. Pull up the Feed and see the current cover charge and wait time at every open bar in town - reported in real time by the people standing at the door. No more guessing whether it's a $5 night at The Black Rose or a $20 cover at Lookout Rooftop. No more circling the block just to find out the wait at Cisco is forty-five minutes. Two taps to share what you see. Two taps to know before you go. WHAT'S INSIDE • Feed - tonight's live cover and wait Badges across every open Boston bar, sorted by what's freshest. • Map - every bar in the city as a pin colored by its current state. Active, quiet, or closed at a glance. • Post - two taps to drop a Cover or Wait report. Anonymous; no account, no email, no phone number. • Bar detail - see the individual reports behind the Badge so you can read the testimony directly instead of trusting an average. Flag any single report as inaccurate and it drops out of aggregation. • Favorites - pin the bars you actually go to and they float to the top of the Feed. HOW WE TREAT YOUR DATA • No accounts. Your identity is an anonymous UUID stored in the iOS Keychain. It never leaves your device except to label your own reports. • Your raw GPS is never stored. When you submit a Cover or Wait, the app classifies how close you are to the bar into a coarse tier (verified, nearby, remote) and discards the exact coordinates the moment that tier is computed. • No third-party analytics. No advertising SDKs. No tracking across apps. No selling, no sharing. • Delete everything with one button. Me tab ->Delete my data. Erases every report you've ever submitted from the backend, clears your favorites, and gives this device a brand-new anonymous identity. SCOPE Bhopper is Boston-only at launch - bars in Southie, Fenway, the Seaport, Faneuil Hall, the South End, Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Allston, Dorchester, and the Greenway. More cities are on the roadmap. Privacy policy: https://petertimwalker.github.io/bhopper-site/privacy.html Support: petertwalker@gmail.com

Screenshots

RTA Le Pass4 screens
Bhopper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Bhopper at 5.0 against RTA Le Pass's 4.1. Bhopper also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). RTA Le Pass's advantage is ratings volume (5.2K vs 1) and chart position (#109 vs unranked). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bhopper holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RTA Le Pass has 5.2K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RTA Le Pass ships an update every 3 months, Bhopper weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
RTA Le Pass versus Bhopper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRTA Le PassBhopper
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (5.2K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews31.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings5.2K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#109 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size170 MB3 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperNew Orleans Regional Transit AuthorityPeter Walker

Customer experience

RTA Le Pass

All ratings5,162 ratings
Positive76.5%
Neutral1.8%
Negative21.7%
Written reviews370 reviews
Positive31.4%
Neutral5.4%
Negative63.2%

Bhopper

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

RTA Le Pass

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App won't accept phone number verification
  • Purchased tickets disappear from app
  • Live tracking not working as expected
  • Incorrect route information displayed

Requested features

5 requests
  • Allow purchase of multiple tickets in one transaction
  • Provide real-time bus/streetcar tracking
  • Improve accuracy of schedule information
  • Implement customer support/feedback options
  • Integrate with other transportation options (e.g. Uber)

Bhopper

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

RTA Le Pass

No in-app purchases

None

Bhopper

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is RTA Le Pass free?
RTA Le Pass is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bhopper free?
Bhopper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, RTA Le Pass or Bhopper?
Bhopper is rated higher. RTA Le Pass averages 4.1 out of 5 from 5.2K ratings, while Bhopper averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do RTA Le Pass or Bhopper have ads?
Neither RTA Le Pass nor Bhopper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RTA Le Pass or Bhopper?
RTA Le Pass ships an update every 3 months, and Bhopper weekly. Most recently, RTA Le Pass was updated on October 27, 2026 and Bhopper on October 13, 2026.

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