DC Metro vs Pingu.li
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DC Metro
Get real-time train arrival information for Washington DC's metro system. Organize your favorite stops and view a subway map to easily navigate stations.
- Real-time train arrivals
- Favorite stop organization
- Subway map browsing
- Station finder
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Quickly access train arrivals for any metro stop in the Washington DC area. You can also add and organize your most frequently used metro stops, or browse a subway map to find stations. This app is not published, sponsored or approved by WMATA.
Pingu.li
Easily manage gift ideas and wish lists for friends and family. Get birthday reminders and ensure no one receives duplicate gifts by claiming wishes. Access your lists from your phone or browser.
- Share wishes and gift ideas
- Claim wishes to avoid duplicates
- Birthday reminders
- Connect with friends and family
- Save ideas from websites
- Access via browser
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Get reminded about birthdays on time. Find, save and share wishes and gift ideas for your friends and family. Claim a wish of a friend, so they don’t get it twice. Have you ever created chat channels to discuss gift ideas for a loved one with family and friends? Pingu.li will make your life a lot easier! Connect with your fiends and family on pingu.li Save wishes or ideas directly from a website to your pingu.li wishlist or contacts. Whenever a gift idea for a loved one pops up in your mind, just put it in pingu.li and buy it when the time is right. Put your own wishes in your wish list and just wait and let others surprise you. Relax and celebrate birthdays always with the right gift. Access your wishes also from the browser on your computer using pingu.li Features: * Share wishes and gift ideas * Claim wishes of others * See upcoming birthdays * Connect with other users * Add notes to your contacts
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pingu.li at 5.0 against DC Metro's 3.0. Pingu.li also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 7 months) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). DC Metro's advantage is monetization model (free vs paid) and ratings volume (6 vs 2). 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.
Pingu.li holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 2 respectively.
DC Metro ships an update every 7 months, Pingu.li every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and July 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DC Metro | Pingu.li |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Justin Cohen | spread emotions GmbH |
Customer experience
DC Metro
Pingu.li
In-app purchases
DC Metro
No in-app purchases
Pingu.li
No in-app purchases
