VRS Auskunft vs Telekom Shuttle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
VRS Auskunft
Plan your journeys and purchase tickets for bus and rail in the Rhineland. This app offers route planning, timetable information, and digital ticket purchasing, including season tickets and supplementary services like bike sharing.
- Route navigator
- Timetable information
- Digital ticket purchases
- Deutschlandticket access
- Real-time notifications
- Bike and scooter sharing integration
- Interactive journey map
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Your schedule for bus & rail in the Rhineland. With the VRS app you have everything in view: navigator, timetable info and digital tickets. Everything key to getting around. Buy your Deutschlandticket or other digital tickets in the app itself. Get season tickets for your regular routes and receive the latest notifications at once on the homepage. Book supplementary services for getting around such as bike sharing or scooters. And use the ‘Take me to’ feature to find the quickest way to your destination. What the VRS app offers you: Ticket purchases: simpler than ever and simply for less · Get to the Deutschlandticket (D-Ticket) in a few clicks · HandyTickets for the Rhineland and whole of NRW · Einzeltickets, 24hTickets and Monatstickets · Bicycle and first class tickets · Save your ticket favourites & buy tickets for anyone going with you · Pay conveniently with PayPal Your homepage: tailored to how you get about · Find all options for your journey on the interactive map: rental bikes, scooters, bike lockers etc. · Add functional tiles and arrange them to suit your needs. · Instant access to your favourites, i.e. routes, stops and stations. · Press the ‘Straight home’ button for the quickest way home. · Subscribe for the latest reports about your favourite lines. Timetable information: Your personal navigator · Entry of start and destination with addresses, interim stops and mode of transport selection. · Pin your favourite route to the homepage: all live times at a glance. · View your journey on a map, incl. walking segments. · Alternative options at connecting stops/stations in case of delays (e.g. due to traffic jams) · Save your most important routes and stops as favourites. The VRS app can do even more: · Dark mode for comfortable use in the dark. · Useful detailed information on every stop and station in the VRS area: timetables, announcements, location maps, escalators and lifts.
Telekom Shuttle
Book on-demand rides without a fixed timetable. Enter your start and destination, and the app will find a shuttle for you. You can track your shuttle's arrival and share your ride with other passengers heading in similar directions.
- On-demand ride booking
- No fixed timetable
- Real-time shuttle tracking
- Ride sharing
- Shuttle stop navigation
- Post-ride feedback
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Our On-Demand-Plattform makes mobility much smarter: Book your ride easygoing and individual per App, without timetable – This is the Telekom Shuttle - powered by ioki. Please pay attention: The Telekom Shuttle App is only for employees of Deutsche Telekom. Ready for the future and always in search of modern, flexible and individual solutions for your mobility. With passion we design mobility of tomorrow. And that's how it works: ENTER YOUR START AND DESTINATION ADRESS We show you immediatly, which shuttle will pick you up - when and where. BOOK YOUR RIDE We navigate you to a nearby virtual shuttle stop, where we pick you up. In the app you can follow your shuttle on it's way to the pick up point. SHARE YOU RIDE During the ride other passengers with similar destinations will join the shuttle. RATE YOUR RIDE Close to your final destination we bring you to a virtuell shuttle stop. After that you can give us feedback by rating your ride. Finally we navigate you per app to your final destination. Video: https://www.telekom-mobilitysolutions.de/blob/917590/77f43e00b70076cb36967b0e9e44b89c/DL_Shuttle_Tutorial Further information about the Telekom Shuttle you will find here: https://www.telekom-mobilitysolutions.de/downloads/faq-shuttle-914560 Terms of use: https://www.telekom-mobilitysolutions.de/downloads/nutzungsbedingungen-shuttle-914564 We hope you enjoy the app! Your Telekom MobilitySolutions
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Telekom Shuttle at 5.0 against VRS Auskunft's 4.2. VRS Auskunft's advantage is review sentiment (53% vs 31%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Telekom Shuttle holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 7 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 53% of VRS Auskunft's written reviews are positive against 31% of Telekom Shuttle's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
VRS Auskunft ships an update every 3 weeks, Telekom Shuttle every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | VRS Auskunft | Telekom Shuttle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.2% of reviews — better | 30.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.7.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 81 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg GmbH | Telekom MobilitySolutions |
Customer experience
VRS Auskunft
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In-app purchases
VRS Auskunft
No in-app purchases
Telekom Shuttle
No in-app purchases









