Transit vs Museum Pass
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Transit
Plan your public transport journeys offline with this app. Get detailed route suggestions, including transfers and departure times, for numerous cities in the US, Canada, and Europe. View routes on a map and receive schedule update notifications.
- Offline trip planning
- Route suggestions with transfers
- Departure and arrival times
- View routes on map
- Schedule update notifications
- Search routes by map
- Advanced search parameters
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CG Transit offers offline trip planning in public transport systems of more than 20 U.S. and Canadian cities and European trains. Just pick your departure and destination point and get a list of suggested routes including all the transfers and scheduled departure/arrival times sorted by the time of departure. You can then view detailed information of the routes, display them on the map etc. Key features: • Fast offline searching • Search routes by map • Advanced search parameters - changing the date and time, adding "via" stations, choosing transport modes, etc. • Favorite routes • Push notifications of schedule updates and their immediate download Available timetables: • Selected transit authorities in the United States: New York (subway, buses, trains), Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Washington, San Francisco, Dallas, Denver, Minneapolis, Portland, Honolulu, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh • Selected transit authorities in Canada: Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Quebec, Winnipeg • Train timetables in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Benelux, Austria, the Czech and Slovak Republic, Portugal, Switzerland, Hungary, Nordic and Balkan countries • Selected public transport, bus and train timetables in the Czech and Slovak Republic U.S. and Canadian cities – free basic features (offline searching, search routes by map), paid premium features (more details, routes and stops searching, no advertisement) European schedules - an annual license fee (one month to try out all the timetables for free) Feedback, requests? Please email us at ios@cgtransit.com
Museum Pass
Discover free admission days at museums, zoos, and gardens in major US cities. Filter by your eligibility and receive reminders for upcoming free events. Get directions and access booking information directly.
- Free admission listings
- City-specific filters
- Eligibility-based filtering
- Customizable reminders
- Detailed venue information
- Direct booking/directions links
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Museum Pass shows you which museums, zoos and gardens are free to visit — today, this week, or later this month. Pick your city and the home screen tells you what is free, grouped by when you can actually go: Today, This week, Later, and Always free. FIVE CITIES, 97 VENUES • Chicago — 39 venues • Washington, DC — 23 venues • Los Angeles — 16 venues • New York — 10 venues • San Francisco Bay Area — 9 venues ONLY THE DAYS THAT APPLY TO YOU Most free days come with conditions. Say who is going — state or county residents, students, teachers, veterans, serving military, under-18s, EBT and Museums for All cardholders, Bank of America cardholders — and the list shows only the days you actually qualify for. NEVER MISS ONE Switch on a reminder for any free day and you will hear the morning before and the morning of. EVERY DATE, NOT JUST THE NEXT ONE Each venue lists every upcoming free date it has published, months ahead, along with the hours, the conditions, and whether you need to reserve a timed-entry pass. One tap for directions, the ticket page or the phone. CHECKED AGAINST EACH VENUE'S OWN SITE Free-admission policies change constantly and third-party listings go stale. Every entry here is read from the museum's own website. Where a venue's own site does not confirm a free day, it is not listed — even when other sites say otherwise. Light and dark, following your device or set by hand. Free. No account, no sign-in, no ads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Museum Pass at 5.0 against Transit's 4.4. Museum Pass also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 11) and update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 months). Transit's advantage is ratings volume (44 vs 3) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). On price, ads 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. Transit sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Museum Pass asks for nothing beyond the download.
Museum Pass holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Transit has 44 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Transit ships an update every 3 months, Museum Pass every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Transit | Museum Pass |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (44 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 44 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | circlegate | Rajesh Vijayakumar |
Customer experience
Transit
Museum Pass
Bugs and requests
Transit
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes on startup
- No routes found error
- Incorrect transfer information
- Outdated schedule data
Requested features
5 requests- Integration with address book
- Real-time service alerts
- Ability to browse schedules
- Custom labels for saved locations
- Improved map integration
Museum Pass
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Transit
- City timetable$1.99
- NYC - NYCT Subway Premium for 1 year$1.99
- Czech data package$3.99
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- Denver - RTD Premium for 1 year$3.99
- Chicago - CTA Premium for 1 year$3.99
- Czech, Slovak and Europian trains package$5.99
- NYC - NYCT Subway$7.99
- Chicago - CTA$9.99
- Philadelphia - SEPTA$9.99
- Denver - RTD$9.99
- NYC Discount Package Premium Lifetime$9.99
Museum Pass
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Transit free?
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