De Lijn vs Travel Ticket
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
De Lijn
Plan your entire journey across Flanders with real-time information for multiple transport providers. Get departure alerts, buy digital tickets, and save your favorite routes for quick access.
- Multimodal journey planning
- Real-time arrival information
- Personal stop alerts
- Route guidance with delays
- Digital ticket purchase
- Save favorite routes and stops
- Find nearby stops
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Plan your multimodal journey in Flanders with this app from De Lijn. Specifications: - Plan route from A to B in Flanders (De Lijn, MIVB-STIB, NMBS-SNCB, TEC) - Check real-time arrivals at a stop - Set personal stop alert - Activate route for guidance from departure to arrival with relevant information about unexpected hold-ups, etc. - Buy digital tickets - Save routes and stops for easy reuse - Find nearby stops - Synchronise favourites with the website via your account
Travel Ticket
This app prevents your smartphone's wallet from opening when scanning train ticket barcodes in the Netherlands. It ensures a smooth passage through station gates by blocking NFC interference, allowing only the ticket barcode to be read.
- Blocks wallet opening during barcode scans
- Facilitates smooth passage through station gates
- Supports PDF and photo train tickets
- Integrates with smartphone's 'Share' function
- Prevents NFC interference
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Travel ticket app helps you pass public transport gates in the Netherlands without unwanted opening of your smartphone's wallet while presenting a barcode of a train ticket. In the Netherlands, the station gates have readers that simultaneously read both barcodes and the NFC chip in your smartphone. This can cause problems when trying to scan a photo or PDF of an (international) train ticket. Because the NFC chip is also scanned, your smartphone's wallet opens, and the ticket's barcode disappears from the screen. To prevent this, you can open the international train ticket in the Travel Ticket app. This will block the opening of your wallet and allow for a smooth passage through the gates. In the app, open the PDF document or photo of your ticket, or open the ticket itself and use the 'Share' -> 'Present as ticket' option.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Travel Ticket at 100% against De Lijn's 29%. Travel Ticket also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). De Lijn's advantage is ratings volume (143 vs 2). 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.
Travel Ticket holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: De Lijn has 143 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of De Lijn's written reviews are positive against 100% of Travel Ticket's.
De Lijn ships an update fortnightly, Travel Ticket every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | De Lijn | Travel Ticket |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (143 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 143 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 103 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | De Lijn | Infoplaza BV |
Customer experience
De Lijn
Travel Ticket
In-app purchases
De Lijn
No in-app purchases
Travel Ticket
No in-app purchases
