Great Western Railway vs Leap Card
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Great Western Railway
Plan train journeys and book tickets across Britain. Save money with advance fares, store mobile tickets, and access live train times and platform information. Earn rewards and manage digital railcards within the app.
- Book train tickets across Britain
- Save on advance fares
- Store mobile tickets in-app
- Check live train times and platform numbers
- GWR Rewards loyalty program
- Manage digital railcards
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Use the Great Western Railway app to plan your next journey and book train tickets with ease. Key features: Book train tickets * Purchase train tickets across all networks to anywhere in Britain * Save up to 50% with an Advance train ticket; compared to standard Anytime fares * No booking or card fees * Store mobile train tickets in-app to use straight-away * Convenient home screen widget for ease of access to your tickets for travel today GWR Rewards * Join our loyalty programme in-app * Track points and transactions * Easily access your rewards to redeem in-app and onboard GWR services Digital railcards * Ability to purchase 8 different railcards and store in-app * Railcards purchased via our website can be stored in-app using your unique code Check live train times * View departure and arrival times for all National Rail services * Check live train timetables and platform numbers * View facilities and how busy it is onboard with live loading data * Save your frequent journeys for ease of checking again later * Keep updated with live GWR network information provided on the home screen Download now and plan your next train journey. -- Information to note: You'll need to create an online GWR account or sign-in before you can purchase your train tickets. Got a question? Here's our FAQs: https://www.gwr.com/help-and-support/faqs Need to get in touch? Find the best way to here: https://www.gwr.com/help-and-support/contact-us Follow us on Twitter: @GWRHelp Learn more about us at https://www.gwr.com/
Leap Card
This unofficial app lets you manage your public transport card. Easily check your card balance, view transaction history, and see detailed card information. It supports multiple cards and offers low balance notifications.
- Check Leap Card balance
- View transaction history
- Manage multiple Leap Cards
- Low balance notifications
- View card details
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Unofficial Leap Card App to allow you to interact with Leap Card services. Use the Leap Card App to check your leap card balance, check your leap card transactions and leap card details. This Leap Card App supports multiple leap cards, allowing you to switch between the different leap cards in your account to view the remaining leap card balance, leap card transactions and card details of each card. Option to turn on notifications to be notified when your leap card balance is running low.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Great Western Railway at Free against Leap Card's $0.99. Great Western Railway also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.2) and ratings volume (2.4K vs 30). Leap Card's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.6). On review sentiment, 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
Great Western Railway is free to download; Leap Card costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Great Western Railway holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Great Western Railway has 2.4K ratings behind it against 30, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 16% of Great Western Railway's written reviews are positive against 10% of Leap Card's.
Great Western Railway ships an update monthly, Leap Card every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Great Western Railway | Leap Card |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (2.4K ratings) — better | 3.2 (30 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 16.4% of reviews — better | 10.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2.4K — better | 30 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 140 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | First Great Western | Maxim Antonov |
Customer experience
Great Western Railway
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In-app purchases
Great Western Railway
No in-app purchases
Leap Card
No in-app purchases
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