Great Western Railway vs Mobilityways
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/
Mobilityways
This app connects drivers and passengers for carpooling, helping users save money on travel and reduce their carbon footprint. It also offers features for employers to encourage sustainable commuting among employees and provides rewards for eco-friendly travel choices.
- Public carpooling network
- Employer-specific carpooling communities
- Commute logging for multiple modes
- CO2e savings tracking
- Commuter rewards and incentives
- Priority parking for carpoolers
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The Mobilityways app hosts: Liftshare – The carpooling network that enables members of the public to easily find sharers and discover personal CO2e savings. Liftshare For Work employer communities – For sustainable and affordable commuting with work colleagues. CommuteBoost - For logging multi-modal commutes, including lift-sharing and to reward employees for using sustainable commuting modes. Liftshare is the UK & Ireland’s largest public car sharing network, with almost 700,000 members. It’s a free-to-use journey matching platform for drivers and passengers taking both regular and one-off journeys. Liftshare provides a journey cost estimate to help sharers know how much to contribute. Liftshare members save £1034 a year, on average. They cut their fuel costs in half by sharing with just one other person. The Liftshare app displays your personal CO2e savings so you can see how much your sharing is helping the environment. Use the app to find and review journey matches, message other members and ask to share. There are also regular member rewards available for Liftshare public members from our select partners. Liftshare for Work utilises the Liftshare platform to enable sharing between colleagues and reduce an organisation’s commuting emissions. These employer-led and -branded Liftshare communities provide a closed/private car share scheme for employees (with public matches optional). The user will receive all the tried and tested features of the Liftshare app, and can see personal as well as community CO2e savings. The employer can monitor lift-sharing stats, measure site and company-wide CO2 emission reduction, plus manage members. With the addition of Liftshare parking permits, members can authenticate their journey in the app to receive a priority parking space at work on the day they car share. Ideal for organisations looking to reduce congestion and parking problems on-site, as well as reward sustainable commuting. CommuteJournal is a privacy-first tool that logs multi-modal legs of your commute and provides a carbon saving reporting. Modes that can be logged are: walking, running, cycling, driving, car sharing, bus and train. Employers providing the tool, gain collective data on viable transport routes and can identify gaps in provision to develop sustainable commuting options. Discover trends in employees’ travel habits, with real-time data for speedy analysis of new initiatives. Using CommuteJournal with the CommuteBoost rewards engine encourages participation in sustainable travel initiatives with rewards and incentives set against specific challenges. Commute Boost is a rewards engine where users can collect boosts for using sustainable travel modes. Employers can set targeted rewards that work for both the company and its staff – from additional annual leave to parking spaces, or even merchandise. Challenges can be set daily, weekly, monthly or ongoing. For example, Bike Week could be used to promote active travel and encourage physical wellbeing. Or those who carpool could receive preferential parking every day. Employees choose which challenges to join and can view colleagues who are taking part in the challenge. CommuteBoost enables employers to incentivise the specific sustainable commuting action and modal shift required, per organisation or site. Plus, directly track the success of new initiatives with daily data.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Great Western Railway at free against Mobilityways's ad-supported. Mobilityways's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). On price, review sentiment, 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.
Great Western Railway ships an update monthly, Mobilityways fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Great Western Railway | Mobilityways |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (2.5K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 16.5% of reviews | 16.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.5K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 138 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | First Great Western | Mobilityways Limited |
Customer experience
Great Western Railway
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In-app purchases
Great Western Railway
No in-app purchases
Mobilityways
No in-app purchases
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