National Rail vs Mobilityways
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
National Rail
Plan train journeys, check live times, and purchase tickets for the British rail network. Receive real-time updates on delays and disruptions to travel with confidence.
- Live train times
- Route planning
- Ticket purchasing
- Real-time updates
- Delay notifications
- Save favorite stations
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Your journey, simplified. Get live train times, plan routes, buy tickets, and receive real-time updates—all in one app. Travel smarter with National Rail. Travel with confidence across the British rail network. The National Rail app is your essential companion for stress-free train travel. Plan your journey with our intelligent route planner. Find the fastest connections, compare train times, and get live departure boards for any station. Buy tickets, access Railcard discounts and find the best value Season Tickets all in one place. Stay informed with real-time updates on delays, platform changes, and disruptions. Receive email, SMS, or WhatsApp notifications so you're always in the know during your commute. My Travel. Save our favourite stations and journeys in Live Trains and Journey Planner for quicker results and less clicking. Status and Disruptions. Find out about anything that might impact your journey.
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 in-app purchases: Mobilityways at none against National Rail's 1. Mobilityways also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). National Rail's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, review sentiment and iOS requirement 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. National Rail sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Mobilityways asks for nothing beyond the download.
National Rail ships an update every 2 months, Mobilityways fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | National Rail | Mobilityways |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (79 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 7.4% of reviews | 11.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 79 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 91 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | National Rail | Mobilityways Limited |
Customer experience
National Rail
Mobilityways
Bugs and requests
National Rail
Reported bugs
4 issues- App frequently crashes or freezes
- Inaccurate train times and journey information
- Ticket booking functionality not working properly
- Compatibility issues with newer iPhone models
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to save favorite stations and journeys
- Option to view earlier/past train departures
- More granular search options (e.g. search by minute, not just 15-minute intervals)
- Improved live train tracking and disruption notifications
Mobilityways
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
National Rail
- Ad-free version$4.99
Mobilityways
No in-app purchases
Questions
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