Galway Taxis vs Leap Card
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Galway Taxis
Book a taxi in Galway City with an app that offers future bookings and real-time vehicle tracking. Get fare estimates and arrival times before you confirm your ride. Drivers are licensed, insured, and familiar with local routes.
- Book taxis for immediate or future travel
- Real-time car tracking
- GPS or manual location selection
- Fare and arrival time estimates
- Promotions and special discounts
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Galway Taxis with over 25 years service in Galway City now launch their taxi booking app. Book your taxi now, or for a date and time in the future and track your car as it drives to you, once a car is allocated to pick you up. Pick up location picked from your gps or enter your favourite pickup or destination. We will give you an estimate of your fare when you book and also how long the car will take to get to your pick-up location. All our drivers are approved by the taxi regulator and all are fully insured and know the streets of Galway and all the shortcuts and fast routes. Download the app today and start saving with our promotions and special discounts contained within the app.
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: Galway Taxis at Free against Leap Card's $0.99. Leap Card's advantage is ratings volume (30 vs 1) and rating (3.2 vs 3.0). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Galway Taxis is free to download; Leap Card costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Leap Card holds the better App Store score, 3.2 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Leap Card has 30 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Galway Taxis's written reviews are positive against 10% of Leap Card's.
Galway Taxis ships an update every 2 months, Leap Card every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on July 4, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Galway Taxis | Leap Card |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 3.2 (30 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 10.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 30 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Galway Taxis | Maxim Antonov |
Customer experience
Galway Taxis
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In-app purchases
Galway Taxis
No in-app purchases
Leap Card
No in-app purchases
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