Interrail Rail Planner vs Key tours
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Interrail Rail Planner
Plan your European train adventures with this comprehensive travel companion. Search for train times, map out your routes, and manage your journeys all in one place. Go paperless with a mobile pass and book seat reservations directly within the app.
- Offline train time search
- Route planning and journey tracking
- Mobile Pass and ticket management
- Seat reservation booking
- Station arrival/departure boards
- Discounts and benefits information
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The Rail Planner app makes your Interrail trip smooth and stress-free, whether you’re boarding your next train at the station or planning your next trip from your sofa. Here’s what you can do: Search for train times with our Planner • Search for connections across Europe, even when you're offline. When you’re online, you’ll see live information such as disruptions, delays, cancellations, or platform changes for some of the railways included in your Pass. • See which trains are scheduled to depart from or arrive at your chosen station in Europe. Plan your dream routes and track all your journeys in My Trip • View your day-by-day itinerary, get statistics for your trip and see your whole route on the map. Travel with ease with your mobile Pass • Add a Pass to My Pass and go paperless on your travels, from planning your trip to boarding the train. • Show your ticket in just a few taps to breeze through ticket inspection with your Pass. Book seat reservations • Check booking options and buy reservations for trains across Europe and secure your seat on busy routes. Save money with extra benefits and discounts • Search by country and get extra discounts on ferries, buses, accommodation and more with your Pass. Find answers to all your questions • Read FAQs for the app, your Pass and train services in every country for a smooth trip, wherever you’re heading.
Key tours
Explore Greece's rich history and culture with self-guided walking tours. Discover hidden gems and popular attractions with detailed maps, historical content, and audio guides. This app provides an offline travel companion to navigate Greece's heritage.
- Self-guided walking tours
- Offline functionality
- GPS tracking
- Detailed maps
- Historical content
- Audio guides
- Alerts for key stops
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This app is your easy-to-use travel companion to unravel the fascination of Greece. Discover the cultural variety of more than 4000 years in the palm of your hand with a series of self-guided walking tours, featuring the hidden gems and the best that Key Tours has to offer. Each of the Tours is designed to give you an insight into what it is like to be navigated by a professional and local guide, who shows you the best of the Greek capital's heritage as well as the treasure of Greece's mainland. Experience the real Greek culture and everyday life, simply by choosing a tour based on your interests and desires. Find directions with detailed maps, in-depth historical content and popular attractions. Once a Tour is downloaded it can work offline: - to track your position along the route using your phone GPS, never get lost - sends you alerts when you have reached a key stop - shows photos, descriptions and audio of key stops along the route
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Interrail Rail Planner at 2.7 against Key tours's 1.8. Interrail Rail Planner also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 23) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). On price, ads, monetization model and device support 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. Key tours sells 23 one-off in-app purchases. Interrail Rail Planner asks for nothing beyond the download.
Interrail Rail Planner holds the better App Store score, 2.7 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Interrail Rail Planner has 1.5K ratings behind it against 40, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 24% of Interrail Rail Planner's written reviews are positive against 6% of Key tours's.
Interrail Rail Planner ships an update weekly, Key tours every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Interrail Rail Planner | Key tours |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (1.5K ratings) — better | 1.8 (40 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 23.7% of reviews — better | 6.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | 40 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 209 MB | 135 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Interrail B.V. | Key tours |
Customer experience
Interrail Rail Planner
Key tours
User reviews
Interrail Rail Planner
From 1.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Excellent trip planning tool
- 📍 Helpful route planning and timetables
- 🗺️ Useful map and journey tracking features
- 👍 Convenient mobile pass option
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy and unreliable app performance
- 🤔 Confusing and unintuitive user interface
- 💻 Lack of integration with website and online booking
- 🚫 Inability to book seat reservations within the app
Key tours
From 40 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Informative content at stops
- 👍 Works well for Acropolis tour
- 👍 Geolocation triggers work ok
- 👍 Useful map feature for Acropolis/Agora
- 👍 Downloadable tours for offline use
Room to improve
- 🐛 Poor audio quality (AI voice)
- 🐛 Incoherent English translations
- 🐛 Disconnected thoughts/missed main points
- 🐛 Inaccurate or confusing directions
- 🐛 Geolocation issues (off, skips, doesn't work)
Bugs and requests
Interrail Rail Planner
Reported bugs
4 issues- Frequent app crashes and login issues
- Disappearing trip data and QR codes
- Inaccurate timetable and route information
- Inconsistent behavior across different devices
Requested features
4 requests- Improved seat reservation functionality
- Better synchronization between app and website
- Real-time train updates and disruption notifications
- Apple Wallet integration for mobile passes
Key tours
Reported bugs
27 issues- Purchased key didn't work
- App keeps saying checking for updates
- Geolocation doesn't work half the time
- Saint Minas Cathedral not in the right place
- App would struggle to keep up when switching to take pictures
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- Codes to type in are all expired immediately
- Geolocation got lost after first few stops
- App would stop halfway through audio
- Started scrolling pictures with no way to navigate out
- App opened but started giving info on a different site
- App simply wouldn’t go beyond the first point
- App doesn't work
- Cannot download at all
- App bugging constantly
- Audio stops mid-way
- App unresponsive
- Jumps from audio to audio
- Issues with the map
- App kept freezing whenever the phone was not in active use
- App would complete the current audio reading but you could not navigate further
- The “playing” interface isn’t well designed
- The little playing bar at the bottom of the screen never shows you what clip you’re listening too
- App skips regularly from one chapter to another
- App would frequently crash or restart
- The app kept bugging it was a serious waste of money
- App was bugging all the time, overriding the on-going explanations
- Unable to skip steps or accelerate, or quit a step
Requested features
11 requests- 1.5x or 1.2x speed playback option
- Child-friendly versions with mythology/legends
- Better map feature for Knossos
- More architectural information
- Option to skip steps or accelerate
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- Real person narration instead of AI
- Improved English translation/narration
- Clearer directions and site numbering
- Ability to download content without issues
- More informative content
- Option to choose language easily
In-app purchases
Interrail Rail Planner
No in-app purchases
Key tours
- Exploring Plaka$2.99
- Heraklion$2.99
- Rhodes Revealed$2.99
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- Nafplion$2.99
- Ancient Agora & the Temple of$3.99
- Delphi Archaeological Museum$5.99
- Meteora$6.99
- National Archaeological Museum$6.99
- Palace of Knossos$6.99
- Acropolis of Lindos$6.99
- ¡Top museo del mundo!$6.99
- Ancient Olympia$6.99
- Cape Sounion & Poseidon$6.99
- Hydra$6.99
- Acropolis Museum$7.99
- Akropolis Von Athen Deutsch$7.99
- Epidaurus: The Land of Healing$7.99
- Mycenae$7.99
- Akrotiri of Santorini$7.99
- Monastiraki-Kerameikos$8.99
- Delphi: The Navel of the Earth$9.99
- Acropolis of Athens& Parthenon$11.99
- Recorrido de la Acrópolis$11.99
Questions
Is Interrail Rail Planner free?
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