Destinationbook vs P+Rail
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Destinationbook
Access your entire travel itinerary, documents, and guides offline on your iPhone. Keep essential travel information, including tickets and contacts, readily available without needing an internet connection.
- Offline access to travel documents
- Store e-tickets and vouchers
- Access useful contacts
- Includes travel guides
- Downloadable wallet for offline use
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Gain access to your travel wallet on your iPhone! Your programme, useful contacts, e-tickets, vouchers, all kinds of documents as well as travel guides at your fingertips. Destinationbook works in offline mode; the wallet is downloaded before your departure, avoiding high roaming charges if you don't have WiFi connection while travelling.
P+Rail
This app allows you to pay for parking at SBB P+Rail locations and ten partner railways quickly and without cash. It helps you find nearby parking, provides details about each spot, and allows for easy cancellation of payments within the first few minutes. You can also manage multiple vehicles and favorite locations.
- Cashless parking payment
- Finds nearest parking spaces
- Displays parking space information
- Cancel parking payments
- View parking ticket history
- Manage multiple number plates
- Reserve parking spots
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More than a parking meter. Who said that trains and cars can’t be friends? With P+Rail, these two modes of transport can be combined with ease. With the SBB P+Rail app, you can pay for your parking quickly and cashfree. The P+Rail app unifies SBB P+Rail parking spaces with those of ten partner railways (BLS, RhB, RBS, TPF, SOB, MGB, OeBB, AB, AVA and Zentralbahn). And here’s why the SBB P+Rail app is so simple and fast: The app always knows exactly where your nearest parking space is, so you don’t need to go to the information board. Extra information about the parking spaces is displayed for each location, such as the number of electric car charging stations or important restrictions. If you make a mistake while booking, you can easily cancel your parking payment independently within the first few minutes. You can access an overview of your active, expired and refunded parking tickets. You can store several number plates and save your personal favourite locations in the quick selection view. Already using the SBB Mobile app for searching the timetable or purchasing tickets? You can use your SwissPass login for the SBB P+Rail app too. In future, you will be able to use your stored payment methods in both apps – wherever and whenever you are on the move. Make sure you have a spot: there is a binding reservation option for 30 busy locations – find it easily in the app menu. Find out for yourself!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Destinationbook at 5.0 against P+Rail's 4.6. Destinationbook also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). P+Rail's advantage is ratings volume (98 vs 1) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Destinationbook holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: P+Rail has 98 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Destinationbook ships an update every 3 months, P+Rail every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Destinationbook | P+Rail |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.6 (98 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 77.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 98 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 124 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JPM Publications SA | SBB AG |
Customer experience
Destinationbook
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In-app purchases
Destinationbook
No in-app purchases
P+Rail
No in-app purchases
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