Transit vs Next GO Train
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Transit
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USA: New York (MTA, Nice), Chicago, New Jersey (NJ Transit), Philadelphia (SEPTA), Seattle, Los Angeles, Everett, Boston (MBTA), Minneapolis, Bay Area (BART, SFMTA, AC), Hartford (CTTransit), Pittsburgh, Washington (WMATA), Miami-Dade, Atlanta, Houston, Denver, Portland (TriMet), San Antonio (VIA), Honolulu (TheBus), Phoenix, San Diego (MTS, NCTD), Dallas, Baltimore, Las Vegas, Orlando, Cleveland, Cincinnati (SORTA, TANK), San Jose (VTA), Salt Lake City, Saint Louis, Providence (RIPTA), Buffalo, Austin, Detroit, Sacramento, Columbus, Louisville, Milwaukee, Long Beach (LBT), Hampton (HRT), Delaware, Raleigh, Indianapolis (IndyGo), New Orleans (NORTA, JET), San Bernardino, Riverside, Kansas City, Tampa, El Paso, Rochester (RTS), Nashville, Tucson, Grand Rapids, Madison, Des Moines, Albuquerque (ABQ RIDE), Fresno, Spokane, Lansing, Oklahoma City, Corpus Christi, Fort Worth, Tulsa, Chattanooga, Bakersfield, Stockton, Vancouver (C-TRAN), Charleston, Reno, Ann Arbor, Salem, Anchorage, Knoxville, Fargo, Arlington (ART), Asheville, Alexandria (DASH), Fort Collins, Denton Australia: Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, Tasmania Belgium: Flemish, Walloons, Namur, Liège, Bruxelles, Hainaut, Brabant-Wallon, Charleroi Brasil: Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Belo Horizonte Bŭlgariya: Sofia Canada: Toronto, Vancouver, Montréal, Calgary, Ottawa, Edmonton, Mississauga, York, Brampton, Quebec, Winnipeg, Longueuil, Halifax, London, Laval, Gatineau, Hamilton, Waterloo, Sherbrooke, Lévis, Durham, Oakville, Kingston, Windsor, St. John's, Sudbury, Thunder Bay, Moncton, Barrie Česká republika: Praha, Brno, Plzen, Olomouc, Liberec Chile: Santiago Danmark: Hovedstaden-Sjælland, Midtjylland, Syddanmark, Nordjylland, Fyn, Bornholm Deutschland: Baden-Württemberg, NWL, Rhein-Ruhr, Berlin-Brandenburg, Nürnberg, München, Mittelthüringen, Köln, Berlin, Mitteldeutschland, Stuttgart, Aachen, Rhein-Neckar, Düsseldorf, Bochum, Dortmund, Mannheim, Essen, Leipzig, Wuppertal, Mönchengladbach, Karlsruhe, Duisburg, Hagen, Oberhausen, Freiburg, Münster, Remscheid, Augsburg, Solingen, Neuss, Ulm Eesti: Eesti, Tallinn, Tartu, Pärnu España: Madrid, Euskadi, Barcelona, Tenerife, Granada, Mallorca, Las Palmas France: Île-de-France, Paris, Bouches-du-Rhône, Lyon, Lille, Bordeaux, Marseille, Toulouse, Nantes, Rennes, Nice, Toulon, Grenoble, Saint-Étienne, Orléans, Dijon, Montpellier, Strasbourg, Metz, Nîmes, Brest, Reims Hong Kong: Hong Kong, 香港特区, 香港特區 Hrvatska: Zagreb Iceland: Reykjavík Ireland: Ireland, Dublin Italia: Roma, Piemonte, Sardegna, Torino, Milano, Bologna, Genova, Trento, Napoli, Ferrara, Venezia, Palermo, Varese Latvija: Latvija, Rīga Lietuva: Lietuva, Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai, Panevėžys Luxembourg: Luxembourg Magyarország: Volán, Budapest, MÁV, Pécs, Miskolc, Nyíregyháza, Szeged, Győr, Székesfehérvár Nederland: Utrecht, Amsterdam, Den Haag, Rotterdam, Nijmegen, Eindhoven, Almere New Zealand: Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin Norge: Hordaland, Sør-Trøndelag, Oslo og Akershus, Troms, Nordland, Møre og Romsdal, Agder, Rogaland, Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Vestfold, Østfold, Telemark, Finnmark Österreich: Niederösterreich - Burgenland - Wien, Steiermark, Oberösterreich, Tirol, Wien, Kärnten, Salzburg, Vorarlberg, Linz Polska: GZM, Warszawa, Poznań, Wrocław, Kraków, Łódź, Lublin, Gdańsk, Szczecin, Rzeszów, Gdynia, Kielce, Bydgoszczy, Toruń, Radom, Olsztyn Portugal: Lisboa, Funchal, Braga România: București, Oradea, Timișoara, Cluj-Napoca, Brașov, Sibiu, Buzău, Iași Slovenia: Ljubljana Slovensko: Slovensko, Bratislava, Bratislavský kraj Srbija: Beograd Suomi: Helsinki, Tampere, Turku, Lahti, Jyväskylä, Kuopio, Oulu, Hämeenlinna, Joensuu, Lappeenranta, Kouvola, Mikkeli, Pori, Vaasa Sverige: Göteborg, Stockholm, Malmö, Uppsala, Linköping, Jönköping, Västerås, Örebro Switzerland: Genève, Zürich, Basel, Lausanne, Bern United Kingdom: London, Manchester, Birmingham, Northern Ireland, Nottingham
Next GO Train
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Next GO Train keeps you ahead of your GO Transit commute with real-time departures, delay alerts, and widgets right on your Home and Lock Screen. Check your station, see what's leaving next, and get notified the moment your train is delayed or cancelled — no more refreshing schedules or guessing. Covers all GO Transit rail lines across the Greater Toronto Area and beyond: - Lakeshore West - Lakeshore East - Milton - Kitchener - Barrie - Richmond Hill - Stouffville - UP Express What you can do: - See live departure times for any GO station - Follow a trip on a detailed timeline with real-time status and stop-by-stop progress - Save your regular commutes and get delay and cancellation alerts - Set how early you want to be reminded before departure - Use quiet hours so alerts only reach you when you want them - Check Service Guarantee eligibility when your train runs late - Add Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for your next departure at a glance Built for daily riders: - No ads and no tracking - No location access required - Clean, fast, and focused on getting you to your train Next GO Train is an auto-renewing subscription that unlocks live departures, delay notifications, and widgets. Choose a monthly or yearly plan. Payment is charged to your Apple ID, and your subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Next GO Train is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Metrolinx or GO Transit. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Transit at none against Next GO Train's 2. Transit also leads on iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.0). Next GO Train's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 weeks). On price, ads 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. Next GO Train sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Transit asks for nothing beyond the download.
Transit ships an update every 6 weeks, Next GO Train every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Transit | Next GO Train |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Robert Bajzat | Neushapes Inc. |
In-app purchases
Transit
No in-app purchases
Next GO Train
- NextGO Train Monthly$1.991 Month
- NextGO Train Yearly$12.991 Year




