Comparison

Bucks Pathfinder vs Train Radar UK

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Bucks Pathfinder

Features
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Buckinghamshire offers some of England's finest countryside for walking, wheeling, cycling, and horse riding with the Chilterns National Landscape at its heart. Explore rolling chalk hills, ancient beech woodlands, peaceful valleys, and scenic ridge-top trails, alongside quiet country bridleways perfect for cycling and riding, quaint villages, bustling market towns, nature reserves, and welcoming country pubs make Buckinghamshire an ideal destination for outdoor adventures. The Bucks Pathfinder App is your ultimate guide, featuring high-quality offline maps and curated trails. Discover the path less trodden, learn the stories behind the landscapes, and immerse yourself in the county’s rich history. We have included routes for all abilities. Plan with confidence. Explore with ease. Share with friends. Apple Health: When you record a cycling, hiking, walking or running track you are able to save work outs to Apple Health. Data from HealthKit will not be used for marketing or promotional purposes.

About

Train Radar UK

Track trains across Great Britain in real time on a live map. See detailed information about each train's route, delays, and reasons. Access live departure boards, network disruptions, and historical train data. Offers features for delay compensation and train spotting.

Highlights
  • Live train map of Great Britain
  • Detailed train route and delay information
  • Live station departure and arrival boards
  • Network disruption alerts
  • Delay Repay estimation and tracking
  • Historical train movement playback
  • Train spotter logbook (Premium)
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TrainRadar shows Britain's trains moving across the map in real time. Tap any train to see where it's going, every station it calls at, how late it is and why. Search by headcode, service or station. Check a station's live departure board, or see what's disrupted across the network right now — all without creating an account. WHAT YOU GET • Live map of trains across Great Britain, updating continuously • Tap a train for its full route, calling points, timings and delay reasons • Live departure and arrival boards for any station • Current disruptions across the network • Search by headcode, service or station name • Filter the map by train operator, and see how each one is performing • Photos of real trains, contributed by other spotters, shown against the services they run on • Nine map styles, from dark and satellite to hand-drawn colourways HISTORY • Tap any train, then History, to see how it ran on each day, with the real time at every stop • Day-by-day punctuality for every train between the same two stations • Look up a unit and see every train it has worked, day by day TIME MACHINE • Pick a day and a time and see every train exactly where it was • Play it back at 1×, 2×, 10× or 20×, or jump 15 minutes at a time • Tap any train to see where it was heading and its times at every stop DELAY REPAY • Pick your journey and TrainRadar checks every train on it over the last 28 days, so no delay slips past you • See the real delay at your station for every late or cancelled train, with an estimate of what you could claim • Get help filling in the operator's claim form, and keep all your claims in one place until you're paid FOR SPOTTERS Create a free account to upload your own photos to the routes you took them on. Go Premium to keep a personal spotter log: record every unit you've seen with times, locations and notes, with unit names, classes and liveries filled in automatically, and export the whole thing as a PDF. PREMIUM The live map, boards, disruptions and search are free. History and Time Machine cover the last few days for free, and Delay Repay gives a free estimate for each journey. Premium unlocks the spotter log, the full set of map styles, History and Time Machine going much further back, and the full Delay Repay checker with claim help and tracking. It's a recurring subscription billed through the App Store, and you can cancel any time from your Apple ID's subscription settings. HOW IT WORKS Train positions are estimated. TrainRadar takes schedules and reported passing points from Network Rail, Darwin and Realtime Trains, and works out where each train most likely is between them. It is not a GPS feed from the train itself, so treat the map as a very good guess rather than gospel — don't rely on it to catch a train, and always check with the operator or National Rail before you travel. History and Time Machine replay what TrainRadar recorded at the time, so the same applies to them. Delay Repay amounts are estimates. The train operator decides whether a claim is accepted and how much it pays. Please stay safe near the railway. Never trespass, and only photograph trains from places you're allowed to be. TrainRadar is an independent app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or operated by National Rail, Network Rail, Rail Delivery Group or any train operating company. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://trainradar.uk/privacy

Screenshots

Bucks Pathfinder4 screens
Train Radar UK4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bucks Pathfinder at none against Train Radar UK's 1. Train Radar UK's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Train Radar UK sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Bucks Pathfinder asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
Bucks Pathfinder versus Train Radar UK: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBucks PathfinderTrain Radar UK
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews—66.7% of reviews
Update frequency—Every 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size114 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOutdooractive AGIan Clark

In-app purchases

None

Bucks Pathfinder

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Train Radar UK

Subscriptions1
  • TrainRadar UK Premium1 Month trial$2.991 Month

Questions

Is Bucks Pathfinder free?
Bucks Pathfinder is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Train Radar UK free?
Train Radar UK is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Bucks Pathfinder or Train Radar UK have ads?
Neither Bucks Pathfinder nor Train Radar UK shows ads.

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