BART Watch vs Today
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BART Watch
This app provides a discreet way for public transit riders to report suspicious activity directly to transit police. Users can send text messages, photos, and location data, with options for anonymity. It also features alerts for persons of interest.
- Report suspicious activity
- Send text messages and photos
- Discreet reporting with disabled flash
- Location sharing
- Anonymous reporting option
- Direct call to transit police
- Be On the Look Out (BOLO) alerts
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BART Watch: Free Security App for Riders. The BART Watch App offers the public a quick and discreet method for reporting suspicious activity directly to BART Police. The app can send pictures, text messages, and locations of suspicious people or activities. From the home screen, users have two easy options for contacting BART Police: * The “Report a Problem” button allows users to send text or photos directly to BART Police. To ensure discretion, the camera flash is automatically disabled when photos are taken through the app. When reporting an issue, users can select locations and report categories to assist BART Police. Riders can also send reports anonymously if they chose. * The “Call BART Police” button will connect customers directly to BART Police. The application is designed for BART. If you send a report in an area without cellular connectivity, it will be stored and sent when connectivity returns. The system is also designed to send text messages before pictures so that BART Police can get app reports as quickly as possible. Additional Features BOLO (Be On the Look Out) Alerts. BOLO Alerts on the BART Watch App may display alerts from BART Police about specific persons of interest. For example, BART Watch may display information about a missing person or child, such as where they were last seen. If you see a person from a BOLO, immediately call 911 and send an app report to BART Police discreetly. Help keep BART safe, "See something, Say something."
Today
This app provides electric micro-mobility solutions like e-bikes, e-mopeds, and e-scooters for convenient urban travel. It aims to create a sustainable transportation future by offering on-demand rentals that complement public transit and reduce traffic congestion.
- Rent e-bikes, e-mopeds, and e-scooters
- On-demand micro-mobility solutions
- Sustainable transportation options
- Solve first and last-mile transit problems
- Reduce traffic congestion
- Scan QR code to unlock vehicles
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At Today, our mission is to foster a sustainable and electric future while ushering in a new era of travel. We achieve this by providing cutting-edge hardware and innovative Mobility as a Service solutions. Our goal is to empower individuals and communities with convenient, sustainable, and efficient micro mobility options, enhancing urban mobility and shaping the future of transportation. How to: Download the Ride Today App Create your Ride Today Account Find nearby Today E Bikes, E Mopeds or E Scooters and Scan QR Code to Unlock Ride Safely - Always Wear a Helmet, Follow Local Traffic Laws and Ride Where Permitted Park Responsibly - Park your Today vehicles in the designated Hubs, out of the way of foot traffic and avoiding prohibited parking areas BRING Today TO YOUR CITY! Transportation for a Healthier Planet With more than 15 years experience launching mobility solutions, Ride Today is committed to providing your community with high quality, reliable, turnkey, modes of transportation. Today improves public transportation accessibility by solving the first and last-mile problem where residents and visitors have limited means for connecting to public transit without walking or driving. Today reduces the number of vehicles on the road easing the burden of peak-hour commutes, traffic congestion, parking difficulties and travel time. Today vehicles are available on demand and provide an affordable, highly scalable micro-mobility solution to complement your community’s existing transportation structure. For more information visit: https://www.ridetoday.io/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Today at 4.7 against BART Watch's 4.4. BART Watch's advantage is ratings volume (2.9K vs 412) and review sentiment (35% vs 26%). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Today holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BART Watch has 2.9K ratings behind it against 412, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 35% of BART Watch's written reviews are positive against 26% of Today's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
BART Watch ships an update every 3 months, Today every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BART Watch | Today |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (2.9K ratings) | 4.7 (412 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 34.8% of reviews — better | 26.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2.9K — better | 412 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 103 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ELERTS Corp | Eight Five Orange LLC |
Customer experience
BART Watch
Today
User reviews
BART Watch
From 2.9K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Speedy response
- 🚀 Helpful app
- 🚀 Fast response time!
- 🚀 Buen trabajo
- 🚀 Excellent app/very useful
Room to improve
- 🔍 Logo is too big
- 🔍 Works horrible in tunnel and tube
- 🔍 If you like to answer endless inane questions
- 🔍 Useless
- 🔍 No response
Today
From 412 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great for getting around
- 👍 Convenient for commuting
- 👍 Fun to ride
Room to improve
- 🐛 System is buggy
- 🐛 Bikes don't unlock
- 🐛 Multiple charges
- 🐛 Ride not ending
- 🐛 Battery drains quickly
Bugs and requests
BART Watch
Reported bugs
3 issues- had a good connection but unable to upload
- Can't file a report and a kid is lighting things on fire in the BART car. Obvious the camera doesn't work. Good job!
- Don't see an option for fare evader
Requested features
2 requests- Need a way to report non-police matters too
- Upload a photo of disruptive behavior
Today
Reported bugs
16 issues- First bike did not unlock, second bike unlocked but ten separate charges
- Forgot to swipe to end ride, assumed locking was ending the ride
- Bike battery only rode so many miles, no sign posted
- Brakes need attention
- Wish this app worked with VPN’s
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- Getting an error message now and it won’t fully load
- Had an error 7 and no power for a few minutes but boost came back. Happened twice.
- Bike/app acted as if the bike had been unlocked, but it wasn’t. Currently getting charged 20 cents a minute
- Cannot get through paying; husband paid but cannot unlock; neither can he end the ride.
- Scooters are never charged, you have to park them in designated spots
- Did a ride, returned the bike, ended the ride in the App, locked the bike up, listened to the bike make the shut-down tone and shut down the display... and they charged me $200 for never returning the bike.
- Scooter ran out of battery part way through the ride (had 32% to start and it only lasted about 15 minutes). Of course once the battery dies, you can’t end your ride so the timer for billing keeps running.
- After we finished our ride, we locked our bikes and tried to end our rides through the leap app. Guess what?! The ride didn’t wanna end, the app kept on telling us to lock our bike (which we already did) and they were still charging us.
- App does not work, and the staff has no ability to help
- Hopefully, they are not dead or out of battery. Then when you want to finish your drive! it won’t happen after you call service. After 1 day, it will fix. They will not refund your payment. Sometime, there are random scooter activate you didn’t know, it will charge your account.
- The hardware Leap decided to use for some reason is the worst in the scooter marketplace. Bells broken, brakes busted, batteries always dead. Besides the software being buggy as all get out, the best part of the app is how some scooters just straight up say “Unavailable” or “Unknown Error” when trying to rent one.
Requested features
3 requests- Better signage for battery life
- Full battery bikes at the other end of bikepath
- App should work with VPNs
In-app purchases
BART Watch
No in-app purchases
Today
No in-app purchases
