Comparison

ThamesLink Railway vs Mobilityways

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

Head to head
About

ThamesLink Railway

Plan your journeys across Great Britain with real-time train information and ticket booking. Enjoy transparent pricing with no booking fees and flexible travel options. Get live service updates and assistance for a stress-free travel experience.

Highlights
  • Zero booking fees on GB tickets
  • Flexible travel with keyGo
  • Live service updates and alerts
  • Auto Delay Repay for compensation
  • On-the-go passenger assistance
  • Digital railcards for fare savings
Features
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Download the official ThamesLink app to check train times and book tickets for any route in Great Britain. Experience stress-free travel with our transparent pricing and reliable service. With the ThamesLink app you can: ENJOY ZERO BOOKING FEES: Buy any GB tickets directly through our app and pay no additional booking fees. FLEXIBLE TRAVEL OPTIONS: Sign up for keyGo and travel seamlessly with Smartcards. Tap & go without pre-buying tickets. Track your journeys and manage your account easily. LIVE SERVICE UPDATES: Receive real-time updates on your regular services. Stay informed with personalised alerts from network experts. MAKE A CLAIM: Set-up your Auto Delay Repay feature and easily claim compensation for delayed journeys. ON-THE-GO ASSISTANCE: Request Passenger Assistance anytime you need it. Travel with confidence knowing support is just a tap away. DIGITAL RAILCARDS: Save at least 1/3 on train fares with digital railcards. Easily renew online and never worry about losing your physical card.

About

Mobilityways

This app connects drivers and passengers for carpooling, helping users save money on travel and reduce their carbon footprint. It also offers features for employers to encourage sustainable commuting among employees and provides rewards for eco-friendly travel choices.

Highlights
  • Public carpooling network
  • Employer-specific carpooling communities
  • Commute logging for multiple modes
  • CO2e savings tracking
  • Commuter rewards and incentives
  • Priority parking for carpoolers
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The Mobilityways app hosts: Liftshare – The carpooling network that enables members of the public to easily find sharers and discover personal CO2e savings. Liftshare For Work employer communities – For sustainable and affordable commuting with work colleagues. CommuteBoost - For logging multi-modal commutes, including lift-sharing and to reward employees for using sustainable commuting modes. Liftshare is the UK & Ireland’s largest public car sharing network, with almost 700,000 members. It’s a free-to-use journey matching platform for drivers and passengers taking both regular and one-off journeys. Liftshare provides a journey cost estimate to help sharers know how much to contribute. Liftshare members save £1034 a year, on average. They cut their fuel costs in half by sharing with just one other person. The Liftshare app displays your personal CO2e savings so you can see how much your sharing is helping the environment. Use the app to find and review journey matches, message other members and ask to share. There are also regular member rewards available for Liftshare public members from our select partners. Liftshare for Work utilises the Liftshare platform to enable sharing between colleagues and reduce an organisation’s commuting emissions. These employer-led and -branded Liftshare communities provide a closed/private car share scheme for employees (with public matches optional). The user will receive all the tried and tested features of the Liftshare app, and can see personal as well as community CO2e savings. The employer can monitor lift-sharing stats, measure site and company-wide CO2 emission reduction, plus manage members. With the addition of Liftshare parking permits, members can authenticate their journey in the app to receive a priority parking space at work on the day they car share. Ideal for organisations looking to reduce congestion and parking problems on-site, as well as reward sustainable commuting. CommuteJournal is a privacy-first tool that logs multi-modal legs of your commute and provides a carbon saving reporting. Modes that can be logged are: walking, running, cycling, driving, car sharing, bus and train. Employers providing the tool, gain collective data on viable transport routes and can identify gaps in provision to develop sustainable commuting options. Discover trends in employees’ travel habits, with real-time data for speedy analysis of new initiatives. Using CommuteJournal with the CommuteBoost rewards engine encourages participation in sustainable travel initiatives with rewards and incentives set against specific challenges. Commute Boost is a rewards engine where users can collect boosts for using sustainable travel modes. Employers can set targeted rewards that work for both the company and its staff – from additional annual leave to parking spaces, or even merchandise. Challenges can be set daily, weekly, monthly or ongoing. For example, Bike Week could be used to promote active travel and encourage physical wellbeing. Or those who carpool could receive preferential parking every day. Employees choose which challenges to join and can view colleagues who are taking part in the challenge. CommuteBoost enables employers to incentivise the specific sustainable commuting action and modal shift required, per organisation or site. Plus, directly track the success of new initiatives with daily data.

Screenshots

ThamesLink Railway4 screens
Mobilityways3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: ThamesLink Railway at free against Mobilityways's ad-supported. ThamesLink Railway also leads on review sentiment (22% vs 11%). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ThamesLink Railway ships an update every 3 weeks, Mobilityways fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
ThamesLink Railway versus Mobilityways: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThamesLink RailwayMobilityways
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (23 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews22.3% of reviews — better11.1% of reviews
Number of ratings23 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size89 MB91 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperThe Go-Ahead Group plcMobilityways Limited

Customer experience

ThamesLink Railway

All ratings23 ratings
Positive91.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.7%
Written reviews103 reviews
Positive22.3%
Neutral13.6%
Negative64.1%

Mobilityways

Written reviews9 reviews
Positive11.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative88.9%

In-app purchases

None

ThamesLink Railway

No in-app purchases

None

Mobilityways

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ThamesLink Railway free?
ThamesLink Railway is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mobilityways free?
Mobilityways is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ThamesLink Railway or Mobilityways have ads?
Neither ThamesLink Railway nor Mobilityways shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ThamesLink Railway or Mobilityways?
ThamesLink Railway ships an update every 3 weeks, and Mobilityways fortnightly. Most recently, ThamesLink Railway was updated on September 25, 2026 and Mobilityways on September 22, 2026.

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