Arlanda Express vs RED Sightseeing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Arlanda Express
This app provides the quickest way to travel between Stockholm City and Arlanda Airport, taking only 18 minutes. It allows for easy ticket purchases, real-time departure information, and ticket management directly within the application.
- Fastest city to airport transfer
- Buy tickets with card, Swish, or Apple Pay
- View real-time departures and traffic updates
- Manage and display tickets from the app
- Automatic group discounts
- No seat reservation needed
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Fast-track your city transfer. The fastest link between Stockholm City and Arlanda Airport - skip the traffic and arrive in 18 minutes. • Buy tickets your way - pay with card, Swish or Apple Pay. Done in seconds. • See the latest departures and traffic updates so you're never caught off guard. • View, manage and show your ticket straight from the app. Receipts too. • Travel together and save - group discounts apply automatically at checkout. No codes, no fuss. Trusted by thousands of travellers. Departures every 12-15 minutes, in both directions, no seat reservation needed.
RED Sightseeing
Explore cities like Berlin, Copenhagen, and Stockholm with real-time bus and boat tracking. Plan your route, find stops, and access information and discounts on city attractions. Purchase tickets and get updates on your journey.
- Real-time bus and boat tracking
- Locate all stops
- Plan ideal routes
- Buy tickets
- City highlight information and discounts
- Multiple languages
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With RED Sightseeing you can explore Berlin, Copenhagen and Stockholm from the comforts of our hop-on hop-off buses and boats. This RED Sightseeing app offers handy features that enables you to locate and track the real-time locations of our buses and boats on the city map, locate all of our stops, plan your ideal route, buy tickets and get more info and discounts on city highlights. Using the RED Sightseeing app is easy. It’s designed to make your city exploration with RED Sightseeing even better. This is how it works: No unnecessary waiting - You can find all our stops and the locations of our buses and boats in the app on the map. Simply open the app to see if there’s a bus or boat near you to hop on. Hop on and off as often as you like. Navigate - see your location on the map and navigate yourself to where ever you like to go in the city. Simply click on you destination on the map and we will calculate the walking distance in kilometers and time. Important updates - We will let you know if any special events in the city influence the route or stops of our buses and boats. Highlights - Find all top attractions in Berlin, Copenhagen and Stockholm in the app. Interested in specific highlights? Click on the highlight of your choice in the map and we will show you more info on that attraction. We also offer a list of interesting attractions for you to browse through. Get inspired and determine which route suits your personal itinerary the best. Special discounts – see all our available deals offered by RED Sightseeing and simply click on them to go to our website www.redsightseeing.com and purchase the ticket(s) of your choice. No tickets yet for our hop-on hop-off buses and/or boats? The app directs you to our website so you can buy your tickets. Multiple languages – the app is available in English, German,Spanish, Danish, Swedish and French. Follow us on Facebook for more inspiration: www.facebook.com/Redsightseeing Questions about our buses and boats? The app includes an frequently asked questions (FAQ) page with relevant information on our facilities, tours and tickets. Do you want to get in contact with us? Please visit redsightseeing.com/contact.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Arlanda Express at 5.0 against RED Sightseeing's 2.6. Arlanda Express also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months) and review sentiment (24% vs 7%). RED Sightseeing's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 16.4). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Arlanda Express holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 24% of Arlanda Express's written reviews are positive against 7% of RED Sightseeing's.
Arlanda Express ships an update fortnightly, RED Sightseeing every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Arlanda Express | RED Sightseeing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 2.6 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 23.5% of reviews — better | 7.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 107 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | A-Train AB | AllSensing BV |
Customer experience
Arlanda Express
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In-app purchases
Arlanda Express
No in-app purchases
RED Sightseeing
No in-app purchases
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