Solace Secure vs Chiltern Railways
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Solace Secure
This app offers travelers real-time global risk information, including alerts for threats in their vicinity. It features check-in, SOS, and tracking capabilities for enhanced safety, with a 24/7 operations center monitoring high-risk travelers.
- Global risk intelligence
- Geo-located threat alerts
- Traveler tracking
- Check-in functionality
- SOS feature
- 24/7 operations center monitoring
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The Solace Secure smartphone application provides travellers with invaluable information relating to global risk whilst providing the ability to track travellers position in relation to these risks. On a 24 / 7 basis Solace Global monitors open source intelligence including global news outlets, social media , governmental travel advisories amongst others and provides this tool to access information quickly and easily. These ‘alerts’ are risk rated, categorised , and then geo-located. Users (the traveller) can therefore identify easily key threats in their immediate location and take measures to avoid and mitigate these risks. The inclusion of Check-in, SOS, and Tracking functionality allows Solace Global's 24 hour operations centre to monitor medium and high-risk travellers in areas where additional level of reassurance is required. This application requires subscription to the Solace Secure platform which is available by contacting Solace Global direct.
Chiltern Railways
Easily plan your journeys, get live travel updates, and purchase train tickets for Chiltern Railways and the wider GB rail network. Securely store e-tickets on your phone and enjoy fee-free purchases, including group bookings and Flexi season tickets.
- Journey planning
- Live travel information
- E-ticket purchase
- Fee-free fares
- Group bookings
- Live departure boards
- Smartcard requests
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Your free Chiltern Railways app helps make journey planning, accessing the latest travel information and buying your tickets even easier. It’s simple and secure to purchase your Chiltern Railways e-ticket through the app, download to your phone and use for your next journey. And if you’re planning to travel anywhere else on the GB rail network, you can buy your ticket on the Chiltern app too. And when you buy train tickets through our app, we’ll never charge you a credit card, debit card or booking fee. So, it’s goodbye pesky queues at the ticket office. And hello cheapest Chiltern fares around! Download and register the Chiltern Railways app to: - Always find the cheapest fares available in your search results - Get an instant e-ticket for many Chiltern Railways journeys, saving time at stations - Enjoy fee-free fares. You won’t ever pay credit card, debit card or booking fees when you book direct from Chiltern - Group save bookings for three or more customers can be purchased via the app - Quickly find your recent journeys in our new My Account section, where your details are securely maintained in the app for quick and easy repurchasing - Get up-to-the-minute updates on your train status with live departure boards, busyness indicators, number of carriages and platform numbers - Purchase tickets for any British train journey – and did we say NO BOOKING FEES Getting your ticket E-tickets may look like a humble barcode but when they’re stored in your app’s Booking section, they become the quick and easy way to travel, so no need to interact with anyone or anything when in the train station or onboard a train. Picking up tickets from a ticket machine If you plan to pick up your tickets from a ticket machine, you'll need your reference numbers which are stored in the bookings section to view at any time. Using your Smartcard Request a new Smartcard through the app when making your next ticket purchase. We will then send you your Smartcard in the post. You may then load the ticket onto your Smartcard at the gate. We sell Flexi season tickets to match your own travel requirements.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Chiltern Railways at free against Solace Secure's subscription. Chiltern Railways also leads on ratings volume (332 vs 2) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). Solace Secure's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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.
Solace Secure holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chiltern Railways has 332 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Solace Secure's written reviews are positive against 43% of Chiltern Railways's.
Solace Secure ships an update every 2 months, Chiltern Railways fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Solace Secure | Chiltern Railways |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.8 (332 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 43.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 332 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 154 MB | 99 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Solace Global Limited | Chiltern Railways |
Customer experience
Solace Secure
Chiltern Railways
Bugs and requests
Solace Secure
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Chiltern Railways
Reported bugs
18 issues- App fails to load or crashes unexpectedly
- Payment processing errors and duplicate charges
- Saved card details not recognized
- E-ticket preference settings not retained after booking
- Live journey details don't load when tapping trains
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- Platform information missing for certain routes
- NFC ticket loading shows no pending tickets despite having them
- Apple Wallet integration not functional
- QR code in Apple Wallet unreadable by ticket barriers
- Senior Railcard rejection with age criteria error
- Return ticket booking only allows single tickets
- Session loss when screen locks
- Booking confirmation shows as unbought after payment
- Train times display incorrectly or show wrong departures
- Links to travel conditions direct to wrong pages
- Preference Centre link broken
- Report a problem chat window unresponsive
- Add card function rejecting valid cards
Requested features
15 requests- Car parking booking through app
- Return ticket purchase functionality
- Save favorite stations and journeys
- Timetable view beyond live trains
- Carriage numbers displayed on live app
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- Default payment method and station settings
- Push notifications for delays and updates
- Status page showing delays and issues
- Calling stations information
- Flex season ticket purchasing
- Change ticket date/time functionality
- Ability to modify e-ticket preferences after booking
- Integration with underground/other transport systems
- Faster real-time ticket loading via NFC
- Refund option within app interface
In-app purchases
Solace Secure
No in-app purchases
Chiltern Railways
No in-app purchases
Questions
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