Comparison

Time for Coffee! vs Ziitli

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

Head to head
About

Time for Coffee!

This app provides real-time departure information for Swiss public transport across multiple regions. It offers features like favorite stations, widgets, and Apple Watch integration for convenient travel planning.

Highlights
  • Real-time departure data for multiple regions
  • Scheduled departures for all of Switzerland
  • iPhone widgets for quick access
  • Apple Watch app and complications
  • Favorite stations and connections
  • Open source
Features
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Get the only Swiss Public Transport App with real time data for multiple regions and support for all possible screens on Apple's mobile devices, including Siri support. * Support for real time data (delays) for multiple regions. All SBB trains and local transport (Bus/Tram) for the Zurich Area, Lucerne, Berne, Geneva, North-Western and Eastern part of Switzerland and many more. * Scheduled departure times for the rest of Switzerland (incl. Bus/Trams/Boats/Cablecar) * iPhone App: Departures of nearby stations, favourite stations. See where that connection takes you to. And a map of the ride or the surrounding area. * iPhone Widgets: See immediately when the next connections leave (with favourites first) without even opening the App or unlocking the screen. * Apple Watch App: All the info of the iPhone Today screen. On your watch. * Apple Watch Complication: Put Time for Coffee! as a complication on your watch face and you don't even have to open or tap anything anymore. * Favourite your stations and/or connections to only see the information you care about. * Tested and proven in real life to make it as convenient to use as possible. * Open Source. * Have more time for a coffee at home or in the office. If you have Apple Watch complications installed, we ask for the "Always" permission for location updates, so that we can update the complication in the background on demand. Also enable in Settings "Privacy -> Location Services -> System Services -> Frequent Locations", it does use this feature and therefore not use lots of battery power, but still may dramatically decrease battery life. If you set the location permission to "While using", complications are still updated, but only every 45 minutes. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

About

Ziitli

Features
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Authentic Swiss transit departure boards on your iPhone or Mac — classic yellow dot-matrix on black, just like at the stop. Ziitli shows live tram, bus, train, ferry, and funicular departures from any station in Switzerland, in the same retro display style you see overhead at the platform. Pick the nearest stop automatically, or pin a specific one. The widget keeps the next four departures on your home screen, ticking down by the minute. FEATURES • Live departures from every Swiss public-transit stop (powered by transport.opendata.ch) • Authentic dot-matrix rendering, faithful to real station boards • Home-screen widget — "nearest" mode follows you, or pin a specific stop • Hide stations you never use • Full-screen landscape mode turns your phone into a station board • English and Swiss German interface • No analytics, no tracking, no account Built by a frequent Zurich tram rider for fellow commuters across Switzerland.

Screenshots

Time for Coffee!4 screens
Ziitli2 screens

Verdict

The call

Time for Coffee! and Ziitli are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Time for Coffee! versus Ziitli: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTime for Coffee!Ziitli
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Mac
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developeropendata.chAmit Moryossef

In-app purchases

None

Time for Coffee!

No in-app purchases

None

Ziitli

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Time for Coffee! free?
Time for Coffee! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ziitli free?
Ziitli is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Time for Coffee! or Ziitli have ads?
Neither Time for Coffee! nor Ziitli shows ads.

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