Comparison

Ruter vs Pin and Plot

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

Head to head
About

Ruter

Plan your journeys and purchase tickets for public transport in Oslo and Akershus. View real-time departures, check vehicle crowding, and get service disruption alerts. Create a profile to access additional features like e-scooter rentals and saved journeys.

Highlights
  • Buy public transport tickets
  • Plan journeys from A to B
  • Real-time departure information
  • See vehicle crowding
  • Service disruption alerts
  • Rent e-scooters and bikes
Features
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The Ruter app gives you full mobility in Oslo and Akershus. Find all departures and get around with public transport such as trams, metro, buses and ferries. Select your preferred modes of transport, find the best routes and buy your tickets – all in one app. Top features in the Ruter app: • Buy tickets for public transport – for yourself and others • Plan journeys from A to B • See all departure times, and use the map to see where your mode of transportation is in real time • See how crowded the bus or tram is • Get relevant service disruption information • Add favourites to save places you visit often • See accessibility information for stops • Pay by card, Vipps or Apple Pay Unlock more features by creating a personal profile: • Find, ride and pay for e-scooters, e-bikes and city bikes • Save your journeys for later • Store tickets, history and favourites – even if you change phones • Get access to new concepts and products With a Ruter profile you’ll also get quicker and more convenient customer service. We’re always happy to hear from you if you need help, have feedback or suggestions for improvement. Tips to get even more out of the Ruter app: • If you share your location, the app will show you nearby stops and give you more accurate and relevant travel suggestions. • Use smart widgets to buy tickets or see departures from your favourite stops. Keep an eye out for more features in the future – and thank you for travelling with us!

About

Pin and Plot

Features
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Pin and Plot is a complete travel planner. Every part of a trip lives in one app: the places you want to see, the plan for each day, every flight, train and ferry, how you'll get between stops, what to pack, and who paid for what. It works on iPhone, iPad and Mac. YOUR WHOLE TRIP, DAY BY DAY • A timeline for every day: where you're sleeping, how you're getting there, what's booked and what's still open • Weather for each day at each stop, with hourly forecasts • A trip assistant that spots what's missing, like a night with no hotel or a connection with no plan, and asks one clear question at a time • To-dos before you leave and on the day they're due • Summarize any day: a brief of what's coming before it, a journal of how it went after EVERY FLIGHT, TRAIN AND TRANSFER • Flights, trains, buses, ferries, cable cars and drives, leg by leg, with local times at both ends • Layovers and connections worked out, and gaps in your route flagged before you travel • Flight numbers, terminals, gates and confirmation codes in one place • A Live Activity keeps each trip day on the Lock Screen, always on what's next • Pick a train straight from the Apple Maps timetable FIND AND SAVE PLACES • Search Apple Maps and save restaurants, sights, hikes and hotels to your trip • Favorite places you return to and choose them quickly when starting another trip • Look Around, details and directions for every saved place • Every stop and saved place on one map, grouped by where you're staying • Keep ideas unplanned until you're ready, then give them a day PLAN HOW YOU'LL GET AROUND • See each day's route with walking, driving and public transport times between stops • Reorder a day's stops into the shortest route • Open any leg in Apple Maps for turn-by-turn directions PACKING THAT LEARNS • A packing library that remembers what you own and how many you usually bring • Suggestions from the forecast, the destination, the kind of trip and who's coming, kids included • Set up your family once: children's profiles and packing follow them onto every trip • Lists sorted the way you pack, with progress as you go SHARED EXPENSES, SETTLED FAIRLY • Log expenses in any currency and photograph receipts • Split equally, by exact amounts, percentages or shares, or item by item from a receipt with tax and tip shared out • Running balances for everyone, and the fewest payments needed to settle up • Group the people who pay together into households, and settle up between them • Estimate costs before you go and see where the money went • Export expenses to a spreadsheet BRING IT IN, DON'T TYPE IT • Paste a booking confirmation, pick a screenshot, photograph a ticket or just say what you've planned, and Apple Intelligence reads it into your trip • Review everything before it's added TRAVEL TOGETHER • Share a trip through iCloud; everyone sees the same plan and can add to it • Personal packing items and receipt photos stay private to you • Syncs across iPhone, iPad and Mac • Siri and Shortcuts can log an expense, save a place, set a day's plan or start a travel day PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No accounts, no ads, no tracking • Your trips live on your devices and in your own iCloud • Apple Intelligence works on your device by default • If you turn on Private Cloud Compute, Apple's larger model can read whole trips and documents for the assistant, overviews, day summaries and imports; the data is not stored or accessible to Apple Without iCloud, your trips stay on your device; sign in to sync and share them. Reading bookings and documents into a trip, and the trip assistant, use Apple Intelligence and need a supported device with it turned on. Optional Private Cloud Compute needs iOS 27 or later and an internet connection on a supported device. Everything else works on any device running iOS 26 or later.

Screenshots

Ruter4 screens
Pin and Plot4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Ruter at 17.7 against Pin and Plot's 26.0. 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

Ruter ships an update every 6 days, Pin and Plot weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Ruter versus Pin and Plot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRuterPin and Plot
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (3.8K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.8K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.7 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size88 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRuter AsPaul DeSalvo

Bugs and requests

Ruter

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Tickets disappearing after phone restart
  • Verification codes not being received
  • App crashing or freezing on older devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to manually reorder shortcut stations
  • Offline support for proof of fare
  • Improved walking directions between connections
  • Support for international credit cards and Apple Pay

Pin and Plot

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Ruter

No in-app purchases

None

Pin and Plot

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ruter free?
Ruter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pin and Plot free?
Pin and Plot is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Ruter or Pin and Plot have ads?
Neither Ruter nor Pin and Plot shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ruter or Pin and Plot?
Ruter ships an update every 6 days, and Pin and Plot weekly. Most recently, Ruter was updated on November 13, 2026 and Pin and Plot on November 10, 2026.

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