Comparison

i'velo vs Romanian Railways

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

Head to head
About

i'velo

This app provides access to a bike-sharing service in Romania, allowing users to rent smart bikes and e-bikes for urban travel. It features a redesigned interface with improved navigation, payment options, and real-time information on bike availability and city conditions.

Highlights
  • Rent smart bikes and e-bikes
  • Redesigned user interface
  • Pay-as-you-go payment system
  • Day, Week, or Month subscriptions
  • Map of available bikes and parking
  • Air quality indexing
  • Track cycled kilometers
Features
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Welcome to the soft launch of the new i'velo app! After months of intense research & development, we're proud to present the new version of the main bike-sharing app in Romania. Get around town, save money & time, enjoy the sunny days, all while helping improve city-life around you with i'velo! Rent your first smart bike or e-bike today and pedal with us to a greener future! WHAT'S NEW Short answer: everything. New Look, Better Feel: A fully redesigned interface that allows you to get pedaling in no-time has been developed, with new filtering options, better mapping of available bikes and parking spots, as well as air quality indexing, cycled kilometers and much more. Pay As Much As You Ride: We have officially integrated a pay-as-you-go payment system that allows you to save time and money in comparison with traditional commuting methods, all while making sure that your resources go for exactly as much as you consume. Loving the rides and the bikes? Hop on our Day, Week or Month subscription-tiers and unlock the city with our bikes. Cycling, As You've Never Experienced It: Developed with a user-centric approach and designed with performance in mind, our new fleet of smart and e-bikes is ready to carry you anywhere you want, however you want. Simply unlock a bike, ride and drop it off safely at one of our new smart stations, one of our BBoxes or one of the Infrastructure Pop-Ups from around town. Intelligent mobility, at the tip of your fingers, any time. GOOD THINGS COME TO THOSE WHO WAIT We're opening up the system for testing after months of development around our country's first sustainable mobility network. This means that the app will only feature the basic functions, to make sure that we have everything perfectly ready for the main launch event. Up until then, we rely on your involvement and understanding. Feel free to test the new app, bikes and stations, and know that any form of feedback can help more than you imagine. Take any mis-hap during this testing period and let us know about it, so that we can make all rides from now on as smooth as possible. WHERE CAN I SEND MY FEEDBACK? Wherever you feel comfortable, we've got a bunch of options: - Jot us an e-mail at ivelo@greenrevolution.ro - Visit our website and call our customer support agents at https://ivelo.ro/ - Reach out to us on social media HOW IT WORKS 1. Download the new i'velo app 2. Create an account and let us get to know you a bit more 3. Add your payment method, scan and ride - it really is that easy! GET TO KNOW US Follow us on our social media accounts to stay up to date with our progress and our efforts to expand the i'velo network, both city-wide and nation-wide! Facebook: i'velo Instagram:@ivelobygreenrevolution TikTok: @ivelobygreenrevolution

About

Romanian Railways

Plan your train journeys across Romania with this comprehensive travel app. Access all railway stations and timetables, even without an internet connection. Preview routes and departure times for any moment.

Highlights
  • Offline station and timetable search
  • Route previews for stations
  • Departure time selection
  • Comprehensive railway data
  • Pocket-sized travel companion
Features
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The perfect travel companion for your trip in Romania! It contains all the railway stations and timetables; all of these in your pocket ! Main features: - OFFLINE support - you can search for stations or departures without having an internet connection - for every station you can preview the route of the vehicle and check if it reaches your area of interest - you can select any moment in time to display departures. Designed and engineered by: Vasile Coțovanu http://www.vasile.ch DISCLAIMER: This app cannot be held responsible for any late, missed or changes to the timetables on any journeys made by you, which have occurred by the operator or due to construction works. This is not the responsibility of "RO Trains" App to ensure that any routes are operating correctly, but it is the responsibility of the operators who run these services.

Screenshots

i'velo4 screens
Romanian Railways4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Romanian Railways at 5.0 against i'velo's 3.8. Romanian Railways also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16). i'velo's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 12 months). On price, ads and device support 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. Romanian Railways sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. i'velo asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Romanian Railways holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: i'velo has 14 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

i'velo ships an update every 5 weeks, Romanian Railways every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
i'velo versus Romanian Railways: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameteri'veloRomanian Railways
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (14 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews57.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings14 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 12 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS1612.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAhead International SRLM23 Solutions GmbH

Customer experience

i'velo

All ratings12 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews54 reviews
Positive57.4%
Neutral1.9%
Negative40.7%

Romanian Railways

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

i'velo

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Romanian Railways

One-time3
  • Support Further Development$2.99
  • Support Further Development$4.99
  • Support Further Development$9.99

Questions

Is i'velo free?
i'velo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Romanian Railways free?
Romanian Railways is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, i'velo or Romanian Railways?
Romanian Railways is rated higher. i'velo averages 3.8 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while Romanian Railways averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do i'velo or Romanian Railways have ads?
Neither i'velo nor Romanian Railways shows ads.
Which is updated more often, i'velo or Romanian Railways?
i'velo ships an update every 5 weeks, and Romanian Railways every 12 months. Most recently, i'velo was updated on October 26, 2026 and Romanian Railways on October 13, 2026.

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