Alternatives to Citymapper
A transport app that plans journeys across buses, trains, bikes and other modes in major cities. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Citymapper
A transport app that plans journeys across buses, trains, bikes and other modes in major cities.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Citymapper.
Transit
A public transport app showing nearby buses, trains and bikeshare with real-time arrivals and trip planning.
Transit shows nearby departures on opening with real-time vehicle positions and GO step-by-step alerts, covering bikeshare too, but has no web version and some paid features.
Moovit
A public transport app with trip planning, real-time arrivals and service alerts in many cities.
Moovit covers thousands of cities with real-time arrivals and service alerts, broader than Citymapper's 400, though data quality varies and it runs only on Android and iOS.
Google Maps
Google's map and navigation service with live traffic, transit directions and Street View.
Google Maps combines public transit directions with driving, Street View and local business listings on Android, iOS and the web, and is tied to Google's data collection.
Apple Maps
Apple's map and navigation service with directions, traffic, guides and place search.
Apple Maps provides directions and place search built into iPhone and Mac with a web version, but native apps exist only on Apple platforms.
Öffi
An Android app for public transport journeys, live departures and network plans across Europe and beyond.
Öffi is a free Android-only app covering many European transport authorities with live departures and network plans, with limited coverage outside Europe.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Citymapper as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Rome2Rio
A web trip planner that compares plane, train, bus, ferry and car routes between any two places.
Citymapper plans multimodal journeys within more than 400 major cities with live bus locations, rather than comparing long-distance travel between places.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
HERE WeGo
A free map and navigation service from HERE with turn-by-turn driving directions.
OpenTripPlanner
An open-source multimodal trip planning server that combines transit, walking, cycling and driving routes.
GNOME Maps
A map application for the GNOME desktop that searches places and plans routes using OpenStreetMap data.
