BorderSmart

Tijuana/San Diego border waits

Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Plan northbound San Ysidro and Otay Mesa crossings with lane-level waits, freshness, confidence, alerts, and bilingual support. BorderSmart helps San Diego-Tijuana crossers plan northbound trips through San Ysidro and Otay Mesa. Open the app for a quick answer on General, Ready Lane, and SENTRI waits. Save your regular lane as My Lane, compare every supported lane on the board, and use freshness, confidence, and likely-range cues to decide whether to go now or wait. BorderSmart combines public border wait-time data, historical patterns, traffic context, and optional crossing reports to help estimate what the wait may look like next. Use BorderSmart to: - compare San Ysidro and Otay Mesa General, Ready Lane, and SENTRI waits - save one lane as My Lane for a faster home screen - view a planning range instead of false precision - check freshness and confidence before trusting an estimate - open lane detail for supporting cues and best-time-today guidance - create alerts for good crossing windows and unusually heavy waits - start, finish, or cancel a crossing from the app - switch between English and Spanish - keep reading cached lane data when connectivity is poor BorderSmart does not require an account. Forecasts are estimates, not guarantees, and the app shows its trust cues so you can judge the current reading before you leave.

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This update makes BorderSmart more useful on both sides of the trip. Board now includes a separate US -> Tijuana section for southbound approach waits at San Ysidro and Otay Mesa, alert lane selection is easier to scan, app startup and crossing-state recovery are more reliable, and release stability, dependency health, and store metadata handling all got polish.

Version 1.1.5

The developer, Manuel Ruiz, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

  • Data Linked to You

    The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

    • Contact Info
    • User Content
    • Identifiers
    • Usage Data
    • Diagnostics

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Information

Seller
  • Manuel Ruiz
Size
  • 61.3 MB
Category
  • Travel
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 15.1 or later.
  • iPod touch
    Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
  • English and Spanish
Age Rating
4+
Copyright
  • © 2026 BorderSmart
  • Developer Website
  • Privacy Policy

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