FerryFriend is the ultimate tool for ferry riders in the Puget Sound! Includes schedules and so much more for Washington State Ferries, Kitsap Transit Fast Ferries, and King County Water Taxi.
Features:
• Brand new Apple Watch app with schedules, predictions, and your favorite routes on your wrist.
• CarPlay support so you can check sailings, predictions, and favorites without picking up your phone.
• Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for one-glance access to your favorite routes and ferry tickets.
• Drive-time ETAs to the terminal from your current location, so you know how long it'll take to reach the dock.
• Real-time delay predictions and demand forecasts so you know when sailings will be delayed and how full they'll be.
• Sailing notifications for delays, departures, arrivals, loading, and reservation availability.
• Cached schedules available offline, even when the WSF servers are down.
• Inline reservation availability with quick booking from the app.
• Drive-up space availability with historical filling trends.
• Live vessel map with detailed status, departure/arrival times, and vessel specs.
• Ferry line cameras on a map so you can check the line before you arrive.
• Travel alerts with push notifications, snoozing, and day-of-week filtering.
• Scan, save, and share your WSF ferry tickets right from the app.
• Tide warnings and vessel load indicators in the schedule.
• Heads-up on Kingston to Edmonds schedules when the terminal's new boarding-pass system is active, so you don't miss a
stop at the kiosk near Lindvog Road.
• Customizable delay display, projected departure time or time-late duration, whichever you prefer.
• Dark mode and 24-hour time support.
Includes information for these departing terminals:
Anacortes
Annapolis
Bainbridge Island
Bremerton
Clinton
Coupeville
Edmonds
Fauntleroy
Friday Harbor
Kingston
Lopez Island
Mukilteo
Orcas Island
Point Defiance
Port Orchard
Port Townsend
Seattle (WSF and Pier 50)
Shaw Island
Sidney B.C.
Southworth
Tahlequah
Vashon Island
West Seattle (Seacrest Park)
Includes data from:
Kitsap Transit
King County Water Taxi
Washington State Ferries - WSDOT
This app is the best I have downloaded in years! It is everything I have wished from the WSDOT app and eliminates the need of toggling between my email, WSDOT app and WSF website! The app does things that I wouldn’t have even dreamed of too! There are too many features to list, but at the top of my list are: reserving a specific sailing directly - no more drop down menus, a place to store tickets and easily check remaining uses, detailed vessel info, and knowing vessels associated with specific sailings so I can easily assess whether ferry outages affect my plans. I am sure there are more things I will learn to love about this app, but I have only used it for two days and am recommending it to all my family and friends who use the ferries. It does everything from one place and is seamless. My only wishes: easy uploading of tickets into the app when we share tickets from within the app (we ended sharing the ticket through text and then copied and pasted the number into the manual ticket entry window, which is still way better than manually typing in the number or searching through old texts or photos to find the right ticket). The app logo disappears into my phone background and is difficult to find, but I placed it front and center since I will soon be able to access it in my sleep. In the future could the app alert a user to an expiring ticket of remaining uses? That may be pie in the sky, but you’ve made pie in the sky a reality already, so who knows. (And these are such minor details). Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Developer Response
Wow! Thank you for this incredible review!!! Your feedback is not at all pie in the sky, I’d love to discuss it with you in more detail. Would you mind reaching out to me@jordansoltman.com so we can discuss a little further? Thanks again!!! 😊
Absolutely a must have for ferry commuters
CorporateTails
I am so glad I found this app. Everything I need in one place. Not only does it have the ferry schedules in there and up to date without all the confusing seasonal changes and fares that are far complicated to make sense of for folks that do t use the ferries on the regular, but it has alerts, a place to keep your tickets and even better - it shows you how many tickets you have left on a multi use ticket. The other app doesn’t even offer that. You can star your favorite Ferris so it places it on top and it automatically determines which direction you are traveling. The ferry booths should be advertising this app for people not the terrible one that the state has made. I love this app and highly recommend it. Great job to the brilliant person that developed it. You made my commuting SO MUCH EASIER!!
Developer Response
Thank you so much for your feedback!!! We love to hear that the ticket feature is being utilized!
Amazing App
robyn_a_f
I’ve lived in WA for 2.5 years, and this app actually changed my life for the better. I love how the app even redirects you to the ferry reservation website for ones like the coupeville port townsend one. When i regularly / daily commuted another ferry, it was great having my reusable ticket scannable from my phone if i ever forgot my wallet and card. I love the arrival times much less mental math that’s hard on my dyscalculic brain.I love saving my favorite routes and quickly swapping between directions, and the cameras being avaliable is the best. The map overview is amazing gosh I cannot list all the incredible features. I would be so lost without this tool. I’ve ended up riding most of the ferry routes with help from this app. I wish I could donate. Thanks for everything you all have accomplished.
Developer Response
Aww thanks so much for the awesome review!!
Great New Features
vashon sailor
This app features all you need to navigate the Washington State Ferry system including the basics you’d expect (schedules), reservations, dock cams, ferry locations, notifications and ticket scan. Accurate, quick, and now essential for any regular commuter or visitor. Love the reservation feature that provides up to the minute information about available space and reservations, and also provides notifications indicating when additional reservations are released. New feature that provides up to the minute information about how the system is performing against scheduled departure times is really useful. If your ferry is going to be late...you’ll know it by simply checking the APP. And it’s all at the bargain price of...free!
FerryFriend 6.0 is a fully redesigned native iOS app with a refreshed look and feel for a smoother, more responsive
experience.
What's new:
• A brand new Apple Watch app with schedules, predictions, and your favorite routes on your wrist
• CarPlay support so you can check sailings, predictions, and favorites without picking up your phone
• Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for one-glance access to your favorite routes
• Drive-time ETAs from your current location, so you know how long it'll take to reach the dock
• Manage and reorder your favorite routes directly from the home screen
• A heads-up on Kingston to Edmonds schedules when the terminal's new boarding-pass system is active, so you don't miss
a stop at the kiosk near Lindvog Road
Also improved:
• New Delay Display setting lets you switch the delay badge between the projected departure time and the time-late
duration
• Low tide warnings can now be turned off in Settings
• Maps can be set to a satellite layer
Version 6.0.0
The developer, True Course LLC, 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 Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Location
Identifiers
Usage Data
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Information
Seller
True Course LLC
Size
53.7 MB
Category
Travel
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Apple Watch Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
Location
This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.