Train Home 4+
UK Train Times
Thomas Thorpe
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
This app is for the commuters. Display all the National Rail and London Overground train departure information you need on one simple screen. No more searching, no more taps. Once you've set it up, open the app and the info you need is always right there in front of you.
The app allows you to add stations that you commonly travel between to your favourites, then the departure board for those journeys will appear right on the app's home screen as soon as you open the app.
The list is ordered by distance from your current location so the trains you're interested in are always right there at the top of your screen.
If your device has GPS (iPhones and some iPads), when you walk into one of your favourite stations you can choose to receive a notification with departure times of the next few trains to your chosen destination. You don't even have to open the app to see when your next train will be, it just appears! As easy as that.
If you use both an iPhone and an iPad your favourite journeys will automatically sync using iCloud - no need to set everything up twice.
If your commute is even more fixed, you can also pin individual trains. Once you’ve decided on a departure, tap on it to pin it. The departure will move to the top of the screen and give you more details about where the train is currently. Once it sets off it’ll stay there, even when the departure has dropped off the station’s departure board, keeping you updated with the last station you passed through, your estimated arrival time, platform and any delays.
All the information comes direct from National Rail Enquiries so will be as up to date and real time as the station boards. We're all creatures of habit, if you find yourself often travelling between the same stations (for work or pleasure), this is the app for you!
Note: This isn't a journey planner. Only direct train services between stations will show up, the app won't suggest connections. But once you've found out the connection points of your journey, add them into this app to keep up to date with the train times.
What’s New
Version 4.2
Improvements to the colour scheme for the Journey Details view when in Dark Mode
Ratings and Reviews
Perfect!!!
This app is a god send! The best train app ever on iOS in my opinion. Simple interface, does exactly what you want it to, provides timely and up to date notifications.
What I love:
- Has an Apple Watch app! So useful that it actually just displayed your favourites front and Center with the next departure for the journey you probably make every day for work.
- Keeps things simple and respects iOS design language for consistency.
- The search function is quick and intuitive and makes find a connection a breeze.
- Great that you can refresh times for accurate departure and delays info.
What could be improved:
- It would be great for favourite journeys to be collapsible. It already has the option to show more departures for that journey but sometimes I don’t need to see that far in advance and would find it easier to see all my favourites, tap on one and then journeys appear below it.
- Tips! It’s amazing that the app is free and yet works so well and I’m so glad that it isn’t a subscription. Most people are sick to death of subscriptions. I’d love to be able to support the developer though. Perhaps a tips jar as an in app purchase? I’d love to help out the developer with running costs by sending a tip from time to time.
Amazing work, keep it up! Best train app ever.
Developer Response ,
Thanks so much for your comments and suggestions! And for your kind comment about tips. I’m in a lucky position where I don’t need an income from this app, so I’m just glad to hear stories of people finding it useful :-)
Simply fantastic. Spot on! First class!
I don’t often write reviews unless something is awful or amazing to hell others save their time of find those truly amazing gems out there. Like others I’ve bought plenty of train apps. Something have good functionality but lack good apple watch functionality, others are too clunky to make worth using.
Train home is the best! Let’s face it you want to know when your next train is…and from what platform! This app pops up with that exact info as you enter range of the station via a notification. It has the same info via one touch Apple Watch complication that has simple swipe to show your other fave stations. I use the main phone app a lot but it’s the simple watch integration that’s really amazing. No need to grab your phone, unlock it and give the app, just raise your wrist as you’re walking along and you’ll know what you need in a second.
Hats for to the dev who replied within a few mins to a question I had…I was expecting a few days!
Truly an incredible app. First class.
Fantastic App
I have tried many train time apps and this is by far the best I have come across. It’s so easy and intuitive, whenever I turn up at a station I open the app and the train times are presented. Once you have saved your favourite journeys they are all there and ordered by distance. Can’t believe this app is free, I would happily pay cold hard cash for it 😀 Almost forgot the app also features a tremendous Apple Watch app that gives you all the info you need quickly and clearly. Had a quick question for the developer and he got back in touch in a matter of minutes. Thanks very much it’s great.
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Information
- Provider
- Thomas Thorpe
- Size
- 42.6 MB
- Category
- Travel
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 9.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 3.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2017 Thomas Thorpe
- Price
- Free