VIA Rail – The Canadian 4+

And the award for worst app in the app store goes to…..🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁

Via Rail Canada!

One would think this would be the perfect place to find schedules and...going out on a limb here… book a trip!

But no. This genius app does none of these things.

It's very nice if you want to learn about the train and are able to read French. But if you are an English speaker and are hoping to to accomplish an important task quickly, you will be very disappointed. Very disappointed, because you waste about 10 minutes to download and then come to the determination that this is nothing but a terrible commercial for what appears to be a beautiful train.

Pro tip...
Bring a magnifying glass if you are over 15 years old because they used font size .0005 to label navigation.

We are booked on the Canadian...Vancouver to Toronto...in mid-2025, and are very excited about the trip. I wanted to understand a little better what we have in store. I had no idea this app existed...just stumbled across it a few days after we booked the trip.

People rate apps based on lots of things. I care about whether the app does what it advertises. This doesn't claim to be a booking site, and it's not, so I don't hold that against it. Rather, this app claims that you will get to know the Canadian train. Which you absolutely do. So, five stars.

THE WORST. I have traveled the world and used rail apps everywhere but this is truly a hunk of junk. You can’t even use it on an iPhone MAX because the screen will not adjust to vertical and the print is so tiny you can’t get to any of the portals. I cannot believe this is a national railway company. This is absolutely inexcusable.