"A thing of beauty" — The Atlantic Monthly
"iBART is the best transportation-related iPhone application I've seen" — LA Times
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iBART is a transit application for the Bay Area Rapid Transit system. It is essential to all BART riders — from the occasional to the daily, the tourist to the commuter.
It includes:
- A trip planner (no internet required)
- Station information
- Scheduled arrivals
- A handsome multi-touch BART map
- Service advisories
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Feedback is greatly appreciated at support@pandav.us
Note: iBART and iBART Live are not funded by or directly affiliated with Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). These applications were made by two Bay Area natives who wanted to make BART easier to use for all riders. 2011 Pandav, Inc.
iBART (Free) reviewed by Users
Wow! I tried out one of the paid BART apps and i have to say that it was a waste of money...iBart has all of the information a BART rider needs, from a trip planner, BART system map, contact and address information for the various BART stations and even advisory notifications...and best of all it's FREE! I was also impressed by the smooth interface, everything seems pretty straightforward and menus are easy to navigate. The only thing i would recommend would be perhaps adding more times when using trip planner, maybe from 5 to 10 options...other than that, this is an invaluable tool for Bay Area (and non-Bay Area!) BART riders, and you can't beat the price! Sure, you could just go to the BART website using Safari, but having an app like this is not only a time-saver but everything is easily readable on the iPhone screen with no need to zoom in/out or type anything out on a webpage. You guys at Pandav rock! - iBART (Free) review by jcde7ago
Misses some trips involving transfers My daily commute takes me between El Cerrito del Norte and Millbrae every day, so it's the first trip I tried out when testing this app for the first time. iBART consistently thinks that it's impossible to get from one to the other after 7:00 pm on weekdays, which is when the direct trains stop running and you need to transfer twice.This is a great-looking app, and for trips that don't involve transfers it seems to work great. But if it can't come up with alternate times for a trip I have to take every day, that really limits its usefulness for me, and I don't find myself using it much except when I'm underground at a station where I can't get a signal. As I already know where transfers will be, I can work around it by calculating the trip one leg at a time, but in that case if I'm in cell phone range it's faster just to go to the mobile trip planner on BART's website, which I keep bookmarked on my home screen. - iBART (Free) review by dsm101
Very impressed! As someone who has experimented with other iPhone BART applications, I can say with complete confidence that this application is the best! Without a doubt, the easy-to-use interface makes this application the number one choice, and that's without mentioning the features. The developers nailed the basics, including easy trip planning, an interface impossible to get confused by, and a wonderful zoomable multi-touch map. But what really impressed me were the places where this application goes above and beyond your run-of-the-mill BART iPhone application. The ability to locate the closest BART station with the touch of a button is invaluable for me. The station information pages are another great feature. I am very impressed with this application, and would highly recommend it to frequent BART commuters, occasional riders, or anyone in the Bay Area who owns an iPhone or iPod Touch. Did I mention the zoomable map? - iBART (Free) review by jschwartz
Amazing I ride BART to go to school. It's an amazing form of transportation. Relatively cheap, quick, all you could ask for. This app makes the checking times fast and efficient. - iBART (Free) review by a film student
SIMPLY BRILLIANT!!! U GUY'S ROCK!!! - Smooth User Interface, great Map & even better then the paid ones i bought!can you guy's make apps like this for some other cities also please - like NYC & London?! - iBART (Free) review by dodifoddiNODDY!
Train Operator gives thumbs up! As a Bart employee I think this app is great and very easy to use for you Bart riders. I just hope people get this app and use it all the time instead of asking me questions that can be easily answered by getting this great app. - iBART (Free) review by Hassany San
Nicely Done - One feature request I love the app -- has all the info you might need (including trains arriving at a station -- via Stations menu).Two features would put it over the top:1. A new stations group, perhaps called 'Close to Me' which shows 3 closest BART stations. This will allow the users to: a. select closest station from 'Stations' menu too (in case the user needs directions to closest BART station)b. get a second chance to pick the closest station in 'Trip Planner' menu -- since the blue icon is sometimes hard to hit.2. A way to reverse 'From' and 'To' in 'Trip Planner' to easily plan a trip back. - iBART (Free) review by bart traveller
Perfect for the occasional BART rider. ...which I am. It will find stations for me, give me a lot of times, and tell me what my fare will be. I actually think I'll use BART more because of this app. - iBART (Free) review by Misanthropic
Awesome, even better with integration Overall, this is a great app. It's free (considering this info is on their website), has a smooth design and implementation of schedules, and has info updates as well. It would be nice that it had train arrival updates (not necessary but great) and if you could implement other public transportation services as well (caltrain, cough :)). Otherwise, awesome app with little lag and great app design. - iBART (Free) review by bulsheki
Hit the nail on the head. It's funny, I reviewed the other BART app and gave it a crappy review for all of the reasons I'm giving this app 5 stars. Great app, perfect execution! This is one of the cases where you get an app for free that you would be willing to spend $5 on (at least).. Get this app, you won't be sorry... - iBART (Free) review by Kr1pto
Functional and free - awesome This provides everything you need as a BART rider. With the advisories, you do not need to jump to a RSS reader to get it from BART, everything is in the app. The only thing missing is real time arrival by station. - iBART (Free) review by commuter999
VERY NICE!! Beautifully done! Very useful, fast, and comprehensive. I just got back from San Fran and wish I'd had this app when I was there. I live in Chicago and wish you could do an app for the Chicago Transit... CTA and Metra. - iBART (Free) review by TriSunnyD
Outstanding! This program is fantastic. It works great- with or without internet connectivity! Outstanding! Best of all...it's free! - iBART (Free) review by Sergisimo
AWESOME!! Great app! I've been waiting for someone to make an app for us in the bay! thanks itunes! - iBART (Free) review by kcg25
Great app...useful, easy, and free! If you live in the Bay Area, ride BART, and have the iPhone, get this application. You can use it to locate the nearest station, plan a trip, review the schedule, get travel advisories, and to see the BART map. To top it off, this application is free. iBART is an awesome example of both how useful the iPhone can be, and the important impact developers can have in how we use the iPhone in the future. Fantastic work! - iBART (Free) review by Andy California
Brilliant This app is really great. The interface is easy to navigate, it's got great features, and...it's free!The trip planner is extremely easy to use and very well done, even including ticket prices & estimated travel time. The stations tab gives great per station info, as well as showing the train lines, and the map image is clean and clear. The service advisories is a nice touch as well! It looks like it caches information for offline use too which is also great as i'm on an iPod.This will definitely see a lot of use from me. Really well done. - iBART (Free) review by misty_ee
Great App! This is a very well designed and thought-out application. The trip planner is intuitive and easy to use, and seems to lend its style from the excellent Bloomberg application. The location feature works very well, and within the few tests that I have performed, it locks on almost immediately. The advisory information is also a great additional feature to the app. Overall, iBART is very responsive and doesn't suffer from the performance lag found in many other applications. I would like to suggest some additional features though:1) Please add a method to quickly access google maps after the location feature has been used. At its current state, once you have found your closest BART station under the trip planner, there is no quick method to get directions to that station without switching to the stations menu, searching for the station, and clicking the address.2) At this point, the map doesn't seem to have any features besides, well, being a map. It would be nice to be able to select stations using the map, and access the station information from there. Perhaps I have been spoiled by the OS X BART widget, but a method of choosing routes visually would make this application spectacular.3) Aesthetically speaking, I'm a bit lukewarm towards the icon and the map. The BART train is a bit ugly, although that is exactly how a BART train looks. The poo brown land mass on the map also makes it a bit hard to read the station names. But for the price of this app, I really can't complain too much! :-DThanks for all your hard work on this Pandav, and thanks for keeping this free! - iBART (Free) review by YaK86
Great free BART schedule application This is a great free application for the BART (Bay Area Transit) Schedule. The only nitpicks I can think of are a way to save the last few trips searched and a button to 'flip' each of the saved trips so you can quickly see when you can travel back. Great job! - iBART (Free) review by bayarea_rider
Really Fine, but... Just one glitch: I create a Trip, but it does not show any Trip results. Same Trip later shows Trips... Go figure. But, otherwise, this is a Really Fine App. - iBART (Free) review by FredRisard
Yes Free! This is Free, better than the other application out there that charges you for the same thing. Would be 5 stars if it can include LIVE arrival times on Bart trains. - iBART (Free) review by lwabbit
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iBART Live - iPhone Navigation Application "A thing of beauty" — The Atlantic Monthly
"iBART is the best transportation-related iPhone application I've seen" — LA Times
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Your time is valuable. Use iBART Live and don't wait for the train!
From the makers of the acclaimed iBART, iBART Live is an intelligent transit... Pandav - Released: May 28, 2009 - Vote(s): 81
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"iBART is the best transportation-related iPhone application I've seen" — LA Times
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