One search, one departure board, one planner, one way to follow a ride — across borders and across every kind of transport. Trains, S-Bahn, metro, tram, bus and ferry, with live delays, cancellations and platform changes. No account, no ads.
iPhoneiOS 18 or later
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Actual app interface, English demonstration journey.
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A trip through Europe usually means ÖBB Scotty in Austria, SBB Mobile in Switzerland, DB Navigator in Germany, Rejseplanen in Denmark, NS in the Netherlands, SL or SJ in Sweden and SNCF Connect in France. RailNow is one app for all seven: the same search, the same departure board, the same planner, whichever border you cross.
One search covers a country’s whole network, not only its railways.
ICE, Railjet, TGV, InterCity, RE and IR on the same board as everything else.
City rail with its own platforms, its own delays and its own live board.
U-Bahn, métro and T-bana: the minutes until the next departure, live.
Every stop in the line’s real order, with the vehicle’s position where it is published.
Regional and city buses in the same search as the trains, with the same live updates.
Harbour and lake crossings appear as ordinary departures, with the same alerts.
Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden and France include local transport today.
Five services, one board. Wien Hbf at 13:18: a Railjet to Zürich, an S-Bahn three minutes late from a changed platform, a U-Bahn, a tram and a bus.
Your ride on the Lock Screen. The next stop, the platform and the delay, updated from the server while the phone stays in your pocket. Part of Pro.
The Live Activity design
Platform changed
Monday, August 31
13:37
RJ 645:00
Budapest-KeletiWien Hauptbahnhof
810 A–C+18 min
Still at Wien Hbf, 18 minutes late. RailNow tells you your train now leaves at 13:42, from platform 10 A–C.
The wording above is demonstration content.
Compare the routes, then follow one. Fastest, fewest changes, best overall, and then the journey itself, leg by leg and platform by platform.
RailNow matches your service to real railway geometry, so the line on the map follows the rails instead of cutting across the country. The kilometres in your Passport follow that route, not a straight line.
The line follows the rails. Wien to Graz over the Semmering, matched to real railway geometry.
A confirmed journey becomes part of your Railway Passport: kilometres from the route your train really took, the countries and networks you have explored, statistics, achievements and a share card.
A year of travel on one shelf. Completed journeys, the countries you explored, the achievements earned and the stations still waiting.
RailNow Pro syncs your Journal through your own private iCloud database.
RAILNOW PRO
Everything you need day to day is free: search, boards, planning, tracking, notifications, maps and the most recent year of your Passport. Pro adds Live Activities on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, and a Passport with no time limit.
$0
Everything a normal trip needs.
$3.99 / month
$24.99 / year Save 48%
Everything in Free, plus Live Activities on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, and a Passport with no time limit. RailNow Pro syncs your Journal through your own private iCloud database.
| Feature | Free | RailNow Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Station and city search | Included | Included |
| Departure boards, platforms and service alerts | Included | Included |
| Real-time delays and cancellations | Included | Included |
| Journey planning with changes and connection risk | Included | Included |
| Ride tracking and notifications in the app | Included | Included |
| Route maps and available vehicle positions | Included | Included |
| Latest saved information offline | Included | Included |
| Favourite stations and routes | Included | Included |
| Achievements and journey statistics | Included | Included |
| Passport: most recent 365 days | Included | Included |
| Live Activities on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island | Not included | Included |
| Unlimited Passport history | Not included | Included |
| Your Journal in your own iCloud | Not included | Included |
Prices in USD; the App Store shows the price in your currency. A subscription renews until you cancel it in App Store settings.
Install it and use it. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to log into.
No advertising SDK, no third-party analytics, no profile of where you travel.
RailNow sells nothing, so it has no reason to steer you towards one particular train.
A nearby lookup sends a position rounded to about 110 metres.
The whole app and this site in fifteen interface languages, with station names kept in their own.
RailNow is a native iPhone app for iOS 18 and later.
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iPhoneiOS 18 or later
