Great 2 day offer: iPhone and iPad Sydney public transport planning for only 99c
Enter your travel mode and origin and destination stations and Trip Buddy calculates your route plans live on your phone, finding the best stations to change trains and the fastest journeys. If you have internet access, you can also use the Quick Plan feature to get route planning between any locations serviced by public transport, without knowing the name of the stations or stops.
Thats right, there is also Link and Link Express apps that are free or 99 cents
The main difference is that you can save the planned trips and use them offline (at any time of day, instantly), rather than needing an internet connection to see times. You can also create manual trips (where you specify the station names) and the changeover locations are still calculated automatically (e.g. at one time it may be better to change at Central, another time Town Hall may be better).
The official one is called 'NSW Transport Info 131500 - free trip planning and maps'
However the recent reviews of this imply crashing problems on iOS 6.0
Which has been developed by a German company in Munich… which gives me less confidence that it will work as I need & expect it too.
How come this a deal? No any good reviews? I would give a try if it were free atleast.
Agree. There are free apps doing just that.
This post is just advertising, link to a free unofficial alternative that does the same thing as Trip Buddy https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/link-express/id383841412?mt=…
Yet another tripview rip-off?
Hopefully not! We used to love using tripview ourselves, but we created Trip Buddy out of want for extra features like not having to specify a single changeover station on train journeys, being able to create once-off trips without saving a favourite, and having a quick plan that uses an internet connection to work out the fastest trip between arbitrary points (rather than needing to know the routes before hand).
Plus for those with iPads, a fully designed interface instead of an iPhone one.
But in all fairness, it's entirely true that for some users, tripview is just as useful.
Use the free version!
Trying to charge for something which free apps do = neg
Rep, I want to see the actual time for the next bus for a route (e.g. M20) at my stop - not timetable time.
Do I have to use the SMS service for this?
Yes, you'll need to use the SMS service for that (though we're already preparing to integrate live updates when Transport for NSW releases the API for it in a few months). If you make a favourite trip for the M20 at your stop, you can press the next timetabled service and then press the disclosure button on the M20 leg of the journey for an option to send the txtbus SMS for you.
Does this work on Google maps as well for pre iOS 6?
Expired in less than 2 days after this post.
Nothing should depend on iOS 6, you'll just see a Google map instead of an Apple map on the map screens. The only feature that you won't get is integration with the Maps app itself (providing directions for queries made through Maps), which was only introduced in iOS6 when they removed Google Maps directions - but it's much faster and more useful to make directions through Trip Buddy itself anyway, bypassing the Maps app.
Why pay when you can get th official one for free?