iCaltrain 1.0 now available in App Store
iCaltrain app is now in the App Store. If you’re already an iCaltrain web app user, you’ll love the speed and smoothness of this app.
iCaltrain is fast and simple to use. It includes:
- scheduled arrivals for today, weekdays, and weekends (no Internet access required!)
- ticket price and zone information
- multi-touch Caltrain system map
- one-touch return trip schedule
The next two trains’ arrival times for today are instantly shown as you select the stations. The full schedule view automatically scrolls to the upcoming trains for today, too.
Location support is under beta testing right now and will be introduced as an free update.
October 4th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
As a long-time icaltrain web app user I’m happy to pay for the same thing as a standalone app. This is so much more, though. Thank you very much.
October 8th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Downloading now. As a regular user of the website, I’m looking forward to trying out the native application.
October 30th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
utterly useless unless you’re going to give us delay info. waiting at a the train station for hours when you knew there was a delay when a pickup was hit at 5am.
October 30th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Please ignore my original comment. I love your ap, and have it. And find it very useful. I thought Caltrain themselves were sponsoring an ap, without any info about delays, which is what i really want. They seem completely unable to even post a three hour delay on their website. Sorry about the rant, this morning sucked at the train station!
December 13th, 2008 at 7:56 am
Please make a schedule for the The Bus transit system in Honolulu Hawaii. Thank you
December 15th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
I love the web app, but I’m terribly disappointed at the high price of this app.
It seems like this app could be funded the same way the web app is, with adds. As nice as it would be to have a native version of the app, $5 is just so much. According to AppleInsider, the average cost of an iPhone app is $2.29.
Personally, this app looks along the lines of most of the $.99 cent apps on the iTunes store. It’s a handy service, but I just feel you could drastically increase your sales with a drastic price decrease.
December 25th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Awesome app! Well done!
One suggestion: if the current day is a weekday holiday, iCaltrain should display the weekend/holiday schedule.
Keep up the great work!
January 3rd, 2009 at 5:17 pm
I noticed that iCaltrain costs $5, while iBART is a free application! why are you charging users for this application? if it was free, I’d stop using my palm pilot all together! thanks!
January 7th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Looks like a very nice app! Location support will be very nice.
Do you have any plan to make it get schedule updates over the network? Or, will you have to create a new version of the app every time Caltrain updates schedules or fares? Speaking of which, there are new fares that went into effect 1/1/09, apparently. Are you doing an update?
January 8th, 2009 at 11:52 am
I love you site. Is it updated for 2009 times?
January 9th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Add AM/PM or military time field.
January 10th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Can you please look into updating the fare information. I copied the below info from the Caltrain website. I was bummed my fare is now 4.25 for two zones. But i still had money left over to buy this app!
Caltrain Fare Increase Begins Jan. 1
Caltrain’s new fares go into effect Thursday, Jan. 1. The 25-cent increase to the base fare, with multi-ride tickets and passes adjusted accordingly, will help offset volatile fuel prices and increasing costs.
January 16th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
@Brad
iCaltrain app 1.0.1 is now in the App Store and has the new fare. The next version, 1.1, will be released in Feb and has the upcoming March 2009 schedule change.
January 16th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
@Jon,
The AM/PM labels are in the section heading. I tried putting them inline, but that made the schedule harder to read.
The App Store version has them inline. You can check out the screenshots in iTunes and see if you like it better.
January 16th, 2009 at 9:48 pm
@Jessica,
Glad you find the app useful. Both the iCaltrain App and web app have the most up-to-date schedule.
FYI, the 2009 schedule change will take place in March. Caltrain misprinted their paper schedule and incorrectly stated that there was a schedule change.
January 16th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
RE: schedule updates.
My goal is to update the iCaltrain schedules for both the App Store and web versions on the same day of the schedule change.
iCaltrain App users will need to update to v1.1 for the March 2009 schedule change, which I expect to release some time in Feb.
February 4th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Okay, I know this is dorky, but is there a chance of putting a small Caltrain graphic on the icaltrain.com site that can be picked up when bookmarking on the iPhone? Thanks.
February 4th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Ah, I had the m.icaltrain.com site bookmarked before. I see the red iCaltrain logo with the other site. Thanks for doing that!
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June 15th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Just wanted to say thank you to quickly responding to my January 10 message. The changes in the iCaltrain app were just what I was asking for. Thank you.
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