BART Official

The official Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) app has arrived.

The official Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) app simplifies your travel across the Bay Area. With accurate, real-time train departures and service alerts straight from BART, users can effortlessly plan trips from start to finish using the exclusive Trip Planner. This feature integrates multiple transport modes including transit, biking, walking, and driving for the fastest routes.

Enjoy personalized navigation, saved favorites, in-app notifications about service, contactless daily parking payments, and updates on disruptions. Additional features include reporting safety concerns, escalator and elevator status, a tracker for the Fleet of the Future trains, and details for each station such as parking availability. Ad-free and constantly evolving, the app aims to enhance your BART experience for commuters and tourists alike.

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By:: San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District
Downloads:: 348,827+ 1.12K
Rating:: 2.62
(461)
Version:: 2.2.1 (Last updated: 2025-03-05)
Version code:: 124
Creation date:: 2018-11-11
Permissions:: android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID
android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION
android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION
android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION
android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE
android.permission.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION
android.permission.FLAG_GRANT_WRITE_URI_PERMISSION
android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE
android.permission.INTERNET
android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS
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Size:: 48.76M
Email:: we*****@bart.gov
URLs:: Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:: See detailed description
Source:: Google Play Store
Updated:: a day ago

Ranking

# 106,603 ▲ 114

User reviews

Users appreciate the app's clear train departure info and parking payment features, but commonly mention frustrating issues like unreliable real-time updates, slow trip planning, complicated parking transactions, resetting default stations, and general usability problems. Many find the app clunky with poor responsiveness, limited customization, and bugs that impact everyday use.

Pros

Provides necessary BART train departure information clearly.
Includes parking payment functionality for BART stations.
Offers trip planning and favorite trip features.
Useful for new or infrequent BART riders.
Some users find it a decent official app compared to third-party alternatives.

Cons

Parking payment process is cumbersome and has usability issues, including requiring multiple clicks and initial deposits.
App often lacks real-time accuracy and live updates, making train times and cancellations unreliable.
Trip planner functionality is buggy, resets date/time unnecessarily, and is slow to fetch results.
Poor user experience and clunky interface design, with limited customization options like default stations resetting and inability to adjust arrival times.
Issues with app stability such as losing parking payment options, app needing to be restarted to refresh times, and problems logging in or managing accounts.

Recent reviews

Daily parking payment 4 clicks too many unless you setup a wallet auto pay. I use this app for the daily parking irregularly weekly. 2 clicks for all is ideal. Otherwise the parking payment is fine. As for the line up at or near the station, sometime is off or behind, takes some time to sync with the actual real time display at the station

Foggy Ridge, 2025-01-07

It's... Okay. The default station always resets to 12th Street, even if you have stations starred. No way to customize, what are we, iOS users? Edit: Thanks for the response, but you should consider the fact that regular users may not want to turn on location services. Edit: it would be good to include a functional for reporting maintenance issues on trains (like the Bart police app). Seats/ cabins are frequently dirty these days, and doors between trains are starting to stick.