TrainiaciPhone app

Trainiac for iPhone

Keep a record of every train you take.

Pick your train when you get on and Trainiac fills in the rest: the real times, the platform and the route. It works across Great Britain, and on Caltrain and BART.

Get the beta

It’s free on iPhone through TestFlight.

Today’s GWR train from London Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads, before it leaves: the route on a map, the Class 800 that will run it, and its platform, predicted as 5, likely.
The Trainiac map: every journey you’ve taken drawn along the tracks of Great Britain, with a live card for the train to Bristol you’re about to catch, above your next trip from Reading to London Paddington.
The Add a journey screen: a field for where you got on and one for where you got off, above your recent trips, such as Reading to London Paddington.
A journey from Reading to London Paddington logged for a Saturday in November, with a note at the top: now leaves 10:12, was 10:05, the timetable for this train changed.

Add a train

Pick the train you’re on.

Say where you got on and off, then tap your train.

Log a trip with changes
If you change trains, log the whole trip in one go.
Know your platform before it’s announced
Big stations announce platforms late, so we predict yours and tell you how sure we are.
Log trains you’ve booked ahead
You can log a train weeks before you travel. If its times change or it’s cancelled, the journey says so.
A logged LNER journey from King’s Cross to Edinburgh: the route on a map, a render of the Class 801 Azuma that ran it, departed 09:02 from platform 8 and arrived 13:37 at platform 4, 17 minutes late, in coach K, seat 9.

Journeys

Find out how each journey went.

We save every stop with its real times, your platform and the route the train took. You can add your coach, seat and notes too.

See the train you rode
Every journey shows a 3D model of your train in its operator’s colours.
Follow it live
On the day, see where your train is and how late it is running.

Passport

Fill up your rail passport.

Every station you visit gets an ink stamp, every operator a ticket and every train a builder’s plate. You can look back over all of it or one year at a time.

The Passport tab: a ticket for all time from London King’s Cross to Bristol Temple Meads with 2,547 miles, 16 trips and 37 stations on it, above a page of ink stamps for King’s Cross and Leeds.
Further down the Passport tab: tickets for LNER and GWR, a departure board of records such as the longest trip and the worst delay, and builder’s plates for Class 800 and Class 801 trains.
The Friends tab: Priya is on a train to Norwich, next stop Ipswich, 3 minutes late; Tom is heading to Brighton and leaves in 15 minutes from platform 4. Below, “You and Sam were on the same train”.
A friend’s page, Priya Shah: her 360 miles against your 2,547, with trips, time on board, stations and operators compared, the train she is on now, and her journeys on a map.

Friends

See when your friends are on a train.

Follow a friend’s train while they’re on it, and look back at where they’ve been.

Share a journey
Send a link to show someone one of your journeys. They won’t see your seat, coach or notes.
Invite friends with a link
Give someone your invite link and they can add you as a friend.
Compare your trains with a friend’s
Open a friend’s page to see their trains on a map and your miles against theirs.

Where it works

Trainiac works on two railways so far.

Great BritainThe national network
Every passenger train in England, Scotland and Wales is in Trainiac, with live times and platforms.
San Francisco Bay AreaCaltrain and BART
You get their timetables and live times, shown in California time.
The field guide’s Headcode entry: a train’s four-character code like 1A23, broken into its parts.

Field guide

Learn what the railway’s words mean.

The field guide explains words like headcode, berth and TIPLOC in plain English. Tap a train’s headcode to see what it tells you. The guide is on the web too.

What else you can do

  • Bring your old trips with you

    Import your Trainline bookings. You sign in on Trainline’s own page, so Trainiac never sees your password.

  • Use it without signal

    Your journeys, passport and friends are saved on your phone.

  • Keep a journey private

    Your friends can see a journey from an hour before it leaves, unless you mark it private.

  • Sign in with Apple or a passkey

    You can set up both, so you’re never locked out.

  • Add a profile photo

    Only your friends can see it. If you don’t add one, we show your initials.

  • Look around a random train

    If you’re not on a train, open one that’s running somewhere in Great Britain right now.

Start with the next train you take.

Trainiac is free, and it’s in beta for now.

Get the beta

It’s free on iPhone through TestFlight.