ProximiT: MBTA Boston Transit App Reviews

This app is phenomenal. Its accurate and gives real time updates. Im no longer rushing to South Station hoping to avoid the dreaded train departing as I approach the platform. This honestly helps everyday. Much better than other apps / copycats out there.

On the orange line, app said there was a train coming in 1 min and 6 min. I didnt rush for the first train because there was one right behind it. I get to the station 5 min go by says the train is arriving wait another minute and now it says the nonexistent train is boarding! It is nowhere to be found and now Im stuck here without any clue as to what is going on. I also can not communicate with the app to let it know something strange is happening. Generally the app is pretty good but to not offer any user feedback is a huge mistake.

I find this app to be very accurate most the part. Only a couple of times when the train was a bit early. Otherwise, thus is the first app I go to when want to know when the next train is coming period!

This app helps a lot! Really accurate subway schedules

The app was correct the only time Ive used it so I cant really comment on that, but....., Why does the app need to know my location in the background? I only want to know about the train when Im taking the train which is when I open the app. I dont need alerts otherwise. There should be a "while in use" option for the location services. Draining my battery for no reason

Great but needs bus tracking

Pretty useful for traveling around Boston. Sometimes has issues around loading train information

Was walking to Davis wondering if I would catch or miss the train. Downloaded this app and it told me the train was less than a minute away. I stepped it up to a jog and made the train just in time. Very grateful already to this app.

Great App. I use it all the time for the red & orange line. Additional functionality for the green line would be great, but I love how well it works for the other lines!

Customization options are great.

this app is (often) accurate nice design - has a very simple interface, uncluttered, no spam, no ads, and tells you a valuable piece of info: how much time you have to make the next train. sounds great, right? two problems: 1. sometimes (roughly 20% of the time the app is significantly inaccurate). maybe sometimes it can’t get train location data from the MBTA and falls back to using schedule data - i don’t know. but as a user, you have no way to tell (through the simple interface) whether it the app is going to be scary-accurate (where it tells you within 5 seconds of when the doors on the train are closing) or randomly inaccurate. it would be much better for me if the app could say “i don’t know” or flag the times as “best guess” or whatever in situations where it can’t get up-to-date data - just giving bad estimates undermines confidence and makes the app much less useful overall. 2. it doesn’t work well at end-of-line stops (like Alewife, in my case) where the train departure seems to depend on semi-random variables like how long the conductor takes to walk from one end of the train to the other, or how long it takes for someone to come back from bathroom break or whatever (vs. just interpolating arrival time from when the train passes the previous stop). so the app doesn’t really inspire much confidence in predicting alewife departures. my comments are based on using this app on the red line - performance may be different for other lines.

Very good tool

Good app Should be easier to Chang preferences after setting up. Good effort by T to deal with a system that has ancient equipment, a single track system, and is in desperate need of financial infusion. I suggest our governor drive to Wonderland, and go to Park Street some morning to get to work, and reverse the order going home. Subway was good enough for Mayor Bloomberg while in office. Charlie in the MTA for a few days might be educational.

Elegant design, no ads, no in-app purchases. Altruistic. Note that the MBTA only provides partial Green Line info for now so the app wont be perfect. If you dont like the Green Line info youd be best off not signing up for the preview when you open the app for the first time.

This app doesnt always work for the blue line, but its far superior to any other app thats tries to do the same!

Not the best app. Just happy to finally have a ballpark estimate after years of being envious of other lines having gps The C line is never correct. I have gotten estimated arrivals for inbound and then it turns out being an outbound train and vise versa.

Very accurate

Highlight your favorite stations and directions and youll know about issues anytime, and schedules as you arrive.

Its a good app, but Id like to see every station on the Green Line so we know where the trains are...

Been using ProximiT for over a month now and am really impressed with it. Its extremely accurate, and I love the push messages with T updates and ETA. Havent missed a train since!