Bonjour RATP for Android

NYC MTA really needs to copy this app. It even tells you where to get on the train (front middle or rear of the car) and which exit to take from the metro stations to get to your destination. Love this app. Wish we had this in NYC but you’d have to pay for it because nothing is free in America.

Visiting Paris and love riding the trains. Incredible how easy this app makes getting around. Just like Waze you input a destination but it converts your route to all the pieces you need to get from point A to B, including what exits to take from the metro, where to position yourself on the metro for an easy exit, and then showing you the final walking instructions. So impressive!

Super — far better than the Exit Strategy app for the NY subway system. We’ve met other tourists here in Paris & advised them to get this app. Thank you.

The convenience of having a reloadable pass vs the tickets is quite nice, however even after loading my Navigo Easy pass to the app (scanning it), if I try to tap the Android 13 pro to use the pass on my phone, it opens Google Pay (and the app can’t be added as a transit pass), so I have to use the physical Navigo Easy card. Also, after scanning the pass, the app does not continue to show the remaining number of tickets unless I rescan. This seems like a huge gap in functionality unless I’m missing something.

This app is so easy to use, accurate (e.g., when next train is coming), has real-time updates (e.g., line closures due to strikes - and there are so many! - or construction), etc. Two of my *favorite* features? Because this app is made by the RATP itself (i.e., real locals on the ground), it knows how critical it is to tell you not only which metro stop to use, but also precisely which of the many numbered exits at such metro stop to use, and which metro cars (e.g., front, middle, end of the train) you should choose in order to be closest to said exit upon arrival. For example, at a HUGE and complicated station like Chatelet, where multiple lines meet, and different exits can themselves be several minutes’ walk apart, this is verrry useful to know. Also, you can buy tickets and top up metro passes (I believe you need to first *have* a rechargeable metro pass to do either task) on the app itself - so convenient! I’ve spent tons of time in Paris as both a temporary resident and a tourist since the ‘90s (the days of using my Paris Par Arrondissement and my paper(!) Carte Orange to get around) - this app is a revolution!