PRESTO

Metrolinx

About this app

For security reasons, the PRESTO app is not supported on rooted devices.

With the PRESTO app you can manage your card anytime, anywhere. Loading your PRESTO card has never been easier.

Key Features:
• Convert a physical card to a PRESTO in Google Wallet card to tap with your phone (not available on OC Transpo)
• Get real time updates with PRESTO in Google Wallet card
• Load funds instantly with NFC
• Load transit passes instantly with NFC
• Pay with Google Pay, debit/credit cards, or saved payment method
• Set up and manage Autoload and Autorenew
• Manage up to 10 PRESTO cards
• Check your PRESTO card balances
• View transaction history
• Receive low balance/pass expiry reminders and email receipts for fare purchases
• Buy a PRESTO card and create a PRESTO account
• Display the time that your active transfers will expire with the check balance feature
• Set, modify or remove a default trip for GO Transit rail trips through the settings menu

PRESTO can be used on:
• Brampton Transit
• Burlington Transit
• Durham Region Transit (DRT)
• GO Transit
• Hamilton Street Railway (HSR)
• MiWay (Mississauga)
• Oakville Transit
• OC Transpo (Ottawa)
• TTC (Toronto)
• UP Express (Greater Toronto Area)
• York Region Transit/Viva (YRT/Viva)

Ratings and reviews

For the past month, I have not been able to add money to my virtual Presto Card in my Google Wallet on my Smart Watch. I got to the "buy" button page and pressed the "buy" button, and nothing happened. Called Presto, but they couldn't help or fix it. Emailed Presto, but the issue still hasn't been addressed or acknowledged. **In Respose To Metrolinx 2024-07-05: Yes, I have restarted my watch and reinstalled the app on my phone. I still have the same unresolved issue

This app is intended to facilitate and encourage the use of public transit. It falls woefully short of this and actually discourages it goal. One cannot purchase bus/train fare from the app, you must first find a location to purchase a physical card, completely negating the purpose of an app. Then, when you finally find a place to purchase said card, the app rarely recognizes the app and fails to load the balance. This has got to be one of the worst apps I've ever downloaded. Just avoid it.

Stopped working completely. (At a time when most people need to use it.) It just won't connect to the network anymore. Even tried reinstalling. Basically you're stuck with the website at this point, good luck with loading funds if you want to use them immediately. Edit: I had to uninstall again and reinstall, now it works again! Thanks Edit #2: lol, it worked ONCE. Now it's stuck on the loading screen, or the login screen. Tried reinstalling, tried clearing cache/data, nothing works.

What's new

• Security Updates
• Updated menu selection
• Implementing Two-Step Verification
• Update to Contactless Transaction History for anonymous users