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

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.

Constantly signs you out of the app. Frequently have to reset password because of this. Overall an inconvenience compared to physical tokens or loading at a Presto machine edit: a year after this original review, the app still signs you out after about 2-3 days of inactivity. what's the point in a "remember me" option on the sign in page?

What’s new

• Improved accessibility on card number and email verification screens
• Fix for duplicate order issue in voucher redemption
• Updated GO Default Trip information page