BART Official

San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District

About this app

The official Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) app has arrived. It’s the easiest way to plan your trip and get accurate real time train departures with data straight from BART, along with official service alerts.

The BART app offers exclusive features for hassle free travel for daily commuters, infrequent users and tourists alike:
-Plan your entire end to end trip with BART’s exclusive Trip Planner giving you the fastest route from your starting point to your destination using BART and multiple modes of transportation, including connecting transit, biking, walking and driving.
-Step by step navigation with personalized preferences and saved favorite stations and trips.
-Real time departures and schedule timetable.
-Customized in-app notifications about BART service and announcements.
-Contactless in-app Daily Fee parking payment
-Service disruption information linked to your trip itinerary.
-Report a Biohazard that needs addressing and access our BART Watch App for reporting crimes.
-Escalator and Elevator advisories.
-Fleet of the Future train tracker.
-Cancelled trip notices.
-Easily see the last train of the evening by station when you’re planning your night out or your trip home from the airport.
-Station information (including if it offers a parking lot and secured bike parking).
-Seamless connection to bart.gov and BARTable for deals, events, and fun.
-It’s ad free; who wants to be distracted when looking how far away your train is?

BART is working on future features of the app to enhance your BART experience... Tell us about the features you want.

Ratings and reviews

departure/arrival times are often inaccurate. if the train is on time it's fine, but it's very hit and miss if trains are delayed. For example, a train might be scheduled to arrive at 2:00, but the app says it's delayed 10 minutes, and will arrive at the station at 2:10. But in reality the train has picked up speed and arrives at 2:08. It might not seem like a big deal but if you're walking to the station it can make you miss a train. pretty annoying sometimes.

I have no idea why Location access should be REQUIRED in order to use the BART app to look at train schedules or BART news (like transit delays). Screw that, change it back. update 3/26/26: the 3/11 update has PARTIALLY fixed the problem. i still get the location services pop-up every time I open the app. however, hitting "no thanks" closes the pop-up and the app is then usable. but this still happens EVERY TIME.

I really hate how bart transitioned parking to this app. Now it's required to download ANOTHER app just to pay for parking. Then you need another app to pay for bart. It's so easy to forget to pay for parking now. With EZ-rider I could do everything with one clipper card(app). And after getting a citation, they make you pay through a shady looking website that looks like a fifth grader designed it. On top of that, they charge you a "convenience" fee.

What’s new

Stay connected to real-time BART updates, alerts, multi-modal trip planning and easy parking payments with the official BART app! This update adds a new BART Assistant Chat feature in beta form to provide trip planning support. Ask schedule and parking questions via text or voice and it will respond. Let us know how it is working so we can improve and grow its functions