TMB App (Metro Bus Barcelona)

Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona

About this app

TMB App
The easiest way to travel around Barcelona and the metropolitan area.

Move smarter with a faster, simpler and more personalised travel experience.

• Plan and travel your way : combine bus, metro and shared bikes from Bicing, AMBici, Donkey Republic, Cooltra and Bolt — all in one place.
• Manage T-mobilitat instantly : buy, top up and validate your cards in seconds. Pay quickly and securely with GPay and Apple Pay.
• Save your favourites : keep your preferred places, routes, stops and stations at hand. Get real-time updates and personalised alerts about service disruptions.
• Your personalised dashboard : access key travel information at a glance, organised around your needs.
• Scan and go : use smart scanning to access ddTag timetables, service notices and live arrival times.
• Stay informed: check the news and alerts sections to keep up to date with the latest public transport updates.

Ratings and reviews

This app, like the ticketing system for the Barcelona Metro overall, is flipping useless, frustrating, and downright awful. It's too bad since the trains are great. After 2 days of waiting in long lines at slow ticket machines to pay inflated prices for short rides, we realized taxis are both cheaper and faster and gave up on the Metro entirely. They seem to want to prohibit (or maybe just shakedown) visitors. Having ridden many transit systems around the world, this one was very disappointing.

The app has significant drawbacks: 1) It charges 1 EUR for no reason if you want to use it as an e-ticket via NFC; 2) T-casual/T-familiar tickets require verification of your ID. It can take up to 48h. Impossible to buy a ticket in the app immediately after you arrive in Barcelona; 3) It's damn slow and lags loading the ticket; 4) The app is useless w/o an internet connection; 5) Not all credit cards are accepted. You can avoid all this by simply buying a physical ticket from a ticket machine.

update: I resolved the problem which turned to be caused by my phone time was set about a minute faster than automatic time. worked great until new update. am still able to use it to, but it says it can't sync w wallet. can't access acct. so I can't refill my ticket when it expires. keeps saying to try in five minutes. it's been a few days. I've tried clearing cache + data, uninstalling and reinstalling... same problem "try in five minutes." I've tried rolling back to v20.18... same problem.

What’s new

You can now check the departure platform for the next train (platform 1 or platform 2) at terminal metro stations. Sign up for T-mobilitat using your passport directly from TMB App. In OnBus, a new hand icon shows you which items you can tap to view information.