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.

• Real-time loads, transactions and more
• Load funds instantly
• Load transit passes instantly
• Live transfer window tracking
• Move funds between PRESTO cards
• Lock or unlock your card if it's missing
• Buy and use e tickets for participating transit agencies
• 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
• Pay with Google Pay, debit/credit cards, or saved payment method
• Set up and manage Autoload and Autorenew
• 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
• 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.

There is absolutely no reason to disallow usage of the app when developer options are enabled. You can assume users who have them enabled need to for one reason or another (such as a job in tech), and are more tech savvy and understand the risks of doing so. Makes for an extremely frustrating experience when needing to reload my card in a rush to catch the train.

What’s new

• Real-time loads, transactions and more
• Live transfer window tracking
• Move funds between PRESTO cards
• Lock or unlock your card if it's missing
• Buy and use e tickets for participating transit agencies