Capital Bikeshare

Lyft, Inc.

About this app

Capital Bikeshare is DC, Virginia, and Maryland’s bike share system, and the first large scale bikeshare in the nation. Capital Bikeshare (CaBi) has thousands of bikes at hundreds of stations across Washington DC, Arlington, Alexandria, Tysons, Reston, Silver Spring, Takoma Park, Bethesda and Chevy Chase. Best of all, it’s available 24/7.

CaBi consists of a fleet of specially designed, sturdy and durable bikes that are locked into a network of docking stations throughout the city. The bikes can be unlocked from one station and returned to any other station in the system, making them ideal for one-way trips. People use bike share to commute to work, meet friends for dinner, or simply cruise around and see new sights. After signing up, all trips under 30 minutes are free.
The CaBi App lets you purchase rides, unlock a bike, and ride right away. You can also view all station locations, see available bikes and docks, and get walking directions to them to start your ride.

The Capital Bikeshare app also shows upcoming public transit departures, including WMATA Metrorail, Metrobus, and shuttle lines, DC Circulator buses, Fairfax Connector buses, Montgomery RideOn buses, Alexandria DASH buses, Prince George’s County TheBus buses, Arlington Regional Transit buses, VRE trains, and the Silver Line Express.

Within the app, you can purchase the following:
Single Ride
Access Pass
Membership

Happy riding!

Ratings and reviews

Frustrating Experience – Not Worth the Hassle I wouldn’t recommend Capital Bikeshare. We wasted a good chunk of our one-day trip just trying to find an open station to return the bikes—many were either full or completely closed. When we finally found one and locked the bikes in place, the return didn’t register in the app, causing more confusion. On top of that, two out of the three people in our group had their apps crash mid-ride. We ended up ditching the bikes and using Lime instead.

Awful app. Inaccurate / misleading pricing descriptions with no support. Bikes will "pause" when you go into a store, and then be un-ridable when you come back to un-pause. I bought a day pass, misunderstanding that this would work for the days rides...it did not, and I was charged separately for each ride, all the while the app would say that the ride was included. Wherever you are, there must be other options that will work properly, and not rip you off. Avoid this company if at all possible.

Interface is not simple enough to navigate. It was too difficult to learn how to set up multiple bikes for family members from one device. While we tried to figure it out, the app just kept charging us for the bike we already scanned. We never figured out how to add additional bikes. Then, docking stations were full or not accessible, so it just kept charging us until we found an empty dock to return the bikes to. Took us way off of our route to return the bikes. We missed a scheduled tour.

What’s new

Thanks for using Capital Bikeshare! We update our app regularly to make your bike rides even better. Every update of the CaBi app includes improvements in speed and reliability. As new features are released, we'll highlight them in the app.

Here is what you can find in our latest update:
- Bug fixes and performance improvements