Leap Top-up

National-Transport-Authority

About this app

The Leap Top-Up app allows you to instantly check your balance, top-up your Leap Card and purchase tickets - directly from your NFC-enabled device.

Click the app and simply hold your Leap Card to the back of your NFC-enabled Android smartphone to instantly check your balance, purchase or collect a pre-paid ticket, or top-up your Leap Card – anytime, anywhere.

Key Features:
* Check your balance – see the current balance of any Leap Card
* Top-up instantly by using the dial to select a top-up value or tap to enter your desired amount
* Purchase pre-paid tickets and instantly load onto your Leap Card
* Collect pre-paid tickets or tickets bought online from LeapCard.ie
* View your last 5 transactions and last top-up value.
* View your proximity to daily/weekly capping values
* Receive receipts via email for top-ups or purchases made via the app
* Save your payment details
* View your card information at a glance
* View Ticket information for tickets
* View TFI 90 fare details in the app banner
* Submit the customer support query from the app

Note: The Leap Top-up app is only available on NFC-enabled Android devices running Android 6.0 or later.

* Please Note: Users of some NFC-enabled Android devices may experience issues using the app due to the type of NFC technology within their device. The Leap Top-up App requires devices to be capable of “NFC Read/Write” functions. Some entry-level NFC devices are only capable of “NFC Card Emulation”, which is not sufficient for using the Leap Top-up App.

Ratings and reviews

You can't top off if you have an international phone number, which should be clear before or at any point during downloading, turning on NFC, scanning the Leap card, entering the top off amount, and typing in your payment card details. Seeing the card history is helpful but pretty limiting for an app named for the thing you can't do.

Very poor app, top up is fine, but it will not let me save my payment method, so I have to manually input my details every time. any time I try to choose the option to save my card it asks me to make a passcode and confirm it. sometimes it won't even open my keyboard to type in the confirmation code, and when it does, it immediately says "Payment declined" even though I haven't entered any card details.

When holding my leap card to the back of my mobile where the NFC sensor is located, an error message pops up, saying that quit and reopen if the error persists. It only manages to show the account top menu once in a numerous attempts. If you are in a rush, you will miss the train with this app. Disappointed. I hope this will be fixed as soon as possible. UPDATE: As of 07 May 2026, the Leap card can be read by NFC successfully once in every few attempts.

What’s new

Minor bug fixes