We built Reroute, so take the "winner" with that in mind. This page compares Reroute against Transit, Google Maps, and Citymapper on specific, checkable capabilities, not vibes, and it says plainly where the other three are ahead.
Capabilities checked against each app's own public listings and documentation, mid-2026. Features change; if something here is out of date, we'd like to know.
"—" means we couldn't verify that capability from the app's own materials, not that it definitely doesn't exist.
| Capability | Reroute | Transit | Google Maps | Citymapper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-agency GTA coverage in one search | Yes, 40+ agencies in one call | Yes, TTC, GO, YRT & more | Yes, broad transit data | Yes, TTC, GO, YRT, MiWay & more |
| Driving vs. transit, ranked together | Yes, one ranked list | — | Separate driving / transit tabs | Cost & time compared across modes |
| Hybrid park-and-ride routing | Yes, drive-to-station routes | — | — | — |
| TTC delay intelligence | ML risk model, 393K+ records | Live GPS-based predictions | Live disruption alerts | Live vehicle tracking |
| Live vehicle positions | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Fare / cost comparison across modes | Yes, fare & cost in the ranking | Per-trip transit fares | Transit fares only | Yes, cost, CO2 & calories |
| Turn-by-turn navigation | Transit, driving & walking | Transit & walking | All modes | Transit & walking |
| Price | Free (public beta) | Free, optional Royale tier | Free | Free |
Transit has the deepest crowdsourced real-time data of the group: riders report bus locations and crowding in cities where agencies don't publish GPS feeds, and its prediction engine has been tuned specifically on that data for years. It also covers over a thousand cities worldwide, which Reroute, focused on the GTA, doesn't attempt to match.
Google Maps is on almost every phone already, covers driving navigation more completely than any transit-first app, and has shown real-time TTC arrivals and disruption alerts since 2016. For a one-off trip in a city you don't know, that ubiquity is genuinely useful.
Citymapper covers a comparably broad set of GTA agencies to Reroute, and its cost, CO2, and calorie comparison across modes is a feature Reroute doesn't currently have.
Reroute isn't trying to be the best transit app at everything. It's built around one specific question: for this trip, right now, across the whole GTA, is transit, driving, walking, or a hybrid park-and-ride actually the best way there, and by how much. That's a driving-vs-transit comparison in one ranked list, a delay-risk read built from real TTC history instead of a generic live-GPS estimate, and hybrid routing that treats parking at a station as a real option, not an afterthought. If that's the question you're usually asking, Reroute is built for it. If you want the deepest real-time crowdsourcing or worldwide coverage, the apps above are honestly better at those specific things.
It depends what you need. If your question is often "should I drive or take transit today, and by how much", Reroute is built specifically to answer that across the whole GTA. If you want the broadest possible city coverage worldwide or crowdsourced real-time reports, Transit or Citymapper are strong, mature choices. If you just want turn-by-turn driving directions everywhere, Google Maps is hard to beat.
We built it, so read it with that in mind. We've tried to only make claims we could verify against each app's own public listings and documentation, and we've marked what we couldn't verify with a dash instead of guessing. If you spot something out of date, we'd genuinely like to know.
Rocketman, a once-popular TTC-focused app, shut down in November 2022 and was removed from the Google Play Store. It isn't included in the comparison table above because it's no longer available to download or use.
No, not currently. Reroute's live data comes from agency GPS and GTFS-realtime feeds, not from other riders reporting delays or crowding in the app.
Yes, Reroute is free to use during its public beta.
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