Apps Similar to Rome2Rio: 5 Alternatives in 2026

Disclosure: I built NomadSwipe (Android), and it is one of the apps compared, so read its entry with that in mind. Rome2Rio, Omio, Trainline, Citymapper and Google Maps facts checked on 11 November 2026. Last updated 11 November 2026.

Apps similar to Rome2Rio are Omio and Trainline if you want to book the ticket in the app, Citymapper for live transit inside one city, and Google Maps for directions and saved places. Rome2Rio answers “how do I get from A to B”; NomadSwipe answers “what do I do once I am in the city”. See also how to plan a trip on a map.

Quick comparison

App	Answers	Coverage, as its own listing says	Sells tickets in the app	Saves
Rome2Rio	How do I get from A to B, by any mode	Train, bus, ferry, flight and driving; 10M+ locations; 160+ countries	No: sends you to operator or booking sites	Trips and itineraries on web (account needed); apps unclear
Omio	Which train, bus, flight or ferry to book	2,000+ providers in 45 countries (Play); 3,000+ companies in 45+ countries (App Store)	Yes, with mobile tickets	Your bookings
Trainline	Which train or bus ticket should I buy	260 train and bus companies, UK and Europe	Yes; plans can be saved and tickets locked for up to 7 days	Plans, loyalty and discount cards
Citymapper	How do I get around this city right now	Live transit in named cities (New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and more) plus “many more worldwide”	No tickets listed; compares cab fares and hails rides through partners	Home, Work, go-to stops, favorite lines
Google Maps	How do I get there, and what is there	Driving, walking, cycling and public transport; 250 million businesses and places	No tickets; reservations and hotel booking are listed	Custom lists of saved places
NomadSwipe	What should I do in this city	Real places in the city you pick; no routes between cities	No	Places, as a trip on a map

What Rome2Rio does, according to its own pages

Rome2Rio is a search engine for journeys. Enter any two places, from a country to an address or an airport code, and its help center says each result shows the transport type, total duration and a price estimate, with a schedule page for the option you pick. Its llms.txt calls it a search and discovery product with no checkout flow: you are sent to an operator or booking site to buy. Wikipedia describes it as an Australian multimodal journey planner, founded in 2010 and acquired by Omio in October 2019.

I did not install or test Rome2Rio. What I could check today is that its own pages do not agree with each other, which matters if you are comparing the numbers.

Claim	What one page says	What another says
How many transport companies	Help center: “over 5,000 companies in 160+ countries”	Store listings: “20,000+ operators”. Home page counts: 6,002 train operators, 79,538 bus operators, 4,289 ferry operators, 1,162 airlines (90,991 added together)
Languages	App Store listing and home page selector: 24	Play listing: “Available in 6 languages”
Saving a trip	Store listings: “Save and share routes and itineraries”	Help center, dated 13 October 2026: the Trip Planner is “currently only available on desktop and mobile web browsers”, not yet on its smartphone apps
Booking	llms.txt: no checkout flow on Rome2Rio	Wikipedia: added direct booking in 2016

The counts probably measure different things (routes, operators, brands), and the Wikipedia line is older than the others. I would trust the help center and llms.txt for what the product does now and treat the headline numbers as marketing. Its Play listing shows 1M+ downloads and 4.3 stars from 6.55K reviews; its U.S. App Store listing shows 4.65 from 934 ratings and a price of 0.00.

1. Omio

Best for: comparing and buying a train, bus, flight or ferry in one app

Omio is the closest rival in spirit and, per Wikipedia, Rome2Rio's owner. Where Rome2Rio shows options and hands you off, Omio sells the ticket: its listings say you can compare and book, pay in the app and keep mobile tickets on your phone, with live updates such as platform changes and delays where available. The Play listing says 45 countries and more than 2,000 providers; the U.S. App Store record says more than 3,000 companies across 45+ countries, including Japan's Shinkansen, parts of Southeast Asia and Brazil. Its Play listing shows 10M+ downloads.

Strength: one place to search and pay, with tickets stored in the app.

Weakness: it is a booking app, so it only shows what it sells. Its listings name 45 countries, against Rome2Rio's 160+ (llms.txt).

2. Trainline

Best for: train and bus tickets in the UK and Europe

Trainline's Play listing says you can compare train and bus options from 260 companies, buy digital tickets, get real-time notifications and live timetable tracking, see how busy a train is with Crowd Alerts, and add loyalty and discount cards. It also says you can save plans for later and lock in tickets for up to 7 days, and lists a Cancel for Any Reason add-on. The listing shows 10M+ downloads.

Strength: deeper on rail than a world search, with the live tracking and discounts a booking app needs.

Weakness: Europe and the UK only, per the listing's partner list, and rail and bus only. No flights or ferries are described.

3. Citymapper

Best for: getting around one city by public transport

Citymapper is the answer to a different question from Rome2Rio: not “how do I reach this city” but “how do I get across it”. Its Play listing describes real-time routes across bus, subway, train, ferry, cabs, ride share, bike share, e-scooters and walking, with step-by-step directions, live arrivals and disruption alerts. You can save Home, Work and favorite stops and lines, and open some official transit maps offline. It lists named U.S. cities and says “many more worldwide”; the list is in the app. The listing shows 10M+ downloads. For a walkthrough, see how to use Citymapper.

Strength: live, minute-level transit in the cities it covers.

Weakness: its listing describes no intercity routes or train tickets. Coverage is city by city.

4. Google Maps

Best for: one free app for directions, places and saved lists

Google Maps' Play listing describes live-traffic navigation for driving, walking, cycling and public transport, over 250 million businesses and places with photos and reviews, custom lists of favorite saved places that you can share, offline maps, and reservations and hotel booking. It is the one app here that covers both getting there and what is there. The listing shows 10B+ downloads. Saved-list limits are covered in Google Maps list limits.

Strength: nothing else here pairs routes with a place database this large.

Weakness: it does not compare a train, a bus and a flight side by side the way Rome2Rio does, and its listing mentions no ticket sales.

5. NomadSwipe: the other half of the trip

Best for: deciding what to do in a city once you know how you are getting there

I built NomadSwipe, so weigh this entry with that in mind. NomadSwipe is an Android trip planner. You pick a city and it deals real places one card at a time. Swipe right or tap Save to keep a place, swipe left or tap Skip to pass. Everything you save lands in your trip and is pinned on a map.

NomadSwipe place card for Sail in Lisbon with Skip and Save buttons — A place card with Skip and Save.

NomadSwipe trip map of Lisbon with saved places pinned and the National Pantheon selected — A sample Lisbon trip: 16 saved places on the map.

Where it is not a Rome2Rio alternative

It does not search trains, buses, ferries or flights, show fares or plan a route between cities. Use Rome2Rio, Omio or Trainline for that.
Its listing is for Android, and it has 50+ downloads on Google Play, so it has no track record next to any app above.
The plan without Premium is limited: 3 trips, 2 searched places saved to a trip a month, 2 custom pins a month and a daily limit on saves.

Free to download. Premium is optional, comes as Monthly or Lifetime, and removes those limits. Up to 20 saved trips are available offline after you open them online, per the Play listing. For how the swipe approach compares with other apps, see swipe travel apps for places in a city.

Get NomadSwipe on Google Play

Picking by the question you are asking

You do not know how to get from one place to another: Rome2Rio.
You know the route and want to buy the ticket: Omio, or Trainline for the UK and Europe.
You are in the city and need the next bus or train: Citymapper, or Google Maps.
You are there and want to choose places to go: NomadSwipe, or Google Maps lists.

FAQ

What are the best apps similar to Rome2Rio?

It depends on the job. For booking trains, buses, flights and ferries in one app, Omio. For booking trains and buses in the UK and Europe, Trainline. For live public transport inside a city, Citymapper. For driving, walking and transit directions plus saved places, Google Maps. None of them copies Rome2Rio's global door-to-door search across every mode, so many people keep Rome2Rio for the route and add one of these for the rest.

Is Rome2Rio free?

The app is free to download: its U.S. App Store listing shows a price of 0.00 and its Play listing shows no price. Its Play listing says route searches are unlimited and free. Its home page lists Booking.com, Agoda, Expedia, Omio, Kayak and Mozio as partners, without saying what each one provides. Check the store listing for in-app purchases in your country.

Can you book tickets on Rome2Rio?

Its own llms.txt, read on 11 November 2026, says there is no checkout flow on Rome2Rio and that users are sent to operator or booking sites to buy. Wikipedia says it added direct booking in 2016, so older write-ups may describe a different product. Omio and Trainline are the two apps here that sell tickets inside the app.

Does Rome2Rio save trips or places?

Partly. Its help center says you can create an account, save a trip and build an itinerary between multiple locations, and that this is currently only on desktop and mobile web browsers, not yet on its phone apps. Its store listings still say "Save and share routes and itineraries". I did not test the app, so check before you rely on it. It does not describe saving restaurants, sights or other places to visit.

Who owns Rome2Rio?

Wikipedia says Omio, a Berlin-based booking platform, acquired Rome2Rio in October 2019, and Rome2Rio's home page still lists Omio among its partners. Rome2Rio's own pages name its company as Rome2Rio Pty Ltd.

Is there an app like Rome2Rio for deciding what to do in a city?

I built NomadSwipe, so weigh this with that in mind. NomadSwipe does not plan routes between cities. You pick a city and swipe through real places, save the ones you like and see them on a map. It is on Google Play for Android phones.

Got the route sorted? Pick the places. Free to download on Android.

Get NomadSwipe on Google Play

Summary: what to remember

Rome2Rio is a free journey search across train, bus, ferry, flight and driving. Per its own llms.txt it does not sell tickets.
Omio and Trainline are the apps similar to Rome2Rio that sell tickets in the app; Citymapper and Google Maps cover moving around a city.
Rome2Rio's own pages give different counts for its transport companies and for saving trips on the phone app, so test before relying on either.
NomadSwipe is not a route finder: it is for choosing places in a city, on Android, with 50+ Google Play downloads.

Method, sample and limits

On 11 November 2026 I read Rome2Rio's home page (through a page-summary tool, because direct requests returned HTTP 403), its llms.txt, three help center articles, its Play listing and the U.S. App Store record from Apple's public lookup API. The Play listings for Omio, Trainline, Citymapper and Google Maps were read the same day, along with the App Store records for Omio, Trainline and Citymapper. I did not install any app, buy a ticket or run a route search, so everything above is what the pages say, not how the apps behave. The sample is five apps chosen as the most common answers to the query, not a ranking. Counts are the apps' own marketing figures and several overlap in meaning. The listings are the U.S. English versions and change often; Wikipedia's account of Rome2Rio is older than its own pages. Figures about NomadSwipe come from its Google Play listing and our proof list, last checked 9 November 2026.

Sources

Rome2Rio home page: https://www.rome2rio.com/ and https://www.rome2rio.com/llms.txt (read 11 November 2026)
Rome2Rio help center: Trip Planner, Create an account and How to search (articles modified 13 October 2026; read 11 November 2026)
Rome2Rio on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rome2rio.www.rome2rio (listing updated 10 November 2026) and the U.S. App Store record via Apple's search API
Wikipedia, Rome2rio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome2rio (read 11 November 2026)
Omio: Play listing (updated 4 November 2026) and its U.S. App Store record via Apple's search API
Trainline: Play listing (updated 6 November 2026)
Citymapper: Play listing (updated 4 November 2026)
Google Maps: Play listing (updated 10 November 2026)
NomadSwipe: its Play listing, plan limits and offline wording (read 11 November 2026; 50+ downloads on Google Play per our internal proof list, last checked 9 November 2026).