Announcing iCaltrain for iPhone
I’ve been commuting on Caltrain for the last few months, and have always wanted to look up the schedule on my cell phone. I finally got around to spend some time putting it together for the iPhone using the iUI. Simply point your iPhone to iCaltrain.com and you will see the app. Safari users can test drive it at iCaltrain.com/iphone.php.
iCaltrain Features:
- Easy access to reverse trip schedule for the return trip.
- Remembers the last search performed for those frequent trips.
Coming next:
- Mobile web version for those without the iPhone.
- Show only the next trains instead of the full schedule.
August 19th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
You must be god, because you’ve answered my prayers. My solution, up until I found this wonderful page you maid, had been to store screenshots of the Caltrain schedule PDF in my iPhotos. This iPhone “app” is so much sexier. Thank you!
September 4th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Studio Glamour…
hey great stuff…
September 5th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Great App.. thanks,.. now i can leave my palm at home and just use the iphone! could you add Atherton to the schedule?? (weekends)
October 15th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
Go Mike!
February 7th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
this is awesome! Thanks so much for your work. Is there any way you could add a link on the main screen of your app to an image of the Zone Map? That would be a nice addition.
Thanks again!
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:27 am
feature request:
Lightly shade the limited (yellow) and bullet (red) trains on the results page
March 10th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
I would like to see the To/From lists be in the order of the stations’ locations instead of alphabetical order so that I can easily determine possible station options (since I don’t necessarily know the order/location of the stations by heart)
March 25th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Very nice!
Here’s a feature suggestion: be able to touch a train entry and have that generate an alert (or whatever its called — something that will remind me 10 minutes before the train so I will get out the door!).
May 11th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Awesome site. Can you add fares? I travel to Japan a lot and there they can see an update of upcoming trains to specific station. Think GPS tied to real time train status/schedule. Probably lot of work but would be extremely useful. Not sure if Caltrain even has real time status information.
Rob
May 20th, 2008 at 10:52 am
this is great site! thanks a lot!
quick question: would it be possible to mark express, baby-bullet and local trains with small dots or different colors?
June 26th, 2008 at 5:48 am
Hey Mike, thanks for iPhone app, a great addition to your next upate would be to link the train number to a separate window that sows the next 5 stops. I have had issues where the two digit number is the same for different trains headed on the same track. This would be very useful when people like me get on the wrong train. Keep up the good work.
July 12th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
@Rob, I’ll add fare info in the next iCaltrain update. Thanks for the feedback.
Caltrain doesn’t currently provide GPS or real time arrival times, though they’ve announced plans to do so.
July 14th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
Wow, this is cool app, Mike !!
Someone should really pay you $$$ for making so many people’s life
easier.. Keep up the awesome work !