Now in public beta

Your city's trains, live.

Watch every subway train in New York, Boston and the Bay Area move in real time, on a map you'll want to leave open. Then ride to earn tokens, and build a model railway of your own.

Join the beta See how it works

Free while in beta. iPhone, iOS 18 or later.

Pick your look.

A star chart. An old printed map. A glowing circuit board. A plaster relief with glass marbles. A toy railway. Or the classic LED board it all started from. The same live trains, whichever you choose.

Grand Central in Atlas: stations are stars and lines are constellations — **Atlas** Stations become stars.

Grand Central in Vintage: lines inked on aged paper — **Vintage** Inked on aged paper.

Grand Central in Circuit: lit trains among copper traces on a green board — **Circuit** Copper traces and LEDs.

Grand Central in Modern: lines carved in white plaster, trains as glass marbles — **Modern** Plaster and glass marbles.

Grand Central in Chibi: toy track and toy trains through green countryside — **Chibi** A toy railway in the country.

And on your Home Screen: widgets in every look, with the trains near you or near a station you pin.

Ride. Earn. Build.

Metrove turns the trips you already take into a railway of your own.

Ride

Log your commute with one tap. Metrove notes every station you pass, even with your phone locked, and draws the trip in your look.

A logged commute from 33 St to Grand Central on the 6, 29 minutes and 2 stops, drawn in Modern

Earn

Every new station pays 25 tokens and every stop you log 5 more. Check in each day, finish the daily missions (walk 5,000 steps, visit a station), and keep a 30-day streak for pieces you can't buy.

The day's check-in and two daily missions, both done and ready to claim for 10 tokens each

Build

Spend tokens on track, trains, buildings and animals. New scenery takes a few days of riding; a new train, a week or two. Worth every stop.

The shop's trains: the New York subway, Boston's Red Line, BART, Metro-North and more, priced in tokens

A model railway that grows as you ride.

Trains run their loops, windmills turn and townspeople stroll, by day and by night. Mirror stations send a train out when the real one leaves. And your railway earns its own takings every day.

What will yours become?

A countryside board: a river, farms, windmills and a Ferris wheel — Countryside

A town board: streets, houses, a carousel and a river — Town

A Boston harbor board: brick buildings on the water, a ship and a lighthouse — Boston harbor

A Bay coast board: the Golden Gate, the Painted Ladies and a lighthouse on the bay — Bay coast

Sample boards, built from the same kit you unlock, on frames from pine to titanium.

Made for iPhone Duo

Build on its side.

Turn your phone sideways and the whole screen is for building: your town on one side, every piece on the other. Hold a piece and carry it where you want it. Unfolded on iPhone Duo, there's room for both.

Collect the stations you ride from.

At a station, it glows on the board: stamp it once a day. Come back on more days for bolder marks, all the way up to a landmark.

The passport in Vintage, with landmarks to unlock and Grand Central stamped on 41 days

Race your friends.

Add friends by code and race each week for the most stamps, steps and tokens. Send hearts, and spend the ones you get in the friendship shop. Your card is only shared if you choose to share it.

The friends leaderboard in Atlas for the week's stamps, with hearts to send

And a great everyday subway app.

As useful on the platform as it is lovely on the couch.

Grand Central's next trains in Atlas: uptown and downtown, by line and destination, in minutes

Next trains, one tap.

Tap any station for its next trains each way, live from the transit agency.

Following a 4 train toward Crown Heights-Utica Av in Circuit, its next stops and times below

Follow your train.

Tap a train and the board rides along with it, its next stops and times below.

A commute being logged on the Lock Screen: 33 St to Times Sq-42 St, 3 stops on the 6 and the 7, with a stop button

On your Lock Screen.

A logged commute shows live on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with a stop button. Start one from Control Center, the Action button or Siri.

Two Chibi widgets in StandBy around Grand Central

On your nightstand.

In StandBy, a charging iPhone turns into a little bedside board.

Find any station by name, jump to your home station in one tap, and use it all with VoiceOver and larger text.

Three cities. Every line.

New York

The subway, PATH to New Jersey, the LIRR and Metro-North.

Boston

The T: the Red, Orange, Blue and Green lines, and the Mattapan trolley.

Bay Area

BART across the bay, and Muni Metro's J, K, L, M, N and T. Muni Metro is shown without live trains for now.

Start riding with Metrove.

The map is beautiful from day one, and every ride makes your railway grow. It's free while in beta. The public TestFlight link opens soon: ask for an invite and you'll get it first.

Ask for an invite

iPhone, iOS 18 or later.