Attention, users! BudapestGO app renews in November, new features available
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BudapestGO, the popular application by BKK Centre for Budapest Transport, will be enhanced with new features from November. The mobility manager is continuously assessing customer feedback and developing the application according to users’ needs. The latest features, which will be added to the app in the coming days, include a dark mode, new in-app messages and easier access to stop-based timetables. BKK’s award-winning app has already been downloaded by more than 6 million people.
BudapestGO is renewing
Several new features are coming to BudapestGO users’ smartphones in the coming days. BKK continuously assesses customer satisfaction with the app and adapts the improvements to their needs. This November, the company will update the app with several new features that will make using the app even easier and more user-friendly, bkk.hu wrote.
Dark mode and stop-based timetables are coming soon
Among the new features, one of the most striking is the introduction of dark mode, which will allow for a more comfortable use of the app, based on the settings of users’ smartphones. In practice, this means that if someone switches to dark mode after 22:00 at night, for example, the BudapestGO app will adapt to this and switch to dark mode. Of course, the dark mode can also be set manually within the app, which customers can do under “More” / Display mode”.
It will also be easier to access the timetables for each stop, as the improvements will allow you to tap on the “Timetable” icon in the search bar to see the list and timetable of the departures from that stop, and to choose which timetable to show. In addition, clicking on the stop icon in the map view will also display a timetable icon showing the departure times of the lines from that stop.
The most important development needs to be a replacement solution for the QR codes at bus entrance doors that result in people crowding round the code with their phones as if they’re going to witness the birth of the new messiah. I’ve given up using Budapest Go other than to buy timed tickets and have reverted to paper based passes as it does without this hassle (also requiring the app to be fired up, the phone to have battery charge otherwise your pass is useless, sufficient ambient light so that the camera can read the QR code and so on).