Linesider for iPhone

The logbook in your pocket, out on the platform. See what is coming, photograph it, and have it in the book before it has left.

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Around you on iPhone: nearby San Francisco Muni vehicles, each with its destination blind and fleet number.Around me on a map, showing live buses and streetcars near the Duboce Triangle.A spotted Siemens Velaro ICE 3neo, number 403035, with its photo and paint.The Velaro ICE 3neo class page, with five fleet numbers marked as seen and ridden.A red London New Routemaster, LT401, in the app.A Boeing 737-800, N981NN, in the app.An Amsterdam tram, number 2077, in the app.Ask Inspector Sands: suggested questions about your collection.

Around you, live

Nearby vehicles on a board or a map, with their real fleet numbers and destination blinds. One tap to spot.

Point the camera

On phones that support it, the camera labels the vehicles reporting around you. Or take a photo and Inspector Sands reads it.

Your network

Log the journeys you ride and see them drawn as your own tube map.

Ask Inspector Sands

Linesider's AI. He reads a vehicle from your photo and answers questions about your collection from your own records, on every platform.

Hear what is new

New regions, new fleets and what is coming to the app. Leave an address and we will tell you when something good lands.

Occasional news and nothing else. Ask us to take you off at any time.

Start your own spotting log

Everything here is the shared catalogue. Create an account to record what you have spotted, identify vehicles from a photo, and see what is running around you right now.

Create a free account

Linesider is on iPhone too, so you can take it with you.

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On Android? Get an email when the test opens.