What about feature X?

Next3Trains is a hobby project I do in my spare time, and the design is deliberately limited in what it tries to do: present high level details on your train status, fast. There are a number of more fully featured apps released by both the train companies and other developers, and this app is not intended to compete with them.

In particular, Next3Trains is not a journey planner. It doesn’t do connections, it won’t route you around a closure, and it has no maps or ticketing. If you have a string of cancelled trains, you’ll want one of those fuller apps to work out what to do instead.

That said, the app has grown a fair bit since launch - push notifications for delays, cancellations and platform changes, Live Activities, an Apple Watch app, a Mac version, Siri and Shortcuts support have all been added. What they have in common is that they’re all ways of getting the same small piece of information to you faster, rather than new things for the app to do.

So the rough rule for new features is: if it helps you find out about your next three trains with less effort, it’s a candidate. If it turns the app into a general purpose rail app, it probably isn’t. Beyond that, most of my time goes on bug fixes and keeping up with changes in iOS.

If you do have a suggestion that would enhance the existing app, please feel free to provide feedback via the Contact form.

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