GVB travel app

4.5
5.14K reviews
1M+
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PEGI 3
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About this app

The app for travelling by tram, (night) bus, metro and ferry in Amsterdam and the rest of the Netherlands. Your indispensable travel buddy for frequent travellers or for just a visit. Quickly and easily plan your trip from home to work, a restaurant or the theatre or from Schiphol to your hotel or B&B. Check whether there is a diversion or delay on your route. You always have your favourite line’s up-to-date departure times at your fingertips. And now it’s also possible to purchase a barcode ticket for immediate travel.

What the GVB travel app offers you:
- Up-to-date travel information: always the most reliable and up-to-date travel information for the GVB network as well as for all other public transport companies in the Netherlands.
- Trip planner: plan your trip to any address in Amsterdam or the rest of the Netherlands.
- Alert for disruptions: turn notifications on for your favourite line(s). You will receive an Alert if there’s a diversion or disruption. You can set this for certain days and time periods.
- Crowd indicator: in each requested travel advice, you can immediately see how busy a service is expected to be.
- Bicycle as before and after transport: under travel preferences, you can easily indicate whether you will start or end your trip by bicycle.
- Travel only with GVB: if you have a GVB travel product, e.g. a GVB hour/day or GVB Flex, and only want to travel with GVB lines, it’s easy to set this in your travel preferences.
- Save favourites: save your favourite locations in Amsterdam with just one click. It’ll then be even easier to plan your next trip.
- In-app ticket purchase: you can buy tickets via the app for one hour or for more hours/days and activate them immediately so you are ready to travel. Easily check in and out using your mobile.

Why are travellers using the GVB app even more?
- Unique Touch Swipe planner – The most personalised trip planner in the Netherlands. Simply swipe from your current, favourite or any other set location to the key places of interest in the city and your trip will be planned instantly. Then you can personalise your destinations. Select your destinations from a list of main locations in Amsterdam and surroundings, and save them for later use.
- Personal dashboard based on your travel profile. Directly access the key functions for your travel profile via your main screen. For example, if you use the app mainly for commuting, you will find your set regular route in your dashboard. In that way you always have the up-to-date departure times at hand.
- You can compose your own menu to display the functions which are most useful to you.
- Check the latest updates on disruptions and planned diversions.
- Search for up-to-date departure times by location, stop name or line. (available from mid-May 2021)
- Get in touch with GVB Customer Service quickly and have direct access to GVB Services such as lost & found or missed check-out (claim a refund for missed check-ins or check-outs).
- Fully available in Dutch and English.
Updated on
Sep 18, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Personal info
This app may collect these data types
Personal info
Data isn’t encrypted
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.5
5.12K reviews
Daddy “Jodie” Jodie
August 29, 2025
Was so ready to give this app 5 starts because it started off amazing. everything was perfect until the last 2 days off a 5 day plan. whenever I was hit plan trip the app would immediately crash, continued to crash. if you delete the app and reinstall, you will lose your tickets purchased. that's insane!
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Luca Bürgelin
August 9, 2025
I like the conceptual idea of an app for organizing tickets. There are two things I don't like this app for: First, the apps keep shutting down when you hit the search button in the trip planner. The information you entered is lost after restart and you don't know more than before. Second, the QR codes that you need to scan at the public transport are placed with a margin to all edges of the screen, big enough to avoid successful scanning of them because the phone doesn't fit under the scanners.
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Dmitrii
August 4, 2025
It’s common to have trouble buying tickets from machines in Amsterdam. That’s why the app should work without any issues — but unfortunately, it doesn’t. We tried to buy two tickets using the app. The first one worked fine, but the second ticket showed a payment error before we even got to choose a payment method. Because of this, we had to walk to the next metro station, where the ticket machine was working — but only accepted cash (and this is 2025!).
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What’s new

In this release, we fixed a bug that makes it possible to purchase and activate tickets again.