ETA - Live Traffic Alert
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Navigation | $4.99 | Eastwood Co Pty Ltd | iPhone, iPad |
Driving times to your locations are conveniently presented on a single screen with an indication of current traffic alongside. In a tap you're delivered pre-routed, turn-by-turn driving directions in your favourite navigation app.
Travelling by transit? No problems, ETA has you covered. In addition to driving and walking, ETA offers travel time travelling by public transportation (check http://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability/#transit to see if this feature is available in your area).
ETA is simple to use and provides you with the information you need to navigate your city. It's also a great companion to the navigation apps you've come to love (including Apple Maps, Google Maps, Waze, Transit and CityMapper).
ETA is available as an iPhone app, in the Today view of Notification Centre and on your Apple Watch.
To allow ongoing updating of the Complication for Apple Watch, ETA needs to operate in the background on your iPhone. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
# Reviews #
“[ETA offers] a simpler, faster and generally less cumbersome experience [than maps apps]” - TechCrunch
“The app features a beautifully minimal, elegant design that is top notch.” - AppAdvice
“This app may be simple, but it is invaluable for people like me who regularly travel across highly trafficked areas.” - iDownloadBlog
“It's simple, but it's a really nice way to just glance at travel times without messing around with a maps app.” - Life Hacker
“ETA is an extremely useful app that I will use all the time. It's the kind of thing Apple should build into Maps.” - TUAW
"While many map apps can give you estimates for a current route, none of them let you save locations as conveniently as ETA does." - iMore
# Countries Supported #
To calculate travel time ETA requires Apple Maps support for driving directions in your country. Please check the following list to ensure ETA will work in your area:
https://www.apple.com/au/ios/feature-availability/#maps-directions
To calculate traffic aware travel times ETA requires Apple Maps support for traffic in your country. Please check the following list to ensure traffic is supported in your area:
https://www.apple.com/au/ios/feature-availability/#maps-traffic
Reviews
Works fine
Manic Bobo
Works fine for me. Matches up to Apple maps without issues. The watch app works fine. I haven’t seen any of the problems other reviewers seem to have. I have 15 locations that I go to repeatedly from 10 miles to 75 miles and it has been accurate to every one of them. I’ve tried several of these type apps and they all had an assortment of issues that this one hasn’t had. One thing I like is being in one place & seeing what time it will take to get to one of my other places. I can get from home to Downtown to my doctors, to the home center to the mother in laws & check time & distance to the next location without waiting. Nice.
Unreliable estimate
Vulgar demos
I love the app’s concept but I’m realizing it’s super unreliable. When you actually Open up the directions on Waze the ETA is about 30-50% off. I wanted to use this app to compare ETA to different places but the app simply doesn’t give me reliable info.
Good idea for an app, but ...
chemical_j
I really want to love this app. In fact this app is on my home screen even though I have issues. Often, I will open it and it will remember my location being somewhere else and I will have to force close for it to update. If I don’t notice, I’ll hit the button for directions and it will give me a route starting from the wrong location, since it sends coordinates to the connecting map apps instead of real addresses and “current location” Watch apps and widgets don’t update every time I look at them, creating a few extra steps to get them to work or else just give up and open maps directly. Sometimes the app won’t update at all and I need to force close and restart it Reason I still use it is that it’s nice to see drive times to multiple locations at once. Makes me learn traffic tendencies better even if I am not interested in going to everything on my list. And when it works it’s fantastic, although I still always open the link to google maps to ensure the routing is right, as it uses Apple maps as a backbone which isn’t always as accurate for times. Why can’t I choose which map service to give time estimates for. Good app, but lots of room for improvement
Essential travel tool
msidoric
ETA is a focused and accurate way to determine and share travel and arrival times. There are dozens of other apps for routing and driving directions -- ETA stands alone in providing the most essential data of all: when will I get there. The UX is clear, concise and attractive, and can be customized for easy use. The Apple Watch app functions flawlessly and makes the app useful as you drive. Excellent choice for travelers anywhere - highly recommended.
Don't buy it for the watch app
FapFlop
Sometimes takes over a minute to update the watch app list. It's actually faster to pull my phone out of my pocket and check the app directly.
Inaccurate
monkey in Seattle
I have been trying this out for a few days and I continually find that it overestimates time by 15-20 minutes.
Update recently killed calendar
Pilotboy172
Update 5/2018 I no longer am able to see a list of calendars on the ETA app and my next appointments do not show up. ——- I have been using ETA for many years, so when they released new in-app purchases, I was excited and willing to support them. I now wish I hadn't just yet. The calendar in-app purchase is riddled with bugs, almost to the point of being unusable. Essentially, because of the bugs, I paid for something and have no new functionality on my phone. I can't see any of my events in ETA and those that I can see are showing me directions to places that are not even remotely close to where the event is...it "guesses" the location's address based on the calendar location name if there is no address on the event. This new feature was not ready and should not have been released like it was. The developers assure me fixes are on the way.
Doesn’t allow you to change location.
Utnut00
I would suspect an app that you pay for would allow you to change your location.
For an app that you have to pay for should work
TajaRice12
This app is a good one but i works only when it wants to. I have it as a widget and it says n/a for all of my locations I cant even get it to refresh. Im not sure how much I paid for this app but it should work since you had to pay. But I do like the idea of showing the calendar appointment but your app just dosent work.
Complication doesn’t work on iWatch Series 3
Joker1985$$
I am very annoyed and disappointed with this app. I bought this specifically for the iWatch complication, which has not worked since I downloaded it. After all the hype, as this being the best travel iWatch complication. It definitely leaves a lot to be desired. -Matt
