Ride CTA, Metra & Pace with Ventra: Manage your fares, buy Metra mobile tickets, get arrivals and add your Ventra Card for riding CTA and Pace to iPhone and Apple Wallet.
Use transit in and around all of Chicago: It's easy to manage and pay your fare on CTA, Metra and Pace buses and trains with the Ventra app. Find all the features you're used to on the Ventra website and more, including mobile ticketing for Metra trains!
With the Ventra app, you can:
• Check your balance and available passes in your Ventra Card's transit account.
• Instantly load value or passes to your Ventra Card's transit account.
• Switch autoload for transit value or passes on and off.
• Buy and use Metra mobile tickets to ride any Metra train.
• Use transit value you've loaded to buy a Metra ticket.
• Get real-time account notifications so you know when it's time to load more fare or buy more tickets.
• Get real-time arrival/departure information from CTA, Metra and Pace all in one app—by picking a stop, using favorites or looking at service near where you're standing.
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I was worried when I visited chicago recently. Seeing a 1.5 star review average made me think this would be awful.
Maybe they’ve updated the app since the bad reviews but this was a close to flawless experience for me.
I only used the account creation/add pass/add pass to wallet/top up pass features but it all worked perfectly for me. I was able to get that done on my phone in the time it took to walk from my gate to o’hare station. That’s pretty slick
I LOVE having the ventra pass built into the wallet app and not even having to face id to tap onto the bus.
I noticed how smooth and quick bus onloads were when everyone, who already had their phones in their hands, could tap onto the bus and keep the journey moving.
I can’t speak to the other features of this app but as a 2 week visitor to chicago who transited almost everywhere, this app was great.
US billing addresses only
Please allow your Canadian neighbours to use our billing addresses.
Must have US credit card
omg this is America
Even the vending machine requires me to enter credit card zip while I of course don't have
0/5 just terrible
This app is so trash it charged me an hour after i tried paying and it had initially said payment failed.
Ended up paying once on the app and once in person.
Wish i could give 0/5
Crappy app for international travellers
Can't buy tickets through app because I don't have a US address. This is stupid in this day and age! I travel to Chicago frequently and can't buy through the app but can easily do this with New York and New Jersey apps. It's time for Chicago to join the modern age.
U.S. billing addresses only
Disappointed that only U.S. residents can create accounts and only credit cards with U.S. billing addresses can be used for payment in this version.
Would definitely use when visiting Chicago if/when this changes.
Good app
Intuitive, function, simple. Good app for Chicagoland transit.
