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title: "VRE Mobile - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store"
description: "With the VRE Mobile ticketing app, you can buy and use tickets and passes on VRE commuter rail at anytime, anywhere directly from your smartphone. VRE Mobile also allows you to use your WMATA SmartBen"
---

# VRE Mobile — United States

![VRE Mobile App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple221/v4/4d/14/4e/4d144ee3-1dd5-2490-a262-a0c549c274b8/AppIcon-1x_U007emarketing-0-5-0-85-220-0.png/434x0w.png)

**Developer:** [Virginia Railway Express](https://apptail.io/developer/virginia-railway-express-rywe)
**Category:** Travel
**Rating:** 4.2/5 (649 ratings)
**Price:** Free
**Bundle ID:** org.vre.mt.mobiletickets
**Store:** Apple App Store
**Country:** United States
**Version:** 4.4.2 (released 2026-03-31)
**Original Release:** 2015-05-22
**Languages:** English

**App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id984707579)
**AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/vre-mobile-Jrfb/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/vre-mobile-Jrfb/united-states)

## VRE Mobile Description
With the VRE Mobile ticketing app, you can buy and use tickets and passes on VRE commuter rail at anytime, anywhere directly from your smartphone. VRE Mobile also allows you to use your WMATA SmartBenefits® account to purchase tickets and passes. Just download the free app, register your debit/credit card in our secure system, and you are ready to go.

APP FEATURES:

• Buy and use tickets and passes instantly on your smartphone using a debit/credit card, WMATA SmartBenefits®.
• Store multiple tickets on your phone for future use. 
• Securely register your debit/credit card(s).
• Use your approved Reduced Fare account.

## VRE Mobile Screenshots
- [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource124/v4/29/97/9b/29979b91-7fb8-a32f-cf99-83b0a4c9422c/ef6f3a14-3357-4348-ad78-21c4871cfb4a_Simulator_Screen_Shot_-_iPhone_11_-_2020-12-04_at_17.22.37.png/1284x2778.png)
- [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource124/v4/4d/ac/89/4dac891d-fb3b-c274-d68b-5b0d209b501c/a39fd8f7-0c61-40d8-a20f-81a04723a7fd_Simulator_Screen_Shot_-_iPhone_11_-_2020-12-04_at_17.23.49.png/1284x2778.png)
- [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource114/v4/fb/ad/33/fbad332d-637c-1aaa-44af-1e40eed60eea/c4c97dc9-1eaa-486c-a9f2-d3abafa155a4_Simulator_Screen_Shot_-_iPhone_11_-_2020-12-04_at_17.24.01.png/1284x2778.png)

## VRE Mobile Rating Breakdown in United States
- 5 stars: 434 (67%)
- 4 stars: 64 (10%)
- 3 stars: 43 (7%)
- 2 stars: 30 (5%)
- 1 stars: 78 (12%)

## VRE Mobile Reviews in United States

### *---- "I can’t buy tickets??"
For some reason I can’t buy tickets on the app or online. It won’t allow me to choose a route which means I can’t choose a pick up spot or destination. If it is because it’s the weekend or a holiday, it would be better if an error message displayed letting me know this is the reason.
-- Zbrown11, 2024-11-11

### **--- "App login experience needs big improving"
Increase the “inactivity” having to use username and password in order to get face id to work again is ridicules as a once twice a month rider.
-- Mgii83, 2024-10-30

### *---- "Find a new job"
Whoever designed this trash app needs to find a new line of work
-- pking1101, 2024-09-18

### ***-- "Worsening layout"
The VRE app used to show train live status, but they have disabled the feature making it impossible for the riders to know when the next train will arrive.
-- Akmaldawi, 2024-07-25

### **--- "Poor app, but it works; privacy not included."
Terrible experience; feels like an app from 2010.
Permissions are a hot mess. Location permission is required or the app doesn’t work correctly. Provides value to VRE only for tracking. No customer value. Then camera access… a clever hack to verify the ticket isn’t a screen shot. Maybe use actual technology to do that (like every other train in the world) instead of inconveniencing riders. This app is a joke for transit serving the nation’s capital.
-- jd2020, 2023-10-25

### ***-- "Mostly good"
The app ticketing function does what it’s supposed to. The train status function does not. There’s never an indication that a train is delayed when it clearly is 10+ minutes past published arrival time. The two things that I extremely dislike are the forced camera access, though I understand the reasoning behind it to make sure the passenger isn’t displaying a manipulated screenshot instead of activating a ride. The other is the forced use of location to purchase tickets and also to activate a ride. There’s no reason to require location access when 1) it shouldn’t matter where I am when I buy tickets because I obviously am not going to be able to use them anywhere but onboard a VRE train for the limited stations that the train serves, and 2) the passenger location has nothing to do with validating a ride because the noted origin and destination points on the validated ride are per the points of origin and destination as purchased and are not changeable thereafter. Requiring location access to buy tickets and to validate rides is 100% unjustified snooping and spying on riders and is most likely to generate user data to sell to the countless data hoarders out there. Location access requirement needs to go away.
-- SntnlZ, 2023-03-29

### ****- "Blue on Blue?"
Who thought blue text on a blue banner was s good idea?
-- JoeBob81, 2022-10-19

### **--- "Won’t accept credit cards"
This app is great except for the fact that it won’t let me pay for a ticket. Even using the scan option for my card it returns an error.
-- cant buy tix, 2022-03-31

### *---- "My tickets won’t load"
This app was never great but now it can’t even do the most basic function. I’ve tried deleting, reinstalling, and other things but it simply won’t work.
-- TheInbetween, 2022-03-23

### *---- "Version 4.0.0 Killing the battery - update 2"
Update 3March-Smart Benefits with split payment is working although not the most intuitive interface to get to split payments.
The app continues to not load, log me out, and generally just lag.  I cannot leave the app open and ticket displayed (as requested by VRE) as it will kill my battery by running both GPS and Camera.  Overall, still not a great user experience.  

The latest version requires both the camera and the gps to be on the entire time.  This is just unnecessary.

At least every other time, the app logs me out and disables the thumb login.  Also, trying to enter my smart benefit is proving to be a challenge.  I will try again at the beginning of February to see if I can then.  Should have beta tested but I guess that is what we are doing since ridership is low due to COVID.  It would have been nice to have been asked to be a beta tester though.
-- 1994MO, 2021-03-03

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## VRE Mobile Discovered Keywords
- vre mobile

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## VRE Mobile Available In
- [United States](https://apptail.io/app/vre-mobile-Jrfb/united-states)
- [Canada](https://apptail.io/app/vre-mobile-Jrfb/canada)

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