Keeping it Real

The cost and hassle of car ownership is a thing of the past with streetcar, through the streetcar website I’ve been able to book out a number of streetcar trips over the last few years.
So with the arrival of the streetcar iphone app, I expected nothing less than an awesome app that matched every other part of my streetcar experience. So rarely do companies get it so right, and the streetcar iphone app actually exceeded my high expectations.
It would have been easy to build an app that did one or two simple functions, but they went for the lot. Finding a car on the map is much better than a website, booking is better. I can actually open and close the car from my phone, wanted to try this last night, but was not feeling brave enough. You can view all your bookings and your payments.
Like all new apps it does need a couple of tweaks, The open and close car has a few UI issues, and the new BMW cars are missing from the search function, but I will forgive them this.

I actually found out things from the app that I never new, there are two automatic cars near me and a people carrier. This is a great example of how a good app can add so much to a business.

I love the simplicity of the website, but the iphone app is actually a better experience. Great work guys.

http://www.streetcar.co.uk/iphone/v2.aspx