EL Tracker

Name: EL Tracker
Rating: 4.9 (80 reviews)
Author: Davit Khachatryan

By: Davit Khachatryan

For CTA Riders

Features & Capabilities

EL Tracker is an app by CTA riders, for CTA riders. It offers customizable widgets showing departures with SmartWalk delay, Siri support, low-vision accessibility, and multilingual alerts.

As a free Chicago transit tool, it aims to make travel around the city more accessible with ADA notations, elevator outage push notifications, and language options; it is not an official CTA app.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App Accessibility Navigation & Mapping

By:

Davit Khachatryan

Rating:

4.90

(80)

Version:

4.4 Last updated: 2025-08-07

Version code:

877008964

Creation date:

2024-05-27

Compatible devices:

Size:

24.31MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-05

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 159,015 ▼ 208

For Developers

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Developed by:

Davit Khachatryan

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/el-tracker/id6499103522

Website:

https://www.el-tracker.com/

User Reviews

EL Tracker is highly praised for its strong widget support and clean UI, with reliable, up-to-date CTA data. The app shines for its map view, quick access, and Chicago-focused design. Common drawbacks are widget reliability (updates sometimes lag), occasional data loading issues, and the absence of bus data in the widget (with bus support planned). Overall, users love the app and want continued widget improvements and broader transit coverage.

Pros

Widget support is a game-changer, providing live arrivals for nearby stations and quick access from the home screen.
Clean, fast, intuitive UI with a CTA-like design and easy customization.
Data is accurate and up-to-date, pulled directly from the CTA, with reliable arrival times and no paywalls/ads.
Useful map view and live tiles that update smoothly, making it easy to see departures.
Lightweight, Chicago-focused design that shows only what you want and feels reliable.

Cons

Widget updates can lag or fail, sometimes requiring a manual refresh.
Occasional data loading failures reported by users.
Lack of bus data in the widget; bus tracker is not yet available there, with bus support planned.

Recent reviews

Great app! Use it multiple times daily. Unfortunately, the most recent update appears to have broken the readability of widget text. In my case I'm using dark, grayscale icons on the homescreen (iOS 18 feature) and recently the text appears white against a white background. I can't read any information on direction or arrival time. Please fix!

by Fe*****, 2025-04-03

This was great but as of today the data doesn’t load

by Ha*****, 2025-03-14

2025 Edit: I got a new phone with updated iOS. Yea, hands down the best El app out there. It’s not even close. I’ve recommended this to a ton of people and would totally pay to download it. It’s that easy, convenient, and gorgeous. Devs, y’all are awesome. What I wrote in 2024: The devs took all my criticisms of other El apps and corrected them. The widget feature is so convenient. The app is gorgeous, intuitive, and customizable. It all rocks, but I do have to constructive criticisms related to the widget: 1. Widget sometimes won’t update. I have an old iOS device so this might be the reason, but there will be times I’ll look at the widget, sprint to catch a train, only to realize the train passed my station 5 min ago and my widget says that it was updated 8 min ago. It definitely takes away from the convenience when the widget doesn’t update automatically every time. As I said, might be an old phone issue, but might I suggest adding a small refresh button in the top right corner of the widget? Just so I can manually refresh it when needed? 2. When i can tell it’s not refreshing, I click the widget, and the widget opens the app. I would loovveee if the widget can open right to the station it was displaying instead of going to the main screen. That’s especially helpful when the widget is set to the “closest station” setting (which also rocks, btw), because the nearest station might not be in my favorites and I’d have to go search for it. Other than those two things, everything about this app is amazing and still hands down the best app I’ve used for the El. It’s so clutch, thank you devs for taking the time to do this!