Pronto - San Diego

PRONTO makes buying MTS & NCTD fares easy. You'll always get the best fare.

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Pronto - San Diego simplifies using public transit in San Diego by making fare purchase and trip planning straightforward. Add funds to your Pronto app and scan your phone at validators on MTS and NCTD buses and trains to pay the best fare automatically. The pay-as-you-go system ensures you never pay more than a Day Pass or Month Pass for the number of trips you make.

Beyond payment, Pronto offers real-time arrivals, service updates, trip planning with walking info, and the ability to save favorite stops. Manage multiple cards for your family, set up automatic reloads, and review your payment history. Whether commuting or exploring, Pronto ensures smooth, cost-effective transit across San Diego County.

App Transportation Productivity

By:: San Diego MTS
Downloads:: 403,343 2.41K
Rating:: 4.23

(3,249) 0.02
Version:: 4.134.0 Last updated: 2025-01-08
Version code:: 1153
Creation date:: 2021-08-12
Size:: 33.80MB
Email:: cu*****@sdmts.com
URLs:: Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:: See detailed description
Source:: Google Play Store
Updated:: 9 hours ago

Ranking

# 99,111 ▲ 143

Other rankings

#146 in Travel and local (Free) ▲ 43

User reviews

Pros

Convenient for managing passes and payments.
Easy to add funds to cards.
Fast loading times for features like virtual card display.

Cons

QR code scanning issues; slow and unreliable.
Inability to purchase day passes through the app.
Poor route planning and trip planning features.
App stability issues, including user accounts and logins.

Recent reviews

Don't let Pronto determine your route! It guided us to a stop on the wrong side of the freeway, mapping a walk across it to our hotel. Nope, no way across, and it left us with 45 minutes of walking at dusk on roads with no sidewalks or shoulders. Both Google Maps and Apple Maps later gave us the correct routing. Also, it wouldn't let me delete the auto-refill credit card on my Pixel phone (though it let my wife do so on her iPhone) so the app stole $12.50 at the end of our visit to San Diego.

An*****, 2024-10-30

Mid. Sure it keeps my monthly pass at hand, but the departures feature sometimes works. Usually, when arriving at a big station, like Oceanside or Santa Fe, when you select for coaster departures it displays sprinters or trams and doesn't display the coaster. Tram times are rarely accurate... It's not completely terrible but I expected more.