TAP LA Reviews

TAP LA Reviews

Published by on 2023-10-16

About: TAP is your ticket to ride transit in greater Los Angeles! It is accepted on 26
systems including LA Metro, providing a vast network of buses and trains. -
Make your travel safe and easy with touchless payment and card management.


About TAP LA


What is TAP LA?

The TAP app is a transit app that allows users to travel safely and easily on the transit systems in greater Los Angeles. It is accepted on 26 transit systems, including LA Metro, providing a vast network of buses and trains. The app offers touchless payment and card management, flexible payment options, and supports reduced fares for seniors, students, persons with disabilities, and low-income riders. Users can also access multimodal programs such as Metro Bike Share and use trip tools to plan trips, find nearby transit options, view real-time arrivals, and save favorite destinations and stops.



       

Features


- Touchless payment and card management

- Add a new TAP card to your iPhone and Apple Watch and use your fare immediately

- Use your iPhone (8 and above) and Apple Watch (Series 3 and above) to tap with Apple Pay when boarding a bus or train

- Flexible payment options including credit/debit cards, account cash, and Apple Pay

- Purchase a transit pass or Stored Value for any agency in Los Angeles County

- Manage multiple cards in your TAP account (iPhone 5 and above)

- Add your TAP card to Apple Wallet, enable Express Transit, and quickly tap and pay when you board

- Supports reduced fares for seniors, students, persons with disabilities, and low-income riders

- Transfer a TAP card in your account to your Apple Wallet and leave the plastic at home

- Access multimodal programs such as Metro Bike Share

- Use Trip Tools to plan trips, find nearby transit options, view real-time arrivals, and save favorite destinations and stops

- Enjoy the benefits of a TAP account, such as Balance Protection, card management, discounts, promotions, transaction history, and friendly customer service

- Accepted on 26 transit systems in LA County, including Angels Flight Railway, Antelope Valley Transit Authority (AVTA), Baldwin Park Transit, Beach Cities Transit, Burbank Bus, Carson Circuit, Compton Renaissance Transit System, Culver CityBus, Foothill Transit, Gardena GTRANS, Glendale Beeline, Glendora Transportation Division, Huntington Park Transit Unlimited, LA County Department of Public Works, LADOT Transit, Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), Long Beach Transit, Metro, Montebello Bus Lines, Monterey Park Spirit Bus, Norwalk Transit, Palos Verdes Peninsula Transit Authority, Pasadena Transit, Santa Clarita Transit, Santa Monica Big Blue Bus, and Torrance Transit.



Overall User Satisfaction Rating


Negative experience
80.4%

Positive experience
19.6%

Neutral
13.1%

~ from Justuseapp.com NLP analysis of 329 combined software reviews.

Key Benefits of TAP LA

- The app makes it easy to keep track of cards.

- The icons at the bottom of the screen are visible and easy to use.




20 TAP LA Reviews

2.0 out of 5

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Of All The Features, Only One Really Works

TAPLA is decent for adding a virtual tap card to tour wallet and paying fare through that. Aside from that, the search bar is unresponsive, it doesn’t usually load bus times for routes, and when you can get a list of stops for a route you have to figure out what “Inbound/Outbound” means otherwise you could end up referencing the time for the wrong direction. Frankly, just use google maps if you wanna plan a trip, since it also tracks the metro buses.


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Fix the Connectivity Issues NOW!

This is an absolute nightmare to use. I am CONSTANTLY disappointed and frustrated by this program, as no matter where I am, no matter how connected I absolutely am to the internet, this blasted app refuses to connect and it refuses to let me even see bus times as a result. I used to use TAPLA to get to work quite often, as it saved me having to pay for Lyft and whatnot, and I never had these sorts of issues until TAPLA started going completely haywire about a month ago, but now it’s so unreliable and pathetic that I basically can’t use it anymore. My life is significantly more stressful and hard as a result. Don’t throw a canned response at me. Don’t PR me, Cubic. FIX THE ISSUE. STOP PLAYING AROUND. YOU’RE ACTIVELY RUINING MY LIFE WITH THIS.


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Card not registering

Ive tried 2 different cards I know have balances on them and are fully functional but both times when trying to register on TAPLA it says “card has already been registered” other than this TAPLA has been fine.


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Not Letting Me Load Fare

While I love TAPLA and it has been great the last few weeks, today it just won’t let me add fares on to my card. It keeps giving me an error message saying the transaction failed. Tried deleting and re-downloading, signed in and out, nothing. Please fix this. I love TAPLA , but would like this bug to be addressed.


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Useless

TAPLA doesn’t even work. It scans for fare boxes, but never succeeded in actually paying. I’ve tried about a dozen times now; it just doesn’t work.

Now, my money is trapped inside a virtual, NON-REFUNDABLE card. And the only way to pay my fares is to buy a new physical card and pay a fee to have the balance transferred.

Customer service is also useless, so don’t even waste your time.


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Adding Fares will not load.

Whenever I try to add some fare to my tap card on my phone, it takes up to 2 minutes to load and then hit me with the “sorry, we cannot load your products.” This has been happening for months now. Would’ve thought metro would’ve fixed this issue, since they stupidly added fares back.


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So easy to use!!

I love how much TAPLA made it so easy to keep track on my cards!! I would absolutely recommend to everyone!


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Mostly Fine

Can’t see the icons at the bottom of the screen because the bottom bar covers them. Other than that it’s fine.


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Terrible

I got stranded in Downtown Long Beach at 10pm after my job. Tap app showed I had a balance, but the driver refused to let me ride because my card was saying reload even tho TAPLA said I had $10. I’ve had many hiccups with TAPLA. But not functioning in this way is unacceptable. I cannot believe I had to ride a scooter 8miles home because of this.


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Non Responsive

I absolutely cannot get TAPLA to take my money or to respond to anything I put $10 on it and it has that I have a 00 balance they need to do something about this it’s at least a blue bus response to something this is just absolutely a terrible app I am really complaining about this yeah


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Worse app ever

I was checking my tap cards and it forced me to log out and now I can’t log back in , loading screen takes too much time it won’t show the log in menu, I would not recommend TAPLA if it still buggy and laggy, I don’t know why TAPLA even exist


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Took my 25

TAPLA should let me pay for rides on my phone, but after giving it 25, it says my account is empty. Luckily the impatient bus drivers are nice enough to let me ride for free, but this shouldn’t have to be the case. It has potential and should work in theory, but obviously isn’t well-made. More evidence of LA’s tragic public transit.


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Very hard to transfer cards to a new phone after losing my old phone

I haven’t able to update my card on my new phone and it is causing trouble. Customer service is only open am certain hours so they are not helpful as well. Neither is the bus driver.


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This is Just wonderful

Congratulations and keep going forward.


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Doesn’t work

My app does not work at all. I don’t even have the option to add a new tap card. I couldn’t transfer my plastic tap card to TAPLA either. Couldn’t purchase anything from the cart section. What is wrong with TAPLA


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Can’t Load Fare!! This app is useless

I have been trying to load money on my tap card and keep getting error messages. This is frustrating and makes TAPLA useless. Fix this!!!


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👎

TAPLA is really bad, it’s unresponsive, not returning any search results, and definitely did not assist me in any way with purchasing transit fare. Deleting.


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Trash

TAPLA stole my money and charged me twice.


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STOLE MY MONEY

Dont use TAPLA. Just be old fashioned and use the vending machines


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Easy to navigate

I mostly take L.A. Metro since I’m too lazy to drive , besides L.A. Metro, I take Montebello Bus Lines or Foothill Transit to get to my destination and TAP can easily help me manage money and passes. But now, it is more useful since I can just look at TAPLA to manage the Stored Value instead of checking it at a Bus Station, Metro Rail, or logging in to the TAP website, TAPLA makes it easier and faster for me to check if I have any money left or if I need to buy passes for the month, again, it is fast and easy to navigate

One of problem is that I can’t find any of the bus stops for Montebello Bus Lines on the map that they provided, same goes for google maps, I keep having to go on to their website and check when it is arriving, when I could easily look around on one map and see the connections and if I could make it to transfer to the other bus, instead of having to switch apps continuously, hopefully they will fix it

My last problem, which isn’t that big of a deal, is the inbound/outbound memo. I can’t tell which direction it is, for example, if the direction says Northbound/Southbound | Eastbound/Westbound, it would make it so much easier to understand

Other than these two problems, I have no problem navigating TAPLA


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Game changer

Nice!


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Cubic has done it again

Great public-private partnership leading to a useful and modern travel tool. Thanks!


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User friendly

I love TAPLA! It's so nice to have my tap card in my phones wallet...One less thing I have to worry about! And TAPLA is very easy to navigate.


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Future of transit

TAPLA will take the patrons of Los Angeles into the future!


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Easy to setup

I love how is TAPLA was so easy to set up. The search for lines that I ride was a great help as well, easy to plan a trip.


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TAP Card in phone!

Glad to be able to put my TAP card on my phone and not have to carry another card around!


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TAP user

Great new addition for LA travel. Love it! Especially during non-contact pay needs




Is TAP LA Safe?


No. TAP LA does not seem very safe to us. This is based on our NLP (Natural language processing) analysis of over 329 User Reviews sourced from the Appstore and the appstore cumulative rating of 2.0/5 . Justuseapp Safety Score for TAP LA Is 19.6/100.


Is TAP LA Legit?


No. TAP LA does not seem legit based on our analysis. This conclusion was arrived at by running over 329 TAP LA User Reviews through our NLP machine learning process to determine if users believe the app is legitimate or not. Based on this, Justuseapp Legitimacy Score for TAP LA Is 32.7/100..


Is TAP LA not working?


TAP LA works most of the time. If it is not working for you, we recommend you excersise some patience and retry later or Contact Support.



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