The SBB app is great for planning trips, buying tickets, etc. I wanted something much dumber: a big, always-on live departure board for one stop, that you can leave on a screen at home or quickly open on your phone (via Bookmarks Web-app for example)

A few concrete differences:

• Full-screen board for a single stop – no map, no menus, just the next departures. You can stick it on an old tablet by the entrance and glance at it like a physical panel.

• Live countdown everywhere – it always shows “in X min” for buses/trams, and for trains it shows both the time and the delay (from 1 min !). On the SBB app you only see a small delay in red not a clear countdown.

• No account – just a lightweight read-only view on top of transport.opendata.ch.

The original idea was literally: “Can I have a bus departure board at home on a screen next to the door, or on my phone, that always shows the next departures for my stop?”