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HK MTR Time hkmtrtime.com — Q&A, facts, screenshots, brand assets

HK MTR Time (hkmtrtime.com) is a free MTR Next Train web app that turns an old phone into an MTR arrival display. This page serves press, search engines and AI assistants with product Q&A, facts, real screenshots and brand assets. The previous media centre remains at /media.

Updated: 2026-11-02 · Language: English · 繁體中文版：/presskit · Most screenshots show the Chinese UI (one English board included); the app itself supports 7 languages. For Japanese / Korean / Thai / French / Spanish versions, please email us.

Product Q&A

1. What is HK MTR Time?
   A free MTR Next Train web app built on the HKSARG data.gov.hk MTR open data. One screen shows the next trains per direction with minutes, destinations and platforms, auto-refreshing about every 15 seconds.
2. Which lines are covered?
   Tsuen Wan, Island, Kwun Tong, Tseung Kwan O, East Rail, Tuen Ma, Tung Chung, South Island, Airport Express and Disneyland Resort — ten heavy-rail lines plus Light Rail; 97 heavy-rail and 68 Light Rail stations.
3. Is it free? Do I need an account?
   Free with no login for nearby stations; signing in with Google saves up to 5 stations with wake lock. Premium at HK$12/year covers up to 30 stations, merged and sorted by fastest arrival.
4. What does "turn an old phone into an MTR arrival display" mean?
   Put a spare phone or tablet on a stand, plug it in, and "Add to Home Screen" for a full-screen always-on large-text board — like the "next train" displays on platforms. After login it opens straight onto your saved stations.
5. What is unique?
   Work / home preset pairs, line-and-route filters, big destination text with line colours and platform badges, MTR service alerts inline, and an exit guide (which station, which line, which direction, how many stops, which platform, which exit).
6. Where can I use it?
   Any desktop or mobile browser at hkmtrtime.com; official Android app via Google Play; iPhone via Safari "Add to Home Screen".

Fact sheet

Product details

Description

HK MTR Time shows upcoming trains per direction with big destination text, line colours and platform badges; Light Rail leads with route numbers plus a Light Rail badge and destination. Trains under a minute away read "arriving"; departed trains are hidden. Service alerts from the MTR appear inline when a line has special arrangements. Frontend-only PWA reading government open data directly; user settings stay on the user's own device.

How it differs

1. Ten lines plus Light Rail on one screen: multiple stations merged and sorted by fastest arrival — no tapping into each station.
2. Built for always-on display: deep-navy large-text interface modelled on MTR platform displays — made to give old phones a second life.
3. Work / home preset pairs: signed-in users save two station-and-line sets and switch with one tap, optionally by time of day.
4. Exit guide: enter a destination for the starting station, line, direction, stop count, platform and suggested exit (car-position hints inferred from official MTR station layout maps, reference only).

Get started in 3 steps

1. Open hkmtrtime.com in a browser and pick your regular stations (or use GPS for nearby stations).
2. Sign in with Google to save work / home presets.
3. On an old phone, "Add to Home Screen", plug in power, leave it on a stand.

More facts

Links & images

Screenshots and artwork above are free for reporting, reviews and AI citation with credit "hkmtrtime.com". All screens are real app screenshots; departure data shown is illustrative. Most screenshots show the Chinese UI; the app supports 7 languages.

Screenshots

Developer story

HK MTR Time is operated by BeComm Limited, alongside its sister site HK Bus Time (hkbustime.com). Once the bus board was done, the next question was obvious: what about the MTR? The official app does plenty, but you must tap into each station to see the next train; we wanted a hallway board that shows your regular stations at a glance and stays on. So we built this deep-navy large-text board directly on MTR Next Train open data, plus the exit information commuters otherwise open a second app for.

Story angles

Second life for old phones: spare phone plus stand plus power, a zero-cost home or shop platform board. Open-data showcase: ten heavy-rail lines plus Light Rail unified from one dataset. Commuter test: work/home presets saving the daily station-by-station search.

Spec summary

Ad creatives

TV banner 468×60, Chinese and English (PNG 468×60):

A4 poster

Coming soon. For print posters, email [email protected].

HK MTR Time — https://hkmtrtime.com
Tagline: Turn an old phone into an MTR arrival display

Q&A:
1. What is HK MTR Time? A free MTR Next Train web app on data.gov.hk MTR open data. One screen shows next trains per direction with minutes, destinations and platforms, refreshing about every 15 seconds.
2. Which lines? Ten heavy-rail lines plus Light Rail; 97 heavy-rail and 68 Light Rail stations.
3. Free? Account needed? Free nearby stations with no login; Google sign-in saves up to 5 stations with wake lock; Premium HK$12/year for up to 30.
4. Old phone as display? Spare phone on a stand, plugged in, "Add to Home Screen" for a full-screen always-on board like a platform "next train" display.
5. Unique? Work/home presets, line filters, big destinations with platform badges, MTR service alerts, exit guide.
6. Where? Any browser at hkmtrtime.com; Google Play for Android; Safari "Add to Home Screen" for iPhone.

Pricing: free + Premium HK$12/year | Languages: ZH/EN/JA/KO/TH/FR/ES | Contact: [email protected]