About

What it is

Spick Me looks up connections in the Swiss timetable and tells you what you need on the platform: when to leave, which track, how long the change really is, and where the coaches will be standing. It shows live delays where the operators publish them, and says nothing where they do not.

There are no accounts, no advertising and nothing to buy. It is a private project, not a company and not a transport undertaking.

There is, admittedly, one thing in here that is not a timetable. It is on no menu and behind no link. It lives behind the logo, and it opens for the impatient.

How it works

The apps carry the whole Swiss timetable on the device. It is downloaded once, and after that every search is answered locally — in a tunnel, abroad, or with the phone in flight mode. Nothing about a search leaves the device.

The timetable in your browser works differently, because a browser has nowhere to keep a national timetable: the search is sent to this site and answered here. What that means for your data is set out on the privacy page.

Where the timetable comes from

Timetable, real-time, formation and occupancy data come from third parties — principally opentransportdata.swiss and the Swiss transport undertakings. We pass it on and draw it; we do not produce it and cannot correct it.

So it can be incomplete, out of date, delayed, or simply wrong. Where this site and the operator disagree, the operator is right — check the displays at the station when it matters. The full statement is in the terms.

Who makes it

Gian Calgeer and Jörg Schenker, in Zurich. Written in Switzerland, for the network we use ourselves — which is most of the reason the details are the way they are. Who to contact and how is on the legal notice.

Where to get it

Android and Wear OS, a desktop app, a command-line tool and a Pebble watchface: all on the downloads page, with checksums. The timetable here needs nothing installed at all.

Tell us what is wrong

We only find out what is missing or broken when somebody says so. The feedback page reaches us directly, and the ideas page is what we are thinking about next.