Step by step until you get off
Walk, wait, board and ride, with the stops counted down. Spoken steps in Arabic, English or Turkish, and a floating window when you switch apps.
Making transportation easier wherever you go.
Plan routes, see departures and follow each step on metro, bus, rail and ferry, across nine cities in five countries.
Coming soon on 30/11/2026See the cities
Nine cities in five countries
The same app and the same screens in every one of them. Pick a city to see what Murtahil covers there.
Saudi Arabia
Türkiye
Egypt
Syria
Saudi Arabia
Riyadhالرياض
All six metro lines and the city’s buses, including the rapid bus lines, with live departures and service alerts.
- metro lines
- 6
- bus lines
- 86
- stations
- 2,730
Ways to travel
- Metro
- Bus
- Rapid bus
Times you’ll see
- Live
Why we built it
Getting around shouldn’t take research.
Every city keeps its transport information somewhere different.
Murtahil covers nine cities in five countries with the same screens. Switch city and everything you’ve learned still works.
One trip can mean three different operators.
Murtahil plans across them in one go: a metro, Marmaray and a ferry in Istanbul, or a bus and the Haramain train from Makkah to Medina.
A timetable isn’t the same as the time.
Every time is labelled live, predicted, scheduled or estimated, so you know how much to lean on it.
Some networks have no official map at all.
In Damascus and Hama, servees lines come from community mapping, down to the spots where you can wave one down.
“How much is it?” is often the hardest question.
Where fares are published, Murtahil shows them with the route, in riyals, dinars and pounds, including Bahrain’s GO Card daily cap.
Built for the whole trip
The phone apps don’t stop at a route. They stay with you until you arrive.
Premium
Your bus, on the lock screen
Follow a bus to your stop with chimes at two minutes, one minute and arrival. If it leaves its route or skips your stop, you’ll know.
Ask in your own words
Tell the assistant where you’re going. It plans the route, checks arrivals and saves places for you.
Departures, counting down
Station pages list the next departures on every line, live where the city shares it.
A location pin is a destination
Share a pin from WhatsApp, Messages or a maps app straight into Murtahil.
A route is a shareable plan
Send any route as clear, step-by-step text, with its lines, stops and times, to WhatsApp or Messages.
Every time tells you where it came from
Some cities share live data. Others publish timetables, or only how often a line runs. Murtahil labels each time so you can tell them apart.
- 231Al MiqatMedina, Al Faisaliyah4 minLive
- M5ÜsküdarIstanbul, platform 13 minPredicted
- A1Bahrain International AirportBahrain, Isa Town15:44Scheduled
- D01AbbasiyyinDamascus, Baramkehabout 6 minEstimated
- Live
- From the operator’s real-time feed, updated as vehicles move.
- Predicted
- Worked out from where vehicles are and how traffic usually moves at that hour.
- Scheduled
- From the official timetable, trip by trip.
- Estimated
- From how often a line runs, where no timetable exists.
Three languages, one voice
Every screen works in Arabic, English and Turkish. Arabic isn’t just translated: layouts mirror right to left, and numbers stay easy to read.
English
The next ferry to Kadıköy leaves in 4 minutes.
العربية
العبّارة التالية إلى كاديكوي تنطلق بعد 4 دقائق.
Türkçe
Kadıköy’e bir sonraki vapur 4 dakika sonra kalkıyor.
On the web first. On your phone soon.
The web app opens on 30 November 2026 with all nine cities, on any screen. The iPhone and Android apps are in beta, with a store release coming soon.
Web app
Coming soonPlan trips, see departures and browse lines in any modern browser, on a computer or a phone.
iPhone and watchOS
Coming soonLive Activities and the Dynamic Island keep your trip and your bus on the lock screen.
Android and Wear OS
Coming soonA tracking card on the lock screen, and a watch app with your saved places and nearby stations.
Coming soon on 30/11/2026
About
A murtahil is a traveller
Someone at ease on the move. Our mark is Riyadh’s Kingdom Centre with the metro passing through its opening: a landmark you travel by, and the journey through it.
Murtahil began in Riyadh and grew one city at a time. Each one gets the same care: gather what’s published, fill the gaps, check it against the street, and say plainly what’s an estimate.
Where the data comes from
- Timetables and real-time feeds published by transport operators
- Map data from Open Source projects
- Community-mapped lines
- Our own checks, such as matching the order of stops to live bus positions
Questions
Is Murtahil free?
Yes. The web app is free, and the phone apps have a free plan with ads. A Premium plan will add lock-screen tracking and voice conversations with the assistant; upgrades aren’t open yet.
When can I download the phone apps?
The iPhone and Android apps are in beta now, and the store release is coming soon. The web app, with the same nine cities, opens on 30 November 2026.
Are the times live?
In seven of the nine, yes. The phone apps show live times in Riyadh; Jeddah, Makkah and Medina; the Eastern Province; Bahrain; Istanbul; Ankara; and Cairo. In Damascus and Hama, times are estimated from how often a line runs. Every time is labelled, so you can tell.
Which languages does it speak?
Arabic, English and Turkish, on the web and in both phone apps. Spoken directions in the phone apps work in all three.
Which cities does it cover?
Riyadh; Jeddah, Makkah and Medina; the Eastern Province; Bahrain; Istanbul; Ankara; Cairo; Damascus; and Hama. Cities are added one at a time.
Where to?
Pick a city and plan your next trip.
Coming soon on 30/11/2026
