SBB FreeSurf is a travel & local app developed by Schweizerische Bundesbahnen SBB.
Download Statistics
SBB FreeSurf has been downloaded 170 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 1.6 thousand times.
User Ratings
SBB FreeSurf is rated 1.11 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 850 ratings.
App Information
SBB FreeSurf is FREE to download. The APK download size is 15.52 MB. The latest version available is 1.6.11. The last update was on September 25, 2025.
Technical Requirements
SBB FreeSurf requires Android 7.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play May 2019.
Description
Internet access free of charge from the app. SBB FreeSurf is available on all SBB long-distance trains (IC and IR). SBB FreeSurf is based on the excellent mobile phone coverage along the Swiss rail routes – passengers can benefit from a faster and smoother internet connection with more bandwidth than you get with conventional train Wi-Fi. Customers with a digitec, Quickline, Salt (Das Abo, GoMo, Lidl Connect are included), Sunrise or Swisscom mobile phone contract can surf the internet for free with die SBB FreeSurf app.
Passengers from abroad will be able to surf the internet for free with a SIM card (also eSIM) from a mobile phone provider participating in SBB FreeSurf. Trains with a free internet connection are marked with «FS» (for FreeSurf) in the online timetable.
When boarding the train, the customers can open the SBB FreeSurf app. Automatic recognition takes place using a beacon. After registering successfully, the customers will receive an SMS text confirming that they can surf for free via their mobile phone provider. When alighting from the train or switching off the connection, you will receive a message stating that free internet access is no longer active. We only need customers to provide the mobile number to be used for registration.
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Works nicely. The free surfing is sometime interrupted because of a tunnel or if the train is stuck in a station, but this is understandable. I see a lot of complaints and bad ratings. But for someone without unlimited internet and who traveled +10 years with the cff, this app really makes my travels more comfortable.
★☆☆☆☆Dave Robinson· Sep 15, 2025
SBB free train Wi-Fi means "free if you already have a Swiss phone contract" or an eSim from Sunrise or Swisscom. If you haven't, don't even bother trying. I'm giving this one star, although this is a reflection on SBB's ridiculously insular and unwelcoming policy, rather than the app itself.
★☆☆☆☆Rowen LaMere· Apr 22, 2023
Cannot be used with a non-swiss phone number! Please just install Wi-Fi on the trains, most other European countries have solved this 10 years ago...
★☆☆☆☆Ben Kline· Apr 25, 2021
Utterly terrible! Many have pointed out how useless this app is, and how many problems would be solved by simply offering a Wi-Fi hotspot. SBB claims their solution provides a better service and experience. How so? By still being charged for data by Salt despite using the app? Or is it by having to reactivate the connection every ten minutes, because I "left the Free Surf Zone", yet still sitting in the train en route to Zurich? It's broken beyond repair. Just install Wi-Fi, ffs!
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Technologies used by SBB FreeSurf
SBB FreeSurf is requesting 17 permissions and is using 49 libraries.
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