Prague Commits 25 Million Crowns to a Rebuilt PID Lítačka. It Arrives as an Update in Early 2027

Prague's councillors have approved 25 million crowns for the development of a new generation of the PID Lítačka app, the transport daily Zdopravy.cz reports. ROPID and IDSK, the transport authorities for Prague and the Central Bohemian Region, are putting in a further six million between them, which makes 31 million for a piece of software that most of the city's passengers touch before they touch a vehicle.

The scale is worth stating first, because it is what turns this from a procurement note into a decision about how people move around Prague. The app has around 200,000 unique users a day and roughly two million users in total. In 2025 passengers ran more than 109 million journey searches through it.

What the money is for

Lítačka started nearly eight years ago as a way to buy a ticket and look up a connection, and has accumulated functions since. According to its authors at OICT, the city-owned company that builds it, it is now among the most-used digital services the capital runs.

"The current form of the app is running into its limits. So that we can add new functions to it, we have decided to invest significantly in its development. This investment will definitely pay off and in the long term it will bring the city savings,"

Jaromír Beránek, Prague councillor for transport

The list of what the new generation is supposed to do splits in two. Some of it is housekeeping that users have been asking for: buying and activating several tickets at once, a simpler parking flow with the option of ending a session early, and a dark mode.

The rest is closer to this publication's subject. The new version is meant to search step-free connections — combining modes of transport and taking the availability of accessible lifts into account — to calculate delays predictively rather than reporting them, and to recommend which metro carriage to ride in for a faster exit at the far end. It is also intended to handle orders for demand-responsive transport and to take payments for charging electric cars.

The architecture is the point

Prague's stated reason for spending the money now is that the present app cannot absorb any more. The new technological architecture is described as the thing that allows further services to be plugged in over time — PID Haló, the demand-responsive service in the Central Bohemian Region, is named as one candidate, along with more precise handling of live traffic information.

That framing matters for anyone reading this as a transport story rather than a software one. A step-free journey planner that knows which lifts are working is, in practice, a piece of accessibility infrastructure, and it is being funded in the same month that the city set a 2030 date for making the Petřín funicular's three stations step-free. One of those is a building project with a property dispute inside it; the other is a release schedule. They answer the same question at very different speeds.

Nothing changes for passengers until 2027

The existing PID Lítačka will run unchanged until the new generation is deployed. At the start of 2027, PID Lítačka 2.0 replaces it as an ordinary update — there is no separate app to install and no migration for users to perform.