I bought an Interrail pass, then realised I needed three more apps to actually catch the trains. So I built one tool that fixes the gap.

The pass itself is great — flexible, fair price, one place to plan the whole trip. What it doesn't give you is real-time stuff: platform announcements, delay alerts, last-minute cancellations.

So my mornings became: open Interrail to remember which train I booked, switch to the operator's app for the actual departure board, switch to a browser tab for the one operator without a decent app, half-translate the alerts, repeat for each leg. Missed a platform change once because none of the apps I had installed pinged me.

So I made late.fyi. It's just email.

Email a train number, e.g. ICE145@late.fyi, subject From: Amsterdam, To: Berlin. You get a confirmation in seconds. Then nothing — until the platform is announced, the train delays, gets cancelled, or arrives. Each change is one email, in your inbox, in any language you read.

To stop tracking, click a link in any email. Or just reply STOP.

No app. No account. No analytics. Free, open source.

Works with most major European operators (Eurostar, ICE, TGV, ÖBB Railjet, NS, SNCB, Trenitalia,etc.).

https://late.fyilate.fyi