Bike Share Live Screensaver
The Bike Share Live screensaver boards a public bike-share system's stations, showing real available bikes and docks per station, drawn key-less via the open GBFS standard and defaulting to Toronto's Bike Share network. It's free, runs in your browser, and ESC exits.
How the Bike Share Live screensaver works
The saver fetches real live station status from a public bike-share system's GBFS feed, with no key required.
Each station shows its real current bike and dock counts, updating as riders take and return bikes.
Stations are sorted so the busiest or emptiest surface near the top.
The board refreshes on a schedule to track real system activity.
A worked example
Watch a downtown station during the morning commute and its available-bikes count drops toward zero — real riders checking out real bikes, not a simulation.
Settings & tips
- City switches between supported bike-share systems.
- Accent recolours the availability bars.
- GBFS is an open standard used by hundreds of bike-share systems worldwide.
Frequently asked questions
- Is this real-time?
- Yes — GBFS station-status feeds reflect the real, current state of each dock, typically updated at least every minute.
- Is a key needed?
- No. GBFS feeds are an open, public, key-less standard.
- Why only one city by default?
- Toronto ships as the default per this site's Canadian-first convention; more systems can be added the same way.
- Is it free?
- Yes — free, no download, in your browser.