French train traveler here. I concur. I use them to travel from France to Italy through Germany and Austria. bahn.de is a great resource and so is their Android

French train traveler here. I concur. I use them to travel from France to Italy through Germany and Austria. bahn.de is a great resource and so is their Android app. Even in France, I sometimes use their schedules rather than the local ones, because they give me every single train station a train is going to stop at, which is useful information you don't get everywhere. Take a step back when booking, though. It can suggest trips with tens of connections without taking delays into account (and it's rare, if not impossible, to not have some delay with that many connections).