Catch The Bus: Bus Tracker App Reviews

The app itself cant stop busses from being stopped behind garbage trucks or at rotating red lights. It only says how far away the bus is under normal circumstances. And its great at that. If you be reasonable about it, it should work for you too! This app has been a lifesaver for me. Minus one star because sometimes it doesnt show busses scheduled to come up if their GPS isnt turned on. But, that might be a bus GPS problem. I would also appreciate if a full schedule was available on the app so I could see it at a quick glance.

The app has saved me so much time and prevents me from waiting on a regular basis. I now always check the status before walking over to a stop.

Yeah every now and again the app messes up due to busses standing by but the fact is knowing when the busses are coming and going is absolutely awesome! And this is the best app in Boston hands down!

Had some trepidation about choosing which app to use for timing my MBTA bus commute. Chose this one on a whim and have found it completely accurate to the minute. I have an iPhone-5 and ride the 43 bus from the South End to Downtown.

I shouldnt have downloaded this !!! I live in upstate NEW YORK . No assistance whatsoever

This does not have accurate information. Dont waste your time.

Ive had this for about 2 weeks and its already been entirely wrong 3 or 4 times, terrible, terrible app

I have been using this app for my daily commute on crosstown buses and its predictions are good. Note that you should always leave extra time for traffic if using during rush hours, since the app cant predict heavy traffic or lots of passengers holding a bus up. Regardless, the GPS map is very helpful in tracking bus movements in real time. Bottom line: use some common sense and this app will serve you just fine.

This app works fine inbound to Boston in the mornings but is completely unreliable at night because the dispatcher redirects buses as he sees fit. May as well save the phones battery and just wait outside when going home.

Bus never came.........

Used to work perfectly. No I have missed buses a few times due to its inaccuracy. I have reported this, but it is still not working correctly. Find a better app like I am going to.

But has some bugs on 88 route for MBTA. Exactly on 11-12.It has the most pathetically wrong timing at that particular time. Most part its really better than decent app.

I had high hopes for this app but its predicted arrival times are persistently inaccurate and unreliable, at least on bus routes 92 and 93. Im sure the problem somehow stems from the MBTA.

Buses coming inbound are accurate. Outbound buses go from 27 min to <1 to 6 min to 9 min all in the spam of 10 min.

So Ive used this app for quite some time and have had good experiences previous to the last few months. I realized there hasnt been a new version in almost a year and a half recently though and no screen adjustment for an iPhone 5. Today I was getting completely inaccurate times. Example, it said I had over 20 minutes from my stop so I started walking over to the train only to have a bus come by maybe 3 minutes later. Then a bus rolled right by me while I was waiting behind a glass door even though it said I had 2 minutes left. Im hoping for some fixes but maybe Im due to find a new bus app. :(

I love this app, and I use it almost every day. Almost. I think that this app doesn’t do as good a job as others when it comes to showing me a handful of routes that I want to see. For example, other apps show me arrival times for my favorite stops in one view. This app makes me tap and wait for each stop that I’ve added to My Stops. For that reason I don’t use this app for arrival predictions. However - this app is absolutely superior to all others for showing busses on a map! I couldn’t live without seeing how far away in **distance** is the next bus from me, because that often helps me figure out which route to take, which stop to walk to, if there’s bunching, etc. (For me, just getting the number of minutes until the next bus comes along to one stop isn’t the "Big Picture". By seeing on a map where the busses are relative to my location and relative to the stops I can make far better decisions on my commute than without the mapping.) If you’re someone who doesn’t need the great map view of the route & vehicles then this app is good but not great. If you’re like me and seeing everything on a map is helpful, then this app is the best!!!

Great for MBTA bus times and schedules. I use this app several times a day and quite pleased with its UI and reliability.

I understand its hard to determine when a bus will arrive (having to wait on passengers, traffic etc), but there have been too many instances where I will look to see when the next bus will come and when it doesnt ill look at the app again and it will push back the arrival time over and over again. I once looked at the app and watched it go from 1 minute to 3 minutes 8 times in a row. When its 10 degrees out, the humor gets lost quickly.

According to the info given, I had four (4) minutes before the bus would arrive. Alas I was just crossing the street to the bus stop when the bus, due in four minutes arrived early than expected. I just missed my bus! Darn! Thus has happened before. Why the in accuracy?

5 star app for me! Always reliable, it could be improved in some features like a more handy way to select the stops of the bus. Its a bit annoying to go back to the main screen and pick the bus and then pick one of the dozen stops