This app has provided all the essentials for a view of our bus route and timing. Thumbs up for a nice transition from Ride360. Every app, heck every software product from the first one using the Mark II back in 1947, has some quirks, bugs, or oddities, hence updates are needed. For all those critical of this or any app, please contact the app developer and give more specifics as to the problems and how you got there. I am sure they will be pulling all nighters to get things fixed. Yes been there done that, created some bugs and fixed a lot more.

This app was advertised as realtime updates and notifications with the very useful ability of tracking the progress of my kids’ school bus. It failed miserably at each of those tasks. For instance, the app did not adjust the bus’s drop off time to reflect their school’s half day on their first day of school. Students were released from school at 10:30am, yet the app kept the time listed as a 3:00pm release. That seems like a simple (and crucial) “realtime update” to make. I also received zero notifications. Nothing when the bus left the school or got near us. (And again, nothing about the half day.) Finally, there’s the ability to track the progress of the bus — a remarkably useful tool — that, you guessed it, didn’t work. Instead of receiving the bus’s location when I selected “bus location” I was treated to a static map of my house and the school, which never once featured anything even resembling a bus let alone a moving location marker that could, I don’t know, tell me my kids’ “bus location.” This app is a total failure. In its present (useless) form I don’t see the point of it. It is simply a collection of erroneous, static times with no actual communication, no notifications, and no “bus location.” It’s an app that could of (should of) been an email — instead of wasting space on my phone.

I suppose it's an ok app when it works right. The map constantly flips around every time the bus moves making it really hard to see where the bus actually is. I have to continuously reorient the map...over and over and over and over. Quite often, the bus just disappears and reappears somewhere else a little further down the road. The pickup time always says 7:19am and yet the bus never arrives until 7:45-8:00am. Same thing with drop off time...it's never remotely correct. And, what's up with no map panning while the bus is being followed? Just seems like an app that was released before the kinks were worked out. I give it two stars because at least we can sort of accurately track the bus in the mornings. Otherwise, it's a fairly aggravating app to use...