OneBusAway Reviews

Essential app

79383

I take the bus to work every day and this app is a lifesaver. I don’t understand all the negative reviews.

The app is generally inaccurate and provides misinformation. I especially love the Asterisk beside the bus number that tells you no map location is available for the bus. Even though the app map shows a location on the map for the bus. Genius! If you can’t provide valuable information, just make it up.

Invaluable

KanjiLizzard

Avoid waiting for buses. Walk right up the moment it arrives. The only way to bus. No other app gives me the same information. I use normal maps apps to figure out my route, but I use this app to actually catch the bus at the right time.

Inaccurate but still somewhat useful

Mircakes

This app is useful for getting very rough estimates of when a bus will arrive. The “live tracking” of bus locations is completely inaccurate, however, and often the reported times are very off. So if you want to now if a bus is arriving somewhere near 1:30, for example, then you can look and see, but arrive at least 3 minutes before the scheduled time and expect to wait at least 10 mins after the scheduled time. The bus is almost always later than the app’s timing, but one rare occasions it’ll be early and then you’re screwed.

Useless

tmd917

Always saying bus will be there on time, but it is getting delay every minute when I check it.

You end up missing the bus more often

no im up

This app is very rarely accurate. I miss more busses using this app than I used to just reading the timetable at the stop. When this app first came out it was dead accurate, but that was years ago. They apparently only kept it up to sell it then gave up on it. It’s a potty because it used to be so useful.

Badly Needs UI update

Mr.Arf!Arf!

This app is great for what it does, finding the next bus time, but the UI/UX is stuck in iOS 5, it desperately needs some love, I think it’s made by UW now, I’m sure there has got to be at least one designer student who can assist for experience! Please make it so!

Ghost buses flying by

JaundicedEye

I have used this app for a year in my work commute, and on a weekly basis I am fooled by it. While it is better than a printed timetable, it promises much more than it can deliver. “Real time bus transit information” is not a reality using this app, the most common problem is thinking I have missed a bus when I haven’t. The map purports to show the real-time GPS location of the bus; I have dozens of screenshots of my location at a stop and my bus passing by, while the physical ‘real’ bus rattles by a few minutes later. I’ve switched to google maps, its more reliable.

No Live Updates for 2 days

Jl310118392

The app hasn’t provided live tracking status for two days now, only scheduled departures. Open source so only way to get issues examined is through Github.

Extremely Inaccurate

youngrrrr

The app reports that a bus will come in 5 minutes and sometimes it shows up in 1 minute and other times it will show up in 15. Some buses will just miss their stop entirely — as you follow it on GPS. I know it’s not exactly the fault of the developer and more that of the API but the developer does not handle these frustrating cases well.

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