DC Next Bus User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience39.7% of reviews
Neutral14.7% of reviews
Negative experience45.6% of reviews

~ Based on 68 written reviews from the US App Store.

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Top reviews

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App worked fine for years, then suddenly started giving me pornographic
thumb nails. Do not download.

Used to be a great app

In the span of about a month this app went from being amazing to one that doesn’t work at all. Ever since they updated the user interface, it’s been nothing but glitchy. Now it doesn’t show bus times for any stop at all. It’s really a shame, for about 10 years I used this app everyday.

DO NOT UPDATE!

Latest update doesn’t seem to interface with WMATA data and shows every bus stop as having no arrivals. Please fix!! This is the only useable app for WMATA.

No longer workable

My bus stop no longer is on the map. The old app took me to my stop immediately. This opens to the whole map. GPS anyone?

Still inaccurate

The app is still struggling to catch up to the bus line changes. My stop (Mass Ave and 5th St NW) doesn’t even exist on the app despite that it existed before and after the changes

Steals your data

When you open the app it copies your clip board in to the app.

It’s some times helpful.

Sometimes it shows ghosts buses, When there are no buses at some stops like stop I’d 1000758. It can be very frustrating yet but it stops it works fine on.

Great bug response

I emailed the developer when the location button disappeared, and even though the issue was probably my old phone + my not-updated iOS, the dev updated the app to fix it within a few days. Thanks!

It's not working at all!!

"No nearby buses" is the only update received when clicking on any and all purple pins!!
That's not the point of the app, is it?

Not accurate

All over the map

It's not precise now

This app used to estimate next bus very well. But unfortunately now it is not precise at all, I have to delete it although I have had it for over a year:(

Please fix - inaccurate timing

I have almost missed my bus for the fourth time this week because the app shows it's going to arrive in 10 mins and suddenly drops to 2 mins within seconds -- because of this inaccuracy, Ive been having to run after my bus to make it. Please fix this.

Based in Washington, D.C., bus route 96.

Great app

The only public transic app I can trus. Fast and reliable.

The best app to see how long your wait is

The best

Mediocre

When it works it works well. Sadly it only works about 60% of the time. I get unable to load errors all the time in downtown DC outside with service.

Timing is off

The arrival times for my bus stops are wrong about 90% of the time. Didn't have this problem before the latest update

Maps rather than lists are a lifesaver

The basic idea of this app - that it pinpoints the bus stop closest to you and shows you the route on a map - is ingenious. I don't know why all bus route apps don't work this way. It is so much faster to use when you at elsewhere in town besides your home and work bus stops. Accuracy of the arrival data is as good as it can be considering the shoddiness of WMATA's NextBus predictions. Let us all hope one day WMATA moves to real time bus tracking so we don't have to wait for a bus that doesn't come.
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Ride on??

Does this work for ride on bus? I don't see any of the stops near my place even though I have the setting for ride on enabled...

Works Great

Like this one compared to the other ones, interface is awesome. One suggestion though, manual refresh button lacking. But love it anyway, going to get the paid one, once manual update is included.

Lots of updating

Requires constant updates. Some stops never show up. Accurate as far as buses but a pain to maintain.