GlosTalk User Reviews

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Gloucestershire County Council

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App doesn’t work

Saying at a campsite in Great Rissington. Walkings nice but we wanted to go further a field. Downloaded the app as suggested on a bus timetable in the local bus stop and it doesn’t work. Not a great advert for Gloucestershire county council.

It doesn’t work

None of the options work. Please either fix it or delete the app as it’s no use as it is!

Load of rubbish

Used to be quite useful. A bit basic but did the job. Stopped working months ago and shows no signs of ever doing so again.

Waste of space

Whoever owns/manages this app should remove it.
Downloaded this at a bus stop in Winchcombe to try and find details of the buses due. Most of the home screen options did not work/do anything or resulted in an error message. When I selected “find nearest bus stop” it said it could not locate one even though I was standing at the bus stop with a 4G signal!
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Just crap

Just crap!

Useless

Literally useless. Looks terrible. ‘Speak to use’ doesn’t work at all. It doesn’t tell me the bus timetable for the bus stop nearest to my house. The only thing it does do is tell me how to get from my house to the bus stop four minutes down the road with a helpful walking map that suggests I, well, walk down the road. Brilliant!
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Unusable

Totally useless, either app is not properly designed and/or bus service timetable is not updated. If you use this app you will probably miss your bus. I hope NO public money went into designing and implementing this rubbish.

Not a lot of use.

As this app hasn’t been revised since July 2017 and it is now February 2020 then I don’t suppose that the designers read the reviews but I’ll go ahead anyway.

I was in Cheltenham, a town that I’m not familiar with, and needed to get a bus. When attempting to use the app I could not get the “Speak to use” to work at all. I could not find which bus service I required so I didn’t know which bus stop I needed.

I read the description of the app written by the designers and it doesn’t match the functionality at all.

If this app is intended to advertise the Gloucestershire public transport system in a positive light then either revise it substantially or delete it.

I found the information that I needed using Google Maps.
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buses

please get a better app. I spent a near 2 hours out in the freezing cold in the rain waiting for a bus.

Didn’t know 6 year olds could design apps

It’s not hard to create a nice user interface. The app looks like someone went into a paint program with the rectangle and fill tool. Considering this was created people who do this for a living, it is probably the worst, unironically bad app I’ve ever seen.

Unimaginative, Badly Made and a Waste of Public Money

When designing an app, you should always focus first on the user experience and interface. The navigation is subpar for 2017, ‘speak to use’ on every page (heard of icons?) is an incessant waste of space, there’s a terrible lack of padding around every element, and there is a complete lack of design finesse throughout.

‘Speak to use’ doesn’t work. At all. Literally doesn’t do anything. And yet there’s a speak to use command on every page! What?!

Also, a key feature which is just *missing*, is a map. If I click ‘where is my nearest bus stop’ I want the app to show me, not give me an address that I then need to look up on a separate map app! Just plain stupid.

Google Maps has the same information available in real-time for free. And the UX/UI is very much better and more intuitive.

This seems a huge waste of public money for the resultant product.
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