NYC School Bus User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience2.1% of reviews
Neutral1.4% of reviews
Negative experience96.5% of reviews

~ Based on 141 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is NYC School Bus Safe?

NYC School Bus has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for NYC School Bus is 51/100.

This assessment is based on 483 user ratings, with an App Store average of 2.5/5.

Safety Analysis

37.1% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.2% of ratings suggest some concerns
61.7% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 483 App Store ratings for NYC School Bus.

Is NYC School Bus Legit?

NYC School Bus appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for NYC School Bus is 85/100.

Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

The bus is blocking the view of map

The updated version it is hard to see where the bus is on the map. There is white space around the bus icon that make it hard to see where the bus is on the map. The old version is better.

When trying to zoom in, it pans the map over and not zoom in to the here the bus is.

Not only that why doesn’t it stay logged in and every morning have to log in .
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Not accurate

I Dont Know, what’s the point of this app when it doesn’t even tell you how close they are anymore it’s almost useless

It works when it wants to

So we have the app on multiple devices so far only My Daughter can access the bus because she picks up her sibling but then I can’t access it when I need to when it’s my day receive my child. It wasn’t always like this please fix it. Update: it still shows it is at school because ????? It should show where it is at! Get it together!
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Doesn’t work.

Doesn’t even show the bus where and I was 1 hour late.

Doesn’t work well

The UX sucks. You have to login a bunch of times sometimes. Regularly it just doesn’t work at all. it spins while trying to see the tracking page. Under support it doesn’t have any way to contact the bus company or the driver. Also under support there’s no way to troubleshoot or open a ticket when it has bugs. One of the worst apps I’ve ever used.
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Bus is stuck at same location

They won’t call you even if the app isn’t working and only wait for about a minute

Accurate …..when it actually works.

Please fix, this app is crucial for all parents with children who ride the bus.

This app sucks

This app is horrible they really need to work on it .

They better fix this

Has not worked once since I downloaded it. Always says something went wrong.

App hasn’t worked all year!

The app has not worked once since the beginning of the year. It gives us a generic error message. We cannot get in contact with anybody so they will help us. We have no idea what time the bus will arrive each day.

Useful but frustrating

There’s really no reason that a session should ever time-out for an app like this. Logging in can sometimes take three tries before it actually works. It’s kind of wild how poorly New York City apps and websites run and I’m quite sure they pay way more than market rate to have them built.

Bad app

Bus spot always Frozen otp an bus company no help very nasty attitudes in the morning

What everyone else said

Doesnt work if the bus driver is offline. Dispatch same

Impossible to use

The app keeps logging me out and when I try to log back in 8 out of 10 times it reports an error and I can't get in.

Extremely buggy

This app is close to useless. It sends no alerts, like those pictured above, it logs off several times a day, even while I’m actively using it, and the map is difficult to orient to (i.e., it’s hard to tell what street the bus is on). It needs a lot of work to be functional.

Terrible app

First, not only do you have to sign on every time, sometimes you have to sign in a few times just to get going. Second, most of the time, it just doesn’t work. This week it keeps loading and then tells you something went wrong. Then you have to sign on again. Every day this week so far it hasn’t worked. The worst is when they have a substitute bus driver and that person is a little older and can’t figure out the app, they don’t turn it on. The bus driver today got a bit salty with me because he had to wait a minute for us because he was 12 minutes late and I went back inside with my kid cause it was freezing. I told him he had to turn the app on and he said he doesn’t bother with that.
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Glitchy

Doesn’t work properly and is glitchy
Not reliable at all

Not working

Even tho I link my child account on website and still saying to link child

Unable to access the app

For about three months I cannot access the school bus app including not able to submit a ticket to the support team

Vaguely Useful

If you want a vague understanding of where your child is as you watch a wobbly bus graphic slide around a map, this is your app!