# Shine School Driver — Attendance recorded by GPS > Attendance recorded by GPS (iPhone/iPad app by Diary Shafiq.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shine-school-driver/id6816738515 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Diary Shafiq](https://appshunter.io/developer/6816738399) - Category: Business, Navigation - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 16.4 · 43 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-10-30 - Data updated: 2026-11-02 ## What is Shine School Driver? Shine School Driver is the driver app for schools that run their buses on Shine School. Press Start and drive: the app records the run from the bus's location, so in normal use you press Start, and Absent for a child who does not come. HOW A RUN WORKS • Start with one tap. See your assigned bus and how many children ride today, then tap Start morning pickup or Start home drop-off. • Visit homes in any order. Stop briefly at a home and the app records it: "Stop recorded — children board when you drive off." When you drive away, those children are marked on the bus, or off the bus on the trip home. Driving past a home without stopping does not count as a visit. • School arrival without a tap. The morning run ends by itself when the bus reaches school. On the trip home, the children are marked on the bus as you leave school, and the run ends after the last drop-off. • Absent, with Undo. Mark a child Absent at their home in the morning, or at school before the trip home, and undo it within a few seconds if you tapped by mistake. • Stayed on bus. On the trip home, if nobody is there to receive a child, choose Stayed on bus. The child rides back to school with you and their family is told. • See who is where at a glance. The counts line shows On board, To pick up and Absent. Tap it for the Children page, grouped by home. • Call a parent. Tap a child's name to see their details and call a parent from the app. • Homes on the map. See your position and the homes on your run, with each child's first name at their home. WHEN SOMETHING NEEDS FIXING Trip options keeps the rarely needed controls out of the way: • Fix attendance: correct a pickup or drop-off the GPS missed, or undo a mistake. • Finish at school: end the morning run at school if it has not ended by itself. • Board everyone now: mark the children on the bus at school if leaving school was not recorded. • Back at school: hand children who stayed on the bus back to the school. Your school can also correct attendance from its Shine School website. WHAT YOUR SCHOOL AND FAMILIES SEE While a trip is open, the bus location is shared with your school and with the families of the children on that route. Families see the bus on a live map, the number of children on board and their own child's name, never other children's names. With their child's trip they also see your name and phone number, so they can reach you. They get a "Bus arrived" notice when you stop at their home, and notices for the moments they cannot see, such as their child arriving at school. YOUR LOCATION Shine School Driver uses precise location only while a trip is open and the app is on screen, with "While Using the App" permission. Sharing pauses when you lock the phone or switch to another app, and stops when the trip ends. The app does not track your location outside a trip. If the signal drops, positions wait on the phone and are sent when the connection returns. Keep the phone mounted with the trip screen open; the screen stays on during a trip. ACCOUNTS Your school creates your account and assigns your bus; there is no sign-up in the app. Sign in with the phone number your school registered and your password. The app works in English, Arabic and Kurdish (Sorani). Privacy policy: https://schoolsbus.org/privacy Support: schoolsbus97@gmail.com ## Is Shine School Driver safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Shine School Driver. ## Is Shine School Driver legit? Shine School Driver has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Shine School Driver is 50 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 2 releases) ### 0.3.2 — 2026-10-31 - Press and hold to start a trip, so a stray tap cannot start it. Each trip starts once. - Started a trip by mistake? Cancel it from Trip options. - My students: pin each child's home at the door, so families are not asked again. - New app icon. - Small fixes now arrive automatically, without a store update. The version is shown on the sign-in screen and in Account. ### 0.3.0 — 2026-10-31 No release notes. ## More apps by Diary Shafiq - [Shine School Parent](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shine-school-parent/id6816738247) All apps by Diary Shafiq: https://appshunter.io/developer/6816738399 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-11-02.*