BusPlanner Delays vs Alertable
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BusPlanner Delays
Stay informed about your child's school bus status. Receive real-time updates and push notifications for delays, cancellations, or school closures directly from your Transportation Authority.
- Informational updates from Transportation Authority
- Push notifications for delays
- Push notifications for cancellations
- Push notifications for school closures
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The BusPlanner Delays mobile app is free and easy to use. • Receive informational updates from your Transportation Authority. • Recieve push notifications when your School Bus is delayed or cancelled or your School is closed. Icons made by http://www.freepik.com and https://roundicons.com from www.flaticon.com. Licensed by CC 3.0 BY.
Alertable
Stay informed about emergencies and daily incidents across Canada. Receive fast, reliable notifications for public safety, severe weather, and local community events. Personalize alerts by type, severity, and location to know before you go.
- Canada-wide public safety alerts
- Severe weather alerts
- Customizable notifications
- Location-based alerts
- Sharable alerts
- Local community notifications
- Workplace alerts
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Alertable emergency alerts and mass notifications keep you informed of emergencies and daily incidents in your community, workplace and school. Use Alertable for locations in Canada to stay aware and plan ahead. Check in advance for community events, closures, restrictions, hazards, danger and more. Know before you go. Keep yourself and others informed and up to date with Alertable. Notifications are fast, reliable and easy to see and hear. Personalize notifications by type and severity. Choose notifications for many locations including home, work, school, cottage, family and friends locations and more. Change your locations and other personalized options in Settings, after the fact. Key features: • Canada wide public safety alerts (from Canada’s Alert Ready emergency alert system) • severe weather alerts (from Environment and Climate Change Canada) • fast and reliable, highly optimized alert notifications • easy to setup and use • customizable, choose the types of critical, advisory and information alerts you wish to receive • targeted, alerts for only locations you are interested in • follow me, alerts for where you are at • maps, helpful for seeing the geographical area the alert is for • sharable, alerts can be shared on social media, email and text message • informative, emergency descriptions, impact areas and actions to take to remain safe • local, community notifications for closures, outages, restrictions, disruptions, re-openings, Interruptions and more • workplace, get alerts from your organization • accessible, full use by people with different abilities • multilingual, translate alerts into your device’s language setting
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Alertable at 61% against BusPlanner Delays's 3%. Alertable also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
BusPlanner Delays ships an update every 4 months, Alertable every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BusPlanner Delays | Alertable |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.7 (177 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 3.1% of reviews | 61.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 177 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.2 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 169 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BusPlanner Inc. | Public Emergency Alerting Services Inc |
Customer experience
BusPlanner Delays
Alertable
User reviews
BusPlanner Delays
From App Store reviewsWhat we love
- 👍 Works perfectly for some users
- 💡 Push notifications received by some
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 App fails to load notifications
- 🐛 Notifications are unreliable or delayed
- 🐛 Incorrect notifications received
- 🐛 App is generally unreliable
Alertable
From 177 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast and accurate delivery
- 🔒 Keeps employees and students safe
- 👍 Appreciates updates
- 🚨 Many urgent notifications
- 💡 Helpful for planning travel
Room to improve
- 😩 Exhausting alert prompts
- 🤥 Fake news, frequent false alarms
- 🚫 Only supports Canada
- 👎 Terrible UI on iOS
- 👎 Inferior iOS version
Bugs and requests
BusPlanner Delays
Reported bugs
21 issues- App crashes when entering school district
- App crashes when attempting to search school board
- App crashes on launch
- App crashes after update
- Failure to load notifications
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- Notifications not working
- Notifications are delayed
- Notifications are sent for wrong routes
- App shows 'error' messages
- App says 'App Restart Required'
- Persistent keyboard covers list items
- App automatically selects school when scrolling
- Cannot input both code and school board
- App doesn't work after update
- App doesn't upload schedules
- App doesn't show cancellations or delays
- App pushes multiple notifications for the same routine
- App doesn't update properly for delays
- General notice alerts from distant schools
- No school boards showing
- App doesn't connect to Wi-Fi/bars for notifications
Requested features
14 requests- Develop an alternative app
- Provide basic information (bus location, delays, pickup times, notifications)
- Show a log of all delays
- Keep delays visible for longer
- Add York region schools
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- Add multiple school board option
- Include a bus finder/tracker
- Add Student Transportation Services of Thunder Bay
- Allow selection of multiple school boards for different children
- Improve accuracy of notifications
- Ensure real-time notifications
- Fix UI issues with route selection
- Make manual route entry more obvious
- Fix overlapping text for school board selection
Alertable
Reported bugs
23 issues- App not working after update
- No alerts sent out
- Misleading and late alerts
- Old alerts cannot be deleted
- Confusion with evacuation alert wording
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- Poor Shuswap updates
- Unreliable emergency alerts
- Evacuation alerts too late
- Garbage app
- History not deletable
- High battery drain
- Alerts not informative enough
- Too many alerts in a row
- Early morning notifications
- Huge drain on battery
- Very slow to load
- Not getting audio alerts
- Cannot select region by panning
- Alerts don't display properly
- Useless in BC and most of Canada
- No cities in California
- Does not include my city
- Weak privacy policy
Requested features
14 requests- Disable prompts asking to keep receiving alerts
- Add dark mode
- Allow selection of entire city by panning map
- Remove pointless alert types
- Ability to silence specific alert types
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- Option to ignore specific alert types
- Improve location accuracy for alerts
- Add wildfire alerts
- Differentiate evacuation alert levels visually
- Allow deletion of old alerts
- Provide more informative alerts
- Include cities in California
- Include more cities
- Strengthen privacy policy for location tracking
In-app purchases
BusPlanner Delays
No in-app purchases
Alertable
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is BusPlanner Delays free?
Is Alertable free?
Do BusPlanner Delays or Alertable have ads?
Which is updated more often, BusPlanner Delays or Alertable?
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