Maui Bus vs Maui Dive Guide
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Maui Bus
Plan your Maui transit with real-time bus tracking and arrival information. Save favorite stops and routes, set reminders, and get alerts for service updates. This free app helps you avoid missing your bus and makes navigating the island easier.
- Real-time bus tracking
- Live map view
- Trip planner
- Favorite stops and routes
- Arrival time estimates
- Service alerts
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No more wondering if you missed your bus. Take the guess work out of planning your trip on Maui. The official Maui Bus app provides real-time arrival information for the Maui Bus public transit system buses. Use the app to mark favorite stops and routes, set reminders, get alerts, plan your trip, provide feedback and access general information about Maui Bus. Best of all, you can track your bus in real-time on the live map to see its exact location and receive estimated arrival times at your bus stop. This app is fun, easy to use and best of all it’s FREE! Features: • Locate nearby bus stops. • Search for bus stops by tapping on the map. • Get GPS real-time information. • Get published bus schedules. • Track the current bus location. • Watch the bus live across the map. • Bookmark your favorite stops. • Built in trip planner. • Get latest news, information and service alerts. • Provide comments and feedback.
Maui Dive Guide
Discover and navigate Maui's best dive sites with detailed information and user-submitted condition reports. Identify Hawaiian marine life and track your dives and favorite spots. Includes emergency information and shore diving tips.
- Over 50 dive site locations
- Filter by dive type and skill level
- Track dived and favorite sites
- Measure distances and routes
- User-submitted condition reports
- 240+ Hawaiian marine life species
- Log seen species and favorites
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Featured in The Scuba News: thescubanews.com “In a market filled with generic travel tools and scattered dive information, the Maui Dive Guide stands out because it feels grounded in real diving. It is practical, locally informed, and built with a clear understanding of what divers actually need when standing on a shoreline, looking out at the ocean, and deciding where to enter.“ * Find and get information on and directions to over 20 shore and 30 boat dive sites. * Filter by shore, boat, or scooter dive * Sort by city, area, skill, or depth. * Keep track of the sites you have dived and your favorite sites. * Use Measure Mode to get distance and directions between landmark points, or any points, on the dive site map. You can even measure routes! * Check dive site condition reports, sent from either the app developer or other users of the app, or send your own condition report after doing a dive! * Pictures, ID, and brief description of over 240 species of Hawaiian marine life. * Keep track of the species you have seen, and your favorites. * Add your own notes to a dive site to remember spots, things seen, whatever, and share those notes with other users if you like. * Get information for emergencies and Maui shore dive tips.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Maui Dive Guide at 100% against Maui Bus's 0%. Maui Dive Guide also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.9) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Maui Dive Guide holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Maui Bus's written reviews are positive against 100% of Maui Dive Guide's.
Maui Bus ships an update every 4 months, Maui Dive Guide every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Maui Bus | Maui Dive Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.9 (16 ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 505 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Syncromatics | Jonathan Goldberger |
Customer experience
Maui Bus
Maui Dive Guide
In-app purchases
Maui Bus
No in-app purchases
Maui Dive Guide
No in-app purchases
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