Trackie vs BusCool
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Trackie
This app helps parents and students track school bus locations in real-time. It features intelligent alarms that adjust based on previous arrival times to ensure punctuality. Schools can also use it to manage bus information and driver locations.
- Real-time bus location tracking
- Intelligent, self-adjusting alarms
- Group tracking capabilities
- School transport administration tools
- Driver location sharing
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Trackie helps you in tracking your school bus and be on time for the bus. You can use Trackie individually for its intelligent alarms for the school bus or as a group to track the bus location in real-time. Create Bus and the intelligent and self-adjusting alarm will help you reach on time for the school bus. Trackie keeps track of previous bus arrival times and intelligently adjusts the bus time for you. Schools can also use this free app. School Transport admin creates and shares the bus joining information with drivers, riders, and parents. Driver shares the bus location using the app, and the riders and parents can see where the bus is and reach the bus stop on time.
BusCool
This app allows parents to monitor their child's school bus location in real-time. Parents can view bus and driver details, and manage their child's attendance directly through the application.
- Real-time bus location tracking
- View bus information
- View driver information
- Update child attendance
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BusCool is a school bus tracker which allows parents to track their children with the help of a tracking app installed on the school bus. Parents are able to track the current location of a school bus and are able to manage their daily routines. With the BusCool app parents can: - track the current location of the bus - view bus information - view driver information. - update child attendance
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: BusCool at 5.0 against Trackie's 3.9. BusCool also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Trackie's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (12 vs 2). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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.
BusCool holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Trackie has 12 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Trackie ships an update fortnightly, BusCool every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Trackie | BusCool |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sada Choudhary | Realizeit LLC |
Customer experience
Trackie
BusCool
In-app purchases
Trackie
No in-app purchases
BusCool
No in-app purchases
