Ithaca Bikeshare vs Buckit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ithaca Bikeshare
This app provides access to a regional e-bike share system. It offers a convenient, fun, and healthy transportation option for commuting, social outings, and exploring local communities.
- Access e-bike share system
- Convenient transportation
- Fun and healthy travel
- Explore local communities
- Commute to work or social events
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The official app for Ithaca Bikeshare, the regional e-bike share system in Ithaca. Whether you’re heading to work, meeting friends for dinner, or exploring the communities, Ithaca Bikeshare offers a convenient, fun, and healthy way to experience the community you love.
Buckit
Discover and save memorable places like bars, hikes, and museums based on trusted recommendations. Plan outings or explore new cities with a live map of real reviews from people you know.
- Discover places based on trusted friends
- Rate places on a 1-10 scale
- Add photos and notes to reviews
- Save spots to a personal list
- Explore a live map of reviews
- Personalized 'For You' feed
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Buckit is where you keep the places worth remembering, and discover the ones worth going to next, based on people you actually trust. Bars, hikes, museums, shows, weekend trips. Anything worth doing, anywhere in the world. No more texting friends for their itineraries. Just open their profile and see everywhere they’ve loved and where they wouldn’t go back to. Planning a night out or landing in a new city? Open Buckit and instantly see what’s worth it nearby, based on people you trust. What you can do • Rate every place on a real 1–10 scale • Add photos, notes, and tag friends • Save spots to your Buckit list • Explore a live map of real reviews • Scroll your personalized For You feed • Get notified when friends try new places Why Buckit • No fake reviews or inflated 5-star ratings • Real recommendations from people you know • A personal log of everywhere worth remembering Privacy & Moderation • Block any user with one tap • Report any review or profile • Delete your account and data anytime
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Buckit at 100% against Ithaca Bikeshare's 57%. Buckit also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Ithaca Bikeshare's advantage is ratings volume (509 vs 9) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, 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.
Buckit holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ithaca Bikeshare has 509 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Ithaca Bikeshare's written reviews are positive against 100% of Buckit's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ithaca Bikeshare | Buckit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (509 ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 509 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Dropbike | ANDRES JOSEPH RUAH |
Customer experience
Ithaca Bikeshare
Buckit
Bugs and requests
Ithaca Bikeshare
Reported bugs
8 issues- Brakes on bikes need more strength
- App takes 5-10 minutes to end trips
- App is slow and buggy
- Bike not recognized as parked
- App keeps spinning and throwing red error messages
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- Setup process difficult and tedious
- Bike needs to be activated twice
- Bike claims e-bike but offers little pedal assist
Requested features
1 request- Control over motor's power
Buckit
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Ithaca Bikeshare
No in-app purchases
Buckit
No in-app purchases
