Transit vs BusBus NYC
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Transit
Plan your public transport journeys offline with this app. Get detailed route suggestions, including transfers and departure times, for numerous cities in the US, Canada, and Europe. View routes on a map and receive schedule update notifications.
- Offline trip planning
- Route suggestions with transfers
- Departure and arrival times
- View routes on map
- Schedule update notifications
- Search routes by map
- Advanced search parameters
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CG Transit offers offline trip planning in public transport systems of more than 20 U.S. and Canadian cities and European trains. Just pick your departure and destination point and get a list of suggested routes including all the transfers and scheduled departure/arrival times sorted by the time of departure. You can then view detailed information of the routes, display them on the map etc. Key features: • Fast offline searching • Search routes by map • Advanced search parameters - changing the date and time, adding "via" stations, choosing transport modes, etc. • Favorite routes • Push notifications of schedule updates and their immediate download Available timetables: • Selected transit authorities in the United States: New York (subway, buses, trains), Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Washington, San Francisco, Dallas, Denver, Minneapolis, Portland, Honolulu, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh • Selected transit authorities in Canada: Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Quebec, Winnipeg • Train timetables in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Benelux, Austria, the Czech and Slovak Republic, Portugal, Switzerland, Hungary, Nordic and Balkan countries • Selected public transport, bus and train timetables in the Czech and Slovak Republic U.S. and Canadian cities – free basic features (offline searching, search routes by map), paid premium features (more details, routes and stops searching, no advertisement) European schedules - an annual license fee (one month to try out all the timetables for free) Feedback, requests? Please email us at ios@cgtransit.com
BusBus NYC
Track the real-time location of MTA buses in New York City. See exactly where your bus is on its route. Data availability is dependent on MTA's rollout of live tracking for all bus lines.
- Real-time bus location tracking
- View bus routes
- MTA bus data integration
- Live updates
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Are you curious about where your MTA bus is in NYC? Now you can see where it is in real-time. Currently, the buses available via this service are limited, but the MTA is rolling this out to more buses soon. * Please note that not all MTA Buses are available. This is not a limitation of the BusBus NYC app. The reason they are not included is that the MTA has not made this live data available yet on all bus lines.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Transit at none against BusBus NYC's shown. Transit also leads on rating (4.4 vs 4.0) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). BusBus NYC's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (74% vs 63%). On price, ratings volume, 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. Transit sells 11 one-off in-app purchases and BusBus NYC sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Transit holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 44 and 73 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 63% of Transit's written reviews are positive against 74% of BusBus NYC's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Transit ships an update every 3 months, BusBus NYC every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Transit | BusBus NYC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (44 ratings) — better | 4.0 (73 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 63.1% of reviews | 73.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 44 | 73 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | circlegate | MGS Technologies LLC |
Customer experience
Transit
BusBus NYC
User reviews
Transit
From 44 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Accurate schedules
- 👍 User-friendly interface
- 🚀 Offline access
- 💡 Saved locations
- 👍 Intuitive route planning
Room to improve
- 🐛 Unreliable route information
- 🐛 Inaccurate departure times
- 👎 Confusing navigation
- 👎 Lack of real-time updates
- 👎 Premium features required
BusBus NYC
From 73 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and straightforward interface
- 📍 Real-time bus tracking
- 🗺️ Visual representation of buses
- 💡 Unique feature to see run numbers
- ✅ Essential for many users
Room to improve
- 🐛 Significant lag and slowness
- 📍 Inaccurate bus locations (behind true location)
- ❓ No visual indicator for loading
- ❌ Missing many local bus routes
- ❌ Buses sometimes don't show up
Bugs and requests
Transit
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes on startup
- No routes found error
- Incorrect transfer information
- Outdated schedule data
Requested features
5 requests- Integration with address book
- Real-time service alerts
- Ability to browse schedules
- Custom labels for saved locations
- Improved map integration
BusBus NYC
Reported bugs
36 issues- Map is slow to load buses
- No visual indicator for loading status
- Buses appear several stops behind true location
- BxM (1&2) buses don't show in the Bronx
- Some local buses are missing (Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island)
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- Cannot see buses right now (reported issue)
- Blue line feature not showing on newer iPhone models
- Blue line is annoying and requires app restart
- Some bus lines are missing
- Lag time has increased significantly
- Bus is several blocks past its reported location
- iPhone X support needed (older review)
- Bus position is delayed
- App crashes frequently
- Map doesn't refresh when looking at it
- Font on bus icons too small to read
- App doesn't show where the bus will go
- Bus was shown at one location but had already passed by
- Delayed bus reports cause users to miss buses
- App is delayed, causing users to miss buses
- Bus numbers are hard to see
- Blue line is annoying and hard to get rid of
- All buses disappeared after update
- Only showing two buses after update
- No buses showing up
- Refresh time needs to be reduced
- BusBus does not work with latest iPad upgrade
- All buses disappeared after upgrading to iPhone 6 Plus
- App crashes a lot
- App crashes after 2 seconds from opening
- Bus tracking is a little slow
- App freezes a lot
- Not all buses outfitted for GPS
- Many times a bus is mislabeled or doesn't appear
- Refresh button doesn't work almost all the time
- App keeps crashing
Requested features
11 requests- Tagging or highlighting specific buses
- Addition of all routes, including local buses
- Refresh button that works consistently
- Option to type bus numbers
- Reduce refresh time for quicker updates
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- Restrict map to regularly traveled routes
- Show estimated arrival times
- Improve accuracy of bus locations
- Fix blue line feature to be less intrusive
- Dark mode option
- Expand to all boroughs
In-app purchases
Transit
- City timetable$1.99
- NYC - NYCT Subway Premium for 1 year$1.99
- Czech data package$3.99
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- Denver - RTD Premium for 1 year$3.99
- Chicago - CTA Premium for 1 year$3.99
- Czech, Slovak and Europian trains package$5.99
- NYC - NYCT Subway$7.99
- Chicago - CTA$9.99
- Philadelphia - SEPTA$9.99
- Denver - RTD$9.99
- NYC Discount Package Premium Lifetime$9.99
BusBus NYC
- BusBus Ad Free$1.99
