NYC Bus Checker vs RecordMyTrip
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NYC Bus Checker
Get live bus times, plan journeys, and view route maps for all New York City buses. Access real-time updates on detours and cancellations, and save your favorite stops for quick access.
- Live bus times
- Smart journey planning
- Detailed route maps
- Real-time CitiBike dock info
- Detour and closure updates
- Favorite stops and routes
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NYC Bus Checker brings you live bus times, smart journey planning and detailed route maps for all of New York City. With official MTA-licensed data feeds, NYC Bus Checker has you covered, no matter where you need to go in New York. Main Features • Live times at all of New York’s 15,000+ bus stops • Plan a journey anywhere in NYC by bus, subway, rail and more • Explore route maps for all NYC Bus Routes - see exactly where your bus goes. • Get real-time CitiBike dock info • Be one step ahead with updates on detours, closures and cancellations • Save your favorite stops, routes and places for easy access Press • Featured on BBC Click, Telegraph Online, The Independent, Cosmopolitan and Wired UK • “If you regularly ride a bus, then you should not leave home without Bus Checker” - The Guardian ______________________________________________ Problems with the app? Please read through our FAQs at www.buschecker.com or tap the link from within the App to access our support portal ______________________________________________ Notes - Bus Checker is a registered trademark of UrbanThings Limited - Data provided by official MTA feeds
RecordMyTrip
Organize, record, and share travel videos grouped by location. Easily find videos on a map and share them with friends. Download your recordings for safekeeping.
- Organize videos by location
- Record high-quality videos with audio
- Add descriptions to videos
- Share videos with friends
- View friends' shared videos
- Download videos via iTunes
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Like to travel? Like to record videos of special places? ORGANIZE YOUR VIDEOS Each video you take is grouped by location. Your trip to Europe, or trip to New York City can easily be saved by recording videos through this app. PLAY YOUR VIDEOS Find each video by using a map to navigate to the city where the video was taken. Easily switch between videos in a city, or switch from city to city on the map. RECORD YOUR VIDEOS Record high quality videos with audio. You can also add a short description of the video to help you remember it. SHARE YOUR VIDEOS Choose which videos you want to share with your friends. WATCH YOUR FRIENDS VIDEOS Select a friends map to see the videos they've shared. DOWNLOAD YOUR VIDEOS Connect your phone to a computer and retrieve your videos with iTunes. Your videos will be grouped by city and named by your short description. LEGAL DISCLAIMER Due to the rise of spyware apps, we want to ensure all users of our app that we do NOT monitor, record, or share any data with any third party. No one outside of your friends list can view your shared videos. Un-shared or non-shared videos cannot be viewed by anyone else, even those on your friends list.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: RecordMyTrip at 100% against NYC Bus Checker's 57%. RecordMyTrip also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). NYC Bus Checker's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (3.1K vs 1). On price, update cadence 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. NYC Bus Checker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. RecordMyTrip asks for nothing beyond the download.
NYC Bus Checker holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NYC Bus Checker has 3.1K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 57% of NYC Bus Checker's written reviews are positive against 100% of RecordMyTrip's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
NYC Bus Checker ships an update every 5 weeks, RecordMyTrip every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NYC Bus Checker | RecordMyTrip |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (3.1K ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.1K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | UrbanThings Limited | Aaron Lieu |
Customer experience
NYC Bus Checker
RecordMyTrip
Bugs and requests
NYC Bus Checker
Reported bugs
3 issues- Buses disappearing from the app
- Scheduled times instead of real-time data
- Inconsistent or missing bus stop locations
Requested features
4 requests- Add VPN support
- Implement per-app font size control
- Introduce widget functionality
- Restore real-time bus countdown
RecordMyTrip
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
NYC Bus Checker
- Remove the Ads$8.99
RecordMyTrip
No in-app purchases
