Schedules vs Berkeley Map
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Schedules
Easily access current AC Transit bus schedules and real-time arrival information on your iPhone and iPad. Select a bus line and direction to view detailed schedules or live updates. Save your favorite routes for quick access and sync them across all your devices via iCloud.
- Bus schedule lookup
- Real-time arrival information
- Line and direction selection
- Favorite routes
- iCloud sync across devices
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Schedules makes finding current AC Transit bus schedules and real time arrivals simple and fast on your iPhone and iPad. Simply select a line and a direction to view a schedule or real time arrival information. You can also add favorites and sync them via iCloud to all your devices.
Berkeley Map
Discover places and events in Berkeley, CA, and the UC Berkeley campus. Browse or search for locations, view details, and get directions. Explore local events with an interactive calendar.
- Browse and search locations
- View place details and descriptions
- Get directions to plotted points
- Explore local events
- Interactive event calendar
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Berkeley Map gives you easy access to places and events in the town of Berkeley, CA and the campus of UC Berkeley. Use the legend on the left to browse or search for locations and plot them on the map. Tap on the marker's callout to take you to the detail screen from which you can get directions to the plotted point, or view a nice description. Use the tab bar at the bottom of the legend view to view information for local events around the town of Berkeley, CA. Dragging down/up on the calendar view will expand/shrink it to show more/less days in the calendar.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Berkeley Map at 100% against Schedules's 50%. Berkeley Map also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.1) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.6). Schedules's advantage is ratings volume (185 vs 2). 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.
Berkeley Map holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Schedules has 185 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Schedules's written reviews are positive against 100% of Berkeley Map's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Schedules | Berkeley Map |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (185 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 185 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Levy | Aaron Jubbal |
Customer experience
Schedules
Berkeley Map
Bugs and requests
Schedules
Reported bugs
11 issues- App crashes on opening
- App doesn't load after update
- Bus locations for specific routes incorrect
- Route 50 not found in search
- Live tracking disappeared
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- Predictions not accurate
- Buses not showing up
- Buses leaving early or arriving late
- Bus cancellations not notified
- Timings not real-time (GPS based)
- Map view disappeared
Requested features
6 requests- Add back earlier buses for V line
- Fix route 50 search
- Show intermediate stops
- Add similar app for SamTrans
- Add back map view of bus routes
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- Improve iOS version to match Android
Berkeley Map
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Schedules
No in-app purchases
Berkeley Map
No in-app purchases
