Track the real-time location of every MTA bus in New York City on an interactive map. Get live arrival estimates for selected stops and view a bus's progress along its route. Save your favorite routes for quick access.
3.9(45 ratings)
Free
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4.6😐(39K ratings)
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Navigate New York City like a local with real-time updates for subways, buses, and trains. Plan trips, get arrival alerts, and track your journey with detailed maps and customizable widgets.
What We Love
- 🚀 Helpful for navigating NYC transit
- 👍 Provides multiple route options
- 💡 Customizable favorites and settings
- 🚀 Useful for tourists and new users
- 👍 Accurate real-time information
Room to Improve
- 🐛 Inaccurate arrival/departure times
- 🐛 Missing major transit stops
- 🐛 Unreliable GPS tracking
- 🐛 Confusing interface for multi-modal trips
- 🐛 Slow performance and glitches
4.1😐(67 ratings)
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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.
What We Love
- 👍 Simple and straightforward interface
- 📍 Real-time bus tracking
- 🗺️ Visual representation of buses
- 💡 Unique feature to see run numbers
- ✅ Essential for many users
- 💯 Highly recommended by users
- 🚀 Fast performance (in some reviews)
- 👍 Very useful and easy to use
- ✅ Works well for many
- 👍 Great for planning
- 👍 Helpful for knowing bus location
- 👍 Accurate for many users
- 👍 Best bus time app for NY
- 👍 Useful for choosing routes
- 👍 Amazing and very accurate
- 👍 Makes waiting less stressful
- 👍 Saves time
- 👍 Reliable for infrequent buses
- 👍 No more waiting in bad weather
- 👍 Perfect for NYC bus tracking
- 👍 Great real-time tracking
- 👍 Very cool app
- 👍 Life saver
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
- 🐛 App freezes and crashes
- 🐛 Map doesn't refresh automatically
- 🐛 Font size on bus icons too small
- 🐛 Useless without estimated arrival times
- 🐛 Bus position reported is delayed
- 🐛 Delayed reports cause missed buses
- 🐛 Not 100% reliable
- 🐛 Some buses not outfitted with GPS
- 🐛 Bus numbers hard to see
- 🐛 Blue line feature can be annoying
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 Slow performance
- 🐛 Refresh button often doesn't work
- 🐛 Bus icons difficult to read
