NYC Bus Checker Reviews

NYCBusChecker is totally unusable, whereas before you could tap your stop and it would give you all the times of buses stoping there , NYCBusChecker give you none , impossible to navigate , can’t understand what they were thinking …. Really sad as it was one of the most useful apps even though it was not perfect this iterating is ridiculous

NYCBusChecker was great but the recent versions have done away with the countdown in minutes and switched to scheduled military time. Needless to say this is useless and not in real time. I don’t know what idiot came up with this idea but they should be fired immediately. If NYCBusChecker doesn’t update and go back to the countdown in minutes in 2 weeks I’m deleting it. Why would you screw up such a great working app?

Not accurate at all. If it tells you three mins it’s 11 mins. That’s not even close to correct. I understand that traffic makes it difficult to predict an arrival time but that’s why NYCBusChecker should track EXACTLY where your bus is. I should be able to see in real time what stop that bus is currently at and NYCBusChecker doesn’t provide that information. If it does, it’s not user friendly enough to be obvious. The ONLY reason I use NYCBusChecker is for lack of an alternative.

This used to be somewhat accurate and helpful but the past couple of months it’s been totally inaccurate. Buses show up when no bus is due and a bus that is supposed to be 2 min away takes 25 min, but says two min the whole time. I get things might get a bit off sometimes, but have come to realize NYCBusChecker is as useless as the timetables. As totally unreliable as the MTA.

I used to love NYCBusChecker, since u decided to change to 24 hours time it’s the worst. I wold suggest the people who decided to up grade it shld also use it in the Bronx where it’s 24 hour time. Nowhere else is this 24 hours but the Bronx. I come out it says the hour time and guess what NO bus and I’m waiting first 10 minutes then another 10 minutes I would still be there I decided to use the bus across then the trains. So where is the bus ???

The developer recently made a change to need “always” enabled in location settings to see bus times, versus just “while using”. Great app, but do not see why that is needed (other than revenue from location data), as the live arrival times worked fine without that earlier.

Sometimes NYCBusChecker works but most of y time it’s WAY off. For example, I left my apartment 10 minutes ago when NYCBusChecker said the bus was 8 minutes away. After 10 minutes of waiting NYCBusChecker still says it’s 8 minutes away. This happens every other time I use NYCBusChecker. Buses also disappear from NYCBusChecker . NYCBusChecker will say a bus is five minutes away and a minute later that bus has been removed from the cue and the next one is 10 to 20 minutes away.

When NYCBusChecker works- it’s amazing! A must-have! The bus countdowns are accurate and super helpful for my daily commute. However lately (the last 3ish months), NYCBusChecker hasn’t been work properly. It shows the bus scheduled times - not the countdown of how many minutes away the bus is (real time)- and it’s not accurate. My commute has become a small nightmare just with this minor hiccup on that’ll app. Please fix it!

When waiting for a bus, my estimate (from NYCBusChecker) is nearly always the closest to reality among all those waiting. If there’s a lot of traffic, it can be a bit over optimistic.

Great app, use it all the time. Three things that could be improved: 1. NYCBusChecker doesn’t load data when a VPN is on. Works after turning off the VPN. Please make NYCBusChecker VPN friendly. 2. iOS 16 has a per-app font size selector, accessible via Control Center -> Text Size -> Bus Checker Only. NYCBusChecker could utilize that feature so users can quickly and easily adjust arrival time font size to their preference - super small for those who want to see more at a glance, super big for those who can’t see smaller text, etc. 3. NYCBusChecker is a perfect candidate for a widget. Users could set their favorite bus stops in the widget (or maybe have one widget for each bus stop) so they’d be able to see the arrival times on each bus stop for let’s say the next 3 buses (to quickly decide if missing the very next bus would be a problem or not). Thanks.

I was really loving NYCBusChecker it accurately tells you when the bus is coming but lately it will say no bus stops are there and I would go online to see where my bus is it still has army time I’m not in the army and I don’t know how to tell army time and when I’m waiting for the bus it’s not giving me the stop I’m standing at it’s giving me a bus stop down the block can these issues be fixed !!!

I’ve been using NYCBusChecker for the past 3 years but this recent update where it says the time instead of the mins there is left is confusing please go back to the way it was or give an option to change it!

Best bus app for NYC I’ve seen but doesn’t say much since the rest are terrible. Seems to have the easiest interface but wish the default was to zoom in closer to my current location. Bus times are mostly but not always accurate. Same with bus stop locations. I use it daily. Great customer service.

I have tried different apps at the same time as this one to compare. Every single time NYCBusChecker has proven to be more accurate than any other.

Used it a bunch yesterday and today and it was very wrong 90% of the time. It used to be good. Other apps were accurate so it wasn’t the data.

Never more are the days of running for the bus with only one eyebrow for no reason. Now I know exactly when it’s approaching and how much time I got to put my face on xoxoxo

I gave my young adult daughter NYCBusChecker. She is able to leave the house and get to the bus stop and catch her bus right on time, every time. Now she doesn’t have to wait for any length of time standing at the bus stop alone.

I love live NYCBusChecker I have used it in 2 Boroughs QUEENS, BROOKLYN and it’s wonderful. Once in a while you have system down. But when it comes to bus schedule they are 99% Accurate. Thanks for NYCBusChecker. I don’t drive and NYCBusChecker has been a blessing and a time saver for me.👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

It tells you exactly how minutes it takes your bus to arrive at the bus stop. Syncs w/ the Apple Watch which is useful. User friendly.

I can now leave my office and know the bus will be there in 2 minutes. No more waiting for ever and giving up and taking a taxi.