BusZone

ByteCurve, LLC

About this app

See the real-time location of your child’s school bus based on your customized Alert Zone. Receive push notification alerts when the bus is approaching an Alert Zones and when bus arrives or departs from the school.

Through the BusZone application, districts / transportation operators can send messages to parents regarding substitutions, delays, closures, etc.

Ratings and reviews

This is the worst Bus app the Boise schools have used. It is inaccurate and every time it refreshes, it zooms out to show the entire city so you have to manually zoom back in to see where it is at. If you don't have it refresh very quickly, it is off by nearly a mile. Half the time the wrong bus is showing on the app so you have no idea when it may arrive. They have used 3 apps now and they progressively get worse. Something like this needs to be accurate and convenient. This is a fail.

This app is not intuitive to use. The notifications once the zones are set up are nice and it's the only redeeming feature especially since there was an update and I was logged out. At least I still got notifications of the bus in the zone? For something as important as this, it should just work. Don't force me to sign in after you push an update - make the update keep me signed in. Right before the bus comes, short on time, is not the time I need to deal with this trivial detail due to updates.

It functions. The worst thing about it is you'll not ever know if you truly have a message as the developers haven't fixed the notification issue in years. Every time a bus on your list comes by your area, you will get a notification AND within the app you get a message icon notification. The only way to know if you have an important message is to literally check at least twice a day.

What’s new

References to the word ‘bus’ replaced with the word ‘route’ to better indicate that parents are picking routes and not the actual buses assigned to routes.
Option to sign-up for SMS ridership notifications is removed as this feature is no longer supported.