First Bus

4.5
47.9K reviews
1M+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Plan a journey, buy a great value mobile ticket (mTicket) or find where your bus is with live bus times – you can do all this and more with the First Bus App, making bus travel even easier.

PLAN YOUR JOURNEY
With our door to door route planner you can check your quickest route to work or plan a new adventure and help you to get around at the weekend. Just enter a destination to view your route options and we’ll show you which of our bus services can get you there with step-by-step instructions.

CHECK LIVE BUS TIMES
The First Bus App is the best way to get live bus times and route information. You can save your favourite stops, routes and locations and revisit recently searched journeys. The map shows the bus stops nearby where you can see live updates to check where and when your bus is coming letting you head to your bus stop just before your bus is due.

BUY YOUR MOBILE TICKET (MTICKET)
You can buy your great value bus ticket on the First Bus App before you travel so with mTickets there’s no need to carry cash or worry about having the right change. Some of our tickets are cheaper on the app so get it downloaded for our best bus ticket prices. Payments are secure and there’s a handy ‘buy again’ button with one-tap checkout making repeat purchases even quicker and easier to do.

The app also features:
• Tickets for Heathrow RailAir, Buses of Somerset and First Kernow.
• Payments via Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Google Pay and Apple Pay.
• The ability to gift tickets to a child or young person.
Updated on
May 30, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 6 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.5
46.9K reviews
Andrew Griffiths
June 25, 2024
Completely unable to tell you when a bus is cancelled, deviations from timetable such as rerouted buses and closed stops aren't advised and so it's really just untrustworthy. Time to next bus is wildly different from that displayed at the stop, and both are vastly different to printed timetable. The journey planner is very selective and will show you a range of upcoming buses rather than consecutive options.
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Roxsanne Patel
June 18, 2024
If i could give it less than 1 star, i would. The interface in no way is intuitive. Which means it wont help older people transition to paperless traveling. The buses live locations are almost never available. With technology having come so far, you'd think at least being able to track the bus would be an essential part of a Bus App. But the app never tells you if the bus is canceled, delayed, broken down, anything. It's painful to use this app, but I'm helpless.
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Ricky Kemp
May 22, 2024
Terrible unintuitive user interface. The journey planner is difficult to use and the results are not particularly clear. Location search for the deperture stop is actually your home address, and then the planner doesn't allow you to enter destination? Needs to be totally rethought - make it simple, give us a departure stop option and then destination stop option.
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What's new

• Bugs fixes and performance improvements