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 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.

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.

The district just switched to this app. After one day, here are my observations. I had to move the zone to something that didn't intersect two major roads because it was very spammy. I wish you could resize your zone. Could really use a more distinctive default notification sound. I changed the sound for when the bus enters the zone, but sometimes it still uses system default. The zoom level is way too tight every time the bus moves, it zooms in, have to resize every time. Annoying.

What’s new

General updates to improve performance and reliability.
Improved language support: the app now uses English by default if your device language is not English or Spanish.
Fixed an issue where some users couldn’t finish setting up their account when using very large text or display settings.
Updated the app to stay compatible with the latest versions of Android.
Added tools that help us better understand how the app is used so we can continue improving the app.