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

are you kidding? the max I can expand the radius is not far enough to allow us time for the 5-minute walk to the stop. what is the purpose of this app. dumb. and I can't even adjust the circle that it does give you to cover an important intersection that is the only way into our street. The other major issue with it is I zoom out a bit to get some context for where the bus actually is and every time the page updates it zooms me back in. have you guys even used your own app?

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.

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.