Bustime: Bus Times & Routes

Bustime

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About this app

🚌 Know exactly when your bus is coming! Bustime is a live bus tracker with real-time arrival times, a transit map and an A-to-B trip planner for 300+ cities.

📈 10M+ downloads · 300,000+ riders every day · since 2012 · free to use

Bustime shows every bus, tram, trolleybus, train and metro on a live map using GPS from the vehicles themselves — see where your bus is right now, not where the timetable says it should be.

🧭 TRIP PLANNER FROM A TO B
• Plan public transport trips with transfers and walking directions — from an address, a stop, a map pin or your location.
• Depart now, depart at or arrive by a chosen time; filter by bus, tram, metro or train.
• Save favorite places and trips, tap "Route here" right on the map.
• 🎙 Voice search: say "bus 5" or "from Central Station to the airport".

⏱ LIVE ARRIVAL TIMES
• Real-time bus arrival times for every stop — in minutes or by the clock.
• Stop board: all arrivals at your bus stop on one screen.
• Bus timetables and schedules when there is no live data.
• Compare several routes on one screen.
• City map: bus stops and vehicles around you.

🔔 NEVER MISS YOUR BUS OR YOUR STOP
• "Waiting here" — an alert when your bus approaches the stop.
• "Getting off here" — voice, sound and vibration before your stop.
• Works in the background and on the lock screen: a live notification shows the countdown to your bus.
• Off-route warning and super-vibration for those who doze off.

⌚ WEAR OS
A separate watch app: routes and live buses right on your wrist.

🗺 LIVE TRANSIT MAP
• Buses, trams and trolleybuses move along the route in real time; low-floor vehicles are marked.
• Vehicle profile: plate, model, operator and rating.
• Vehicle history: where a bus has been, with playback on the map.
• Traffic layer on the map.

💬 COMMUNITY
• Route chats and city chat.
• Rate drivers and vehicles, add photos.
• City news: route changes and service disruptions.
• Help improve the data: fix timetables, fares and routes.

🎨 MAKE IT YOURS
• 30+ color themes, your own color schemes, dark mode.
• A custom color for each transport type, colorblind-friendly palettes.
• Vehicle skins, icon packs, map themes, app icons and fonts.
• Live weather and animated effects.
• Choose the start screen and tile size, turn any feature on or off.
• Settings presets — export and share them in one tap.

♿ ACCESSIBLE FOR EVERYONE
• Full TalkBack support — the app adapts automatically.
• Low-vision mode with large text and high contrast.
• Left-handed mode and voice announcements.

🚍 FOR DRIVERS
Driver mode broadcasts the vehicle's location in the background without a GPS tracker, shows the interval to the vehicles ahead and behind, and the built-in auto-announcer calls out stops.

📱 ALSO
• Tablet support, 42 languages, metric or imperial units.
• Shake your phone to report a bug — it goes straight to the developers.

🌍 CITIES
USA: New York, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Seattle, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Boston, Chicago and 800+ more US cities.
Also in the UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia, Germany, France, Spain, Brazil, Israel and 50+ other countries.
Full list: https://busti.me

✉️ CITY MISSING?
Send the city name and the transit authority's website to [e-mail] — we'll add it.

Ratings and reviews

Great for seeing the Buses on the map. Though the new update has made it more difficult to see the buses. I still give them 5 🤩

Doesn't Work anymore. Popup claims that the city bus provider hasn't provided updates. This would be ok for an isolated provider, but not every one I've chosen. This has been an issue for sometime, but no fix yet. There is obviously an issue with the Bustime app.

the application doesn't show anymore how many vehicles are on the route, their location, and many minutes are left until they arrive plus the application now show add on the button so I can't see the whole page because the adds can't be closed

What’s new

Hi! What's new 👇

🗺 A-to-B routes
Bustime builds your full trip with transfers and tips. We factor in schedules, traffic & real-time data. Try it!

✨ Map upgrade
It looks way prettier now.

🎨 Transport colors
Set a custom color per type in settings — buses, trams, trains & metro.

🛠 More
Fixed minor bugs — smoother now.

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