Here Comes the Bus

CalAmp Student Safety (Formerly Synovia)

About this app

Notice: In order to use the app, your school district must have a contract with Synovia Solutions and make Here Comes the Bus available to parents. Please contact your school district or Synovia Solutions for more information, including applicable costs.

Here Comes the Bus® is an easy-to-use app that lets you view the real-time location of your child’s bus on your smartphone, tablet or computer.

With Here Comes the Bus, you can send your child to the bus stop at just the right time, helping to avoid missed buses or long waits in freezing temperatures, pouring rain, the hot sun or rush-hour traffic.

KEY FEATURES:

Find your bus quickly and easily
See the exact location of your child’s school bus using your own customizable map.

Access arrival & departure info
Confirm your child’s bus has arrived at the bus stop and at school, both before and after school.

Get updates via email or push notification
Be notified when the bus is within five minutes of your stop, has a schedule change and more.

Track all of your children
Have children that ride separate buses? Here Comes the Bus lets you keep tabs on each one.

Know your privacy is protected
To use Here Comes the Bus, parents must obtain a private ID number, which grants them access to their child’s bus only.

Ratings and reviews

This app is VERY inaccurate, irritable and beyond frustrating. When the app works it is wonderful to see the bus tracker. I had this app for 4 weeks and it stopped working at the 2 weeks I've had it. Since the beginning it only worked in the mornings. Now it won't work AT ALL. Updating it and reinstalling it doesn't work. It keeps saying I have no network WHEN I DO. Not at ALL worth the download.

Great for knowing when my bus is to arrive. Only reason for a star off is because when adding friends to the bus, it alerts you when its their stop too. more customization and there's really no other problems. I also think one of the reasons so many people are having the problem is simply because they're not a student. While the app description DOES say for parents to track the bus, the only people that seem to be having issues are the parents. it works perfectly fine for everyone on my bus. 🤷‍

Last year, this app was a game changer for us, reliably sending notifications when the bus was in the set radius. I was especially excited about the new scan notification feature this year! Unfortunately, it stopped working after the first couple of weeks, which was really frustrating. I ended up uninstalling and reinstalling the app, logged back in, and that seemed to do the trick. Since then, it’s been working perfectly again. Overall, it’s a super helpful tool!!!

What’s new

Fixed an issue where some users couldn't adjust the notification radius for afternoon (PM) stops.