OneBusAway

A Google user

6 years ago

easy to use/navigate which allows me to quickly find out exactly when and where my bus will come. The app conveniently updates quite frequently giving the most accurate feedback of data/information that's needed. I think this app overall is a must have for a frequent public transportation commuter or even for the commuter that uses the bus, train, or ferry once in a blue moon.

A Google user

5 years ago

I've not had any issues with this app until recently. I have my auto-updates turned off, yet my phone keeps trying to "update my reminders" or "setting up my reminders". But I've not ever even touched reminders on the app. And it keeps doing this every 3 minutes or so. I actually uninstalled the app recently because of this, but redownloaded for a friend to use. Not going to keep it if it keeps trying to update like this

Chance Uriah Miller

2 years ago

People in Washington state went from using this to the Transit app which is just as good as this in terms of function, but the Transit app charges you to access to full day bus schedule (I took that issue to them already), but if you want something more reliable, use Google maps. You can find bus stops and related schedules there. This and transit both blow

Nicholas Medusa

3 years ago

The GPS feature is never accurate. Every single day it gives the wrong times, early or late. I leave this review based in what happened today. For half an hour leading up to me catching the bus, it said is was 6 minutes EARLY. I refreshed just to check a few times and it didn't change. I scrambled to the stop to not be late. Then, when I check, it's suddenly 7 minutes LATE. I am pretty sure we don't use multidemintional bus coaches, so the GPS need fixing. I've missed the bus too many times.

Tom Dougherty

3 years ago

Tonight the app insisted one bus would arrive in a minute or so. It claimed that the bus was running 46 minutes late. It then said that this bus had arrived and had gone while was waiting. All the while, each bus had two distinctly different arrival times listed for the same stop. I closed the app and reopened it to try to maybe reset it, but nothing worked. I haven't used oba in a few weeks since recently finding it wasn't keeping up with real time changes as it had before. It's just busted.

A Google user

5 years ago

Originally the app was helpful however it has had limited functionality for many months now. I have taken screenshots of the errors that range from inaccurate or missing routes/busses and forwarded them to customer service. I have received prompt responses but unfortunately the errors are never fixed. As an avid user and big proponent among fellow transit riders I have become frustrated and disappointed and after 6 months of errors have decided to abandon the application altogether.

A Google user

6 years ago

Constantly inaccurate bus predictions. Once upon a time, this app was fantastic. I don't know what the hell happened, but now it shows buses arriving in 5 minutes that will be 3 minutes past 2 minutes later when you get to the stop. I have missed probably 40 or 60 buses because of this app. Reliability and accuracy both have a ways to go before this is useful. It's safe to assume that this app is off by 10 minutes either way if you must use it.

A Google user

6 years ago

Great app that does what it's supposed to. however, on my moto g6 I can disable the software buttons and use the fingerprint sensor for one button navigation. But in this app, there's a black bar where the software buttons arent anymore. it doesn't affect the functionality of the app but its kinda annoying. It would be nice if this could be fixed

A Google user

6 years ago

This has been a great app in the past but it's no longer accurate. Busses show up that the app doesn't know about and it's frequently wrong by more than five minutes about bus times when it does know about them. Not sure if something changed in the system and the route maps and being able to check which routes go to a stop is great, but the actual bus arrivals are wholy unreliable.

A Google user

6 years ago

App constantly gets routes/times wrong. It'll alternate between showing "on time" and "delayed", yet when I check other transit apps, the bus has already passed. I have submitted numerous reports of incorrect arrivals, but nothing's been done about it. App also does not account for any construction or stops closed by Metro. This was once an amazing app, but now it's incredibly lackluster for Seattle.

Gabe Nelson

3 years ago

This app used to be good. However, for a long time now the app has been very nearly unusable. Every stop I frequent is so constantly inundated with "alerts" that I can't even scroll down to see when my bus comes without first spending 5 minutes hiding all the damn alerts. I tried to leave feedback on this "bug" using the in app feature but that button is broken, the "stop problem" feature was also broken. So I've come here to complain.

A Google user

5 years ago

The app has some great features like showing route maps and a list of all routes at a particular bus stop, but it's accuracy for arrival times is inconsistent and unreliable. On a weekly basis the app says my bus is 18 minutes away and 45 minutes later it says 19 minutes away. Unfortunately I don't know of a more accurate way of determining King County Metro's actual arrival times

cross (Cross Sideris)

1 year ago

One of the recent updates broke the "Plan a trip" feature, no longer letting me enter a destination. I tried to report the bug, but the bug report button is broken and only lets me copy my phones system specs. I usually love this app, despite its hiccups, for it being the best direction-giver with public transit. But with the core feature i use it for being broken, and the bug report button being broken, i have to give it 2 stars right now. I hope its fixed soon so i can change my review.

Nuvo Sky

3 years ago

The iOS version was great. On Android, not so much. When looking at the details of a route, you can't see what the continuing route is, so essentially it's truncated. Which is the most debilitating flaw. For instance, if I want to catch the 31 at Troll Ave., I can't see which ones turn into 75 and which don't. Some smaller issues are, if you hit see trip details and then go back, you're taken back all the way to the general map, and there is no real time map option for specific buses

M B

3 years ago

Solid app but could use a few improvements. Would be nice if when viewing the schedule of a stop at a time when there is no service to have an option to autoload the first trip data instead of displaying "No arrivals for the next X hour(s)." Don't need to know when a bus won't be there, and some stops require a lot of tapping on the "Load more arrivals" button to display the first trips for the next service day.

Zach Zuniga

11 months ago

The timetables are inconsistent. I've used this app for the past 10 years on and off, and it has proven that it is very unreliable. The timetables being a minute or more off can completely screw over an entire day of planning. I almost missed my bus this morning because the app said that the bus had already left before I even arrived. The bus actually showed up 4 minutes after the supposed time of arrival. I understand that it's not the official Metro app but come on, this is ridiculous.

Rain RDW

1 year ago

Liking it so far! Seems to work well and is easy to navigate. Would love to see a few improvements: - be able to see colored route lines along with stops on the basic map - improvements to search results in trip planner (greater accuracy and maybe listing closer locations higher) - would also love to be able to save trips! Overall just happy to have a free & open source, ad free transit app for my area!