Stopfinder

Name: Stopfinder
Rating: 4.6 (8835 reviews)
Author: Transfinder

Daily bus stop assignments.

Free

8.8K Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Education
Developer

Transfinder
Language

EN
English
Size

167.9
MB

For participating Districts, Stopfinder gives parents and guardians access to view and share their student’s bus stop assignments as well as communicate with the Transportation Department. With Stopfinder GeoAlerts, app users can create alert zones at any stop or school or along your student’s route. Stopfinder users will be notified when their student’s bus has arrived at or departed from an alert zone. Know where the bus is and know your student has arrived at or departed from any location along their assigned bus route. Stopfinder Forms allows app users to complete electronic forms sent from their district through the Stopfinder app. Stopfinder users can view new forms and submitted forms through the Stopfinder Message Center. Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) notifications can be configured by Stopfinder app users to display the bus’s ETA based on their student’s assigned stop and the bus’s location. ETA notifications appear on the student’s schedule in the Stopfinder app and inform users the amount of time until the bus arrives at their student’s assigned stop. Control who can see your student’s assigned trip stops, view attendance history, and receive notifications when attendance has been taken or a vehicle substitution has been made. Send and receive messages from the school district’s Transportation department.

Ratings & Reviews

4.6

out of 5

8.8K Ratings

Helpful, necessary, necessary, extremely necessary
Sep 26

WesCandela
Listen, these are our children. I want to know where they are every millisecond of the day. This app allows us to follow where the bus takes them when they leave us in the morning and where it drops them off… And wear the bus picks them up at school and drops them back off to us. The only real way to keep them out of harms way and to keep an eye on them is to put an AirTag on their person to watch them., But for our sanity, this app is extremely helpful and seems to be getting improved on a weekly basis. Therefore, I want to say thank you the little note they could give us a.m. and p.m. schedules. If possible for alerts.
Helpful, necessary, necessary, extremely necessary
Sep 26

WesCandela

Listen, these are our children. I want to know where they are every millisecond of the day. This app allows us to follow where the bus takes them when they leave us in the morning and where it drops them off… And wear the bus picks them up at school and drops them back off to us. The only real way to keep them out of harms way and to keep an eye on them is to put an AirTag on their person to watch them., But for our sanity, this app is extremely helpful and seems to be getting improved on a weekly basis. Therefore, I want to say thank you the little note they could give us a.m. and p.m. schedules. If possible for alerts.
Nice idea, but inconsistent
Mar 20

ChemHQ
Our district is using this app for the first time this school year (24-25) On paper, it is a fantastic idea especially for bus routes that consistently run late or have substitute bus drivers. However, in use the app is too inconsistent or glitchy. I set up a GeoAlert to let me know when the bus was entering our neighborhood, but the notifications don’t always come in. The attendance alerts are also inconsistent, sometimes alerting me that my kids are getting on the bus when they’re sitting in front of me. I suppose I’m lucky to even get any notifications; I’ve tried to help fellow parents in our district get their notifications and GeoAlerts to work and nothing seems to help. I’ve contacted our district about the issues, and they are unresponsive. The app is not intuitive. Tutorials are ok, but there just seems to be something missing. When my district asks for parent feedback about the system, I won’t be able to recommend Stopfinder.
Nice idea, but inconsistent
Mar 20

ChemHQ

Our district is using this app for the first time this school year (24-25) On paper, it is a fantastic idea especially for bus routes that consistently run late or have substitute bus drivers. However, in use the app is too inconsistent or glitchy. I set up a GeoAlert to let me know when the bus was entering our neighborhood, but the notifications don’t always come in. The attendance alerts are also inconsistent, sometimes alerting me that my kids are getting on the bus when they’re sitting in front of me. I suppose I’m lucky to even get any notifications; I’ve tried to help fellow parents in our district get their notifications and GeoAlerts to work and nothing seems to help. I’ve contacted our district about the issues, and they are unresponsive. The app is not intuitive. Tutorials are ok, but there just seems to be something missing. When my district asks for parent feedback about the system, I won’t be able to recommend Stopfinder.
Great WHEN it works!
Aug 21

Nenjaben
This thing is sooo helpful when it works. Knowing how late my kids buses are running so they aren’t standing at the bus stop unnecessarily early. Also, I have to be present at my Kindergartener’s stop for them to let him off the bus. Being able to continue working until the bus is close is great. 2 weeks into school at this point, and only issue is that the app decides to not work about 15% of the time. Gives a blank white screen, or it opens and just endlessly says “loading schedules.”Absolutely an incredibly helpful app when it works, I just wish it had far less downtime.
Great WHEN it works!
Aug 21

Nenjaben

This thing is sooo helpful when it works. Knowing how late my kids buses are running so they aren’t standing at the bus stop unnecessarily early. Also, I have to be present at my Kindergartener’s stop for them to let him off the bus. Being able to continue working until the bus is close is great. 2 weeks into school at this point, and only issue is that the app decides to not work about 15% of the time. Gives a blank white screen, or it opens and just endlessly says “loading schedules.”Absolutely an incredibly helpful app when it works, I just wish it had far less downtime.
Terrible interface and product
12/20/2024

PatientRock
The Stopfinder app is clunky, unintuitive, and now the app has further distanced itself from accountability by removing bus routes and stops from the map. There is no use for seeing the bus moving around a giant map without context. When the app worked, which wasn’t a given, at least you can see that it was approaching the stop before yours and use that as the signal to leave the house. Further, there are no controls for what kind of notifications the app sends— why would I want notifications for busses that my kid doesn’t ride! Geoalerts for dense suburban areas are useless— it doesn’t matter if the bus is only a mile away when there are 15 stops (and thus 30 minutes) between the bus and our stop! Good on Stopfinder, though, for continuing to receive a contract with our County school system. Admirable grift.
Terrible interface and product
12/20/2024

PatientRock

The Stopfinder app is clunky, unintuitive, and now the app has further distanced itself from accountability by removing bus routes and stops from the map. There is no use for seeing the bus moving around a giant map without context. When the app worked, which wasn’t a given, at least you can see that it was approaching the stop before yours and use that as the signal to leave the house. Further, there are no controls for what kind of notifications the app sends— why would I want notifications for busses that my kid doesn’t ride! Geoalerts for dense suburban areas are useless— it doesn’t matter if the bus is only a mile away when there are 15 stops (and thus 30 minutes) between the bus and our stop! Good on Stopfinder, though, for continuing to receive a contract with our County school system. Admirable grift.