Check live London bus times, plan routes, find nearby stops, and travel smarter across the city with ease!
Bus Times London is a travel app designed to help you move around London with clearer bus information, live TfL updates, and simple journey planning. Whether you are commuting to work, visiting landmarks, travelling across the city, or checking your usual route, Bus Times London helps you find the right bus at the right time.
Live London Bus Times
Check live bus times using official Transport for London information. Look up bus stops, bus routes, locations, and points of interest to see real-time departures and waiting times.
Key Features:
- Live TfL bus times across London
- Nearby bus stops shown on an interactive map
- Real-time bus journey planner
- Live departure boards for selected stops
- Timetables for any time of the week
- View bus routes and stops along the way
- Find where a bus is on your selected route
- Save favorite stops, routes, and journeys
- Personalized Home Stop for regular routes
- Step-by-step journey guidance
- Travel updates for diversions and road closures
- Fare information for ticket planning
- Apple Watch app support
- Wake Me alerts to help avoid missing your stop
- Oyster card balance access through TfL My Account
Plan Bus Routes Quickly
Use the journey planner to find bus routes across London. Get step-by-step guidance, estimated travel times, and details on where you may need to change buses.
Nearby Stops And Interactive Maps
Find nearby bus stops from wherever you are in London. The Locate Me feature helps you quickly see stops around you, while the interactive map makes it easier to understand routes, directions, and local bus options.
Useful Tools For Daily Travel
Save your favorite bus stops, routes, and journeys so you can access them quickly when you are on the go. The personalized Home Stop feature gives fast access to bus times for the routes you use most.
Premium Access
Available as an in-app subscription: £1.99 monthly or £4.99 annually or a lifetime purchase at £12.99. Prices may vary by location. Cancel at any time, for any reason. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, at the cost of your chosen price tier. Subscriptions can be managed and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to Account Settings in your iTunes Account. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when a subscription to that publication is purchased, where applicable.
Please Note
Continued use of GPS in the background can decrease battery life. Augmented reality bus stop guidance requires a compatible device and the required permissions.
Bus Times London Countdown App is an independent app and is not associated with, endorsed by, or affiliated with the Transport For London Authority.
Privacy Policy: https://mapway.ai/londonbusios/privacy/
Terms and Conditions: https://mapway.ai/londonbusios/terms/
I’ve been enjoying this app for quite a while now. I have even bought the pod version that’s how useful I find it however it’s been a few weeks now that the app seems not to be providing accuracy in one of my bus routes the 405 from Croydon to Redhill. Not sure what the reason is but while the app doesn’t show times available or even 20 mints City mapper seems to have the information synchronised.Please could you kindly look into this specific route? Something is not working. Thank you
Developer Response
Hi. I've looked into this and can see no difference between our information, Citymapper's and TfLs. Can you please email support@mapway.com with more information such as the time of day when you're using the app? They can help to investigate and resolve the issue. Thanks
Unintuitive and clunky - use a different app
JAVS2889
This is not the best app for London bus times. The most frustrating thing for me is the adverts which pop up in full screen when you open the app - if you’re running for a bus and need to check what time it’s coming, or need to figure out which bus to get quickly, the last thing you want is to find the hidden X to close the ad before you can see your bus times. Obviously this is to encourage you to pay for ad free, but it makes it not fit for purpose.It’s also quite clunky and not very intuitive. For example, bus times don’t appear in the order they’re arriving, so if you want to see which bus is coming first, you have to scroll down the list. Then if you want to go and check the bus times for a different stop on your bus route, whereas some apps have a very smooth transition, this one is very clunky and takes several presses to get to where you want.All in all, there are better apps out there. Definitely don’t pay for ad free, as there are alternative apps which display ads in a way that doesn’t stop you from doing the very thing the app is supposed to do.
Could be great but a significant, fundamental flaw
BermondseyNinjaDog
This app could be good but there is a really significant flaw: unless you know the exact name ***and*** bus stop letter it is very poor for planning. With a bus route diversion, we had to spend more than 30 minutes searching for an alternative stop to check times. However, if you drag the map the area or focus does not automatically repopulate with stops (which is the utterly logical way of doing this) but you have to type in street names (and the naming of stops is not always logical - probably not the app developer’s fault). We were driven nuts trying to find a stop with live times in this case and ended up downloading a competing app to get the information.There’s a lot to like about this app but for forward planning from stops not within a few hundred metres of your current location I would give it a zero stars if I could. Fix that and I’d give it a 5. And yes, I’m well aware of the Route Planning feature: it requires knowledge of street/stop names. Hopeless.
Worse bus app ever
Big Shurmz
This app is a complete joke I got told it was good and looked at some reviews but how people can say this is good is a utter joke and the people saying that must work for the app provider or creator because this app is the worst bus app around it doesn’t give you the quickest route possible and 9/10 times gives you the wrong information, I thought I’d test it out on my route to work it tried sending me the wrong direction told me to get buses that go no where near my work and then when I have it another try to see what way it would tell me to go home the route it suggested is 1hour 10 mins longer that it actually takes me to get home it sugessted a route that would take 2hours 17mins when it only takes me 1hour 5mins max to get to work do yourself a favour do not down load this app for routes and it never works for the live times either I was standing at a bus stop and it said there was no bus stops near me a complete joke of a app
User experience improvements. Plan London bus routes with live times!
Version 3.2.1
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Information
Provider
Mapway Inc.
Size
153.1 MB
Category
Navigation
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Apple Watch Requires watchOS 9.0 or later.
Location
This app may use your location even when it is not open, which can decrease device battery life.
