London Bus Checker 4+

From someone that uses the buses daily and relies on public transport, this is one of my ‘go to’ apps that keeps me in the know.
I frequently use the next bus times, but also has a bus route facility, as well as many other useful features.

It’s fine to have ads but the ones that pop up and make the app unusable for 30seconds really make it useless. I can’t quickly check my app because I know I’ll have to watch an ad before I can see whether I need to run for a bus or not.

Also I do think this app is needlessly complicated compared to the old version. Just too many words on the screen when really it should be a simple place to check buses. I think the UI is really ugly.

I mean I’ll be fair to it and say it’s pretty accurate so it’s still a useful app in many ways I’ll just always go for Citymapper instead and deal with slightly less accurate results if it means I won’t have to watch an ad everytime.

Want to see when your bus is coming? No you don’t, what you need is an advert! Do you want to reach your saved bus routes? Well dig deep because what you really need is a great big map - and an advert. The actual job of a bus checker app is now effectively hidden, taking multiple taps and scrolls to get at information that using a ‘bus checker’ app you think would be right there for you to use. When technology is used in this way to primarily drive adverts it’s a crying shame. Shame that the app developers don’t seem to possess, or else they wouldn’t put out crap like this. Were you going for gold at the Epic Fail prize?