Now with Live Activities: watch your bus approach from the Lock Screen. Plus a redesigned stop view, one tap from the map. Free and open source.
When's my bus? OneBusAway answers that question in real time, at every stop, across your whole region.
Now with Live Activities: start tracking a ride and watch it approach from your Lock Screen, without opening the app.
Free, open source, and built by a nonprofit in partnership with your transit agency.
WHAT'S NEW
- Live Activities — follow your bus, train, or ferry from the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island.
- A redesigned stop view that opens right from the map, putting real-time arrivals one tap away.
FEATURES
- Real-time arrivals wherever your agency provides them.
- Departure alarms that nudge you before your ride pulls away.
- Trip planning with door-to-door directions across every agency in your region.
- See where your vehicle actually is on the map — buses, trains, ferries, streetcars, even funiculars.
- Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for the routes you check most.
- Bookmarks and recent stops, so your daily commute is always a tap away.
- Nearby stops found automatically, or search by route, address, or stop number.
- Service alerts from your agency, right where you need them.
WHERE ONEBUSAWAY WORKS
- Davis, CA
- New York, NY
- San Diego, CA
- Seattle / Tacoma / Puget Sound, WA
- Tampa, FL
- Washington, D.C.
- Adelaide, Australia
ABOUT
OneBusAway is free and open source, maintained by transit riders and researchers since 2008. There are no ads and no account to create.
The app is published by the Open Transit Software Foundation, an IRS-registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit that has earned Silver Transparency status on Candid.
Questions, feedback, or support: https://onebusaway.org/
OTSF on Candid: https://www.guidestar.org/profile/84-1786969
One of the more helpful apps I’ve ever used. I don’t need flash and a lot of random features, this app has what matters. I can use it to plan a route in advance, see what options are available, the map is handy to visualize where there are stops and what routes may be useful. And for my regular trips I can bookmark stops, journeys and one of my favorite; filter out routes at a stop. Some of the stops have 10+ routes but I can use more than one but not all so I don’t want to just see one route, I can easily see the next bus to arrive from any of the routes I use.
Essential for Bus Riders, but…
Yosemite Smick
This is one of the apps I use the most. It is basically essential for me to use this as a frequent bus rider. However, the latest UI update is really annoying, so I’m leaving a review for that alone. First of all, the changes are unnecessary. The problem with OneBusAway was never the UI. Accurate bus times were the problem. Disappearing busses were the problem. And these problems still exist.The new interface uses a vertically sliding menu instead of a normal, non-sliding menu. This thing is the real issue. It doesn’t behave the way you would expect, partially because no other app uses it. There is a guideline in web development that users want familiar UI across all apps and websites. The sliding menu is uniquely annoying and bad. Here are the issues in detail if you’re interested:The menu doesn’t disappear when you minimize it, and when you click on a bus stop when that stop is currently active on the menu, the menu doesn’t return to full view. So in that scenario, clicking on your bus stop does seemingly nothing. It should at least slide the menu back up. When you click on a bus stop, the menu shows up at half view. Why? Why would I want a menu that takes up half the screen? I will always slide the menu up to full screen, every time. When I click “Load More” the screen doesn’t scroll all the way down, so if I want to check a bus time that is much later in the day, I have to scroll down each time I hit that button. Essentially, the menu never needs to be at half size or minimized, it serves no purpose.As someone who uses this app every day, I am begging the developers to revert the unneeded and disruptive UI changes and focus on QOL and bus accuracy instead.
solid app, have some issues
d snūtz
love the app, wish the times were actually able to be accurate up the the second, and that changes to the transportation route, timetable, arrival, and so on, due to any reason, and what that reason is, would be accurately and reliably recorded and presented to me as a free user. Also, the GPS tracking is a bit iffy, and a shortcut to zero a user in on the bus stop closest to them, based on physical proximity and distance, and ease of access, would be the best thing this app lacks, if i could have any features i can dream up, of course. much love.when will there be support for the far south regions and far north regions of puget sound, east wa, oregon, and idaho? and when will we be able to get ferries and bus tickets in app?
My “go to” transit info for years now!
Louise Bonaventure
Really improved now that most of the info is transmitted from Metro buses. Of course you still have to battle traffic and connections, but way better than a paper schedule that may or may not be posted at the stop!
Now with Live Activities: watch your bus approach from the Lock Screen. Plus a redesigned stop view, one tap from the map. Free and open source.
Version 26.3.0
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