U-M Magic Bus 4+

Live Bus Tracking - U-M

The University of Michigan

Designed for iPad

    • 1.2 • 272 Ratings
    • Free

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Description

U-M Magic Bus, your guide to campus bus travel at the University of Michigan. Plan a trip, find a bus route, track your bus, and get real-time bus arrival information on your mobile device. The application uses data provided by University of Michigan – Transportation Services and its bus tracking system over your device's WiFi or cellular network connection. Magic Bus riders have real-time bus information at their fingertips for the first time. Enter your starting location and destination to access fast trip planning. Save your favorite bus stop on the app for quick bus arrival information. Receive rider alerts and detours on your device, before you head out the door. Click on the University of Michigan system map, select a route, and see where your bus is in real time. Traveling by bus has never been this easy!

What’s New

Version 1.0.1

-- Improved splash screen conformance.
-- Improved external link handling.
-- Allow app landscape rotation.

Ratings and Reviews

1.2 out of 5
272 Ratings

272 Ratings

Shizuoっか?! ,

Terrible, bring back doublemap

Like someone else said, no one cares about any of the functions enough to warrant having them on the landing screen. Have the app default to the tracker map and let users tap a side menu for other features (which most people really won’t even use).
The live map is also awful. Sometimes the buses don’t even show up and even when they do, they’re color-coded rather than using letters, which makes it hard to tell what is what because people have to remember something extra now, not to mention it’s not color-blind friendly! The arrows make for too much clutter as well.
There was nothing wrong with the old app. This one feels so unpolished and has too many obscure features no one wants to use while getting rid of the good things about the old app. Bring the old one back!!!

Rfiner ,

Literally unusable

Every aspect of anything resembling a normal iOS app has been reconstructed from scratch in the most unappealing and unusable way possible in this app. While it seems like a lot of work was put in, it was the wrong type of work that ended in a convoluted app with complex actions using tools and design patterns either from 2010 or invented on the spot. Ugly colors and fonts aside, it is riddled with bugs, an unusable UI, terrible actions, and unclear instructions. Some issues include the following:
- you cannot zoom in then zoom out in the map in one gesture
- busses do not update
- scrolling is shaky and seems like it was built from scratch
- header and navigation are not functional, you cannot go back to a previous page. nothing is standardized or taking advantage of normal app development patterns
- there is a common design pattern of embedding another webpage into another
- inputting text is nearly impossible and you need to scroll to see the entire form
- unclear actions like prioritizing a bus stop number (what even is that???)
- clicking on one page will reset the map’s zoom
- i have no idea how to close models

The University can do much better. Please ditch this app.

Ravbug ,

Horrifyingly terrible

This is easily the worst map app I have ever used. I give DoubleMap a B+ because it had a couple issues here and there. I give this app an F because of how terrible it is at everything it does.

The frame rate is abysmal (< 5 fps on an iPhone 11 Pro), taps take seconds to register, taps miss the buttons and press different things instead, and everything is blurry. Even basic usability like getting to the map and using it are worse. It doesn’t even show you where you are on the map! I hope they re-instate DoubleMap because this app is nearly unusable. I’d give it zero stars if I could.

App Privacy

The developer, The University of Michigan, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

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The developer will be required to provide privacy details when they submit their next app update.

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