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London Bus Checker App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
London Bus Checker app received 39 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using London Bus Checker? Can you share your negative thoughts about london bus checker?
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✓ Old versionOld version is cleaner. Cannot see timetables, would be nice to use them. Still use older version, pity it crashes when I want to see a bus whole route..Version: 10.43
✓ Oh Lord! What have you done!I first starting using this app 10yrs ago and it quite literally changed my life. I used to commute by bus and it made connections, timings and route planning soo easy. For two or three years it really was the best app ever. But now they have upgraded it. Amd it is impossible to overstate how awful this app has become; clunky to use, intrusive ads, ridiculous need to sign in to use advanced features etc etc. I have now gone back to the sub-par TfL app and hope the developers burn in hell for what they have done to this… PS The only reason it gets 1 star is that Ape won’t let me give it zero.Version: 10.46.1
✓ Going to deleteFrom being simple to use it’s now been updated so you have to log in to save favourites (having lost all my original). Can’t seem to find anything easily. Really disappointing compared to pre-update.Version: 10.32
✓ Ad is too longJust want to check bus time but forced to watch a long advert. Also the long ad video eats too much mobile data..Version: 10.44.1
✓ Patchy - don’t plan your travel using this appHave lost count of the number of times I have stood waiting for a bus that, according to the app, is due in 5 minutes only for it not to come, or you spend 15 minutes whilst the app sticks on 2 minutes. Also have walked as the app says no bus due only for a bus to pass minutes later. Not realisable *enough*, but passable..Version: 6.3.18
✓ Ads destroyed the appI used this app for so many years without any issues. The ad banner at the bottom was always there but unobtrusive. Now the developer decided to slap an ad video when you open the app, which is frankly not good form. When you need the app you need it at the time and don’t want to be forced to watch some ad. I then realised that there is TfL Go, which is a free, ad-free, app made by TfL itself. That renders this app completely pointless. Funny thing is - I would never had noticed TfL go existed hadn’t the developer got greedy with these ad videos. Well, goodbye and best of luck..Version: 10.32
✓ Terrible - bring back the old versionThis new version is rubbish. Too many ads - the locator almost never works. I am super disappointed. I uses the old one every day - now I dread opening this one. Time to take it off my phone..Version: 10.42
✓ The ads make this unusableIt’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..Version: 10.35
✓ What a shambles - no longer usableI have been using this for years as an invaluable part of making the most of London transport and the revamp has rendered it utterly useless. Shockingly counterintuitive interface, favourites are somewhere but who knows where, route shown as the crow flies rather than following road map (utterly baffling) and generally crap beyond belief. Shame on you..Version: 10.32
✓ Another one bites the dustSadly, one of my favourite, most used apps has turned into just another ad-slinging, tracker-infested piece of rubbish. Now it insists that I create an account just to save a list of a few stops. How intrusive, how arrogant, and how utterly unnecessary. iOS has a perfectly good, local sqlite3 database for this sort of thing. What possible reason is there for this change? Nothing good, for users. I’m not having it. I am deleting this steaming pile of bits and switching to, well, just about anything else. Well done, Urban; a complete own goal..Version: 10.32
✓ Unusable due to adsI appreciate the need for ads for revenue but I can no longer use this app because the ads take so long when you’re trying to check quickly if a bus is coming or not. A 5 sec as would be fine, but they are 30 seconds. I have found an alternative..Version: 10.45.1
✓ New update not fit for purposeLAtest app update makes it not worth using. No longer simple to use and not accessible for blind users. Developers not interested in listening to users. I used this for quick access to departure boards but with that no longer the case, am using google maps from now on. Can get much quicker info from that without ads.Version: 10.32
✓ A disappointing updateThe older version was more functional than version. It is a downgrade in my opinion and I will be removing the app as a consequence. The ads are also extremely intrusive especially if you’re trying to quickly check your bus..Version: 10.33
✓ Pop up adds too annoyingI don’t mind the adds but your app is becoming difficult to use as the pop up and often can’t be cancelled forcing a browser to open. Often I have to kill the app and start again Also I have already given a vote and now as I’m trying g to use it in a regular basis it keeps asking for a review. Once is enough.Version: 6.3.15
✓ No wordsTo describe how awful this update is - it looks dreadful, all my Favourites have disappeared and theres no widget on my iPhone. I now have to scroll through pages of stuff to find out when the bus is due. Fix it or I'm getting a different app. I've had this one for years and it's always been good until today..Version: 10.32
✓ Too complicated for meI have found that apps are a mystery to me because I am unfamiliar with the terminologies used. I “missed the beginning”. Having arrived at the bus stop, by the time I had got out my glasses and was still trying to work out whether to click the stop on the map or the one on the list, the bus would whizz past before I saw it. I am 76. I think younger people even understand the language used by Facebook..Version: 6.3.18
✓ Glitchy as hellThe old version was perfect - now it's almost unusable. I have to make sometimes 5 or 6 attempts to open it successfully and the adds make it impossible. Sometimes simple and trusted is so much better..Version: 10.44.1
✓ New update means no longer fit for purposeThe main reason I’ve used this app (reliably) for years was the widget allowing me to see my saved routes at a glance. The new update has removed this feature - you now have to log in everytime you want to check. If this doesn’t change I will be deleting and finding an app that makes my life easier rather than complicating it!.Version: 10.32
✓ Used to be good but …Unbearable ads….…..Some lasting for what seems an age of five minutes - which is the last thing you need to pop up before it allows you the information you’re looking for when you’re stood at a stop in a rush trying to work out what bus or your connections !! There are much better apps on the App Store that do the same job without this app breaking issue!!!.Version: 10.46.1
✓ Not so great!Sometimes the app works perfectly, and I can tell when the bus is arriving at my bus stop to then go on my journey But this knowledge is intermittent. Sometimes it tells me. OFTEN it does not, and I have to spend many, many minutes trying to get the info. To no avail. I’ll almost certainly throw this app away and get another..Version: 6.3.18
✓ They ruined a perfectly good appThis used to be one of the best checking apps but London In the latest update they’ve ruined the user experience I have now stopped using it Just a gentle reminder that there is such a thing called accessibility they should think about that before they update the app very disappointed Andrew Booth.Version: 10.32
✓ The pop-up ads make this app an irritating nightmareNo longer can one rely on flicking up the app without this irritating new monetising feature of ads popping up!.Version: 10.42
✓ When you need to check if your bus is coming you don’t want to watch an advert for two minutesBad bad bad This app has become intolerable. The fact one is forced to watch ads before knowing if your bus is coming makes it totally pointless It used to be great, not so much now Update: I found an alternative app and deleted it! Yeah. No more ads.Version: 10.37
✓ This used to be a great app. After upgrade, awful.The redesign stops the speed and ease of use which previously made this the best of the various ways of getting bus info. Worse, the stupid design “enhancements” are somehow delaying the apps ability to access data efficiently, resulting in (for example) the app saying a bus is 2 minutes away when you can see it already pulling off the stand. THIS IS BASICALLY A NEW PRODUCT not merely an upgrade AND ONE WHICH ONE CANT RECOMMEND What a waste..Version: 10.32
✓ Sold OutThis app was so useful, but now it’s anything but! I get to a bus stop try to look up the time and before anything is displayed an add pops up. Some ads can’t even be closed I have to restart the app! Cannot add favourites unless I create an account, why? So you can grab my data and sell it on? No thanks! This app is all about selling your data and presenting you with ads, oh and by the way we might show you some bus times. Complete sell out by developers! sad!!.Version: 10.35
✓ InacurracyThe app is good but sometimes the bus times don’t even show even though the buses are still running. Also it sometimes says”no buses at this stop” when there’s no problems with the buses running..Version: 6.3.18
✓ AdvertsSo if you want quick bus times, do I have the app for you to not use, you know I have to watch on an unskippable add. followed by an advert you have to click off. and this isn’t just when you open the app this is whenever you check a new bus stop. have deleted will use other non-intrusive apps.Version: 10.32
✓ From Indispensable to Completely UnsuableThis app used to be absolutely indispensable in London and I used it every day. However, ever since we had to download this ‘new’ version last week, it has become completely unusable due to the ads. I’ve now deleted this (the app we all knew and loved has long since gone), and I’m using the alternative ‘Bus Times’ app instead. Incredible fall from grace..Version: 10.46.1
✓ Not as Comprehensive as I should beI downloaded the app thinking it would solve my travel problems in London, but as soon as I tried to locate the origin of my journey it’s not in the list. Very disappointed.Version: 6.3.18
✓ Ads are overwhelming and no longer stableI’ve used this for many years, unfortunately the author is getting greedy and flashes up adverts for every lookup, making the app almost unusable. In addition, too often, the app returns “nothing expected” and suspect they have lost backend connectivity to TFL. I’ve given up and uninstalled.Version: 10.38.1
✓ What’s gone wrong since the updateGreat app until the update yesterday and now when you selected your stop nothing happens just a blank scree. Other people at bus stop were having same problem! Sort it pleases.Version: 6.3.17
✓ The Bus Checker App that thought it was an AdvertWant 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?.Version: 10.32
✓ Updates makes app uselessLatest update requires you to set up an account to save bus stop favourites which will no doubt bombard your email with ads. Deleting this app and switching to ‘bus times’ app that has more features and less advertising..Version: 10.42
✓ Not workingI paid for the premium version of this app but for some time it has been missing a local stop. I reported it but it has not been rectified. And now the app is saying it cannot download any stops. Has something gone badly wrong with it?.Version: 10.44.1
✓ Ad removal too expensiveLoved this app until the ads started taking over, nearly 30 seconds long. I’d happily pay for the removal, if it wasn’t so expensive,£6.99, most other apps are a £1 or £2. Time to delete..Version: 10.45.0
✓ Times of busSo it’s really annoying that you do not get full times of the buses. Some mornings I check the app to see the time of a bus and it will show 26 minutes which I know is not correct as the bus is approaching me so it’s not accurate. Please fix as it annoying.Version: 10.41
✓ Unreliable and often wrongSince the revamp, the app often doesn’t show buses that are coming (several times I have been told that there is ‘nothing expected’, or no bus for 28 minutes, only for one to appear just as I have given up and walked away). Frequently says that bus stops are closed when they aren’t. If your daily commute involves more than one bus and time is crucial, this is frustrating to say the least. Needs some serious work..Version: 10.37
✓ Wanted bus onlyThere seems to be no way to get the app to deliver bus only information. Impossible to tell if the tube stations suggested are disabled accessible. Of no use to me..Version: 6.3.11
✓ Ads are too longSome of the adds last a long time and make this app very frustrating when you’re trying to arrange your travel options quickly. The long adverts come up every time you’ve not used the app for a an hour or so I think..Version: 10.46.1
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