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✓ Very helpful. Sometimes inconsistent.This app is a wonderful tool for helping us know exactly when the bus is arriving so we can be ready to quickly get on/off. Especially since we use special education bussing and so arrival times are not always the same, it enables us to not have a difficult time waiting, rather we can time getting ready and be able to meet the bus as soon as it arrives. The app has given us trouble from time to time, either showing the wrong bus for our child or the app itself logging out unexpectedly and then saying it is unavailable upon logging in again. Overall, it’s an excellent tool. It would be nice to allow the ability to cancel the bus stop through the app, for those of us using special ed busses..Version: 2.3.1
✓ This is the app I've been waiting to have!Our school system started using this app a few days ago. It's the app I'd hoped to have a few years ago. It shows me where my kids' buses are, real-time, both before and after they get on. I can tell if a bus will be late in the a.m. and opt to take my child to school. Likewise, in the p.m. if the bus is late getting to the school, I know that as well. I hope that if the buses are stuck in traffic or behind an accident later, I'll KNOW that now, and see where they are. It will give me options. If your school system uses this, download it. Plus, it's oddly mesmerizing to watch the bus arrow drive the route =).Version: 2.3.1
✓ Good app- cool ideaThis is a good app for what it is intended for, to give a general idea on where the bus is. It shouldn't be used to determine when you should meet the bus (I wouldn't even think of doing that). Helpful to us to know when her bus is coming since several others pick up at the same location around the same time (express stop). Very cool knowing when the bus is near her express drop off at home, gives me an idea on when to expect her to let me know she is home since she has a mile walk to the house. Would LOVE notifications sent via text instead of email... overall this is a cool app!! *** updated: you do get a direct bus update if you have the actual app and don't just use through PWCS. Love this app!***.Version: 2.0.3
✓ I love this app when it works.This is something I always wished we had and it’s like a dream come true. Busses come early or late and you never have an idea if you’ve missed it or it’s running behind. This app works for me most of the time and when it does it’s amazing. It definitely helps to know the location of my child’s bus however I keep running into a problem where it appears the bus isn’t moving. I’m assuming it’s broken down then I wonder if it’s my phone so I close the app completely and reopen it to see the bus is still in the same location. Then it jumps from what looked like two miles away to into our radius! So we scramble to get to the stop ASAP. Living in. Cold climate we appreciate having an app that helps us reduce being out in the elements. Hopefully all the bugs can get fixed so it runs a bit smoother..Version: 2.7.4
✓ So happy I don’t have to guess when the bus is coming.Great app when it’s working. Sometimes there are issues with buses not being tracked but it may may a school system issue and not an app issue. For 4 years I dealt with buses not arriving on time and not knowing if it came early or was late. With the app, I can now see and track the location of the bus and know when it’s arriving. I love that there are notification settings to let me know when it is within a certain radius of our stop. It also seems that since our school system started using the app, the buses are much more reliable, perhaps because of the accountability. Would give it 5 stars if it had a way to notify us of the length of delays when we have them..Version: 2.3.1
✓ Lost Info= re-login/re-load to FIX!!This app has been a godsend this entire school year! Everything was working nicely until the most recent update; all of my info (bus, school and bus stop icons) disappeared and I got a message saying the map info “wasn’t available” when I tried to adjust the notification radius. Everything was fine on the website, it was just the app that was screwy. I came here to see if anyone else was having this problem and just as I saw that it was mentioned in several other reviews, I got a Notification that my son’s bus was in the designated range. I checked the app and there were still no icons so I deleted it and immediately re-downloaded it. After I signed in, everything is working as expected! I bet if I had just logged out and logged back in, everything would have been fine too. Hopefully this can help other users and save you from unwarranted negative reviews!.Version: 2.2.0
✓ Superior AppThat is the way I feel about this app! It tells me/us when the bus will be at the bus stop which saves us time and lots of worrying! My son is the only person at his bus stop so I cannot always tell if we have missed the bus or not. We drive him to the bus stop since there are no sidewalks in our development on our side of the street. With this apps it tells us what time the bus will be at the stop. With the traffic the way it is were we live it’s extremely helpful. A Godsend! Plus it was easy to install. You just need your child school district transportation number. Your child ‘s student id number and where do you want the information to be sent to your cell phone, tablet, or computer. It can even call you for a reminder. This App is Great! It removes the guess work of if you missed the bus or not. Monica P. Cary, NC.Version: 2.3.1
✓ Great real time mapping function, not so much with anything else so farI was really excited about our school district using this app this year! What a great resource for parents if it works! it was harder than I expected to get my hands on my children's student ID to set up the account so I think the school districts could help more there. Once the account was set up the app is not the most intuitive to use. Day 1 went great and we really appreciated the real-time mapping function especially since our bus was nine minutes late. It was simply reassuring on a day packed with jitters already. I do wish that notifications could come before the bus arrives but this might be more helpful when there is a major glitch in the schedule?.Version: 2.3.1
✓ SOoo Useful!!!So not even two weeks into school I was saying something like this was needed. I actually ordered a GPS tracker which I planned to put in my child's backpack. The announcement about this app for our school just came out yesterday. I immediately downloaded it, registered, added my child, and set up notification radii. It worked beautifully this morning and this afternoon. I can see where setting it up may not be the most user intuitive, but no problems here for the gadget and electronic geek. I hope it continues to work. I have cancelled the GPS tracker order and subscription service! ***update*** Still works great 90% of the time. An audible radius alarm would make it even better!.Version: 2.6.2
✓ So Helpful!It is so nice to be able to see where my child’s bus is on the map as we finish getting ready to walk out to the bus. I have children in three different schools and can track all their busses. I appreciate the notifications that the bus has entered their bus stop radius. The glitches we’ve had with Here Comes the Bus have not been with the app so much as with tracking the busses. If a substitute bus is used, it won’t always show up on the app. I’m not sure all my children’s busses have the scanner for their ID tags yet. But the app has still been very handy, especially when we are running late or their bus is running late!.Version: 2.6.1
✓ A crucial part of every morningHCTB feels like living in the future. It is now a crucial part of our morning - how much I hurry my kids is directly related to how close the bus is. Being able to see when the bus leaves its depot and when it is getting close to the house is a godsend for getting the kids out on time, and we have only missed the bus maybe twice in the 2 years we have been using the app! (And if you have kids who are not morning people you’ll understand how remarkable that is). There have been a few issues where the drivers’ devices have stopped transmitting so the bus position does not get updated accurately, but that has only occurred a handful of times in 2 years..Version: 2.5.4
✓ Life Saver!Before I found out about this app my child was having to wait outside for about 30 minutes because his bus was never on time. He either had a different bus driver all the time, or a different bus number all together. This has been happening since he started High School. It became so frustrating. But with this app, it has changed EVERYTHING. The notifications are off a little when it comes to letting me know when the bus is in his radius. But I never look at that anyway. As long as I see his bus physically moving on the map, that’s all that matters. I rarely have issues with bugs on the app, thank goodness. Now my son doesn’t have to wait in the heat, cold or rain for a long periods of time. He can be outside 1-2 minutes before the bus pulls up. Such a great app!!!!.Version: 2.5.4
✓ Very very helpfulThis app helps out so much, especially with having five children at home with their buses showing up at different times at different bus stops. It gives me the opportunity to download the app on each kids phones and they can also track where the bus is. I can also meet my children at their bus stop when they are too early or on a late bus. Only thing is when students have a specialty bus, for example my daughter school bus never shows on the bus app because she rides a specialty bus because she attends a school outside of our school zone but the school is on the same county and the same city. Also, sometimes the bus the children are on is not even the bus that shows on the app. It will show another bus. If my kids didn’t have cell phones where I can track them I would think they were on the wrong bus because of the app. You can rely on the app to much because of that. But when it is right it helps out alot..Version: 3.5.1
✓ When it works, it’s awesomeAnd for me, it has indeed worked much of the time and is pretty accurate. It helps a lot to see when the bus is. The live tracking mostly works, but there were a couple of times it was waaaay off and I’m not sure why. The other thing is that I wish the bus company or school could contact us through the app if the bus was running more than 10 mins off schedule, or something like that. Guess that isn’t really the purpose of the app but nevertheless it would help especially when live tracking isn’t cooperating. On the whole though, I’d rather live with this app than without!.Version: 2.4.3
✓ AmazingNo more having to wait and wonder where the bus is when the bus is late or delayed. The app even updated to tell me that my son had a substitute driver with a different bus, and that the bus was running an hour late due to the change. So I was able to quickly change my plans to drop him off at the school so that I could get to work on time. The app has a radius that you can set up to be notified when the bus gets within a certain distance of your house, which is incredibly helpful, I have ours set up to notify me when the bus enters the neighborhood, which gives me about a minute window to make sure that he has his book bag and is waiting for the bus by the front door..Version: 2.5.4
✓ Nice to haveI appreciate the concept of this app. When my child is riding their normal bus, it is on the map and I can follow it which is especially great on cold days. I’m giving four stars because my notification radius constantly changes. When that happens, it will notify me way early when the bus is in range even though it is not close. That made for an exciting beginning of the year..! I have to go in about every week and change the radius back where I want it and then all is well for those few days. Also, of course, if your child is having a sub bus for any reason and riding a different bus, it will not show up, thus looking like the bus is not coming at all. So, neat app but don’t put your complete faith in it by any means!.Version: 2.3.1
✓ Bus appI appreciate this app because i like to see when my child boards the bus & gets off the bus. The only thing i don’t like is that we’ve had plenty times when we couldn’t even see the bus on the app so we couldn’t track it and i hate when we can’t see it because that lets us know when the bus is near or when it isn’t or if it’s running behind because that way my child wouldn’t have to stand at the bus stop for too long just waiting and waiting especially if it’s cold outside. I hope they fix that because the app works best for us if we’re allowed to see/track the bus and it’s location every single time. I hate it when we have to guess what time to be at bus stop in hopes the bus comes on time or even if the bus comes at all. (We’ve had issues in the past before when the bus didn’t stop by at all and went past the stop, I’m assuming it was a sub bus driver) which is why I rely on this bus app to always be visible/able to track on the app..Version: 3.5.2
✓ Kid saver!This is app is Great! Before I heard about it I was sending the kids down to the end of driveway 10-15 early in the summer and 5 min early in winter so they wouldn't freeze to death but the 5 min window wasn't enough sometimes they would miss it and then I would have to drop them. Then I heard about this bus app and boy was I excited!! Now I have it timed perfect to where I let them walk down the drive(I have a 900 ft drive, cause we live in a farm in the country) and by time they get to the end the bus is pulling up- perfect! Now don't have to worry about someone snatching them(not that I worry about that where I live) but never know? Better safe than sorry and they don't freeze waiting on it! Excellent app, there's only 1 day to where it didn't work but I believe it was a setting in my phone so gets 5 stars in my book the alerts don't work or are off sometimes but I don't worry about those anyway as ling as I can see the bus in motion and know where it's at is good enough for me! If you have kids that get on a bus YOU NEED THIS APP!.Version: 2.4.3
✓ Works pretty wellIt’s nice to be able to track your child’s bus. Things that interrupt cell service will cause lags in the app, but that’s not really the app’s fault. Also, my child’s bus broke down on a different street in our neighborhood last school year and I could see the bus had stopped moving on the map, but I never received a notification about what was happening. I’m sure our bus driver was preoccupied with making arrangements to get the kids to school so she’s not going to be on an app giving updates, but the notifications feature is only going to work if you actually put them in/update it when something happens. So maybe it’s not as user friendly on the bus end. Overall, I’m glad our school system started using this, it definitely is helpful..Version: 2.6.2
✓ Great but a little buggy!!This app definitely has some bugs which I’m sure will be fixed soon! For example, for half of the last school year, my kids bus was in Jacksonville, Florida (spoiler: we don’t live in Florida). That aside, this app is so incredibly helpful, especially if you work away from home. It’s also really helpful if the bus is running late or the weather is bad and you need to track the bus to meet your kid at their stop. I would imagine it’s also good for teachers to be able to see if a bus is late in the morning (they probably keep up with that other ways). I’m really glad our school system uses it and would encourage others to do the same!! I don’t want to helicopter parent, but having this app definitely helps put my mind at ease just a little!.Version: 2.3.1
✓ Not accurateThe location of the bus is not updated in real time. I set up the app to notify me when the bus is 2 miles away. I walked outside as soon as I received the alert but not 1 minute later, I got another alert saying the bus had arrived before I even reached the stop. I continued to walk to the stop anyway because I thought there’s no way the bus drove two miles in less than a minute. I reached the stop and I wait another 7 or 8 mins. I then come to the conclusion that maybe the time was a few minutes off and I missed the bus. I started to panic. I started to run back to my apartment to call the school and in the distance, I hear the school bus pulling up. I started running back to the bus stop as fast as I good but the bus pulled off with my 5 year old still inside. They took her back to the school. I will never depend on this app again..Version: 2.3.1
✓ Excellent concept, and needs tweakingThe concept of this app is groundbreaking and very 21st-century. Using the GPS technology on board buses, one is able to see the exact location of the bus relative to your children at their bus stop. This is very helpful, and a great use of technology. However, technology needs all facets to work; if any part of the chain is unable to function, it will not help you or be very informative. What I have noticed about this app is that the real time GPS tracker is excellent. However, the email and app notifications that are sent that your child has been picked up or dropped off or are seriously delayed. This needs serious tweaking if you rely on the emails or notifications and are unable to be there with them live. Consider the working parent who is at the office and waiting to hear if their child was picked up or drop off- they would be waiting for up to an hour before receiving that notification or email. If the company can tweak this, the app will be perfect. All in all, a great partnership between school districts/parishes and software development companies. Good work guys- and please tweak it!.Version: 2.6.3
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