First Bus

🇺🇸 United States
FIRSTBUS  | 
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App Rating
4.5
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Votes
6.81M
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App Age
13y 3m
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Last Update
May 27, 2025

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Current App
Category Top Average
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Installs
4M
16.1M
-75%
Rating
4.5
4.28
+5%
Number of Ratings (Voted)
6.4M
15M
-57%
App Age
13y 2m
8y 3m
+60%
In-app Purchases Price
$0
$46
Update Frequency
216d
239d
-10%
Title Length
9
25
-64%
Short Description Length
75
72
+4%
Description Length
1 518
3 033
-50%
Number of Screenshots
697
1435
-51 %
Has Video?
No
0% has videos
Size
0MB
0MB

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First Bus
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Plan bus journeys, buy great value mobile tickets and check live bus times.
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Plan a journey, buy a great value mobile ticket (mTicket) or find where your bus is with live bus times – you can do all this and more with the First Bus App, making bus travel even easier. PLAN YOUR JOURNEY With our door to door route planner you can check your quickest route to work or plan a new adventure and help you to get around at the weekend. Just enter a destination to view your route options and we’ll show you which of our bus services can get you there with step-by-step instructions. CHECK LIVE BUS TIMES The First Bus App is the best way to get live bus times and route information. You can save your favourite stops, routes and locations and revisit recently searched journeys. The map shows the bus stops nearby where you can see live updates to check where and when your bus is coming letting you head to your bus stop just before your bus is due. BUY YOUR MOBILE TICKET (MTICKET) You can buy your great value bus ticket on the First Bus App before you travel so with mTickets there’s no need to carry cash or worry about having the right change. Some of our tickets are cheaper on the app so get it downloaded for our best bus ticket prices. Payments are secure and there’s a handy ‘buy again’ button with one-tap checkout making repeat purchases even quicker and easier to do. The app also features: • Tickets for Heathrow RailAir, Buses of Somerset and First Kernow. • Payments via Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Google Pay and Apple Pay. • The ability to gift tickets to a child or young person.}
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Rating
4.5
6 806 782 voters

Some Latest Reviews

Zacharia Elias Carroll
27 Dec, 2025
1
the app is currently not showing any future buses at all whatsoever so I am currently having to plan my journeys ahead using gmaps just thought I'd let you know bc incant sign in to twitter to update you there so here's a 1star review for you too it's fixed ( I'm in Leeds WY but somehow I doubt that's relevant to the app failing..)
George Robb
26 Dec, 2025
1
This app is not working on Android, working on my sisters IPhone ? I've lost all my journeys set on the app.
Jack Gibbons
22 Dec, 2025
1
It never works. absolutely terrible! 'Sorry Technical Issue' every time I use it with the latest version.
Philip Lamb
21 Dec, 2025
3
Almost useless if buses are on diversion. Does show the diverted route if you track a live bus but still shows live times at stops that are not being served! Must be embarrassing when a third party app is more accurate, I'm currently on a bus that is not shown in this app. Great for planning routes and finding out where First buses are in real time, even which buses are double deckers. It also gives times for Stagecoach buses but this is useless as they are still listed if they are cancelled.
Tori
21 Dec, 2025
2
Mixed experience Pro I like that you can save routes so it's easy to find busses you regularly use. I like the live tracker, really useful for seeing if there is a bus on route (as the busses often don't run according to the timetable) Cons I wish the journey planner worked! when I click the planner nothing happens, it should be simpler just from 'start' to 'destination' like Google maps. but instead it just doesn't work. either meet the feature usable or just delete that section
Nathan Gautrey
18 Dec, 2025
3
Good if the busses ran to the timetable in the app or the live timetable gave you early notice your bus would randomly leave early several minutes early and leave you stranded. How can you plan if you have no idea when your bus runs?
Kevin Aitchison
15 Dec, 2025
1
ticket didn't scan, automatically used gpay instead and charged me.
Joe Curry
12 Dec, 2025
1
Pointless. Use the app to see when the next bus is according to live updates, get to the stop to find out it's actually been cancelled. Why are they not working from the same database?! Can't count how many busses I've missed because of this. Busses simply disappear from the departures board for no reason even though they're showing on the map!? If you can't show accurate live times, don't show them at all.
riderof pegasus
11 Dec, 2025
1
Inconsistent information Why doesn’t the app say the same as other timetables. The app does not filter out unwanted journey!

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Additional Information
Rating:
4.46
Voted: 6.81M
Google Play Link:
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Categories: Maps & Navigation
Size: -
Installs: 4M
App Age: 13 years 3 months
Release Date: Oct 12, 2012
Last Update: May 27, 2025
Version: 6.4.0
Version history
6.4.0
May 27, 2025
• Ticket gifting changes<br>• Bugs fixes and performance improvements
6.3.0
Mar 20, 2025
• Bug fixes and performance improvements
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