OmniRide

I wanted to love this app. It is better than some of the others, moovit and so on, and the idea that it tracked the busses as they are enroute what could be better? But I’ve tested it while waiting for a bus and while on the bus and it appears to be going by the printed schedule and not always bus location or it could be something else. I’m walking to the bus stop now and the app says the bus at the light that I will get on when I get to the bus stop is several stops past where we are. If it was just accurate it would be a winner, but not right now. Two stars for trying!

This app is much better than that piece of crap Moovit. I like the navigation tools and the listing of the routes. I have provided feedback to the developers that setting up alerts on a route is useless to me. I know where I’m going. I have specific buses I ride and I want to be able to have alerts only for those 4 buses — the two I always ride and the two backups in case I miss the first one. I like seeing the buses in real time as they’re moving along the route so I can gauge how long it’ll take to get to my stop. However, the app has been a little inconsistent — it doesn’t always work. I’ve had to quit out of it several times to get the routes to load. This app has potential and I really hope the developers will keep making improvements so I can bump up my rating.

How about a boring but functional app for once? Let me set the one or two routes I use. Let me set the handful of stops I use. Show me everything about *only* what I have picked and nothing else in clean, easy to consume lists that look good on a phone. Oh, and for destinations/stops that have more than one way to them, show related routes. For example the Cushing road commuter lot has at least three ways to get to it but the Pentagon busses aren’t obvious unless you happen to look at the Manassas/Pentagon schedule.

I want to know where a specific bus is. Instead, I see some cryptic info. On the map, it shows some arrows, some squares, but when I click on one, it shows a pop-up saying “Gainesville Pentagon Expre...”. What does it mean? Why it’s so emcrypted? Why I can’t see a particular bus number?

A horribly mishandled app. Almost useles. Not up to date. Down during actual time of need. Only referred to a equally worthless website