OpenMBTA App Reviews

Omg! First update in 4 years! Works under OS8!!! Useful for people familiar with the bus system. You choose your bus by route number and the nearest stop is shown with estimated times. If you do not know your route number, this is not the app for you. You cannot select a route based on your location. This can be frustrating if youre in a different part of town than usual or you have multiple bus options as you need to punch in each route. One route is displayed at a time, so planning connections is cumbersome. You can bookmark routes, but lately that feature requires you to delete and recreate them when the underlying data changes. I have been using this app since 2009 regularly. There have been no updates since 2010.

I updated this app today and it no longer works on iOS 7, even though 1. It didnt prompt or mention that it needed iOS 8 to run and 2. Many other apps updated for iOS 8 still work on iOS 7. No routes will show up in the list for the the subway, bus, etc. no matter how many times I refresh or restart the app. This is frustrating and disappointing as the app was working fine on iOS 7 until this update. I would really like to see support added for >iOS 8.

The best free MBTA tracking app that I know of. Even if you have a favorite, this is certainly worth a download so as you have another option available. The update for iOS 8 brings the now familiar “flat” look, and despite a few oddities, it continues to work quite well.

Great app until the alerts started popping up over every bus line and T line no matter where the change is! You have to close the alert before you can view your options.

A very useful app became USELESS!!!

Nice app, but the option to find the nearest stop seems to have disappeared with the latest update.

I love this app! I have used it for a couple years now without any issues. Since the apple 7 update my mbta schedule is blank 90% of the time. Now back to being simple to use!

I use this all the time, but I cant access the MBTA tweets and About/FAQ options at the bottom. I scroll down but it bounces out of the way.

The arrival times at some locations are showing PM schedules instead of AM. When you click on the next stop it will give an AM time, but you dont know if its correct. What the heck?

I Was looking for a good bus schedule found this. I like the real time it is close, though I have had so problems that keep it at 3 stars some times it will not display the realtime and the estimated time is off I would like them to add notifications so you can chose a stop and have it tell you its there or tell you an eta when it is closer to your stop so if you know it takes 5 min to walk to your stop have it tell you its 10 min away so you give your self time to get there

What happened? This app tells me to remove all my bookmarks because there was a change to the data and then I cant get a single route to re-bookmark. When I updated, still nothing! How difficult is it to get updates correct? Im actually glad this happened. I found such a better app. I would give open mbta no stars if I could.

As soon as I updated my iOS to version 8 and then also 8.2 the GPS function stopped working, and that was THE best part!!! Knowing just how long its really going to tKe for my bus to get here because everyone knows that schedule is unreliable!!!

Im not sure if Im missing anything but app did not work for me at all. No routes to display at all.

The “real time” data this app claims to display is more often than not wrong. Arrival times are almost always 1–10 minutes off, and “phantom” buses and trains are commonplace; you will watch the little purple dot arrive at your stop and depart without an actual bus or train existing. Seems like it’s just a visualization of the paper schedule, which, since it’s the MBTA, is nowhere near accurate anyway.

I used to rely on this app for the commuter rail, but it has not been updated with the new schedules. The app needs to remain up-to-date in order to be useful. Please fix!

Whats up with this App No Red LIne

Great app until Im prompted to delete my bookmarks and re-bookmark them. Once I delete the bookmarks and try to search for the bus route, commuter rail, or train again to re-bookmark, all screens are blank. This is awful if your in a time pinch as I was this morning.

I cant see anything

Before I updated, this is my best bus tracking app. But after I updated the newest version, I couldnt find any express bus anymore... And I really really need it :(

Recently upload this but My location isnt on the map. So I have scroll thur the map to find my location and zoom and tap on the pin to get bus schedule.