Reviews for Stopfinder

The idea behind this app is pretty cool, but it doesn’t work right 95% of the time. It’s supposed to alert you when the bus is close but it never does, even after setting alarms to it. Every time the bus is late and I go to check where it is, it says “vehicle location […]

This app works when it wants to. Once it showed me the whole route, now I don’t get to know the route. I have alerts set, its a 1% chance the alerts will work. So its always a guessing game of when the bus will be here. Which sucks since I love off a busy […]

This app does not work when the school schedule is different, such as with two hour delays. It’s also not useful when the bus is very late in the afternoon. It appears to only work until 4PM. The visual tracking of the bus is very helpful, but the ETA is of little use. DAILY, the […]

I work in the software industry and if we released an app that was this terrible we would be out of business within months. App often hangs, doesnt display bus, is incredibly late to update location (if at all), alerts dont work. Occasionally if you reboot your entire phone then it will work for a […]

I like the app, but I do not like the new simplified view where we cannot see the busses path and other stops. I have had moments where the bus driver skipped my sons stop and I was able to see that and meet the bus at the next stop. I would not have known […]

The ap seldom works as advertised. Either our school district doesn’t know how to use it (so the support for the ap is non-existent) and it’s set up wrong, or it simply doesn’t work well. The bus seldom shows on the map, alerts either are never sent or arrive late, and the times for drop […]

People have been complaining about this app since it was released and they still haven’t fixed it. Vehicle is never available. When alerts happen to work, it’s well after the bus has already left, but still showing as unavailable. My child has walked home plenty of times, ALONE, because this app is useless and didn’t […]

UPDATE: They fixed the push notifications, for the most part. I still get late notifications. Would be awesome if there’s an option to keep awake when looking at the map. OLD: Real time updates work. Setting up GeoAlerts is fine, but the most important aspect of it does not work. It will never push a […]

when it works its great, but it always seems to break around the same times each year and is the most unreliable app I’ve ever used even when it’s functional. if the schedule loads the buses will often not be found on it. if the bus is found it will often freeze and jump 5 […]

Update, another year later and still the app frequently doesn’t load data. It’s great when it works but failure rate is too high. Update: Over a month into school and this app rarely loads when you need it to. It seems they need a major server capacity upgrade. First day of school and this app […]

Worked as expected for the first couple days that my daughter attended school. After that, it stopped tracking the bus. A couple weeks later, it now just shows a blank screen. After clearing the data/cache for the app, I can get to the login screen but I get “Bad Request” when attempting to login. Awesome. […]

Update: Credit where credit is due, they seem to have fixed it for our district. I’d say it’s worked 90% of the time in the 24-25 school year. [Old review, 2023]->This app is garbage. No school district should use it. It’s most basic function, showing the location of the bus, works maybe 10% of the […]

1 star for now, it’s the first week of school so I will give time to adjust, but so far: no real time updates, just shows the bus route. I set up geo alerts and received none. Life 360 was doing a better job of tracking. Unable to send messages, no attendance updates so I […]

It does almost nothing it’s supposed to. This is what happens when lowest bidder gets a contract. Edit: barely functions 3 months later. Maybe 5% of the time. Near the end of the school year now. Still utterly useless. Arguably worse than the beginning of the year. June 2023: now the app doesn’t load at […]

Never worked perfectly, but the latest update broke it. The app only shows the regular schedule, which I already know. it no longer shows the real time information or location, so what’s the point? Bonus: I got notified of an update via text. I have notifications turned off. Edit: Real time info has appeared. That […]

1/29/25 – This is our 1st time using it & the app is down…this is also our student’s 1st time riding the bus. Thank goodness I have other GPS devices on him 10/10/25 – Same issues, different school year. Now I see more of the “Vehicle Location Unavailable”. When the app works, it is great […]

First freaking day of school. The app has logged me out and I can’t log back in. On top of all the issues from last year, with the app not tracking the buses. Freezing. Doesn’t show if the kids scan their card or not. Not looking forward to dealing with these issues all over again. […]

Not writing a review as much as this is apparently the only way to send feedback. If there was a communication function in the app, I think that would be very helpful. If I have a sick kid that I know isn’t going to be going to school thst day, or if out of town, […]

The app is pointless and useless. It only shows the bus stop on a map, which could be a pdf. The message section is not real-time and again pointless (we could just send an email). It doesn’t show the bus location in real-time as other apps so kids don’t know if they’ve missed the bus […]

really kind of a pointless app to take up space. now of your school enables the GPS option it might be better. but since ours doesn’t there’s not much value to the app. ot shows pickup and drop off times that aren’t accurate at all. the drop off time for my one kid has been […]