First Bus

4.5
47.8K reviews
1M+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

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.
Updated on
Feb 29, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Location, Personal info and 6 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.5
46.8K reviews
Tori
March 12, 2024
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 was easier to navigate, it should be simpler just a from where, to where, time. The saved places and needing location just makes it difficult. Journey planner should be separate to saved routes Some ghost busses don't show on the
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ImYourStupidity
March 14, 2024
The new update has only brought along a new problem. When trying to load a bus stops' departure board, keep in mind I haven't even tapped on the "Departure Board" option yet. The app freezes and proceeds to close. This is awful for anyone trying to view when their bus is arriving. Especially since the live tracking is STILL unreliable and that most bus drivers forget to turn on their trackers for their respective bus.
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Shelly
March 11, 2024
Genuinely quite a terrible app, shows incorrect bus times, often shows when a bus is meant to be there but then when you track the bus it clearly doesn't match up - for instance showed me that a bus clearly ten mins away was going to be at the stop in 2 mins. It's also not very intuitive, when you click on journey planner it tells how what the journey planner can do but no indication on how to actually put your destinations in to plan your journey.
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What's new

• Bugs fixes and performance improvements