Busly - SF Muni, WMATA, MBTA

• Busly Pro Monthly — $2.99/month
• Busly Pro Monthly — $9.99/year ($0.83/mo)

Last verified 7 Aug 2026

4.5 509 ratings · App Store

1. 4/5Almost great

   I really like having an accurate map view of buses. In particular, I like being able to quickly see how close a bus is to where I current am. But there’s 2 major annoyances I have: 1. Every bus line is either red or blue. If different lines were different colors, I’d be able to more quickly see at a glance where buses for each line are. I’d also be able to easily differentiate individual buses when multiple lines run on top of each other. 2. When you click a stop, it shows the time until the next bus arrives next to the line name, not the number. At least in SF, bus number is much more important when comparing multiple buses. I don’t even know a lot of the line names. Because of this, when I click on a stop with multiple lines running through it, it’s hard to figure out when the next bus I care about is coming.

   blizzards7 · 7 Aug 2026

2. 5/5Best app for SF MUNI (and it’s not close!)

   Long time SF resident. There’s no other app that is simultaneously as accurate & simple as Busly. I’ve been loving this app since Busly’s predecessor (SF MUNI) and now it’s even better. Magnificently streamlined GUI and 99% accurate departure times. I trust this app more than Google Maps, which gives decent scheduled times but sometimes lacks real-time data.

   qdilla · 7 Aug 2026

3. 1/5Removed it twice

   I tried it twice and removed it twice. It doesn’t have favorites and it’s just too cumbersome to look for the same route number of times a day. This app has something that is called “Enabled Routes” instead of Favorites which I found it more annoying than useful. Imagine your city has 90 bus lines but you use only 15 of them. If you selected these 15 routes as Favorites, you can select let’s say only the 3 you are using in the morning and than switch the routes to other 2 ones you use on weekends. But these routes will always be in your Favorite tab. Busly has Enabled Routes so when you marked 15 lines as that, you will see them all at once. If you are not interested in seeing let’s say 10 of them, you have to remove them from Enabled Routes which puts them back in a pool of all the routes (90) in your city. If you want to see these routes again than you will have to scroll through all the routes to mark them again as enabled. Imagine if you browser would show you all your favorites at once; that would be very unhelpful, right?

   Annoyedbycoinbase · 7 Aug 2026

4. 5/5Excellent app

   GPS is accurate, app is excellent for planning your trips. Be sure to get to your stop ahead 1-2 minutes. Sometimes there are arrival discrepancies (due to passenger volume not due to the app).

   LD666x · 7 Aug 2026

5. 1/5After 5 minutes I gave up

   Just downloaded the app. I wanted a simple piece of info: for a given bus line in San Francisco and a given stop, when will the next bus arrive? Took me 5 minutes because the app wants you to select ALL the lines you’re interested in, so I did that… only to realize getting to the info I wanted is a pain in the you-know-what, AND it doesn’t tell me which direction “Outbound” is (not clear when neither direction is towards or away from downtown), so I still didn’t get the answer I wanted. Don’t waste your time!

   jeremy321 · 7 Aug 2026

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