Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 424 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
Here Comes the Bus
CalAmp Student Safety (Formerly Synovia)Notice: In order to use the app, your school district must have a contract wi…
3.4 ★20,461 ratings
1M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Notice: In order to use the app, your school district must have a contract with Synovia Solutions and make Here Comes the Bus available to parents. Please contact your school district or Synovia Solutions for more information, including applicable costs.
Here Comes the Bus® is an easy-to-use app that lets you view the real-time location of your child’s bus on your smartphone, tablet or computer.
With Here Comes the Bus, you can send your child to the bus stop at just the right time, helping to avoid missed buses or long waits in freezing temperatures, pouring rain, the hot sun or rush-hour traffic.
KEY FEATURES:
Find your bus quickly and easily See the exact location of your child’s school bus using your own customizable map.
Access arrival & departure info Confirm your child’s bus has arrived at the bus stop and at school, both before and after school.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 4.0.6 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 4.0.6, updated 2026-08-14.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
No theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
Under 65% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.