First Bus

4.5
67.8K reviews
10L+
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Content rating
PEGI 3
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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
20 Mar 2025

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
66.7K reviews
Thomas Dove
22 April 2025
Rubbish. Unintuitve and not much help. It shows where the bus is but gives ZERO clue as to how long it might take to get to your stop - which is ridiculous as the signs at the stop show this - so why doesn't the app? Also there are often a number of buses that go to the same stop - yet you have to click on each bus number separately and keep flicking to and fro. Once you have nominated a stop it should show you all the buses going there at once. Also can't reverse direction of buses for return
13 people found this review helpful
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Ed Whitley
16 February 2025
Better than before but still unintuitive. Positives: I really like the live bus tracker icons with direction arrows and the route lines, map controls have improved. Settings are clear Improvements: it should be more like GMaps or the nat rail app. I'd like to be able to type a destination, a start point, and get the time table. When I search a bus number it seems incomplete results, and no filter option to pick one direction, and it shows just the list of stops when I want the timetable.
25 people found this review helpful
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Jenni Hislop
8 November 2024
Quite useful when you are waiting on a bus and you can see where it is. Trouble is that when there is no bus nearby (even though one is due on the timetable) it is really unclear whether it is an app problem with tracking a bus that is still on route or if the bus has been withdrawn. It would be useful to be notified of buses that are definitely not coming rather than being kept waiting in the hope it's just the app that is wrong.
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What's new

• Bug fixes and performance improvements