First Bus

4.5
69.3K reviews
1M+
Downloads
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
May 27, 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
68.2K reviews
Oliwia B.
June 3, 2025
good when it works but very unreliable, sometimes the bus stops just don't show the map and the search feature comes up with no results making the app useless. I like being able to see where the bus is on the map because that's more accurate than the time tables. We get a lot of replacement buses in the area and some of them are not tracked, but the counter still goes for them.
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Symon Hambrey
June 1, 2025
Pointless. No timetables. No ability to plan a journey for even the next day, let alone a week's time. The live view is mostly made up, I watched a bus on the app sail past me, stopping at all the stops, but it didn't exist. A waste of time. Update: nearly two years later and little improvement. No ghost buses recently, and timetables are sort of available, but it says "technical issues" so often that that's what they should change the name of the app to. Shame I can't give 0 stars.
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Janet Christmas
May 26, 2025
Since the 20 3 2025 update, this app has developed a fault. When you try to access a destination board, a screen is displayed saying "Sorry Technical Issue - please try again later". I contacted First Bus Customer Services and they had the audacity to imply that there was something wrong with my mobile phone, asking me to restart my phone, ensure I had the latest software installed etc. I would give this app no stars if I could. In Norfolk, you really need to know the location of your bus.
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What’s new

• Ticket gifting changes
• Bugs fixes and performance improvements