Ventura Tracker 4+

Omg I wish I had have known about this app sooner!!! I’ve only had it downloaded for a couple of hours but being able to see where the bus is (especially if it’s running late) is so unbelievably helpful!!!

And the option to log lost property is also really nice, I’m the type of person who’ll one day go to get off the bus and forget something 😅😅😅 so having an ability to get it back is such a relief

Really worth the download!!!!

Only worth 4 stars though because the layout could be a lot better, also there doesn’t seem to be a route for the 898 bus (I don’t know if that’s because Ventura don’t own that bus or what) so that probably should be fixed 😁

Update 02/20. Useless again. Tracking useless. Buses jump around all along the route. Ghost buses all over the place
Update 10/19. Much improved. The real time bus info is quite good. Search is now correct.
Original post. Totally useless. Search for a bus route and it gives six results that are useless because the route title is truncated. Click on all six either gives no buses on that route or totally wrong information. Actually there is one correct route. One search result gave no buses which was correct because the map showed the route as being between Russia and Alaska

I regularly use a Ventura bus can arrive between 10 minutes early and 10 minutes late, so I got this app to better track of the bus, since it’s not pleasant to stand around the bus stop for half an hour, especially when it’s cold. After months of using the app, I can conclude it’s very unreliable. 1/3 of the times I use the app, the bus I’m catching doesn’t even appear at all in the tracker, even if it’s active.

The UI could be better. The bus tracker icon can be two different colours depending on which direction the bus is going, but sometimes there’s a third colour (pink), and there’s nothing to indicate what that means.

I tried to contact support from the app a few times but never received any reply back. I doubt there’s anyone on the receiving end taking care of feedback and queries.

It works when it works I guess, but never rely on it. The one thing it’s supposed to do, it doesn’t do it well.