LiveTransit Vancouver

LiveTransit Vancouver Free App

Rated 3.89/5 (722) —  Free Android application by ILH

About LiveTransit Vancouver

View the real-time GPS location of any bus in Vancouver, or look up the scheduled arrival times at any stop in the lower mainland. Now supports OFFLINE arrival times!

Select your preferred routes from a filterable list, and LIVE bus locations will be overlaid on a map. Tap the bus to see when its location was last updated, or press the refresh button to get the latest locations.

Zoom in to see bus stops overlaid on the map, and tap a stop icon to view the arrival times for all bus routes that stop there. The settings screen allows you to toggle between live arrival time predictions (i.e. 10 min) and the static schedule (i.e. 3:22 PM).

Not affiliated with Translink.

Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Complaints? E-mail me!

How to Download / Install

Download and install LiveTransit Vancouver version 2.7 on your Android device!
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Android package: com.ilh.livetransit, download LiveTransit Vancouver.apk

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App History & Updates

What's Changed
Search for stop by stop number, minor UI improvements, various bugfixes.
More downloads  LiveTransit Vancouver reached 50 000 - 100 000 downloads
Version update LiveTransit Vancouver was updated to version 2.7
Name changed  Name changed! LiveTranslink Vancouver now is known as LiveTransit Vancouver.

What are users saying about LiveTransit Vancouver

A70%
by A####:

A great app, though it sometimes takes a long time to load stop location info. And sometimes the next bus info comes up "no available info", which is disappointing when it happens. Sometimes a retry will get you the info you expect. One star off for those occasional failures. But when you get that info, it's real-time info unless otherwise indicated. That's really helpful when something has gone sideways on the route you want to use.

U70%
by U####:

I had this app on an old phone and it worked great. Now I have LG G3 and the app works but the live bus icons are WAY too small. When I zoom in they stay the same size, then all the bus stops pop up and I can't see the buses anymore. When I zoom out I have to strain to see what bus I'm looking at. Please fix - addition after months of original post... PLEASE FIX will keep removing stars....

U70%
by U####:

My father is a frequent bus traveler and he likes this app a lot. However at his age the bus icon is too small for him to see. It would be great if there is an option to make the bus icon and bus route number bigger for senior user. Thanks for the good work!

A70%
by A####:

I downloaded this app after looking at the ratings and screenshots thinking this is exactly what I need. Opened the app and its just a map with bus stops, no live info on where the bus is. There are no menus and no options for routes. Upon further reading of the reviews, people are saying the app is no longer valid and updating. I guess the developer decided to leave it?! Too bad it looked so promising.

Y70%
by Y####:

Great! Used it all the time. But needs to be updated. There are new routes that need to be added. Also, I think Translink changed some information on the data source so now nothing works! Will change rating once update works

U70%
by U####:

update: option menu button to add busses is no longer available... Bus stop icons are bigger then the bus icons. Must zoom out to see busses which causes unreadable bus numbers... Then you must zoom in to see a bus stop which completely shrouds all bus icons. Wtf?... Also the floating menu button always appears on top of the zoom in/out buttons... No matter where you put it, it always returns.

Y70%
by Y####:

It actually works. Pretty nifty. I wonder if the system will get Compass upgrades too. Like a charge everytime you look up a stop. Also add saving your most used schedules. For free. Because I'm to lazy to figure it out. UNAPPRECIATIVE DOUCHE AWAY! Pretty decent.

U70%
by U####:

I had this app when I had my s3 and when I upgraded to the S5, the menu options not available and I can't enter my bus number or my route number to find out real-time locations of the bus. If you fix the bugs so I can you use this app I will upgrade my rating because I used to love it.

Z70%
by Z####:

I'm on a older android phone and still love this app. The real-time bus tracking is accurate and I rely on it to get around and plan. The only issue is the bus routes are now outdated. Please update the bus routes!

U70%
by U####:

I used this app for my HTC one m8 with no problems but now with an ASUS ZenFone 3 there's no way to add bus routes to see where the buses currently are. I'll continue to use it but it's tough to estimate how fast to make the toddlers run if I can't see the buses.

U70%
by U####:

Installed this app on my new phone and now I can't figure out how to add the bus routes in so the GPS feature works. Any tips? Otherwise the app works great for bus times. Thanks!

U70%
by U####:

Well I really like this app when I had a Samsung Galaxy s4 I could literally set it up and see where my bus was. Now that I have a Samsung Galaxy s6 I can only see where there are bus stops and the approximate time of departure. So yeah please fix this app so also samsung galaxy s6 can use this app.

P70%
by P####:

This app is designed for phones with incredibly old screens. On phones with today's usual high pixel density the bus numbers are so tiny that it's impossible to read them. This is a great single-purpose app but the developer seems to have abandoned it. Another less critical issue is that there's no way to turn off the display of bus stops. At higher magnifications these bus stop icons appear all over the map and make it impossible the see the buses.

G70%
by G####:

Don't have the bar in the bottom now to select routes. Nice duplicate gmaps app now. Emailed Dev, no response. Too bad :(

U70%
by U####:

Unfortunate that it doesn't work anymore with the latest phones nowadays. I have an One Plus 3 and i can no longer select the bus route. Can only click on the bus stops. Have been using this app forever, hopefully creator reads the latest reviews and fixes it.

U70%
by U####:

I used to love this app even though it was a little slow to load, but now it doesn't work at all. I do have an older phone, a nexus 4, but it worked fine and all of a sudden stopped without any change to the app or my software.

S70%
by S####:

Loved this app, but I can't pull up the menu on my s5 to customize bus routes and see bus locations. All I can do is zoom to a stop and manually check scheduled times. Really frustrating not being able to check if I need to run for a bus or not... :(

U70%
by U####:

Works great, only thing is newer routes aren't available yet, like the 128. If they could release an update that includes newer routes that would be great.

C70%
by C####:

In dense areas the bus stop icons end up hiding the bus icons. Please: 1. Make the bus icons display ontop of the bus stop icons. 2. make the bus icons larger and a different color than the bus stop icons (both are shades of blue). 3. Add an option to hide the bus stops. Thanks!

C70%
by C####:

Real time location of bus and stops are accurate (allowing for half min delay). Showing terminal destination too, which is useful

S70%
by S####:

This used to be the best app ever but the little button to access the menu dissappeared. It already overlapped the view zoom buttons since I got my S6 because the old menu button on the phone isn't a menu button now - it is a button to show which apps are open. Now I can't use the app at all but I bet people with S3s can still use it great. Was very frustrated when I tried to use it in a pinch and it was gone.

C70%
by C####:

This was the most useful app I had until I got a new phone. There's no settings menu within the app interface so if you don't have a menu button on your phone you can't access the menu options. Putting an accessible menu in the interface would be useful because not every phone model is the same

C70%
by C####:

I can't pick my bus routes!! I'm on a Samsung s5 and before the update I could select routes and now I don't have that little floating menu button with three dots.

D70%
by D####:

Used to be good, where did the option button go? I can't change the bus or select routes anymore

X70%
by X####:

Having my favourite buses tracked in real-time is priceless. Thank you for such a simple, straightforward UI as well.

C70%
by C####:

No access to menu to select busses on note 5. Best transit app for real time tracking on devices it works fully on.

C70%
by C####:

Everything is great and all other transit I need is in this app except for 128.

M70%
by M####:

UI could do with some refinements. It would be nice to be able to change the colour of bus pins to avoid blue on blue , hide all stops except the current one (or reduce the icon size to a small dot for other stops, the map gets quite crowded) and to only show busses travelling in the direction that the selected stop services or be able to select inbound or outbound services.

M70%
by M####:

On a high DPI device, the bus icons are so small they are unreadable... almost invisible. There is no option to hide bus stops and when downtown the bus stop icons cover almost all the road making roads and buses impossible to see. Since I got a device with a high dpi screen, I've stopped using this app. The bus icons are near invisible, loading of the bus stop locations takes quite a while, and the bus stop icons cover so much of the map that it is unreadable.

M70%
by M####:

All I get is the map that shows various bus stops. Cannot obtain more detailed info. as shown on app page. What am I missing?

M70%
by M####:

Very useful app. Only suggestion. Bus stop icons are too big when far from map that is hard to see the bus location. Icons could appear when closer to the map than how it is currently. Thanks. Great work!

M70%
by M####:

Since the most recent update, bus icons are so tiny it's hard to make out the numbers. Bus stop icons are still enormous, and it's annoying how the they automatically pop up once you zoom past a certain point.

M70%
by M####:

Better than the translink mobile site because you can follow multiple bus routes at the same time. The only thing that would make it better is if the bus icons were larger.

B70%
by B####:

A great app, though it sometimes takes a long time to load stop location info. And sometimes the next bus info comes up "no available info", which is disappointing when it happens. Sometimes a retry will get you the info you expect. One star off for those occasional failures. But when you get that info, it's real-time info unless otherwise indicated. That's really helpful when something has gone sideways on the route you want to use.

M70%
by M####:

There are more bus services and last time this app updated was in October 2013.

W70%
by W####:

I liked this app until I got S5. Now I can't add routes. Can someone help please?

M70%
by M####:

Isn't there any way you could do something about the giant Ts that hide the buses when you zoom in?? Other than that I like it!

R70%
by R####:

It does what it's supposed to do. Would be nice if it could be a bit smarter about what location to show by default.

M70%
by M####:

Use it every day. -1 star because it sometimes freezes the phone and forces a full reboot.

R70%
by R####:

This app puts the similar app(read as "garbage") released by Translink to shame. However, bus icons are too small and option to toggle bus stops is necessary.


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