70
BU Score
Strong
Here Comes the Bus
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Here Comes the Bus is an iOS app from Synovia Solutions LLC in the Education category, currently rated 4.5★ across 73,945 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews — supporters praise core features while critics cite stability/value gaps.
Our BU Score puts it at 70 — Strong (healthy traction). For a Education app, that means healthy traction.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below — live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
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💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (73,945 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Excellent rating (4.5★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
💚Sentiment Over Time↑ green = positive · ↓ red = negative
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LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🗓️ Snapshot Timeline
HISTORYEach bar shows a tracked update and the metric delta from the previous snapshot.
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 40 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v4.0.3🔄 updated 1w ago🌐 EN📂 Education💰 Free🚀 Launched 2015 (11y old)
📝 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® and/or Student Ridership available to parents. Please contact your school district or visit www.herecomesthebus.com for more information.**
Here Comes the Bus is an easy-to-use app that gives you the real-time location of your child’s bus, and alerts you when the bus is near. With Here Comes the Bus, your children will get to the bus stop not a minute too early – or a minute too late. And with Student Ridership, you’ll not only know your child got on the right bus at the right time, but that they got off the bus at the right stop.
All of this equals safety for your children, and peace of mind for you.
KEY FEATURES:
Find your bus quickly and easily
See the exact location of your child’s school bus using your own customizable map.
Receive alerts via push notification
-Be notified when the bus is within 2 miles of your stop, has a schedule change, and more
-Receive notifications when your child gets on/off the bus, including the bus number, location and time
Access arrival & departure info
Confirm your child’s bus has arrived at the bus stop and at school, both before and after school.
Track all of your children
Have children that ride different buses? See each child's bus information within one account.
App and notifications in three languages
The app and notifications are available in English, Spanish and French.
Know your privacy is protected
Parents must obtain a private ID number, which grants access to their child’s bus only.
Here Comes the Bus is an easy-to-use app that gives you the real-time location of your child’s bus, and alerts you when the bus is near. With Here Comes the Bus, your children will get to the bus stop not a minute too early – or a minute too late. And with Student Ridership, you’ll not only know your child got on the right bus at the right time, but that they got off the bus at the right stop.
All of this equals safety for your children, and peace of mind for you.
KEY FEATURES:
Find your bus quickly and easily
See the exact location of your child’s school bus using your own customizable map.
Receive alerts via push notification
-Be notified when the bus is within 2 miles of your stop, has a schedule change, and more
-Receive notifications when your child gets on/off the bus, including the bus number, location and time
Access arrival & departure info
Confirm your child’s bus has arrived at the bus stop and at school, both before and after school.
Track all of your children
Have children that ride different buses? See each child's bus information within one account.
App and notifications in three languages
The app and notifications are available in English, Spanish and French.
Know your privacy is protected
Parents must obtain a private ID number, which grants access to their child’s bus only.
🆕 What's New · v4.0.3
• New "Why don't I see my bus?" popup explains when and why bus location is shown, with a quick link back to your visibility settings.
• Refreshed bus icon: replaced the old illustration with a clean directional arrow that clearly shows which way the bus is heading.
• Refreshed bus icon: replaced the old illustration with a clean directional arrow that clearly shows which way the bus is heading.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Here Comes the Bus
- Developer
- Synovia Solutions LLC
- Bundle ID
- com.hoperun.synoviaForUS
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Education
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Get the Award-Winning Parent App
- Description
- Get the Award-Winning Parent App Safeguard Kids. Keep Parents Informed. Reduce Parent Calls 25%*. REQUEST A DEMO CalAmp Here Comes The Bus is a proven, user-friendly app that gives parents precise bus location and status alerts…
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $2.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US Education
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
- Name
- Not found
- X / Twitter
- https://twitter.com/herecomesthebus?lang=en
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/calamp-corp/
- GitHub
- Not found
- X followers
- Not found
- Public statements
- Not found
Funding
- Total raised
- Not found
- Last round
- Not found
- Investors
- Not found
- Crunchbase
- Not found
- AngelList
- Not found
Press & Links
- Articles found
- Not found
- Listed on
- Not found
- Blog
- Not found
- Press / News
- Not found
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- facebook · linkedin · twitter
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- https://herecomesthebus.com/contact/
- About page
- Not found
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 2.45★ · 18.4% 5★ · 40.8% 1★
5★9 (18%)
4★4 (8%)
3★7 (14%)
2★9 (18%)
1★20 (41%)
+4 ratings/week
Praise: love ×5 great ×3 amazing ×1 perfect ×1 awesome ×1Complaints: bug ×3 terrible ×2 worst ×2
Top positive
★★★★★ Thank God we have this !
With two kids and unpredictable traffic , this app helps me a lot. The kids are ready and on the app first thing after they get ready to make sure they don’t miss the bus. I keep a track of the bus for my little one so that I can be there f…
★★★★★ Best app
It lets me track my bus and it also sends notifications like bus arrived…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Student log in
I’m trying to login to the student thing, but it says the district code and I’ll put it in and it says it doesn’t do for a ridership…
★☆☆☆☆ New update TERRIBLE!!!
This app use to be a really good app. It would be spot on about where the bus was located and notifying when it was near. Since the update it has extremely downgraded and is no longer dependable. It lags at least 15-20 mins sometimes before…
📈Ratings growth73,945 ratings+25% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (46 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (35 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
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