Stopfinder

View your students’ daily bus stops & communicate with the Transportation dept.

Stopfinder

App stats

Version: 3.1.3 (Last updated: 2024-08-30)
Creation date: 2019-09-05
Permissions
Location: approximate location (network-based), precise location (GPS and network-based)
Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Storage: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Other:
  • receive data from Internet
  • view network connections
  • pair with Bluetooth devices
  • full network access
  • control vibration
  • prevent device from sleeping

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App summary

For participating Districts, Stopfinder gives parents and guardians access to view and share their student’s bus stop assignments as well as communicate with the Transportation Department.

With Stopfinder GeoAlerts, app users can create alert zones at any stop or school or along your student’s route. Stopfinder users will be notified when their student’s bus has arrived at or departed from an alert zone. Know where the bus is and know your student has arrived at or departed from any location along their assigned bus route.

Stopfinder Forms allows app users to complete electronic forms sent from their district through the Stopfinder app. Stopfinder users can view new forms and submitted forms through the Stopfinder Message Center.

Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) notifications can be configured by Stopfinder app users to display the bus’s ETA based on their student’s assigned stop and the bus’s location. ETA notifications appear on the student’s schedule in the Stopfinder app and inform users the amount of time until the bus arrives at their student’s assigned stop.

Control who can see your student’s assigned trip stops.

Send and receive messages from the school district’s Transportation department.

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Real-time location updates are appreciated when they work.
  • Helpful for tracking children's bus arrival, especially in inclement weather.
  • Provides time stamps for when children get on/off the bus.
Cons
  • Notifications are often delayed or do not work at all.
  • Inconsistency in tracking bus locations, with reports of buses vanishing from the map.
  • Poor functionality, with app freezing or crashing frequently.
  • Many users report the app does not display accurate bus status or locations.
Most mentioned
  • Notifications and alerts are unreliable.
  • The app is often inconsistent in functionality.
  • Real-time updates work sporadically.
  • Users experience significant delays in notifications.
User reviews
Update 11/11/24 - app still inconsistent. Now a random child has been added to my account and bus tracking still doesn't work. That is not safe. Original review - The app is too inconsistent. One day, it works, then the next two, it doesn't. The alerts work when they want to. The bus icon sometimes populate but sometimes there's a delay where it's stuck, then it suddenly jumps to the location, or sometimes it says unavailabe. The ETAs don't even populate anymore.
by Sharmiesha Coleman, 2024-11-11

Better than it once was, but still needs improvement, primarily to push notifications. Sometimes I get a geo alert when I'm supposed to, but often it's delayed or even doesn't come at all. I sometimes get a notification 15+ minutes late. I've given the app unrestricted battery usage, so it's not that.
by Justin Gehrts, 2024-11-01

UPDATE: They fixed the push notifications, for the most part. I still get late notifications. Would be awesome if there's an option to keep awake when looking at the map. OLD: Real time updates work. Setting up GeoAlerts is fine, but the most important aspect of it does not work. It will never push a notification to my phone and I will miss the fact that child departed from school or came into my neighborhood. Come on.....fix this PLEASE
by Vinh Le (Jo0), 2024-10-03
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