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by bravura 4869 days ago
SUMMARY: Rover considered harmful. Its transit routes are always delayed for me.

I've been using Rover side-by-side with Routesy Pro and NextBus and Google Maps.

Rover has a great interface, and maps from current location to destination. Awesome. The only problem is that it always tell me that a bus won't arrive for quite a while, roughly 10 minutes later than reality. (Do you want us to sell you an Uber or other taxi option while you wait? Mildly suspicious.)

By contrast NextBus and Routesy Pro have terrible clunky interfaces, but at least their next bus estimates are accurate.

Current workflow: Use Google Maps to find the route and the bus number. Use NextBus to determine when that bus will actually arrive.

I would love Rover if the bus estimates were accurate, but sadly they always overestimate the amount of time I'll have to wait. No thank you.

I have removed this app, it has deceived me too often.

1 comments

Hi Bravura, thanks for the feedback! Sorry about the inaccurate NextMuni times - we had an issue earlier that would sometimes make arrival predictions fail to update, but it should be fixed now. If you have a chance to give it another shot, we'd really appreciate it!
I'll give it another shot.