On London Buses
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The realtime London bus information service for daily travellers and tourists.
- Downloads
- 63+
- on Google Play
- Price
- Free
- No in-app purchases
- Updated
- Sep 10
- 2026 · v17.0.0
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About On London Buses
You can easily search for bus stops, bus route numbers, stops or stations nearby by entering a street name or the nearest area.
The main screen contains a drop-down sub menu that provides 3 options.
1. A description of Transport For London bus service.
2. A description about the app.
3. The choice of light or dark mode.
The bottom bar has 3 widgets consisting of
1.Favourites: Retrieve your most frequently used bus stop arrival timetable.
2. Disruptions: View bus realtime disruptions, general service disruptions, or bus stop availability disruption.
3. Travel Status: View bus route changes, planned work, or event status.
The app also provides real-time data on service and events. Furthermore, the app allows internet access to Transport for London's website, where you can find the journey planner, live bus stop arrival information, and a map(provided by TFL, not within the app itself).
The arrival screen features a sub-menu in the top bar, allowing you to go online or save real-time arrival information to your favorites. This feature enables quick retrieval of arrival data for frequently used bus stops or route numbers.
When going online to the live TFL web site using Journey Planner and Stops Nearby options, you may encounter or see advertisements. These are the property of TFL and not part of, or beneficial to the author of OnLondonBuses.
It's important to note that the app does not require or use personal or sensitive data, location data from your device or the app, sensors, camera, or any financial information. This approach ensures compliance with privacy and security laws, such as GDPR and other international privacy regulations.
The creation of the On London Buses app prioritises data retrieval practices within the limits of privacy laws, guaranteeing your privacy and security.
Please read Privacy Policy.
Disclaimer:
The authors of this app is not affiliated with, or commissioned by Transport For London (TFL), a government transport body for the production of this app. We obtain bus travel and timetable data using a freely available open API provided by TFL to enable third party development by the public IT developer community. Public access to online TFL web sites from the app is via the https://tfl.gov.uk link.
You can also read this in the app's About App.
App Icon Credit: Corey Thompson.
Owen Thompson
What’s new
Version 17.0.0 · Updated September 10, 2026
This latest version incorporates enhancements in Stop arrivals screen, which allows you to tap a bus route number, to filter results down to just that route. Useful when a stop is served by several routes, and you only want to track one. It is now possible to look up the live status of a specific bus route (Good Service, Delays etc. From the bus status search screen. Code changes have been made for better app performance, and updated Android library versions.
User reviews
Would be nice if could show us routes and their calling at stops, and live view of where the bus is at and how long it would take to get to a destination stop. Something like tracking the bus whereabouts.
Really good app! It has information about bus disruptions, and has all bus stops and routes all in the app. The only thing that needs a bit of updating is the user interface; I feel like it needs a clean updated look and design, but overall one of the best bus apps on the store I've seen!
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