Terribly designed app, does more harm than good

This app is one of the most frustrating and terribly designed transit apps Ive ever used. When I first contacted the developer about their apps unreliability on the Emory/CCTMA route, they first fed me a line about unreliable GPS data. A suspicious answer in itself, but downright infuriating when you realize that they actually control the on-bus hardware! Most of the time it’s tough to blame a transit app for accuracy, but in this case TransLoc controls the entire mess of a system! It’s 2016, “GPS is unreliable, ya know?” is no longer a reasonable excuse for vanishing buses and wildly inaccurate perdiction times. Add to this an incredibly bloated, slow, buggy, dated UI/UX and the result is a completely useless app. (For what it’s worth—Android and iOS are equally terrible, although their SMS functionality is slightly more accurate and has an infinitely better UX)

Unfortunately, there aren’t really any alternatives, although I’m pretty sure somebody with a Raspberry Pi, a couple of GPS/cell radios and a few weeks of Code Academy under their belt could blow the entire ecosystem out of the water.

Jimi Michiel about TransLoc Rider, v1.4.4