I am a busy person with no car. I take the bus at least four times a day and I really hate standing at the bus stop looking like an idiot while waiting 20 minutes for the next bus.
There are a number of mobile apps in the market now that tell me the arrival time of buses, but I find them incredibly tedious to use.
Why should I have to navigate through so many screens just to view the bus arrival timing? Why do the timings load so slowly… oh wait, still loading?! Why must I load the arrival timing for each bus at the same bus stop one by one when there’s more than one bus I can take? Everything simply takes too long to load and too many steps!
You know what programmers do when they see a problem? They drink some coffee and wake up three months later with a brand new mobile app.
With the help of my talented team at boutique mobile app development company Originally US, we gave birth to SG BusLeh, a truly innovative bus arrival app available on both Google Play and App Store!
1. You can now plan what time to leave home or office
Let’s face it. Existing bus apps only provide up to two bus arrival timing, which are not especially useful if your office or home is some distance away from the bus stop.
If the second bus comes in seven minutes, and your office or house is a 10 minutes’ walk from the bus stop, what good is a bus app?
With three bus arrival timing, I know exactly how fast I should finish my “business” at home and walk to the bus stop and be there in time to catch the bus.
2. You know whether there are seats
Want to have an advance notice of whether you will get to rest your butt on the bus before the bus arrives?
SG BusLeh presents how full the bus is as an easy-to-understand bar. If the bar is empty, you probably have seats. If the bar is full, well, good luck.
3. You can view all buses at once
There are often many buses that I can take to the same destination at the same bus stop, but existing bus apps require me to tap on each bus number one by one to get the respective arrival time. It makes me feel like I’m playing whack-a-mole with those bus apps.
With SG BusLeh, you simply tap on a bus stop, and the arrival time of all buses at that bus stop are instantly shown.
4. You can search for anything
Searching for a specific bus stop is often a pain in the neck on most bus apps. Do you want to search by the bus stop number? Or should you browse by road names? Or maybe you can try to search for the bus number and figure the bus route out.
SG BusLeh doesn’t care. Just swipe to “Search” and enter anything. Anything at all. Road names, bus stop names, bus-stop numbers, bus numbers, postal codes or even names of malls and buildings! Or the name of your neighbour’s pet dog. The same search box takes anything!
No other bus app is this smart.
5. You can name your bus stops
It is often a mystery how bus stops get their name. Sometimes, they get named after HDB blocks that are 100 miles away.
Even when certain bus apps allow you to bookmark bus stops, you often still get confused and disoriented unless you have memorised all the bus stop names.
With SG BusLeh, you get to be your own decision-maker and name the bus stops yourself. This way, you know exactly which bus stop is which and not lose track.
6. You get to see the LOCATION of the next bus
This is one feature that makes any commuter elated! The pipe dream of being able to see the location of the previous bus, on top of using looking at the estimated arrival time is only available on SG BusLeh (currently only on Android), not other bus apps. You have to experience it for yourself to see how well it works and how useful it is.
Are You Convinced Yet?
Download SG BusLeh right now to experience it for yourself. Like all the other 15,000 users who have already downloaded in the pass few weeks, I am sure you will not regret it.
