A yellow school bus coming up an open road under a wide sky, still some distance away.

Live school bus tracking for families

Prodigal Bus

Spot the bus while it's still a long way off!

Your child's bus on a live map, and a notification on your phone minutes before it reaches your stop.

Sign in See how it works

Three things, done properly

  • The bus on a live map

    Watch it move along its route, updating every few seconds, with your stop marked.

  • A nudge before it arrives

    Your phone tells you a few minutes before the bus reaches your stop, so you know when to send everyone out.

  • Private by design

    You see the route your own stop is on, and location history is deleted automatically on a schedule.

How it works

  1. Your school has your address

    Your school puts your email address against your child's stop, the same list it plans the route from.

  2. You create an account

    Sign up with that same email address and confirm it. Your stop is already set, so there is nothing to look up or type in.

  3. You stop guessing

    While the bus is running, you see it move on a map — and if you want, your phone gives you a few minutes' warning before it reaches you.

There is no public sign-up. Accounts here are created from an invitation, because access to a bus is access to where children are.

A school bus seen from directly overhead, stopped at a crossing on a quiet road.

What happens to your data

Your school holds your child's stop, and this app shows you a bus. Here is what happens to the rest.

  • Only while the bus is working The bus is visible while it is running its route.
  • Your route You see the route your own stop is on.
  • Ad-free There are no advertising trackers and no analytics scripts on any page of this app.
  • History is deleted on a schedule Location history is deleted automatically.

Read the full privacy policy

Are you a school?

This install is run by the organisation named below. Contact them to set up your buses, routes and families.

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