PixBus

PixBus turns waiting for a London bus into something worth looking at.

Pick your stop and the whole screen becomes it. An amber LED board counts down the next arrivals, like the sign on the shelter. Below it, a red Routemaster drives along a pixel-art street, pulling up one shelter closer each time your bus passes a stop. Under that, a stylised map traces the route with your bus somewhere along it.

HONEST BY DESIGN
London publishes predictions, not live bus positions. So PixBus never pretends to know exactly where your bus is. It shows you how close it is getting, and it keeps the one promise it can: less time means closer, never the reverse. When TfL revises an estimate, the board changes with it, and the app never invents a number to look confident.

A LONDON THAT MOVES
The street follows the real London clock. Dawn and dusk arrive when they really do, the streetlamps come on, the windows light up one by one, and the moon shows tonight's real phase. If it is raining on your stop, it rains on your screen. Fog, snow and thunder too.

WHAT IT DOES
- Finds the stop you are standing at, or looks it up by name
- Saves your favourite stops and lines, and opens straight onto the one you use most
- Follow a bus and see the countdown on your lock screen, with an alert when it is nearly there
- Mark where you get off and PixBus warns you one stop before, so you can stop watching the window
- A compass arrow that points at your stop when the streets are unfamiliar
- English and Spanish, and it picks the one your phone already speaks

NO ACCOUNT, NO FUSS
No sign-up, no login, nothing to fill in. Open it and everything is there. Location is used once, only when you ask PixBus to find the stop you are standing at, and never in the background. Turn it off and search by name instead: everything else works exactly the same.

PixBus is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Transport for London. Arrival data comes from TfL's public API, and predictions are estimates, so allow a little extra time when it matters.