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Next Departures for Mac

Live next departures for the bus and train stops you pick, with delays, cancellations and alerts, from any GTFS-realtime feed.

By stanczykwyatt. Free and open source, MIT licence.

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Next Departures at a glance

Version
0.1.0
Released
3 November 2026
Download size
1.7 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
MIT
Category
Menu Bar and Notch
Developer
stanczykwyatt
GitHub stars
0

About Next Departures

Your stop's next bus and train, live, in the Mac menu bar. Delays, cancellations and alerts from any GTFS-realtime feed, with Metro Transit and UMN campus buses ready to go. Free, no tracking.

Screenshots

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How to install Next Departures on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for Next Departures and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 0.1.0 from stanczykwyatt's own GitHub release.
  3. Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.

Updates to Next Departures show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: Next-Departures.zip (1.7 MB).

What is new in Next Departures 0.1.0

First release of Next Departures, a free, open-source menu bar app that shows your stop's next bus and train, live.

- **The next departures from the stops you pick,** right in the menu bar, with each route's color, where it's headed and the minutes until it leaves.
- **Live where the agency's feed has it,** with how late or early each ride is running, and from the timetable otherwise, marked "Scheduled". Delays further up the line carry down to your stop.
- **Canceled rides, skipped stops and service alerts** for your stops and the routes that call there.
- **Metro Transit, ready to go:** the METRO Green and Blue Lines, bus rapid transit, regional buses, and the University of Minnesota's campus buses, routes 120 to 125.
- **Any agency with GTFS:** paste its schedule zip, and its GTFS-realtime trip updates and alerts for live times.
- **Both directions as one stop,** a route filter for each stop, a departure board window, and the countdown in the menu bar if you turn it on.
- **The `next-departures` command line tool** to find stops and print departures and alerts, as text or JSON.
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