Plan, pay and travel around London with TfL Go, Transport for London's official app.
Built specifically for London, TfL Go combines live travel information with detailed knowledge of the TfL network to help you get around the city.
Plan journeys, check live arrivals and disruptions, track buses, find accessible routes, explore by bike or on foot, and manage your Oyster and contactless travel — all in one app.
Find the Best Route
We'll suggest multiple ways to get to your destination, whether by Tube, London Overground, Elizabeth line, DLR, Tram, National Rail, London Cable Car, or even cycling and walking. You choose the route that suits you best.
Check Before You Travel
Get live arrival times for Buses, Tube, London Overground, Elizabeth Line, DLR, Tram, and National Rail. Check the live status of all TfL lines and stations directly on the map, or view a summary of current disruptions in the "Status" section.
Freedom to Explore
Find travel options tailored to your needs, including step-free journeys and routes avoiding stairs or escalators. Journey plans automatically adapt to the accessibility status of stations, helping you avoid disruptions. TfL Go also supports VoiceOver and Dynamic Type, making it more accessible for everyone.
Manage Your Payments
Create an account or log in to manage your payments for travel across London. Top up pay as you go credit or purchase Travelcards for your Oyster card, and view your journey history for both Oyster and contactless cards registered to your account.
Note: Oyster and contactless accounts can only be accessed within UK/Europe.
Understand Station Facilities
Check how busy a station is right now, or see if it has toilets or Wi-Fi access. Find detailed information about step-free access and interchanges including platform gap width, step height and boarding methods available.
Get in Touch
Any questions, feedback or something we've missed? Email us at tflappfeedback@tfl.gov.uk
This app is invaluable! I travel alone & am American , even tho this summer will be my 4th UK trip I am not comfortable going around London without a map ! . My first trip( 2016 ) it took me about 30 min every am & night to plan my journey etc ! I still got lost and my phone battery would die from constant use. This app allows you to find the tube line you need and w a spare battery you should be fine alone! I’m 60 and stay in Victoria area ( my fav) buy need no help now largely bc of this great app!
Lies and fabrications
grandgeezer
If you've dealt with TfL's "services" for a while, you'll have noticed an abject lack of ... competence, and this app is completely toeing company line in that respect. Routing suggestions are not incorrect, just mostly useless due to the apps other ... features. If you change location, you need to restart the app, it only looks that up once. Where things completely come apart is wrt "live" bus arrival/departure times. The app basically parrots the schedule. At best. Sometime it will refuse to suggest a direct bus, instead suggesting circuitous rutes, even up till and including when the bus arrives at your stop. Sometimes it will helpfully suggest you give up and walk the hour and a half, which is probably not the worst advice. Sitting on a bus and checking when about to arrive at a stop, it may tell you to wait 20mins (for an every-12 bus). It is so spectacularly wrong, it's hard to believe it's just random, but I've come to believe that any prognostication of London bus timing is a fool's game. During major roadwork when one line came nowhere near my neighbourhood, it still insisted it was the only route out of Dodge. I don't think TfL has any idea where they are at any time, so short of an AIS-like system that 3rd parties could receive, this will remain an unsolved problem. Shame, really, I've used public transport in other large cities (incl Paris) and it *can* be done. One has to wonder if TfL is subsidised by taxi companies or tax money. Or, hey, both.
Can’t load or top up card???
SophiaDarling
Regularly travel to the UK from the US and Ireland. I can’t believe the hoops one must jump through to register & top up my Oyster card (must have traveled in the past 8 weeks; must answer a stored security question; 2FA) — only to learn that you must also have a CC registered with a UK address, in order to add money.What??? I arrive in the city and have to make sure I have coinage for buses in order to rush around to find a tube station / ticket machine to manually load my card/check my balance?What a shame. Not sure how it is that London has got this so wrong. No such issues with the Dublin LEAP card top-up app & process, which is as easy as pie.UPDATE: Developer has responded saying I don’t require a UK-based CC to top up my Oyster card online/using the TFL app. I tried again today & received the same message as before:“ImportantWe have detected an international address for your account. To purchase products on the Oyster online website, you must provide a UK billing address for the payment card you intend to use.”If there’s some way to get around this, I would love to have information on how to do so.Thanks.
Developer Response
Hi Sophie, i'm sorry you're experiencing difficulties. If you already have an account with TfL and have used the Go app before you should only need to log in and verify. It looks as though you have been creating a new account where we employ more verification steps. Credit cards used to top up an Oyster card are also not required to be UK cards.
Can’t log in to account
another random kiwi
The app has serious problems. I have an account with TfL, but trying to log in from the app (in the US) says there’s a problem, and trying to log in from a web browser says “blocked by our automated security system”.
Developer Response
Hi, account functionality in TfL Go or on tfl.gov.uk is only available in UK/Europe. Note that the remainder of the app is available worldwide, and you don't need an account to travel while in London - although it does offer easier top ups, access to journey history.
Fixed: When planning a journey after changing your starting point, destination search results no longer show lines.
Fixed: Tram journey indicators are now easier to read in journey results, improving accessibility and making tram routes clearer to identify.
Plus some design, accessibility and bug fixes.
Version 3.21.0
The developer, TfL, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Purchases
Financial Info
Contact Info
Identifiers
Other Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Location
Search History
Identifiers
Usage Data
Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
The developer indicated that this app supports the following accessibility features. Learn More
