TfL Oyster and contactless

Official Oyster app from TfL

TfL Oyster and Contactless App - Manage Your Travel

"TfL Oyster and contactless" is the official app from Transport for London that allows users to manage their adult Oyster and contactless cards on the move. With features like topping up pay as you go credit, buying Travelcards, viewing journey history, and checking balances, it simplifies travel in London. Notifications for low balances and Travelcard expirations enhance user experience, making it easy to stay on top of your spending. Security is prioritized, as the app is not available for rooted devices.
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App stats

Version: 0.105 (Last updated: 2024-08-28)
Creation date: 2017-09-06
Permissions
Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Storage: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Camera: take pictures and videos
Wi-Fi connection information: view Wi-Fi connections
Other:
  • receive data from Internet
  • view network connections
  • full network access
  • draw over other apps
  • control vibration
  • prevent device from sleeping

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App summary

Manage your adult Oyster and contactless cards on the move with the app.

• Top up pay as you go credit
• Buy adult rate 7 Day, Monthly and Annual Travelcards, and Bus & Tram Passes
• View your Oyster card and contactless journey history
• Check contactless payments
• Check your pay as you go balance and see season tickets
• Check if you have any incomplete journeys
• Allow notifications when your pay as you go balance falls below a certain amount, or your Travelcard is about to expire

When you top up your credit or buy a Travelcard or Bus & Tram Pass, it will be available to collect after 30 minutes when you touch your Oyster card on a yellow card reader as part of a journey on any London bus, or at any Tube, DLR, London Overground, TfL Rail or National Rail station within the pay as you go area, tram stop or River Bus pier.

Keeping on top of your spend is easy; see the date, time and cost of your journeys from the last 8 weeks.

Customers who have not already added their contactless card to an online account can do so at contactless.tfl.gov.uk.

The TfL Oyster and contactless app will request access to your camera. This is so that you can scan your payment card. We will never store the scanned pictures. Alternatively you can enter the card details manually.

You can’t currently add Oyster photocards to this app.
You can’t currently buy discounted tickets through the app.

For security reasons TfL Oyster app is not supported on rooted devices.

Please provide any feedback using this link https://www.tfl.gov.uk/app-contact

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Useful for topping up balance on the go
  • Provides convenience for Oyster card users
Cons
  • Unable to top up the card
  • Frequent logout issues and login difficulties
  • Slow or delayed updates for journey history and balance
  • Technical errors during payment processing
  • Poor customer support and issue resolution post-cyber incident
Most mentioned
  • Top-up functionality is broken or non-functional
  • Issues with app logging users out
  • Inconsistent balance updates and journey history
  • App fails to process payments properly
  • Frustrating registration/login process
User reviews
Used to work okay but has been steadily going downhill. For months there have been massive delays showing activity / journeys on the app (don't show up until about a week later) so you can't use the app to check your balance. The top up functionality also stopped working (there was a cyber incident, but that really should have been fixed by now). I recently updated the app, assuming that would solve the problem, but instead it made it worse. Now it won't even recognise my oyster card. Useless.
by A Canadian in London, 2024-11-27

Hate this app always randomly logging you out for no reason. Doesn't even work properly. So Tfl asks me to rate it again, here it goes, it's still as rubbish as before! Update: now it doesn't even update properly, made a journey last week it doesn't appear on my app. Put funds in, no update on that either. Come on people sort it out! Update: finally it's working again! Update: how on earth can it take this long to sort out the problems with this app?!?!? Unbelievable.
by Gonny, 2024-11-13

The app used to work, but I can no longer top up from it, nor can I check my balance properly. The entire point of the app is having these 2 features. I have to shutdown and open the app 3 times for it to register my new balance. Every time I attempt to top up PAYG, it says "technical error".
by Juliet Daniel, 2024-11-12
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