TfL Oyster and contactless

Transport for London (TfL)

About this app

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

Ratings and reviews

Useless. You can't use it to tap in & out with your phone - which I expected to be the main functionality. Doesn't show the correct balance (showed me in credit even when I had a negative balance). It even failed repeatedly in letting me top up my balance. Use the website instead.

Every top up option stopped working - it was fiddly to begin with, but now anytime I go through to payment I get an error, like everyone else says. Website isn't much better when it comes to UX but at least payments are possible to be made. For how much tfl charges, a decent app should really be easier to produce!

Knocking down my rating because I've not been able to top up PAYG balance nor buy a Travelcard via the app for over a month, and that's most of why I previously used the app (I get to payment and then it's the white screen of nothing). Glad I can still see my balance, but that's all it's useful for now.

What's new

We have fixed some issues customers have reported to make the app easier to navigate