Open House London

Open City

- September 11, 2017

Everyone

Events

( 57)

Description

The Open House app is your mobile guide and accompaniment to Open House Weekend (16 & 17 September 2017).

It includes opening details of every building and event in the programme as well as extensive factual information.

Features:

- images for every building and event
- ability to save favourites to plan your weekend
- view buildings nearby you on a map
- explore Open House special collections and highlights
- filter results by day, architectural type and period

Reviews

2.8

57 total

5 13

4 12

3 3

2 6

1 23

Miranda Fishburn

Upminster Windmill Visitor Centre is in the wrong place on the map! The postcode is RM14 2QL. Look at the proper Google Maps for Upminster Windmill. Makes one wonder how many other entries are also wrong. Ingrebourne Valley Visitor Centre also wrong. You'll never get any visitors if they rely on the app as people from outside the area will be hopelessly lost.

Open house is great but this app is not. Won't work offline despite not containing anthing live. Eats battery like nothing else. Can't filter on prebooked items or opening times. Not good with picking up location

Neil Winterbottom

I don't know what people are bitching about. Seems like a simple and easy app, perfect for planning what's only a single weekend per year, after all. Unhappy about this ad-free costless app? Get real!

SIMON JESTER

I used this today - all day - and it was invaluable. Really appreciated the additional information, quick searches and clear graphics. Not quite sure what it's detractors have against it.

John Bray

Needs a filter to only show items that don't need prebooking. Show favourites as different map icons. Refresh on new area tempremental. Otherwise useful when out on the day

Vio vio

After the initial bug, it worked fine. Not the best app ever but thank you so much for making an app, it made it so much easier this weekend. Next year, maybe add a donate button ;-)

User reviews

Miranda Fishburn September 12, 2017

September 17, 2017

Neil Winterbottom September 12, 2017

SIMON JESTER September 16, 2017

I used this today - all day - and it was invaluable. Really appreciated the additional information, quick searches and clear graphics. Not quite sure what it's detractors have against it.

John Bray September 18, 2017

Needs a filter to only show items that don't need prebooking. Show favourites as different map icons. Refresh on new area tempremental. Otherwise useful when out on the day

Vio vio September 18, 2017

After the initial bug, it worked fine. Not the best app ever but thank you so much for making an app, it made it so much easier this weekend. Next year, maybe add a donate button ;-)

Amina Sadaf September 14, 2017

What would be handy is to see your favourite buildings marked on the map so you can plan your route on the day. Otherwise it's a decent app.

Mike Turnbull September 16, 2017

What idiot/s wrote this App ? Try searching for Battersea Power Station...'not found'..ridiculous.

September 16, 2017

Search function is useless.

Claire Hogg September 14, 2017

Hurrah, the app is free this year. Everything else is a bonus.

September 14, 2017

Looks good. Has all features of the book and a good map. Thanks for creating!

Charles King September 16, 2017

Horrendous

Attila Szász September 11, 2017

It is a decent little app. Tad slow but hey, let's show some love.

Victor Fedianine September 5, 2017

Seems to work well! Too bad it doesn't say that to get to few most popular places you have to pre-book.

Paul S August 31, 2017

Latest update says they've added the word 'Search' to the search bar. There is no word 'Search' in my app, confirming what my original review (below) said: there is no search! Why is this missing?! Why is there no Search?! Also there seem to be places missing from here which are on the website - surely it's from the same database so that seems weird. I used to buy this app each year but I'm glad I didn't have to pay for this version without search!

Alan Salmon August 31, 2017

Not a bad start. But search doesn't seem to work, there's a magnifying glass icon but I can't click it. UPDATE 1 Sep. Search now works, thanks for that.

Dan Heminsley September 1, 2017

It wont even open, it crashes after the 1st page. Shame, I would have liked to use this.

Peter Magyar September 3, 2017

Seems to do what I want it to do, the map looks useful and the search works

Esme Moore August 18, 2017

Crashing multiple on a new smartphone. Cannot search?! click the search icon (magnifying glass) and nothing... You click buttons and expect certain results, but not on this app. Badly designed by people who don't understand apps or users.

Tobias L August 23, 2017

Who is writing these aps? Keeps crashing, loosing favorites. Like the feature to see other locations nearby. Search don't work. Filter would be great. Does it work offline?

August 22, 2017

Crashed when opened & asked if wanted to send report; couldn't answer as location request box kept filling the screen. Only ever saw those 2 boxes. Shame; OH once had a helpful app.

Caroline Derry August 25, 2017

Unable to search. Got a random fragment of map, some highlights, and no way to access anything else.

M. J. Maccardini August 20, 2017

Repeatedly crashes on Android phone. Won't save favourites. Clicking on some pins on the map sends me back to the homescreen or app crashes entirely. Glad I ordered the paper guide because the app is useless.

August 17, 2017

Sorry but a terrible badly thought-out app, cannot easily navigate, book anything etc, sorry guys.:-(

Despoina Karargyri August 23, 2017

This app is terrible. Specify location is not active and doesn't work, explore same thing, and so on. What's the point of this?

August 30, 2017

Just about the most unusable app I've ever had the misfortune to download, and for such an important event too

Jozef Mravik August 27, 2017

App keeps crashing. Loses all favourites every time you close it. Shame that this broken 2017 app was chosen over the 2016 version that still works.

August 17, 2017

Was going well... Smooth app, found what I needed. But then not once, but twice it crashed and when going back in both times all my favourites were lost!!

Vincent Kurutza August 18, 2017

Untested. Crashes over and over. Booking does not always work. Favourites don't save.

Greg Lovett August 17, 2017

Just hangs on the opening screen and goes nowhere.

Nannette H August 22, 2017

Doesn't work. Screen frozen. Can't search

Ken Ross August 28, 2017

Pretty usable guide to what's going on in London during open house weekend.

KATHY FLEMING August 20, 2017

Where are the opening times?!

Paul Palmer August 22, 2017

Everything is working well so far and seems more convenient than a book. Thanks guys.....

Dave Flanagan August 22, 2017

Really helpful links and with great maps too. Perfect to plan for open house!

Niki N August 29, 2017

You had a perfectly usable app last year, what happened to it? Why not update it?

Harpreet Purewal September 17, 2017

Really dumb to have to download an app for one weekend a year. A mobile responsive website would be much better. Some information was hard to find on the app so I would either force close and start again or use Google.

louise corden September 21, 2017

Good app. Shows lots of info about buildings taking part. Helpful to filter properties by day and borough, and see them on the map. App froze a couple of times and map was tricky on my phone but overall really helpful

Keira Pritchard September 17, 2017

I had to uninstall the app as when I went into settings to select dates etc etc I could not exit from settings despite repeatedly clicking 'done' and the exit icon. Exiting the app and then returning to it simply took me to the same place. Would be great if this were fixed.