TfL Oyster and contactless
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Travel | Free | Transport Trading Ltd. | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
• 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.
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 the TfL Oyster and contactless app is not supported on jailbroken devices.
Reviews
Yes way.
TWolf3r
I tried the app and it wasn't bad. Then it updated and noticed my JB. Baby, there are better apps out there, you are not that special. Sure your icons are nice and the design is slick. But I'm not gonna change for you baby, I like my freedom too much. Live and let leave.
Could do better
timweera
What’s the point of having this app just to see the balance. Why can’t it function as the real thing and be able to add it to the iPhone and Apple watch wallet, so we can use it instead of the physical Oyster card. Let’s move forward with technology, not backwards. Also it would be good to be able to use Apple Pay to top up the card.
Doesn't work
cprice213
I put in my Oyster card number. And it tells me to try agin later. Why launch this before it's ready. Good idea. Welcome to the future TFL
No Outside GB Top Up ?
carljw116
I live in the States but am frequently in the UK. Why can’t I use the app to top up? It only accepts GB addresses.
Doesn't support Visitor Oyster Cards
GianniTriCity
I pre-ordered Visitor Oyster Cards for an upcoming trip to London, then got this app—only to discover it doesn't support Visitor Oyster Cards. (That's my guess of the problem. It complains that my cards are old 1st-generation cards, but some quick research shows they're not.)
Useless junk
MattUNLV
So I traded in my old first gen card to get a new one that I could register and surprise surprise I can't add a US payment card. The point is that I could use my phone to top up, alas, no. So all in all: useless
Contactless admittance
JimBluf
When is an update coming to be able to add an Oyster card to iPhone wallet to completely move away from physical cards?
Wrong notifications about pass expiry
FrancoP
For the past few weeks I’ve been getting repeat notifications that my pass is expiring, even after I had just purchased another pass. It’s annoying and confusing.
Photo Cards
Joshua The Great Gamer
Photo cards should be allowed to be added to the app and it should show up in your Apple wallet
