“Adverts JFC — Adverts are beyond ridiculous. Course the drive is to make you pay but trying to tap out of it is a complete pain. You shouldn't be forced to end up in the App Store. It's just a tube map, TFL is far better.”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 462 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.7 ★18,720 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
216 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Tube Map is a trusted navigation app for travelling across London. Built around the TfL London Underground map design, Tube Map helps commuters, tourists, and daily travellers plan routes, check live service information, and move around the city with more confidence.
Tube Map includes the iconic TfL Tube map design, based on the famous Harry Beck layout. The map is easy to read, simple to explore, and designed to help you understand London Underground connections quickly.
The app also includes additional map views for the Night Tube and Rail Network, plus a more geographical map view created to help you understand station locations and routes across the city.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 8.2.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 8.2.1, updated 2026-09-17.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States a price and a billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Says how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (10 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 23 distinct reviewers (5.0% of 462 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Too many ads — App is totally garbage unless you pay. Instead use free Google Maps”
“Ads are obnoxious — I would honestly pay to buy this app if the ads weren’t as obnoxious as they are in the free version. I mean, lock out some features to make people want to upgrade, don’t bombard them with obnoxious ads every 20 seconds.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 8.2.1.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown9
Lowest$1.99
Highest$24.99
Premium Weekly$1.99
Premium Monthly$3.99
Premium Yearly + Trial$9.99
Premium Yearly$9.99
Remove Ads Yearly$7.99
Show 4 more purchases
Premium Lifetime$24.99
Unlimited Access$9.99
Unlimited Access$3.99
Unlimited Access$24.99