London-themed apps for your phone or tablet.
Hunting down the 260 plastic trunkians of the Elephant Parade is no easy task. Even Londonist has only photographed half of them so far. Matters were helped a week or so ago, when the official site gave up its phone-crashing PDF guide in favour of …
Not content with an imminent £20 million gallery revamp, the Museum of London just released its first iPhone app. The free application, known as StreetMuseum, places hundreds of images from the museum’s extensive archive onto a Google map for your browsing pleasure. Better yet, the …
Forget your fancy augmented realities and real-time displays of Tube times. Here’s a simple app that every iPhone wielding Londoner needs: a super-quick way to claim back compensation for delayed tube journeys. Just tap in a few details about the time and location of your …
You may have heard that Gothamist (our sister and parent site – don’t ask, we’re an incestuous bunch) has released its first iPhone app. We call it Istaverse and it contains all the magic of the ‘Ist’ sites in a convenient Apple-approved form. The app …
Five apps put through their paces.
Wanna carry around a picture of a nude lady without accusations of perversion? Or are you more sophisticated than us, and crave knowledge about your favourite masterpieces while on the move? Either way, the National Gallery’s new mobile application ‘Love Art’ is worth downloading. At …
Here’s a neat, if geeksome, idea. A phone application that tells you which Tube carriage to use in order to be next to the exit at your destination stop. Tube Exits is causing quite a buzz among a certain demographic. You can download it for …
No, it’s ‘Rolando’, not ‘Ronaldo’. Easy mistake to make. Both need help navigating safely through tunnels. A Dalston iPhone developer will soon become a millionaire, thanks to making faces in his bedroom. Simon Oliver is the creative force behind Rolando, one of the most ingenious …
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