Toilets Map
The answer to the question every trip repeats.
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Roughly the thousandth time
This app was born in the summer of 2026, somewhere on a hot pedestrian street in a European city.
We were travelling across Europe as a family. And in every single city, on every single day — usually right when the museum queue was at its longest or the train about to leave — my wife and daughter asked the same question:
For the first hundred times I tried to guess. For the next hundred I dug out a map app that suggested cafés where you would first have to queue and buy something. The rest of the time we walked optimistically towards “there is probably one on that square”.
Somewhere around question one thousand it hit me: this — possibly humanity's most common travel question — deserves an answer that requires no guessing, no queuing and no obligatory espresso.
So I built it myself.
Toilets Map does one thing: it shows the nearest public toilet on a map, instantly, at a glance. The data comes from OpenStreetMap — the same open map maintained by volunteer mappers around the world — and community ratings tell you which toilet is worth choosing.
Features
One glance, one answer
Nearest toilet, instantly
A pulsing green pin and the distance in the toolbar — without a single tap. Your position and the distances keep up as you walk.
Opening hours
See whether a toilet is open right now. We never claim one is definitely closed — map data goes stale, and a wasted walk is the worse mistake.
Filters
Free, accessible and with a changing table. “Free” hides only toilets known to charge, so unknowns stay visible; the other two show only confirmed ones.
Favourites
Heart the toilets that worked. They show up red on the map and survive every new search.
Community ratings
0–5 stars from all users. See the average before you walk over. (A star is a rating, a heart is a favourite — different things.)
Add a missing toilet
Tap the map and help the next person in need. If you choose, the suggestion also goes to OpenStreetMap mappers.
Directions there
Walking directions in one tap, when every minute counts.
Works everywhere
In 25 languages, from Helsinki to Lisbon — no account to create, and a widget for your home screen.
Native apps for iPhone, iPad and Android that always show the nearest toilet for free. An optional one-time purchase (€2.99) unlocks every other toilet, the nearby list and the remaining filters. The accessibility filter stays free — for a wheelchair user it is not a convenience, it is the whole question.