Frequently Asked Questions

A public toilet finder. It shows the toilets near you from OpenStreetMap's open map data, with the details that decide whether one is any use to you — free or fee, wheelchair accessible, baby-changing table — and it keeps working when you lose signal.

Not yet — it isn't on the App Store or Google Play. It runs end to end on a device today; see the screenshots and the build status on the main page. Leave us a note and we'll tell you when it ships.

Nothing. Gotta Go is free, with no ads and no in-app purchases.

iOS and Android, from one shared codebase, so both get the same features at the same time.

No. Finding a toilet, seeing its details, and getting directions all work without signing in. An account — with Apple or Google — is only needed to add a toilet to the map or leave a rating.

To find toilets near you, yes. If you'd rather not share it, you can search for a city by name instead and browse there without ever granting location access.

Today, "offline" means the app serves your last successful search from its on-device cache when the network is gone — enough to survive losing signal mid-trip. A bundled dataset for a fresh install with zero connection from the start is still on the board as "in progress."

Usually because OpenStreetMap has nothing mapped nearby yet, not because the app failed — coverage is denser in some cities and countries than others. If you know of one that's missing, sign in and add it; that's the fastest way to fix a gap.

As accurate as the open data behind them, which nobody inspects in person before it's shown. A listing can be closed, moved, or wrong about a fee or accessibility detail. Treat it as a strong lead, not a guarantee, and use a rating or a correction to help the next person.

Yes, once you sign in with Apple or Google — one new listing per account per day, published for everyone else immediately, with no review queue.

Because listings go live instantly with no review queue, the limit is what keeps that convenient instead of spammable.

No. Contributions are shown to everyone, but never with your name or email attached. Your account is linked to the entry only so the server can enforce the daily limit.

Yes, at any time, from within the app, on any listing the app recorded as one you added.

Three scores, 1 to 5 each: hygiene, smell, and accessories (paper, soap, that kind of thing). They're folded into a shared average shown on the listing — your individual score isn't shown attached to you.

OpenStreetMap — around four million toilets worldwide, tagged by contributors with details like accessibility, fees and opening hours. Toilets added inside Gotta Go are kept in a separate table and layered on top at query time, so the two datasets stay independent.

No. Your location is used live, on your device, to find nearby toilets — we don't log a history of where you've been. The app carries no analytics or advertising SDKs.

If you never sign in: nothing tied to an identity. If you do: your email address, and the toilets or ratings you've contributed. No advertising identifiers, no analytics, no card numbers — there's nothing to buy. Full detail in the Android and iOS privacy policies.

See Delete Your Account. Worth reading first if you've contributed toilets or ratings you'd want to know the fate of.