The fastest way off the tube · firstout.app

Stand in the right place. Save 60 seconds every journey.

383 stations. 19 lines. Every door, every direction, every exit. A free, offline-first London tube positioning app, built solo by a non-coder strategist using AI as the engineering layer. No account. No ads. Works underground when nothing else does.

383
Stations covered
19
Lines
183
Step-free
131
Stations with lifts
143
Stations with toilets
Why this app exists

The information was always knowable. Nobody had ever organised it.

Standing in the wrong place costs you 60 seconds. Every journey. Over a year of commuting, that is hours of your life back. First Out tells you which carriage to board and where to stand on the platform, for the fastest exit at every London Underground, DLR, Elizabeth line, and London Overground station, in both directions. The TfL accessibility layer is built in: 183 step-free stations, 131 lifts, 143 toilets, a Parent Mode for travellers with pushchairs, luggage, or limited mobility.

The full London network

Nineteen lines, every door, every direction.

All eleven Tube lines, the Elizabeth line, the DLR, and all six renamed London Overground lines: Lioness, Mildmay, Windrush, Weaver, Suffragette, Liberty. The first London tube app to launch with the new Overground naming baked in from day one.

BakerlooTube · 25 stations CentralTube · 45 stations CircleTube · 35 stations DistrictTube · 57 stations Hammersmith & CityTube · 29 stations JubileeTube · 27 stations MetropolitanTube · 35 stations NorthernTube · 49 stations PiccadillyTube · 53 stations VictoriaTube · 16 stations Waterloo & CityTube · 2 stations Elizabeth lineElizabeth · 12 stations DLRDocklands · 45 stations LionessOverground · 19 stations MildmayOverground · 28 stations WindrushOverground · 30 stations WeaverOverground · 25 stations SuffragetteOverground · 13 stations LibertyOverground · 3 stations
Every station, every exit

Front, middle, or back. For every door, every direction.

For every one of the 383 stations on the London network, in both directions, First Out tells you the best carriage to board, the platform position to stand in, and which side the doors will open. The dataset is the product. The app is the interface. Crowd-verified, free to use, free to lift with attribution.

Search any station above to see its exit positioning.

Accessibility layer

The accessibility map nobody else built.

Step-free was designed for wheelchair users. It answers a binary question: can you avoid stairs, yes or no. Parents with buggies, travellers with luggage, anyone with limited mobility, all need completely different information. First Out integrates the full TfL accessibility dataset into the exit-positioning interface, with a Parent Mode that flips the whole product into family-first mode.

183
Step-free stations

140 full, 21 partial, 22 interchange

131
Stations with lifts

Lift locations surfaced in-app

143
Stations with toilets

Critical for families and longer journeys

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Parent Mode

Flips the whole app to family-first

About First Out

Built solo. One strategist. AI as the engineering team.

First Out was built by Mike Litman, a London-based digital strategist with 15+ years across agencies including MediaMonks, R/GA, and Contagious. Not a developer. Built alone using AI tools as the build layer. The same data engine also powers Buggy Smart, the pram-focused sibling product for parents.

The product

Free Progressive Web App. No account, no ads, no tracking. Works fully offline once loaded, including underground. iOS app currently in App Store submission.

Read the full press kit at firstout.app/press.html.

Sibling projects

Buggy Smart, the pram-focused product for parents navigating with a pushchair, runs on the same data engine.

More work at mikelitman.me, including Pub Guide London, Oishii London, and The Queue Index.

Get in touch
hello@mikelitman.me
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