# Every Door

22 Hacker News commenters recommended Every Door and 4 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 8 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** A free mobile app for quickly adding and editing OpenStreetMap places, especially opening hours and shop details, while on the go. Critics find its interface confusing and say it has fewer features than some rival editors.

## Why people recommend it

- Fast, convenient place editing on the go (5 comments): "my favorite for light-weight POI editing. You can blast through an entire shopping mall very quickly" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49027293)) "has been a really convenient on-the-go tool for contributing these annotations" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45948419)) "gives you slightly different set of tasks and allows you to place POI easily" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48817362))
- Easy interface for placing points of interest (4 comments): "Everydoor's UI is also quite nice for this. it even lets you enter in the orientation quite easily" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47254525)) "Between the streetcomplete and everydoor apps, it is very very easy" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49627957)) "Every Door is definitely one of the easier ones and I like it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49682862))
- Focused on shop details and opening hours (4 comments): "I captured some basics (names, posted hours, the phone number posted on the door, etc.) with Every Door" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49674763)) "It's oriented more towards stores and things I'm interested in on the map." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49920741)) "Every Door is very good if you know what info you'd like to edit." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802041))
- Complements StreetComplete well (2 comments): "I find the information it allows to add much more useful than the one in streetcomplete quests." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48822044)) "Between the streetcomplete and everydoor apps, it is very very easy" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49627957))

## What people warn about

- Confusing, complicated user interface (3 comments): "Every Door has a very confusing UI (lots of unlabeled buttons with unclear icons)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49921200)) "neither is nearly as easy to use in my opinion" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48821945)) "IMO Every Door has a much more complicated UI" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48817650))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [MapComplete](https://hackerapproved.com/p/mapcomplete.md): 16 recommend
- [iD editor](https://hackerapproved.com/p/id-editor.md): 12 recommend
- [JOSM](https://hackerapproved.com/p/josm.md): 11 recommend
- [Vespucci](https://hackerapproved.com/p/vespucci.md): 8 recommend
- [MapDraw](https://hackerapproved.com/p/mapdraw.md): 7 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Every Door", https://hackerapproved.com/p/every-door/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).