We can have nice things.

AI chatbots answer from old web pages — they list the big chains, miss the small independent and church-run shops, sometimes name shops that have closed, and routinely get the opening hours wrong. They also can’t plan you a petrol-efficient loop or tell you what landed in store this week. Op Spot’s shops are checked on the ground, the hours are kept current, and it’s built to plan the trip — not just name a shop.

Stock turns over week to week, so timing is everything. Op Spot shows what’s open right now, plus recent finds and tips from op-shoppers who’ve been in lately — so you can judge whether to make the trip today or wait until next week when the racks have refreshed.

That’s exactly what Op Spot is for. We keep opening hours current and show you what’s open right now, today, or this coming Sunday — and you can look ahead to any day before you set out. Op shop hours are the thing a quick Google or AI answer gets wrong most often, because the hours they’re working from are usually months out of date.

Most op shops happily take good-quality clothes, homewares and books — usually as a drop-off during opening hours. Find your nearest shops on Op Spot, check they’re open before you load up the car, and it’s worth a quick call first for anything bulky like furniture, since not every shop can take it.

Completely. There’s no charge to browse, no account needed to look around, and no ads cluttering the map.

Op Spot is built by an avid op-shopper, not a faceless tech company — someone out there doing the loops every weekend and shaping the app around what real op-shoppers ask for. Spotted something missing or have an idea? It genuinely steers what gets built next.