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Short, practical walkthroughs for every part of the app — from creating your first trip to exporting a shareable PDF.
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Plan Your First Trip
Create a trip, set your destination and dates, personalise with travel style and interests, and build a day-by-day itinerary from scratch — step by step.
Plan a Road Trip with Multi-Modal Stops
Add waypoints, mix driving, trains, ferries, and buses in one route, and log your booking details for each leg.
Add and Manage Itinerary Items
Manage itinerary items, view hotels, restaurants, and activities on maps by stop, and collapse or expand your plan by day or destination.
Track Your Travel Budget
Set an overall trip budget, log estimated and actual costs by category, and see at a glance how much you have left.
Split Costs with Your Travel Group
Divide individual expenses between group members, track who has paid what, and settle balances cleanly at the end of the trip.
Invite Collaborators and Plan as a Team
Add travel companions to a shared trip workspace, plan the itinerary together in real time, and share a public read-only view with anyone.
Build and Track Your Packing List
Create a shared packing checklist for the whole group, organise items by category, and track what's packed before departure.
Check Weather Forecasts for Your Stops
See a 3-day weather forecast anchored to your travel dates for every stop on your route, directly inside the itinerary and the PDF export.
Export and Share Your Itinerary
Download a PDF, share a live read-only link, or sync your trip events to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook.
Generate a Full Itinerary with AI
Describe your trip in plain language and let the AI build a complete day-by-day itinerary for you — stops, activities, restaurants, and a budget breakdown — in under a minute.
Get AI-Powered Activity Ideas
Let the app suggest places, restaurants, and activities for each day, then add the ones you like with a single click.
Relive Your Trip with Shared Photos
Upload photos to a trip's shared gallery so everyone who was there can look back on the journey together and leave comments.
Search and Save Travel Bookings
Search flights, hotels, activities, and restaurants through travel partners, then save booking references and costs inside your itinerary and budget.
Create a Journey Keepsake
Turn a completed trip into a personal keepsake with a highlight, journal note, photos, comments, budget details, and a polished PDF export.