No fuss with confusing map planning features.
Most travel apps hand you a form and make you fill in things you don't care about. This one starts empty — you add only the parts you want.
No account. No card. Works on your phone and your computer.
Every trip is different. A road trip needs a route and a fuel budget. A beach week needs a packing list and a photo from every stop. A work trip needs receipts. You decide which parts show up — and name your own fields for anything we didn't think of.
Every trip starts as a blank page with a name on it. Add any of these, in any combination, and remove them just as easily.
Pin your stops and the route follows actual highways — true mileage, drive times, a colored line for every leg, and a warning when a day runs past eight hours.
Two checkboxes. Route around toll roads, or stay off the interstates entirely when you'd rather take the pretty way.
Notes, photos, the seven-day forecast, hotel links, and one-tap searches for gas, food and coffee around that exact spot.
Packing list, confirmation numbers, podcasts for the drive. You invent the list, you tick it off. Nothing is required.
Time to pack, rent the car, check in. Send them to your phone's own calendar so they go off whether this app is open or not.
The whole trip on paper or saved as a PDF — route, mileage, turn-by-turn directions, notes, photos and budget.
No narration, nothing sped up. This is the app.
Name the trip, set the dates, tap the map where you want to go. Stops name themselves after the nearest town, the roads draw between them, and the miles and arrival times work themselves out as you go.
Do not like the way it has sent you? Grab the road and pull it onto the one you would rather drive. Let go and it asks whether that spot is just a bend in the route or a proper stop. Drag the pins about too — the mileage and times follow along.
When it is over, play it back. The car drives your actual route and pauses at every stop to show the photos you took there, which then settle onto the map beside their pin. Save the whole thing as a video and send it to whoever came along.
No signup, no tutorial, no forty-field form.
"Big Bend run." That's the whole first step.
Tick only the pieces this trip needs — a map, checklists, dates, a budget — or start from a template.
Search a city, drag your stops into order, and print or save the whole thing when you're done.
The planner is free while it's in beta. Leave your email and we'll tell you when new features land — nothing else, ever.
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JaySmitt Labs is a small software company in Texas run by two people who build the tools they wanted and could not find. The Travel Planner started the same way: every trip app we tried wanted a pile of information we did not care about, so we made one that asks for nothing and lets you add only what matters to your trip.
Questions, problems, or an idea for the app? Write to smitt@jaysmittlabs.com and one of us will answer.