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 or card to start. 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. Use any of these, in any combination — and most of them without a trip at all.
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. Pull the road onto the one you'd rather drive, as many times as you like — every pull adds a shaping point and the route threads through them all. And on a computer, rest the mouse on any pin you placed and it grows three times its size for a closer look, then settles back when you move on.
The world's largest ball of twine. Muffler men. Carhenge. The shoe house, the dinosaur parks, the gravity hills, the folk-art yards. Hundreds of the things America builds by the highway to make you pull over — with the story behind each one — living inside the app on its own tool button, with the ghost towns a tap away in the Fun stuff menu. Pick your mood, zoom in, and let the road get strange.
Search a place — or paste coordinates straight from Google Maps — and it lands as a marker, not a stop, so looking around never rearranges your plan. Every place popup has a "Just a marker" button too. Name your markers ("Bob says good pie"), drag them, and when you're sure, one tap grows a marker into a stop or a day-trip spot. And they wear a legend of your own making: "Gas", "Photo spot", "Maybe hotel" — your names, your words, your choice of pin graphic (forty-six pictured pins to start, sorted into groups — waterfalls to ghost towns to dinosaur parks) — with no legend box on the map, because tapping a marker tells you everything. Stops and day-trip sub-stops can wear the same pictures, number and all, and a sub-stop's dot opens a little box to name it. Tap any spot and the question box hands you its coordinates with a Copy button, Google-Maps style, no right-click needed — and every marker menu, stop page, sub-stop box and route-line pin shows the same 📍 line.
Two checkboxes. Route around toll roads, or skip the interstates entirely for the roads that actually go somewhere — the diners, the barns, the towns the highway forgot.
Spoken turn-by-turn directions with a big arrow for every turn — a heads-up half a mile out, again at the corner, and a new road found by itself if you miss one. One tap opens a full driving view where the map turns with you, sat-nav style.
The compass button asks one question — where to? — then builds the drive from right where you stand and starts talking. No trip to set up, nothing to name.
Plan the way RVers actually travel: the hotel is home base for three nights, and each day gets its own little journey — its own stops, its own route, its own miles — tucked inside the stop, off the main route. Split a day, swap days, slide places between them, and GPS yourself to any of it.
Say how long, not when: 45 minutes at the overlook, 2 hours at the museum, AN for all night — 2N for two. Every arrival calculates itself, dates and all, and inserting a stop just bumps the day along instead of breaking it. Overnight stops wear a little 🌙 on their map pin and in the list, so your home bases stand out at a glance.
One button deals every stop onto a month view drawn the way a real calendar draws things — a green ribbon through the trip days, every arrival a colored chip on its date, overnights marked. Stretch it as big as you like, or pop it out into its own window and park it on your second monitor — it re-deals itself as you plan, and tapping a stop there still moves the map here.
All 32 NFL teams and 136 college programs — every stadium hand-placed on the map, visible from whole-country zoom. Blue helmets for Sunday, red for Saturday — two switches in the Fun stuff menu — and one tap makes any of them a stop on your route. Planning a tailgate trip has never been this easy.
Press the star and the cool places pin themselves wherever you're looking — 🎢 theme parks, 🌲 parks and forests, 🏖 beaches, 🏛 museums, and the odd and storied straight from Wikipedia: ghost towns, giant roadside things, places with a tale. Tap a pin, read what it is, one more tap and it's a stop on your route. The map remembers every place it's ever found. And it grows: find a cool place of your own and share it — the app asks first, always — and it's on the map for every other traveler, wearing your pin.
Tap a distillery and the stop calls itself the distillery, street address and all. Then notes, photos, the seven-day forecast, hotel links, and one-tap searches for gas, food and coffee around that exact spot. On the map itself: live rain radar, and a button that lays today's temperatures across the whole country as numbers, cold blue to hot red.
The whole family drives in from wherever they live, each with their own trip, all aimed at one spot. Everyone sees everyone's route on one map — convoy mode puts the group's live cars on it, names, speeds and all — and the fun is shared: one games scoreboard, one treasure hunt, one batch of sealed capsules for every car in the convoy.
Your own family geocaching. Hide a treasure with a hint anywhere on the map — hunters see only a gold circle until they walk right into it, and the map gives the spot away out loud.
Seal a note at a place — grandma writes it before the trip, and it opens by itself, out loud with confetti, when the kids actually reach the Grand Canyon.
One row in the Fun stuff menu turns the planning map into the classic sticker map: all fifty states drawn in, and every one you've set foot in filled red. States color themselves as your trips land in them — tap to add the ones from before this app existed. It fills up for life, not per trip.
License Plate Bingo — all fifty states — and Road Bingo: a fresh-dealt card of roadside sights, five in a row wins, with the score kept by the trip itself — or by a scoreboard of your own when no trip is open. And voice memories: thirty seconds of a real voice, pinned to the exact spot where it was said, playable years later.
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. Comes with an unlocked trip.
Afterwards, one tap turns everything the planner collected — photos where they happened, the times you really arrived, treasures found, messages opened — into a keepsake book. And a year later, it offers to replay the whole journey.
Tell the app where you start from — type the address, tap it on the map, or use where you stand — and every new trip asks: start from Home? One tap and stop 1 is done, wearing its own Home Base pin. Rather type than tap? Type in your stops takes a whole list of addresses and places at once, looks each one up, and lands them on the map in order.
Found somewhere wonderful this trip won't go near? Add to Favorites — from a search result, a pin, a stop, the box that opens when you tap the map, even the you-are-here box on the location dot — and it waits on your list with its name, its coordinates and its own pin. Tick a few and make a whole new trip out of them in one press.
Drop a marker, save a favorite, hide a treasure, seal a capsule, play the car games or record a voice memory with no trip open at all. They live in a bag of your own that follows your account and stays on the map when a trip comes on. The few things that really are a trip say so — with a Start-a-new-trip button right there.
One tap on Road and the planning furniture folds away: the map, the driving strip and five big buttons — STOPS, GO, CAMERA, FUN, MORE — and nothing else. The map is frozen so a bouncing car never plants a stop, the voice and the turn banner carry on, and your phone remembers it's in Road mode until you switch back. Same trip, same account.
Up to five of you on one trip, everybody editing — invite by email, no link to chase. Their changes reach you and yours reach them on the same quiet sync that keeps your phone and computer in step, and the fun rides along: one games scoreboard, one treasure hunt, one batch of sealed capsules.
A finished trip doesn't have to go: hide it and it stays on your account forever, unlocked and shared exactly as it was, just out of the list until you want it back. Saved a trip to a file? Import it after a delete and it comes back as the same trip — unlock, invitations and all. And your Favorites, your Home and your red states follow your account wherever you sign in.
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 place they land on, 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 — or on a phone, just tap the road. It asks whether that spot is a bend in the route or a proper stop. Pull again and again — every pull adds another shaping point, in driving order. 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.
From Home, in one tap — or pick the spot yourself. Then tap the map for each stop, or type the whole list in at once.
Drag your stops into the order you want and pull the road onto the one you'd rather drive. Unlock the trip for $1.99 when you want the addresses, the mileage and the printout.
Have a proper play with the map and the roads before you spend a penny. When you want the trip itself — the addresses, the mileage, the printout and the driving screen — that is when you pay, once, and it is yours for good.
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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.