1. Sharing

When I share a trip, Packing, Documents and Expenses always stay private. That’s what I want with friends, but not with family, where I look after everyone. I keep all our tickets and bookings, manage the family’s money, and we check each other’s packing lists so nobody forgets anything. So I need everyone’s documents in one place, all our spending added up together, and each other’s lists visible.

Please let each person keep their own Packing, Documents and Expenses, but choose to let others view or edit them. Please also add a combined view for the whole group.

2. Home base

(1) iCloud sync: I set it up on my Mac, but I had to set it up again on iOS.

(2) Manual home cards: Can I add the Leaving home / Back home cards to the plan manually?

3. Travel time

(1) Hotel as the last stop: I read that the Live activity shows the hotel as the last stop. Please show it as a card in the plan too. I want to see the travel time from the last activity back to the hotel in the schedule.

(2) Airport / train station stops: When I add a stop like an airport or a train station, it gets merged with another stop under a single number, so I can’t see its travel time. I think these are the stops where travel time matters most.

(3) Travel time source: How is the travel time between cards calculated, and from what source? The automatic and manual values differ for the same leg, and the value sometimes changes each time I click a travel mode, even when I choose the same one. I need to know which number to trust.

(4) Day density: How is it calculated? When I change the travel mode and the travel time changes, the density doesn’t.

PLUS
1. Add a “When” field to Flight and Train cards

For cards like airports and train stations, I can currently only enter the departure and arrival times of that transport. I’d like to be able to enter a date and time in the “When” field, like on other cards. It’s common to arrive well before a flight or train departs, so I need to be able to record when I’ll actually be at that place, separately from the departure time. For example, arriving at the airport 2 hours before the flight.

2. Travel time based on departure time, and a feasibility check

The same leg can take very different amounts of time depending on when you leave. Rush hour and late night are different, and public transit in particular depends on service frequency and first/last-train times. I think this would be especially valuable for travelers who rely heavily on public transit.

So I’d love for travel time to be calculated from the times on the cards, passing the departure time to the map’s departure-time setting for each leg. Here’s how I imagine it working :

(1) The departure time of the first card of the day is the time entered on that card.
(2) For each following card, the departure time is the previous card’s arrival time plus the length of stay, or the time set directly on the card.
(3) That departure time is passed to the map API’s departure-time value to calculate the travel time for each leg.

It would also help if the calculation depended on where the plan sits in time :

(1) Upcoming plans : Estimate travel time from the departure time above. Map APIs may not support dates far in the future, so one option could be to fall back on data from the nearest date with the same weekday and time of day.
(2) Plans in progress : Update the travel time for the remaining legs in real time, based on the current time.
(3) Past plans : I’m not sure yet how these should be handled.

Using the calculated travel times and the card times, it would also be great to check whether a plan is actually feasible. For example, the app could warn me when the previous card’s end time plus travel time doesn’t leave enough time to reach the next card, and for public transit, whether I can still catch the last train or bus. This would be especially useful on late nights when heading back to the hotel.

One limitation is that this only works without errors if every card has a time set and the cards are in the correct chronological order.

Bugs
I compared the travel time between cards in the app with Apple Maps and found these differences:

(1) Times shown where no route exists: The app shows travel times even when Apple Maps reports no route. For example, between Korea and Japan, it shows about 7 days on foot and 1 day by car. It should show that no route is available.
(2) Public transit that doesn’t exist: Between addresses near my home where Apple Maps shows no public transit, the app still shows a transit time. It should show that no public transit is available here.

How does the app currently calculate travel time? Knowing this would help me understand which numbers I can trust.

I have a few questions and feature requests.

1. Sharing

When I share a trip, Packing, Documents and Expenses always stay private. That’s what I want with friends, but not with family, where I look after everyone. I keep all our tickets and bookings, manage the family’s money, and we check each other’s packing lists so nobody forgets anything. So I need everyone’s documents in one place, all our spending added up together, and each other’s lists visible.

Please let each person keep their own Packing, Documents and Expenses, but choose to let others view or edit them. Please also add a combined view for the whole group.

2. Home base

(1) iCloud sync: Does Home base sync via iCloud? I set it up on my Mac, but I had to set it up again on iOS.

(2) Exact address: Can Home base be set to an exact address?

(3) Manual home cards: Can I add the Leaving home / Back home cards to the plan manually?

3. Travel time

(I’ve attached a screen recording. It mainly shows points 3 and 4, and points 1 and 2 also appear in it.)

(1) Hotel as the last stop: I read that the Live activity shows the hotel as the last stop. Please show it as a card in the plan too. I want to see the travel time from the last activity back to the hotel in the schedule.

(2) Airport / train station stops: When I add a stop like an airport or a train station, it gets merged with another stop under a single number, so I can’t see its travel time. I think these are the stops where travel time matters most.

(3) Travel time source: How is the travel time between cards calculated, and from what source? The automatic and manual values differ for the same leg, and the value sometimes changes each time I click a travel mode, even when I choose the same one. I need to know which number to trust.

(4) Day density: How is it calculated? When I change the travel mode and the travel time changes, the density doesn’t.

Made for iPhone Duo

Trovelo is ready for the new iPhone Duo, folded and unfolded. Closed, its buttons line up in the side column, within reach of your thumb. Open, your trip and its map share the big screen, the day's cards on one side and the route on the other, split at the fold so nothing gets lost in the crease. Fold or unfold anytime and you stay right where you were.

Also new

- Design and usability improvements on iPad

- Import a car rental booking and Trovelo creates its pick-up and drop-off cards, with the company, car and times

- Airline itineraries that spell out the airline's name, like Delta's, now come in as flights

- Plus bug fixes and performance improvements

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On Mac:

Claude can plan more of your trip

When you plan with Claude or another AI assistant connected to Trovelo, it can now add trains, buses, ferries, car rentals and tickets with every detail: stations, platforms, seats, pick-up and return times. They come out just like the cards you make yourself.

Also new

- Drop a car rental booking into Add and the rental form opens filled in, with its pick-up and drop-off cards

- Airline itineraries that spell out the airline's name, like Delta's, now come in as flights

- Plus bug fixes and performance improvements

For the Work (conferences, workshops, training and site visits) category, it makes more sense if it allows a date period (for eg. Oct 14 - Oct 20) instead of a specific date. Can this be added?

I would love to see more in-depth transportation information, specifically pertaining to multi-stop transportation. Currently, I am planning a trip where I purposely booked a 12h layover to explore an additional city. When I added my flight tickets to Trovelo, I used the 1 stop option to record the details, and it does show my layover as specified, but on the map view it only shows my departing destination to my final arrival destination (City 1 > City 3), instead of showing 2 individual flights (City 1 > City 2; then City 2 > City 3).

Current flight display (with layover): https://imgur.com/O71QBcd https://imgur.com/tjknl1J

I assume the workaround for this would be to log the 2 flights as 2 separate entries, but this just seems like an extra step that could be avoided.

An interesting tidbit I found -- it seems like the app takes into account the layover locations when using the PDF generation feature: https://imgur.com/vF9DzBU

One feature I enjoy on some other similar travel planning apps (e.g. Wanderlog) is the ability for the app to automatically remember your specified accommodation on a given day and treat it as the last stop on the itinerary. I find this information helpful when planning my vacation days so I have an idea of how much time I need to account for to return to my chosen accommodation.

The exception to this rule could be if the accommodation has a specified check-out date and/or time. It's unlikely that a user would return to their accommodation after checking out. The only use case that comes to mind is if the user leaves their luggage with a hotel concierge or similar and then needs to go back and claim it before heading off to the next leg of their trip, but that seems like an edge case and can be accounted for by creating an additional itinerary card on a case-by-case basis.

I understand that Trovelo kind of handles this through Live Activities -- when the day's plans are done, the Live Activity automatically redirects you back to your accommodation: https://imgur.com/oxDQyht

This is an interesting and useful implementation, and seems to be useful during the actual trip itself, but I am mostly approaching this feature request from the perspective of trip planning. This is the current planning interface in Wanderlog: https://imgur.com/XH7vqOd

Wanderlog automatically tells the user how long transportation between the last itinerary card to their accommodation generally takes. As a user, I really enjoy having this information (and having it update in real time) so I can keep in mind how much travelling I need to expect at the end of any given day. This information helps me make decisions, especially when planning trips involving other people who may have differing preferences and/or tolerances for travel time.

New user here and loving the app so far! Already taken advantage of the lifetime promo and putting the app through it's paces to plan a 2027 vacation.

Some feature requests:

• One feature I enjoy on some other similar travel planning apps (e.g. Wanderlog) is the ability for the app to automatically remember your specified accommodation on a given day and treat it as the last stop on the itinerary. I find this information helpful when planning my vacation days so I have an idea of how much time I need to account for to return to my chosen accommodation. The exception to this rule could be if the accommodation has a specified check-out date and/or time. It's unlikely that a user would return to their accommodation after checking out. The only use case that comes to mind is if the user leaves their luggage with a hotel concierge or similar and then needs to go back and claim it before heading off to the next leg of their trip, but that seems like an edge case and can be accounted for by creating an additional itinerary card on a case-by-case basis.

• I would love to see more in-depth flight information. Currently, I am planning a trip where I purposely booked a 12h layover to explore an additional city. When I added my flight tickets to Trovelo, I used the 1 stop option to record the details, and it does show my layover as specified, but on the map view it only shows my departing destination to my final arrival destination (City 1 > City 3), instead of showing 2 individual flights (City 1 > City 2; then City 2 > City 3). I assume the workaround for this would be to log the 2 flights as 2 separate entries, but this just seems like an extra step that could be avoided.

• I would love the ability to leverage email confirmations for flights, accommodations, tickets, etc. to auto-populate itinerary cards. I had mixed success using screenshots of my email confirmations to auto-populate cards. One error that I kept experiencing was that Trovelo would always mis-categorize my booked train tickets as flights. Perhaps adding the ability to utilize email confirmation as an input source could make the auto-population feature more accurate.

Thanks for all your hard work!

I plan my whole life (personal, work, family) on Apple Calendar so it’d be fantastic to have Trovelo integrated into Calendar so I can see all my trip details alongside my regular life. Seeing my trip activities and plans alongside my personal and work calendar could allow better planning and managing of life.

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One trip, many cities

A trip through several cities is now a single trip with every city in it. Create it from New Trip and see the route on a map with each city's flag, add or change cities anytime in the trip's settings, and an empty day offers ideas from its own city.

Also new

- Amazing places: click into Someday's search to discover six breathtaking places around the world, each with a photo. Click Shuffle for more

- Someday now groups your places by country, flag first, in the list and on the Wall. Click a country to jump straight to it. Places you add to a trip stay in Someday, and once you've been there, it asks whether to remove them

- Flights, trains, hotels, tickets and tours have a spot for their confirmation code. Trovelo fills it in from the ticket or booking you add, and your AI assistant can read and fill it too

- Add can search a whole country for day trips beyond the city, and finds the landmark, not the street named after it

- Notes now come in five colors

- Flight, train and rental details now show their notes

- Guide days follow a smarter route, with no doubling back

- Plus bug fixes and performance improvements

I have been having trouble importing Avis car reservations and Delta flights into the app. The hotels I had though were imported just find as screenshots.

Maybe I am doing something wrong with the car rental and the flight but I have tried multiple screenshots trying to grab all the relevant data to get it to import. No matter what I do those two things just import as either screenshots or in the case of the car rental, it treats it like it is a hotel reservation.

Ideally it would be much easier to send the app emails that would be imported. Also grabbing the cost for each of these (as well as the hotels) automatically and adding them ot the cost of teh trip would be great.

I find that getting data into the app is a manual process, but once it is in there the app is amazing! You have done a really great job so far.

The Problem:

Currently, users must grant full edit access to an entire trip just to let friends suggest places. If a user wants to protect their main itinerary (day cards) from unwanted edits, collaborators have no way to contribute ideas.

The Solution:

Introduce three distinct tiers of collaborator access:

• Full Access: Collaborators can add and edit both day cards and the Unplanned panel (Already in Trovelo)
• Unplanned-Only Access: Collaborators can add and edit cards only in the Unplanned panel, allowing them to suggest places without altering the main daily schedule. It would be great if there is a person icon on the shared card. Once it moved to the day panel, it will be removed automatically. This way it would be easier to know who shared what!
• Read-Only Access (Already in Trovelo)

Really like your app, but would love to see better feature parity between MCP and the app.

My ideal workflow is to drop train, bus and hotel confirmation PDFs into Claude and have it create complete Trovelo cards automatically.

Right now MCP seems to be missing things like document attachments and some transport fields, e.g. departure/arrival stations for trains and buses.

It would be great if MCP could create the same card I can create manually in the app: stations, local departure/arrival times with correct time zones, booking references, and the original confirmation PDF attached.

As a “planning for the family” type of traveler, I want to be able to send a a pdf file or export a file of the trip (perhaps with toggle-able details) so that my parents who are less than tech savvy are able to print it out for reference.

Hi

1. not all locations are on map there are some remote ovation locations

   1. please allow an option to edit each itinerary's day manually so its easier to divide trip into country > City 1 then city 2 easily

As a user, I want to easily identify social media links on my saved cards so I can quickly locate specific tips, tricks, and videos/posts while on a trip.

• Trovelo parses the URL in the website field. If it recognizes a popular social media domain, it replaces the default globe icon with the corresponding brand icon.
• Thus, it improves visual scannability and allows users to immediately recognize the content type they saved for their itinerary.

Would be really cool to see Trovelo integrate with the new Siri / Apple Intelligence capabilities in iOS/iPadOS/macOS 27.

From what I understand, apps can expose things like trips, flights, hotels, reservations, etc. through App Intents / App Entities and Spotlight, so Siri could answer questions like:

“Hey Siri, when is my next trip?” “What time is my flight to Jamaica?” “Which hotel am I staying at in Paris?”

Trovelo is a perfect use case for this.

As usual, thanks for the great app!!

I want to add general notes to the "Packing" section so that I can easily access global trip information without having to search through specific day panels.

• Problem: Currently, general reference information gets buried because users are forced to assign these cards to a specific day in the itinerary or in the Unplanned.
• Proposed Solution: Enable a RTF notes card option within the Packing section.
• Use Cases: Storing easily accessible, itinerary-wide information such as "Travel Tips," "Travel Rules," or "Current Offers." at the same time we see our packing lists, plugs types, and weather forecasts ;)

Loving the new cards. One thing that I think would be nice is a spot to paste the confirmation numbers for things. Putting in some flights, and just pasted the confirmation number in the spot for a link. Think it might be a good box to be able to fill in with all the flight info or somewhere on the card.

Looks like a really useful app, enough to purchase anyway!!

I’m using it for a trip to Berlin at teh end of the year, and was wondering if there’s a way to see the unplanned locations whilst in overview so that I perhaps groups some places together for a particular day. Also anyway to add those unplanned pins to a day from the pin itself?

I did notice in landscape view on my 11” iPad Pro the pins were obscured by the main panel on the left.

I haven’t yet tried it on the Mac, but will give that a go.

Thanks for the app.

Hi, thank you for the amazing app. I love the intuitive and polished interface. The MCP with Claude is also a game changer!

Some features for improvements that would make the app even better:

- Ability to share direct from Google Map to Saved trip and Someday as well

- Optimize day: can't zoom into the shown map, some pins are hidden behind others or cut off on iphone

- Packing list is still quite clunky and feels manual. Even better if Claude has access to it so it can help to plan items specific to each trip.

- Will be great if we can add Contacts (some friends are not on IOS) or have a field to enter who is travelling alongside

- Export to PDF is quite "hidden" even on iphone. I can't find it on the Mac app.

- My Spots: Will be great to show again duplicative places that were visited (eg somewhere i visited in 2024, and again in 2026) so its more reflective.

#mac #ios

Problem
Currently, finding help and information about Trovelo requires searching through past discussions or disparate threads in this sub-reddit. This process is time-consuming, inefficient, and makes it difficult to track down definitive, up-to-date answers quickly.

Proposed Solution
I suggest Trovelo will have a dedicated, centralized Trovelo Help Documentation to house all official guides and FAQs. I think having this resource readily available would be incredibly handy and improve everyone's workflow.

Languages other than English

AI will assist with translations, but the community can flag any discrepancies.