WanderCrew: Trip Planner

Fisherbird Software

About this app

For the person who makes the spreadsheet, and everyone traveling with them.

WanderCrew turns the plan you build day by day into a trip your whole crew can follow on their phones: where you're sleeping, how you're getting there, what you're doing, and where you're eating. It keeps working when the signal doesn't.

Use it for two weeks of national parks, a family trip abroad with six flights, or a long weekend with friends.

PLAN IT DAY BY DAY

• Stays. Add a hotel, an apartment, or anywhere else you're sleeping, with its nights, address, check-in time, and confirmation number.
• Getting there. Flights, trains, buses, ferries, rental cars, and drives, each with its legs, connections, and confirmation number.
• Things to do. Sights, hikes, tours, shows, and day trips. A hike keeps its distance, elevation gain, and how crowded the trail gets. A tour keeps its meeting point.
• Places to eat. A shortlist for every town, with the price, the meals it's good for, a reservation time, and what to order. Road food goes on the day you drive past it.
• Place search. Find towns, landmarks, hotels, campgrounds, sights, and trails by name and pin them to the plan.
• Two ways to edit. Go a day at a time, or use a grid with the days across the top, the way you'd lay out a spreadsheet.

A MAP THAT DRAWS ITSELF

Pin your stays and stops and the route map follows: every town, and every hop between them by plane, train, ferry, or car. Change the plan and the map changes with it.

ON THE ROAD

During the trip, WanderCrew opens on Today: what's up next, where you're sleeping tonight, and where you picked for dinner. Any stop opens in your maps app in one tap.

The whole trip is saved on your phone. Read it and keep editing in a canyon, on a plane, or abroad with no data. On a shared trip, your changes sync when you're back in range.

MOOD BOARD AND PHOTOS

Before you go, collect ideas on the trip's mood board: photos, screenshots, and notes about what you might do, pinned to the town, the stay, or the restaurant they belong to.

Once you're there, Photos takes over. Add what you shot and it's sorted by day, so the trip is still there to look through when you get home.

PACKING AND MONEY

• A shared gear list that shows who's bringing what, plus a private list of your own.
• A trip budget. Plan amounts for lodging, transport, food, and activities, log spending as you go, and see what's left.

FREE ON YOUR PHONE

Everything above is free, with no account. Make as many trips as you like. They stay on your phone.

THE CREW PLAN, FOR SHARING

When you want to bring people along, the trip's host subscribes to the Crew plan. Up to 20 people can then join the trip with free accounts. Only the host pays.

• Invite editors and viewers, so everyone works from the same trip.
• Sync across your phone, your tablet, and the web, where a big screen makes planning easier.
• The whole crew adds to the mood board and the trip's photos.
• Split the budget by percentage between people or households.
• Drives on the map follow the actual roads, and you can reroute one through the places you want to pass.
• Recent changes shows who changed what, when, and what it said before.
• A read-only link for the grandparents and the house-sitter. It opens in any browser, and confirmation numbers stay hidden.

The Crew plan is an optional auto-renewing subscription, billed monthly or yearly.

WanderCrew is made by Fisherbird LLC, a two-person studio in Northern Virginia. Crews are invite-only. There are no followers and no public feed.

Terms: https://wandercrewapp.com/terms
Privacy: https://wandercrewapp.com/privacy

What’s new

First beta build of WanderCrew. Thanks for testing!

Everyone in the beta has the Crew plan for free while the beta runs.

Plan a trip with your crew: days, stays, activities, places to eat, travel, a route map, packing and budget. Invite people to edit, share a read-only link, add photos, and keep editing offline.

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