Case study · Web · iPhone in development · My own product
My Travel Planner prototype handled one trip for one traveller — and three months of testing showed the idea worked: the places, the daily plan and the budget belong together. The brief for TripPlot was to make that work for anyone, for any trip, and bring the people they travel with along.
Decisions that mattered · 01
- One app for the whole trip. Travellers juggle a planner, a map, a spreadsheet and a photo album. TripPlot keeps the places, the day-by-day plan, the budget and the journal in one trip, so a change in one shows up in the others.
- Adding a place takes seconds. Search, paste a Google Maps link or tap the map — three ways in, because people find places in all three. Opening hours come with the place, and the calendar tells you when a slot falls outside them.
- Keep the travel agent in the loop. Plenty of people still book through an agent. TripPlot sends the itinerary to your own agent for a quote and imports the reply — PDF, spreadsheet or pasted email — back into the calendar, so nobody retypes a booking.
- Plan together without sharing the wallet. Companions can add places but never see what anything costs; editors see everything; and a private link lets family follow the journal without an account.
- Put the plan where people already look. Instead of asking travellers to open one more app on the day, the calendar publishes a feed their iPhone or Google Calendar subscribes to.
Outcome
Launched at tripplot.io on 27 September 2026, after three months of testing the prototype. Pro is free until 30 November 2026, and everyone who registers by then keeps it. A native iPhone and iPad app is in development.
Screens · 02
