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3,600+ curated places across 600+ cities. Offline guides, trip planning, and a concierge that knows what is still open tonight.

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HomeThe city you are in, the places on it, and what is worth the rest of your afternoon.
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SearchFind or ask, one capsule. It remembers the places you left unvisited.

Concierge

Say it, and it is in the plan.

The concierge is not a chatbot bolted to a travel app — it writes straight into the itinerary. Ask for a quiet dinner near the hotel and the answer is a stop on tonight, timed, mapped, with the walk already counted.

Somewhere quiet for dinner near the hotel, then a bar after

Booked thinking: St. John is a ten-minute walk and takes tables at nine. I put it on tonight, with Nightjar after.

🍷

St. John added to Tonight

21:00 · 10 min walk

Trips

Trips that hold their shape.

Days, timings, travel between stops. The timeline knows a museum closes at five and a ferry leaves on the half hour, so the plan you glance at on the street is one you can actually walk.

Day 2 · Naoshima

  • 09:30

    ☕️ Café Kitsuné

    Opens 9:00

  • 11:00

    🏛 Teshima Art Museum

    25 min by ferry

  • 13:30

    🍜 Udon Baka Ichidai

    Queue moves fast

For you

Picked for the hour you are in.

The For-you shelf reads the time, the weather and where you keep going back to — not a generic top ten. At golden hour it knows the difference between a rooftop and a basement bar.

For you · Thursday 17:40 · 21° clear

🌅

Griffith Observatory

Golden hour in 50 minutes, 20 from you

🍸

Thunderbolt

You keep saving cocktail bars in Echo Park

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Notebooks for the rest
Wishlists, favourites and visited places are all notebooks — inside a trip or standing on their own.
Offline where it matters
Saved places and guides stay readable with no signal, which is most of the time you actually need them.
The season read
Best window to go, expected crowds and the practical detail, on the place page instead of in a blog post.
Built for iOS
Apple Maps, Weather, widgets, Shortcuts and haptics — native, not a website in a shell.
One map, three heights
The map is the workspace, not a tab. Search, results and place pages are heights of the same surface.
Curated, not crowdsourced
Every place was picked by a person. No review sludge, no sponsored rank, no fifth-best pizza list.

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