A road trip planner that fixes the order of your day
Put the drive, the stops and the overnight stays on one map and timeline, then ask any single day to reorder itself into a sensible route so you are not crossing the same ground twice. Nothing moves unless you ask, and you see what changed before you accept it.
Per-day, not whole-trip, optimisation
Route optimisation here works on one day at a time. That is a deliberate limit: a whole-trip optimiser will happily tell you to visit the coast on Tuesday instead of Friday, which is useless when the Friday booking is non-refundable.
A day is the unit where reordering is actually safe, because the constraints — where you woke up, where you are sleeping, what is booked for a fixed time — are things you already know. You ask a specific day to sort itself out, see how many items moved, and keep it or discard it.
This is not a delivery-route optimiser. It will not plan forty drops with time windows and vehicle capacities; it puts the day’s stops in a sensible driving order.
Nothing moves without you
Optimising produces a preview, not a change. You are told how many items would move and can put it back in one action if you preferred it the way it was.
The driving is part of the plan
Transport legs and car hire are first-class items with their own dates, times and booking references — not notes attached to somewhere else. The car you pick up on Tuesday morning and drop on Sunday afternoon spans the days it actually spans.
So the timeline shows the shape of the trip properly: the four-hour drive is a thing occupying an afternoon, not an invisible gap between two towns.
Fuel, tolls and who paid for what
Road trips generate a particular kind of expense mess: lots of small shared costs, paid by whoever was driving or nearest the machine. Attach them to the day or the leg they belong to, mark whether they are per person or for the car, and let the settle-up sort it at the end.
Crossing borders is handled — costs are recorded in the currency they were paid in and resolved together, which matters on any drive through more than one country.
No signal in the middle of nowhere
Driving is where connectivity is least reliable and where the plan is least optional. The itinerary is stored on the phone, so the day’s stops, the addresses, the booking references and the times all open with no signal.
What you do not get offline is map imagery and looking up somewhere new, so save an offline area in your maps app for the route. Optimising a day also needs a connection, which is a good reason to do it the night before rather than at a petrol station.
Send the route to the other car
Two-car trips are their own problem: everyone needs the plan and only one person made it. Publish a read-only link and the other car has the whole route in a browser, with no app and no account.
If they are actually helping plan, invite them properly instead — shared editing, voting on stops and cost splitting are free.
Questions people ask
Does it optimise the whole trip or one day?
One day at a time, on request. Whole-trip optimisation tends to move things that are fixed by a booking, so the day is the unit where reordering is actually useful.
Will it change my plan automatically?
No. Optimising produces a preview showing how many items would move, and you can discard it.
Is route optimisation free?
No, it is one of three Pro features, alongside offline access and forwarding booking emails. Everything about planning the trip with other people is free.
Does it work as a delivery or multi-stop logistics planner?
No. It orders a day of travel stops sensibly; it does not do time windows, vehicle capacities or dozens of drops. A dedicated logistics tool is the right thing for that.
Can I use it with no phone signal?
The plan itself opens offline, including addresses and booking references. Map tiles, new place lookups and optimising a day all need a connection.
Plan the drive, not just the destinations
Get the stops, the stays and the driving on one timeline — then let a day sort its own order out.