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Day Cards are for what actually happened. Use them for journal entries, places visited, expenses, links, and highlights.
Day Cards answer: "What happened today?" · Bookings answer: "What was arranged?"
Bookings are for things you arranged before or during your trip: flights, hotels, tours, reservations, and transport.
Bookings answer: "What do I need to remember?" · Day Cards answer: "What happened today?"
Use the checklist to prepare for your trip: passport, currency exchange, chargers, travel insurance, and anything you need to sort out before you leave.
TripDay separates Booked Costs (pre-arranged travel costs) from Daily Spend (actual expenses logged during travel).
Payment status: Planned = not paid yet · Prepaid = already paid · Paid on Trip = paid during travel · Cancelled = not counted.
A local-first travel workspace and personal travel memory system.
Plan the trip. Live the trip. Remember the trip.
TripDay is a local-first travel workspace designed to help you plan your trip, live your trip, and remember your trip.
Unlike many travel apps, TripDay works offline, stores your data on your device, and keeps you in control of your travel memories. No accounts, no subscriptions, and no cloud dependency required.
Use Bookings, Budget, and Checklists to organize flights, hotels, transportation, activities, and travel costs before you leave.
Use Day Cards, Expenses, Places, Links, and Journal entries to capture what actually happened during your journey.
Trips are more than dates on a calendar. Years later, you may not remember the exact day you visited a place — but you'll remember the city, the experience, the people, and the moments that mattered. TripDay is designed not only as a travel planner, but as a personal travel memory system that helps preserve those experiences for the future.
Most travel apps treat a trip as a timeline — a list of places, dates, and bookings mixed together. TripDay treats a trip as a lifecycle.
Before you leave, you make commitments. Flights, hotels, bookings. Things with real consequences if forgotten.
Once the trip starts, reality takes over. What actually happened? What did you spend? What did it feel like?
After the trip, the memories remain. TripDay is designed to help you rediscover them — privately, honestly, on your own terms.
The middle phase is called Live for a reason. It means both things at once: live as in the present moment, reality as it unfolds — and live as in to live, to be present inside an experience worth capturing. Most travel apps only mean the first. TripDay quietly reaches toward the second.
The model works for travel because it reflects something human. Travel is simply the clearest lens through which TripDay captures that cycle.
What's new in this update:
About this release:
A stranger opening TripDay for the first time creates a trip, sees an empty screen, and wonders what to do next. This pass solves that moment — not with a wizard or a tutorial, but with one clear explanation and one clear action. The same empty state appears every time you start a new trip, so this improves the experience for everyone, not just new users.
What's new in this update:
About this release:
Both changes came directly from real-world use. Starter Template's placeholder days were causing confusion rather than helping — TripDay now teaches itself through the homepage, Soft Portals, and Demo Mode instead. And since journal writing has become one of the most-used parts of the app, a visible Undo (using your browser's native undo) now offers a clear safeguard against accidental backspacing.
What's new in this update:
About this release:
With Soft Portals now providing direct entry points into Bookings, Checklist, Budget, the Current Trip, and Today's Journal, the homepage no longer needs to show every trip by default. Other Trips moves into a collapsible section — available with a tap, but no longer cluttering the view — while the things you need most stay front and center.
What's new in this update:
About this release:
TripDay's homepage now serves two purposes: explaining the Plan • Live • Remember model and helping users quickly reach the parts of the app they need. The phase cards remain educational, but now provide optional navigation into existing workflows.
Design law:
"The cards grow into the role. The role is not forced onto them."
TripDay started as a personal travel planner that kept getting rebuilt from frustration.
Too many apps required accounts just to take a note. Too many stored your memories somewhere you couldn't see or control. Too many disappeared, changed their pricing, or reset without warning.
TripDay was built differently — local-first, offline-first, and shaped entirely by real trips, real mistakes, and real daily use. Many of its best features exist because they solved a problem during actual travel.
That's still how it grows.
This is the part that matters most.
✓ No account required
✓ No subscription
✓ No cloud storage
✓ No tracking
✓ No ads
✓ Your data never leaves your device unless you choose to back it up
TripDay does not know you exist. There is no server receiving your journal entries, your expenses, or your plans. Everything lives locally, in your browser's storage, on your own device.
Your backup files are standard JSON files. They're readable, portable, and will never be locked away. Your memories don't depend on TripDay staying online.
We think that's the way it should be.
TripDay has two ways to back up your data. Understanding the difference matters.
Saves everything — all trips, all journal entries, all settings. Use this when switching devices or as a regular safety copy.
Saves one trip only. Useful for sharing or archiving a specific trip. Does not include your journal.
We recommend keeping a backup somewhere safe — Downloads, Google Drive, iCloud, email, or anywhere you'd store something you don't want to lose.
Nothing in TripDay is automatic. You are always in control of what gets saved and when.
Follow these steps to carry your trips and journal to a new device:
TripDay data is stored in your device's browser. Updating the app does not erase your data, but clearing site data or changing phones will.
No. When TripDay updates on Netlify, only the app code changes. Your trips and journal are stored locally in your browser on your device — they are not touched by app updates.
Your data stays safe as long as:
✓ You use the same device
✓ You use the same browser
✓ You use the same TripDay website URL
✓ You do not clear site data
TripDay is a Progressive Web App. It installs directly from your browser — no App Store required.
Once installed, TripDay opens full screen, works offline, and lives on your home screen like any other app.
TripDay works without an internet connection.
Trip planning, journaling, expense tracking, and navigation are all fully available offline. Live currency exchange rates require a brief connection to update, but your last known rates are always available when you're offline.
You can board a plane, open TripDay, and keep writing.
Ctrl+P on desktop, or Share → Print on iPhone). TripDay automatically reformats your timeline into a clean, white-background document — useful for immigration forms or offline backups.TripDay is actively evolving. Features planned for future versions:
The best features have always come from actually using the app. That's still how it works.
A small community of travelers and journalers is beginning to form around TripDay.
Future updates, feature announcements, and development progress will be shared through community channels as they come together. If TripDay becomes part of how you travel and remember, we'd love to hear about it.
TripDay started as a personal project and grew into something more useful than expected.
It's been built and rebuilt, used on real trips, broken in real airports, and improved from real frustrations. It has no marketing team, no investor roadmap, and no growth targets. It gets better because using it reveals what's missing.
The goal was never to build a travel app. The goal was to build something that helps you plan the trip, live the trip, and still remember it clearly years later. A workspace for the journey, and a memory system for what the journey meant.
If it becomes meaningful to how you travel — that's enough.
If future options to support development are added, they'll be optional, one-time, and never required to use the app. No subscriptions. No pressure. No guilt.