Our journey

Work in progress

Fix offline files (2.8.5)

• Performance and UI improvements
• Fixed an issue where downloaded files could net be opened offline

Improved membership handling (2.8.4)

• Improved handling of removing members from a trip / leaving a trip voluntarily (making sure everyone keeps their original photos and files)
• Performance improvements

UI and performance improvements (2.8.3)

• Improved itinerary items timeline representation (items spanning multiple days: accommodation now handled as special case showing "nights" and a more natural visual representation)
• Added in-app preview for trip attachments
• Global trip attachments now also shown on trip details view
• Added searchable airline carry-on allowances and luggage database
• Performance imporovements throughout the app

Airline carry-on allowances

• Added searchable airline carry-on allowances database with 167 initial airlines covered
• Added searchable luggage database
• Try it in your browser at https://cabinsizer.com

Improved trip sharing (2.8.0)

• Improved trip sharing role model (organizer, contributor, guest)
• Custom trip title, accent color, icon, image for each trip member; only dates, location, country are shared
• Introducing real-time notifications

Interactive itinerary planning (2.7.2)

• Full interactive itinerary planning

Publish public travel journal (2.7.1)

• Check out this example: /wolfi

Upload photos and attachments to your trips (2.7.0)

• With offline file support

Set your preferred trip hero image focal point

Participate in public community map

• Live at littledots.com/live

Browser extensions and Bookmarklet

• To easily add any page you are browsing to your trips
• With special support for: booking.com, hotels.com, Google Maps and Apple Maps, what3words
• Download and install browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox
• Install universal browser bookmarklet

Switch to guide-vouched applications (2.5.0)

• Every littledots member now has a "guide"
• Another community member that vouches for them
• New users can register freely, but need to be approved by a guide before they can join

Ingestion support

• See bookmarklet example
• Will drop on mobile apps & as browser extension later

Interactive trip map

• Show all trip locations as markers on a map
• Neatly decorated using their optional custom icons and colors
• Quickly pan, zoom & filter markers

Additional magic helpers

• Location searchWhen you set a trip's location and the local city list does not have what you are looking for, tap "Search on Google" to resolve full addresses to coordinates.
• Place lookupOn any trip item, hit "Magic helpers" and tap "Look up a place" to find hotels, landmarks or restaurants and pull their details into the item with one tap.
• Flight lookupLook up flight details by flight number and date, and have them filled into a trip item with one tap.
• Trip mapOpen any trip and tap the map button to see every item with a location plotted on a real Google map. Filter by item type or by trip day to focus on one part of the trip.
• Live location previewsWhen you open a trip item with a saved location, the inline preview becomes a real Google map you can pan and zoom. With Magic helpers off, you still see the bundled stylized world-map preview without any third-party calls.

Completely new app!!! 🤯

• Heavily inspired by the previous version, but significantly improved
• All previous features are available and many more

iOS app released (2.4.1)

Android app released (2.4.1)

Web app released (2.4.1)

• Basic trip management and sharing
• Public calendars
• Added visited places
• Added awards tab

Launch web app

Custom trip timezone settings (1.2.2)

• all times are shown with the default timezone (either manually set by user in app settings or auto-detected from device)
• a custom timezone can be set on trip level (overrides the global timezone for the trip)
• a custom timezone can additionally be set for each individual date/time entry (i.e. trip start/stop, activity start/stop)
• the user interface shows times in the default timezone and indicates if a time is shown in a custom timezone
• by long-pressing any date/time a different timezone can be shown temporarily without altering any timezone setting

Print trip itinerary (Experimental)

• Initial release of print trip itinerary functionality

User experience improvements (1.2.1)

• Improved visual indication of sliding items with hidden actions (e.g. edit, delete)
• Added URL property to itinerary item
• Added new itinerary item types: attraction, entertainment, shopping

Calendar integration

• Create a public calendar with a unique URL that can be synchronized and imported in third party calendar applications (e.g. Google Calendar, etc.)
• The created calendar will show all trips (no itinerary details)

Trip collaboration (1.1.0)

• Share trips with other users
• Allow other users to either just view the trip, or also make changes (trip info & itinerary)

User experience improvements (1.0.8)

• Added global setting for hour cycle (12 or 24 hrs)
• Added first day of week setting (Sunday, Monday, or Saturday) for date selectors
• Timeline is now default (previously list) in trip details view
• Multiple trip overview and timeline user experience improvements

Mobile apps (1.0.7)

• Initial release of our mobile apps on iOS and Android
• iOS app released
• Android app released

Compact timeline view (version 1.0.6)

• Timeline now does not show every single day, but summarizes days where no itinerary item starts/ends
• Added indicators for starting / ending itinerary items that span more than one day

Localized timezones for each date/time

• Now each date/time can be localized to destination timezone for easier international travel planning
• Long-press any date/time to quickly view in any timezone

Flight info and place details assistants

• Fetch flight departure & arrival date and details
• Fetch contact infos and other useful information from places and businesses (e.g. hotels, restaurants, sights)
• Interactively choose which information should be added

Itinerary timeline view

• Show itinerary as timeline
• Unscheduled itinerary items grouped at the bottom of the view
• Toggle display of past items (default hidden)

Improved timezone handling

• Added timezone auto-detection based on user system timezone
• Added optional timezone setting to manually set interface timezone
• Show all dates and times in user timezone

Itinerary planning basics

• Plan your itinerary (notes, transports, accommodations, food, activities)
• Set title, description, start date & time, end date & time
• Set custom icon and color
• View grouped by type & reorder items

Trip planning basics

• Plan your trips (unscheduled, upcoming, current, past)
• Set title, start date, end date
• Set custom icon, color, and Unsplash image
• Trip calendar (iCal format, RFC 5545) for integration in standard calendar software

User registration

• Register new user with email verification
• Forgot password functionality
• Optional two-factor authentication (TOTP - time-based one-time password and one-time recovery codes)

Idea inception