Our journey · app roadmap
Mobile and web version are identical
Typically the web version provides early access to new features, as mobile app releases are subject to longer approval processes and are generally updated less frequently.
What’s going on
- Work in progress 2.5.1
- Participate in public community map at littledots.com/live
2026
May
- Forum and Wiki integrated
- Community forum is now online at https://littledots.com/forum
- Community curated wiki is now online at https://littledots.com/wiki
- You can seamlessly log in to both with your littledots account
- 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 vauches 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 search
When 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 lookup
On 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 lookup
Look up flight details by flight number and date, and have them filled into a trip item with one tap. - Trip map
Open 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 previews
When 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 stylised world-map preview without any third-party calls.
April
- 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
Hiatus
- Abducted by aliens
2025
August
- 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
2024
December
- 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)
November
- 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
October
- 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
September
- 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