Trip planner
A trip planner that starts with your own places.
You spent months saving spots for this trip. Type what the trip is and Pocket Places lays out the days from those — grouped by where they are, with a meal near each day and one hotel for cities close enough together. Nothing in the plan is a place you didn't choose.
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Why this one is different
Every other planner starts from a city. This one starts from your map.
Ask anything else to plan four days in Lisbon and you get the same four days everybody gets. The bakery your friend sent you in March isn't in it, and the restaurant you saved from a reel twice isn't either.
It only schedules places you saved
Which means the trip is a decision about order and pace, not about whether you want to go. You already answered that when you saved it.
It knows why you saved them
The line the post said about a spot rides along, so a stop on the plan still carries the reason it is there.
And it keeps the ones you marked
Mark a spot a must visit and the days are cut to fit it. Mark a hotel and that is where the trip sleeps, as long as the budget stands.
How it works
From a sentence to a plan you can argue with.
Four steps, and you can stop at any of them. The trip is only written when you say so.
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Say what the trip is
One field. “Four days in Lisbon in May, and we have to do the azulejo museum.” It reads the cities you have spots in, how long, who is going, and the spots you named.
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Answer what it missed
The next screen shows every answer filled in and editable — the days, who is going, the budget, the lists to plan out of, the spots you cannot miss. Nothing is written until you tap Plan.
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The days come back grouped by where things are
Spots near each other share a day. Each day gets something to build it around, lunch within a short walk, dinner and a drink near where you sleep.
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Then move it around
Drag a stop to another day. Drag a whole day earlier in the trip. Add a spot to a day from your map, or one you have not saved yet. Nothing about the plan is fixed.
How the days get cut
A day that holds together, not a list of ten things.
Every rule behind the plan is about the shape of a day on foot: what is near what, where lunch is, and where you are sleeping at the end of it.
Two spots in one neighbourhood are one day out
Two places a short walk apart are one outing, rather than being dealt out a day each. Two sights in the same barrio land together, which frees a day for somewhere else.
A day gets three things worth queueing for
Three must-visits a day is the ceiling, and it is what decides how the days are split between cities: a city you picked five spots in gets more of the trip than one you picked none in.
Lunch has to be near the day, or there is no lunch
A restaurant across the city is not lunch on that day, so the slot is left empty rather than filled with a row you would have to delete. Dinner and the evening are measured from where you are sleeping, because that is where the day ends.
You do not pack a suitcase to cross town
Cities close enough to commute between share one hotel for the whole run, out to the point where moving in pays for itself. A hotel you saved in Shinjuku is the bed for the Shibuya days too.
A budget is a rule, not a hint
Say $$ and you get places in that range. Somewhere well over it only turns up when nothing in range fits — it never wins for being a few hundred metres nearer.
Planning out of a list never empties a day
Plan the trip out of your Tokyo eats list and its spots take every slot they can. Where none of them fits, the rest of your map fills it — so choosing a list changes which spot you get, and never leaves you with a gap.
What else lands on a day
The things that only happen while you're there.
Events
A festival at a park, a pop-up at a bakery, an exhibition closing in November. Add it to the spot it happens at with dates, or with the words the post used — “mid October to early November” is stored as what it means and shown as what it said. When a trip overlaps one, the plan offers to put that spot on the day it falls on.
Tours
A trip suggests things to do in each of its cities, and adding one puts the tour on a day as one block — its meeting point and every stop, saved as spots on your map, numbered in the order the tour walks them. Share a tour link in and it does the same. Pocket Places may earn a commission on a tour or a stay booked through those links, at no extra cost to you.
Nothing to plan with yet? Start by saving spots from the posts you already have, or bring over what you saved in Google Maps.
Questions
What people ask about planning.
How do I plan a trip from places I already saved?
Open the Plan tab in Pocket Places, type what the trip is — “ten days in Japan in April with the kids” — and it builds the days out of the spots already on your map. It only ever schedules places you saved, so you are choosing between things you already wanted to do.
Where do the places in the plan come from?
Only from spots you saved. Nothing is recommended, suggested or invented — if it is on the plan, you put it on your map at some point. That is also why the days hold together: they are cut around where your own places actually are.
Can I change the plan afterwards?
Yes, all of it. Drag a stop to another day, drag a whole day to another point in the trip, add a day, add a spot from your map or from a search, or take a stop off. Anything that did not fit the days you gave it waits under “Not scheduled” rather than being dropped.
How long a trip can it plan?
Up to 32 days, across as many cities as you have spots in. A city you named with nothing saved in it is not dropped — you are offered a way to add a spot there instead.
What if a festival or an exhibition is on while I am there?
Add it as an event on the spot it happens at, with the dates or just the words (“mid October to early November”). When a trip overlaps it, the plan offers to seat that spot on the day the event falls on.
Can I add a tour to a day?
Yes. A trip suggests tours for each of its cities, and adding one saves its meeting point and every stop as spots on your map, as a block on the day you chose. Sharing a Viator tour link into the app does the same thing. Pocket Places may earn a commission on a tour or a stay booked through those links, at no extra cost to you.
Can somebody else see the trip?
Yes — send a link, the same way you share a list. They see the days as they stand, and their own visited stamps on the spots they have been to.
You already saved the places.
Now put them in an order.
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