SimpleTripTravel execution companion

Coming soon · Invitation-only internal beta

Plans in hand.Next stop,crystal clear.

SimpleTrip brings daily itineraries, mapped places, budget tracking, and lightweight actions into one journey. From planning before departure to each visit along the way, everything stays clear, effortless, and easy to revisit.

SimpleTrip is not yet publicly available. Invited testers receive access and installation details directly.

  • iPhone
  • iPad
  • Mac
  • Apple Watch

Fictional website exampleFour Days in Kyoto · Day 2 · October 18Morning Light Café · Seiran Garden · Riverside Bookshop · Lantern Town Diner

iPhone and Apple Watch simulator captures from a development build, combined with a conceptual Widget card. Screens use separately captured demo data and do not imply real-time synchronization or public availability.

THE WHOLE TRIP

Travel guides answer “Where should I go?”
SimpleTrip keeps answering “What’s next?”

Saving ideas and making plans are only the beginning. Once the trip starts, the day’s information should stay close and every action should stay light.

01

Before departure

Turn scattered ideas into clear days

Create a trip and its dates, collect places you want to visit, organize them by category, view them in your chosen order or by distance, and prepare a budget.
02

On the move

Let the plan answer what matters now

The main app shows places, visits, and progress for the selected date. Existing Watch, Widget, and Siri entry points surface the next stop, while Apple Maps takes over when directions are needed.
03

After the trip

Keep what actually happened

Review spending by category and browse the photo gallery. Export a full itinerary or a single day as PNG, PDF, or Markdown; current exports do not include photos.

ON THE MOVE

Choose a date.
Move through each place.

For the selected date, the main app centers on places, visit status, and completion progress. Next-stop information comes from code-backed entry points such as Watch, widgets, and Siri; skipping is limited to Today Route on Watch and select Home Screen widgets.

01

Choose the date first

The main app expands the selected date into its places, visit status, and completion progress.

02

Switch to the view you need

The timeline and compact map are separate interface states. The compact map has no inline text search, but POI selection can discover and quickly add places.

03

Update what happened

The main app records visits and calculates progress. Skipping is limited to Today Route on Watch and select Home Screen widgets.

04

Open directions when it is time to go

SimpleTrip keeps the itinerary context, then hands directions to Apple Maps.

The iPhone compact map has no inline text search; places can be discovered and quickly added through POI selection. iPad, Mac, and the place picker provide text search. The app does not draw routes; Apple Maps handles directions.

DEVELOPMENT BUILD · SIMULATOR CAPTURES

iPhone · Itinerary timeline

The day, ready to follow

iPhone simulator capture of a Simplified Chinese SimpleTrip development build, showing a demo day with a map preview, place cards, progress, and navigation actions.
A selected date expands into its map preview and planned places. Choose “Continue in Apple Maps” when it is time to leave.
iPhone · Compact map (separate interface state)

See the places in context

iPhone simulator capture of a Simplified Chinese SimpleTrip development build, showing categorized saved places and points of interest across Kyoto in the compact map.
This is a separate interface state for browsing and selecting POIs. It has no inline text search and does not draw routes inside SimpleTrip.

Simulator captures from a development build using a separate Kyoto demo dataset. The timeline and compact map are independent interface states, not one combined screen; no real user itinerary is shown.

CORE EXPERIENCE

Not more features.
A journey that keeps moving.

SimpleTrip is designed around one question in the moment: What do I need to know and do right now?

01

Organize by day, without the digging

Trips, dates, and places unfold in a clear hierarchy. Categories, filters, chosen-order or distance views, and visit status all live in the daily timeline.

  • Daily timeline
  • Place categories
  • Filter and sort
02

The map is an action point, not decoration

Select a place on the map and quickly add it to the trip. When it is time to go, hand the selected place to Apple Maps for directions.

  • POI selection
  • Place search
  • Apple Maps
03

One light tap is enough on the move

The main app records visits and completion progress. Today Route on Watch and select Home Screen widgets support skipping, while Watch, widgets, Siri, and other entry points surface the next stop.

  • Visits in the main app
  • Skip on Watch / select widgets
  • System next-stop entry points
04

Keep the budget and the memories

Record spending by category and review spending statistics. The photo gallery keeps memories separately, while itineraries can be exported in full or by day as PNG, PDF, or Markdown; current exports exclude photos.

  • Categorized spending
  • Photo gallery
  • Photo-free itinerary export

APPLE ECOSYSTEM

Different devices.
Different roles.

This describes interface and system entry-point coverage; it does not promise real-time synchronization across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Cross-device data depends on every CloudKit condition being met and the user enabling it.

DEVELOPMENT BUILD · SIMULATOR CAPTURES

iPad · Saved-content search

Search on a wider screen

iPad simulator capture of a Simplified Chinese SimpleTrip development build, showing a text search and three saved demo place results.
Text search across saved trips and places. This capture does not represent the map’s online POI search.
Apple Watch · Next stop

Confirm what’s next

Apple Watch simulator capture of a Simplified Chinese SimpleTrip development build, showing a demo next stop, distance, estimated walking time, Directions, and Visited actions.
Directions and marking a visit stay close at hand. Distance and walking time are demo values; Skip lives in Today Route swipe actions, not on this screen.
iPhone · Home Screen widgets

Progress at a glance

iPhone simulator Home Screen capture showing Simplified Chinese SimpleTrip next-stop and trip-progress widgets with demo Kyoto data.
The next-stop summary uses its category in privacy mode while the progress widget keeps the completion total. Skip is not shown here.
Separately captured simulator screens using built-in demo data. They document iPad saved-content search, an Apple Watch next-stop view, and Home Screen widgets; they do not evidence real-time cross-device synchronization, a public release, or general availability.
01

iPhone · iPad

Act on the go, organize on a wider screen

The iPhone compact map has no inline text search, but POI selection can discover and quickly add places. iPad and the place picker provide text search and a wider itinerary view.Your itinerary hub
02

Mac

Spread out a complex itinerary

A multi-column desktop layout makes it easier to organize places across several days and keep adding plans through text search.Desktop workspace
03

Apple Watch

Raise your wrist to confirm what’s next

See today’s itinerary, next stop, and progress. The next-stop page centers on directions and marking a visit; skipping lives in the swipe actions for Today Route.Quick actions on the move
04

Widget · Siri · Spotlight

Glance or jump in without opening the app

Home Screen, Lock Screen, Watch widgets, Siri, Shortcuts, and deep links provide immediate entry points. Spotlight participates in search after the user enables it.System-level entry points

PRODUCT STATUS

Separate what is in the project
from what still has conditions.

SimpleTrip is coming soon and is currently being tested through an invitation-only internal beta. The capabilities below are backed by the current project; availability can vary by test build, device, permission, and configuration.

Backed by current code

Implemented in the project

Core capabilities supported by the current repository

  • Trips, dates, places, and a daily timeline
  • Place categories and filters, with chosen-order or distance views
  • Map display, place search, quick add, and Apple Maps directions
  • Main app: places, visit status, and completion progress for the selected date
  • Existing Watch, Widget, and Siri entry points surface the next stop
  • Today Route on Watch and select Home Screen widgets support skipping
  • Budgets, categorized spending, and spending statistics; the photo gallery remains separate from itinerary exports
  • Export a complete itinerary or a single day as PNG, PDF, or Markdown; current exports do not include photos
  • Adaptive interfaces for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, plus Watch, widgets, Siri, Shortcuts, and deep links
  • Local data storage with SwiftData
Conditions apply

Configuration, switches, and engineering boundaries

Describe these as available only when every condition is met

01

CloudKit is off by default

It becomes available only after the CloudKit capability and container entitlement are configured, the bundle and container identifiers are consistent, private-database storage is used, local-data migration and error fallback are validated, security checks are complete, and the user explicitly enables it.

02

Spotlight requires user opt-in

Trips and places can appear in system search only after the user enables indexing.

03

visionOS currently has project coverage

At this stage, it is not described as a finished, purpose-built spatial experience.

04

The shared minimum deployment target is 26.2

This applies to the iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and visionOS project targets.

NEXT PHASE · AI ROADMAP

Not yet implemented as a complete capability

Get trip execution right first.
Then make AI genuinely useful.

AI should generate drafts that people can review and adjust, not make travel decisions for them. Conversational refinement and travel-journal generation belong to a later phase.

  1. 01Generate an itinerary draft
  2. 02Refine it in conversation
  3. 03Validate the schema
  4. 04Ask for confirmation
  5. 05Save the final itinerary

Review before it enters the itinerary

Generated results pass structural validation, and the user can still delete, reorder, or reject them. Any remote-AI phase must also establish clear security boundaries, prompt-injection defenses, and outbound-data controls.

The user always decides

AI provides a starting point and organizational help without presenting suggestions as unchangeable answers.

Travel-journal generation is a long-term direction

Automatically shaping the trip into a journal afterward is a vision, not a feature already available in this phase.

SIMPLETRIP

Coming soon.
Built around the next step.

SimpleTrip is being refined with invited internal beta testers. Public release details will be shared when they are confirmed.