How it works
The trip comes first. Everything else hangs off it.
Most travel apps give you a list of places and leave the itinerary to you. Wayfind works the other way round: it knows the trip, so everything it suggests is answering the question you're actually asking — what am I doing on Tuesday.
- Basilica di Santa Maria Landmark
0.25 mi (0.4 km) from where you're staying · 6 min walk
- Step-free entrance — reported present
- Accessible restroom — reported present
- Accessible parking — reported absent
- Quiet hours — nobody has checked
- Mercato Centrale Food hall
0.56 mi (0.9 km) from where you're staying · 12 min walk
- Step-free entrance — reported present
- Elevator to upper floor — reported present
- Low-sensory area — reported absent
- Baby changing — nobody has checked
- Giardino degli Aranci Garden
1 mi (1.6 km) from where you're staying · 21 min walk · uphill
- Flat terrain once inside — reported present
- Benches throughout — reported present
- Step-free entrance — reported absent
- Accessible restroom — nobody has checked
- Libreria del Viaggiatore Bookshop
0.37 mi (0.6 km) from where you're staying · 8 min walk
- Nobody has added access information yet — nobody has checked
Nothing in this list matches all of those at once — which is the honest answer, not an empty screen.
Illustrative. Access facts in the app come from Google Places, OpenStreetMap (shown unverified) and travelers, and are always one of three states — including “nobody has checked”.
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Build the trip
Days, and what happens on them. Flights, trains, ferries, buses or driving between places; where you're staying; car rental; activities; notes. Confirmation numbers and documents attach to the trip they belong to, so the booking reference isn't in an email you can't find at an airport.
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Say who's with you
Wheelchair, limited mobility, stroller, carrying luggage, with kids, need somewhere quiet. These are travel constraints, not a medical form — and they're as useful on the day you're hauling a suitcase as on any other. Change them per trip, or per day.
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Let Explore fill the days
Explore already knows which trip you're on, which day it is and where you're staying, so it ranks from there and shows its reasoning — distance from your accommodation, walking time, what the access situation actually is. One tap puts a place on a specific day. Google Maps can't do this, because it doesn't know your trip.
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Change your mind out loud
“Move my Rome days to Florence instead.” The assistant makes the whole set of changes as one decision you can review. Small edits just happen and can be undone; only the ones that cascade stop to ask — and then they show you exactly what breaks, including whether a booking is refundable.
On the phone
What it looks like.
Wayfind is in TestFlight, so these change often. They're from the current build.
In the app
What's actually there.
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Trip planner
Multi-day itineraries with per-day transport, accommodation, car rental, activities and notes. Trips import and export, so your planning isn't hostage to us.
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Trip calendar
A timeline of the trip itself — departures, check-ins, activities — with a month view for longer trips. It's a view over your trip, not a second calendar to maintain.
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Packing lists
Tied to the trip and shared with whoever the trip is shared with.
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Invite people properly
Someone you invite by email gets the trip in their own Wayfind app, as an editor who can change things or a viewer who can't.
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Calendar link for everyone else
Hand out a subscribable link and a relative can follow your itinerary in Google Calendar, Outlook, Apple Calendar or Cozi — no Wayfind account, no app install.
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Accessibility in the data
Not a mode you switch on. Access facts sit on the places themselves, from Google Places, OpenStreetMap and travelers, always labeled with which.
Before you rely on it
What Wayfind doesn't do.
Worth knowing now rather than at a boarding gate.
- It doesn't book anything. No flights, hotels or cars are booked or sold here. You book where you always book; Wayfind holds the plan.
- The calendar link isn't live sync. Calendar providers cache subscriptions and refresh on their own schedule, so an edit can take hours to appear on someone else's calendar. We can't change that from our side, so we don't pretend otherwise.
- Accessibility coverage isn't global. Access facts appear where we have them and are marked where we don't. Seeded OpenStreetMap data currently covers central Rome; Google's fields appear anywhere Google has them; traveler contributions are just starting.
- Nothing is inspected by us. Third-party data ships marked unverified. We are not sending anyone to measure a doorway.
- iPhone only. No Android, no web app, no desktop.
- Maps need a connection. Your itinerary and packing list work offline; searching and maps don't.