Postcard
Plan the trip. Keep what was worth it.
Everyone plans a holiday twice. Once in the weeks before, out of half-remembered recommendations — and once more, three years later, trying to recall whether that temple was the one worth getting up at six for or the one that was a queue with a view. Postcard is built for the second time. You plan the places, you tick them off as you go, and you say what you thought. Nothing is thrown away when you get home, so the next trip to the same place starts with what the last one learned.
How it works
- Write down the places, not the schedule. Somewhere recommended in a pub is not something you have a date for yet. It goes in Ideas, and you swipe it onto a day when you decide — or never, which is also fine.
- Every day of the trip is there, empty ones included. The gaps are the point of looking at a plan. Each place sits in the morning, the afternoon or the evening, because that is the resolution a plan made six weeks out actually has.
- Tick things off as you go. One tap on the row, big enough to hit while walking.
- Say what you thought. Loved it, Fine, or Skip it — three answers rather than five stars, because the only question that survives a year is whether you would send someone there again.
- Write the line you would tell yourself. "Get there before 7am — past the first twenty minutes of gates there is nobody at all." That sentence is the whole app.
The trip you take twice
Type a destination you have been to and the new-trip form stops being a form.
Everywhere you loved is listed under it, with what you wrote at the time and a
+ on each one. Tap the ones you want and they land in the new trip's
ideas, carrying the advice with them.
What comes across is the description and what you learned — the name, the kind of thing it is, the city, and the note. What does not is the day, the tick and the verdict. The new trip has its own dates and nowhere on it has been visited yet, so a fresh plan never arrives already ticked off.
Somewhere you went on two trips is one entry, remembered at its best: a place you loved in 2024 and had a mediocre lunch at in 2026 is still a place you loved. And the things you marked Skip it are kept well away from the recommendations — a list of good places with a dud in the middle is worse than no list.
Advice only ever comes from trips that have finished. Two trips to Japan in the same year should not have the one you are packing for taking notes from the one you have not been on yet.
Been
A second tab holds everywhere you have ever been, grouped by destination and searchable by the name, the city, or anything you wrote afterwards. Filter it to what was worth it, or to what was not — the second list is shorter and, on the morning you are deciding what to do, considerably more useful.
Small things that matter on the ground
- A crowded day gets flagged. More than four things on one day and the app says so. It never refuses a plan — it just mentions it before you are standing in Kyoto at 4pm with three temples left.
- Shortening a trip does not lose anything. Places on the days you cut go back to Ideas rather than disappearing with them.
- Saying what you thought means you went. Nobody taps "loved it" about somewhere they skipped, so the tick looks after itself.
- "Japan" and "japan" are the same place. So are "São Paulo" and "sao paulo". Typing a destination in a hurry three years from now still finds the trip you took this spring.
No account, and no network at all
There is no sign-in screen. No password, no email, no "continue with" button, and no server — because the app never talks to one. Your trips are a database on your iPhone and they stay there. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is analysed, and there is nothing to opt out of.
Requires
iOS 18.0 or later, on iPhone. Portrait only.