Frequently asked
questions

Tripsyc is a free group trip planning tool that replaces your chaotic group chat with structured decisions. Your group picks dates, votes on destinations, sets budgets privately, and locks in plans, all in one place. No more 150-message threads with no conclusion.

Tap "Start planning" on the homepage. Enter your name, give your trip a name, optionally pick a month, cover photo, and vibe. That’s it, you’ll get an invite link to share with your crew.

Not up front. They just click the invite link you share (via WhatsApp, iMessage, email, or QR code). They’ll enter their email and verify with a one-time code, no passwords, no friction.

Instead of passwords, we email you a 6-digit code. Enter it and you’re in. You can also sign in with Google. It’s faster, safer, and you’ll never forget it.

Yes, completely free. All features are available to everyone, no paywalls, no premium tiers, no limits on trips or members.

Every member marks dates as Available, Flexible, or Unavailable on a shared calendar. Tripsyc automatically finds the overlap, dates where at least 60% of the group can make it. When the group agrees, the date locks in.

It’s a three-phase democratic process:

1. Suggest: Anyone adds destinations with city, country, and optional cost estimates
2. Shortlist: The organizer narrows it down based on votes and feasibility
3. Final: The group votes, majority wins, and the destination locks

You can upvote or downvote each destination, leave comments, and flag dealbreakers.

Every member privately sets their maximum budget. Individual numbers are never shown to anyone. Instead, Tripsyc shows the group an anonymous "comfort zone", the range where everyone’s budgets overlap. This prevents awkward money conversations while ensuring the group picks destinations everyone can afford.

When the group reaches consensus (60% for dates, majority for destinations), the decision can be locked. Once locked, it’s final, no more back-and-forth. This is what turns endless discussions into actual plans. The trip creator or co-organizers can trigger locks.

Yes, but it requires a group vote. The trip creator or a co-organizer can start an unlock request, and then all members vote. If enough people approve (60-70% depending on timing), the decision reopens. Votes expire after 48 hours. This prevents one person from unilaterally changing locked plans.

On the trip’s date calendar, long-press (or press and hold) any day to see a breakdown of who’s available on that specific day. A bottom sheet slides up showing each member’s availability status, Available, Flexible, or Unavailable, alongside their name. Useful when comparing specific days or resolving disagreements about which weekend works best.

Each destination gets a score from 0–100 based on how well it matches your group. Tripsyc combines each member’s travel style (chill, adventure, party, culture, food, nature) and the trip’s declared type (Friends, Birthday, Bachelor(ette), Festival, Family) into a Group Profile, then scores destinations against that profile. The fit ring shows a color-coded score with short reasons ("matches your nature lean", "stretches the budget") so you understand *why*, not just the number.

Each destination shows three optional live chips:

- Local time — the current time at the destination, so you know whether you’d be landing at 6 am
- AQ — Google’s Universal Air Quality Index (higher is better; 60+ green, 40–59 amber, <40 red)
- Pollen — today’s pollen level (Low / Moderate / High, etc.)

Data comes from Google’s Time Zone, Air Quality, and Pollen APIs and is cached server-side. If Google doesn’t return data for a city (remote or unknown location), the chip is silently hidden rather than showing an error.

No. When a destination doesn’t have a curated photo, Tripsyc falls back to a generated Google Static Map centered on the city’s coordinates, so every card still has visual context. If the static map also fails, a gradient placeholder renders instead. The same fallback applies to the destination detail screen on both web and iOS.

Yes. Tripsyc pulls a 7-day forecast (and historical climate for the trip’s month) from Open-Meteo, shown on destination cards during discovery. Temperature, precipitation, and general conditions help the group compare "Lisbon in November" vs "Mallorca in November" at a glance. Weather is optional delight, not a blocker: if the upstream call fails the card just renders without it.

Yes. The moment a trip’s DATE lock lands, a Save trip dates to Calendar pill appears between the hero and the rest of the trip page on iOS, and the equivalent Add to Calendar download button is available on the locked trip page on web. Tap to create a calendar event for the exact range, with the trip name as title and the locked destination as the event location. iOS uses the native Add-to-Calendar editor so you can pick which calendar to drop it on; web hands you an .ics file. Smart Plan also exports a richer .ics with every accepted itinerary item.

Yes. The moment a lock lands, Tripsyc opens a share sheet so you can brag to friends outside the app. On iOS the sheet hands ShareLink a freshly-rendered 1080×1350 “save-the-date” card (trip name, dates, destination, Tripsyc watermark) so iMessage / WhatsApp / Instagram Stories embed a real preview image instead of a tiny favicon. On mobile web it hits the system share sheet (handing the URL to WhatsApp / email / etc.). Desktop falls back to copy-to-clipboard.

Copy auto-adjusts when both decisions lock, the final lock says "🎉 Our trip is officially happening!" instead of a single-decision message, so the moment that closes the plan feels distinct from the ones along the way.

Smart Plan is Tripsyc’s group-tuned AI itinerary drafter. Tap Generate and Tripsyc reads your locked dates, destination, and every attending member’s profile (dietary, hard nos, walking comfort, party scale, sober status, photo permissions, budgets) and writes a day-by-day plan tuned to *your* group, not a generic guide. Available on both web (`/trip/[id]/ai-itinerary`) and inside the iOS More grid as Smart Plan.

Every suggestion in the draft has thumbs-up / thumbs-down buttons. The whole crew votes. The moment up-votes cross majority of attendees, that item auto-promotes into the real itinerary (with confetti on iOS) and disappears from the draft. Strong group down-vote auto-dismisses an item so it doesn’t clutter the list. The action turns endless "what should we do?" debate into something the group decides together.

Yes. Organizers (creator + co-organizers) see an Accept winners button next to the action row. It walks every still-live draft item and promotes any that already cleared the majority threshold in one round trip. Gated behind a confirm modal because promoted items are terminal in the draft. Per-item one-tap Add is also available, useful for solo trips where you don’t need a vote, or items the organizer already negotiated offline.

Every Smart Plan item has a chevron labeled “Why this fits your group”. Tap to expand a coral-tinted panel that surfaces reasoning chips, meal / activity / transport, free / budget-friendly / mid-range / premium, morning / afternoon / evening, named-venue, plus the rationale text. The point is to make the group profile *visible*, not implied.

Yes. After generating once, a Compare B button appears. Generate a second draft (different tone), then both run side-by-side with an A/B switcher and per-day picks. The crew can vote across both, and accepted items from either plan flow into the real itinerary.

Yes. Tap the Rebalance day button on any day in the draft. Optionally drop a free-text reason (“too much walking”, “more food please”, “less touristy”) and Tripsyc replaces only that day’s suggestions while keeping the rest of the plan intact.

A no-LLM rule-based auditor that flags issues in the draft against the group profile: “Someone is sober and Day 2 has 3 bar stops”, “Walking floor exceeded on Day 4”, “Missing meal on Day 3”, “Budget over band on Day 2”. Tap the “Re-audit” pill to refresh after rebalancing.

Smart Plan has a per-user cap of 10 successful generations per 24 hours (cost control). Failed generations don’t burn the cap. Tripsyc refunds the slot when Gemini errors, times out, returns malformed JSON, or hits a safety filter. So you only “lose” a slot when you actually got a draft. The window rolls forward, not all-at-once at midnight.

Yes. Without both locks the drafter can’t produce a useful day-by-day plan, so the Generate button shows a dim pre-state until the trip’s DATE and DESTINATION locks land. Once both are stamped, Smart Plan is ready.

The Overview is your personal command center across all trips. It has four tabs:

- Dashboard: Quick stats, attention alerts, trip status cards, and conflict warnings
- Calendar: Your global free/tentative/busy days, with trip date overlays and holidays
- Costs: Total spending, category breakdown, trip comparisons, and who owes who
- Insights: Travel timeline, pace tracker, travel buddies ranking, and destinations explored

Instead of marking your free days separately for each trip, you can set your availability once on the global calendar. It syncs across all your trips, so when a new trip asks "when can you go?", your free and tentative days are already there. Click to cycle through Free, Tentative, and Busy, or drag to paint multiple days at once.

On any trip’s date selection page, tap the "Pre-fill from my global calendar" button. All your global free/tentative/busy days are instantly imported into that trip’s calendar. You can still adjust per-trip before saving.

Recurring patterns let you mark common schedules in one click:

- Weekends free: Marks all Saturdays and Sundays as available
- Weekdays busy: Marks Monday through Friday as unavailable
- Fridays flexible: Sets all Fridays as tentative
- Mark all free / tentative: Fills the entire month

These save time if your schedule follows a regular pattern.

Toggle the holiday overlay to see public holidays for your region. We support 20+ countries including US, UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Poland, Czech Republic, Canada, and Australia. Your region is auto-detected from your device locale. Holidays appear as dots on the calendar with a list below, great for spotting long weekends and bank holidays when planning.

When a trip has locked dates, those date ranges appear as colored bands on your global calendar. This makes it easy to see at a glance when you’re booked for trips, spot conflicts, and find free windows for new trips.

Tripsyc automatically warns you when two trips overlap or are scheduled within 5 days of each other. Overlapping trips show a red warning with the number of conflicting days. Close-together trips show a yellow advisory so you can decide if back-to-back travel works for you.

The Costs tab on the Overview page aggregates all your expenses across every trip. You’ll see:

- Total spent across all trips
- You owe: total unsettled debts you need to pay
- Owed to you: total unsettled debts others need to pay you
- Category breakdown: Where your money goes (food, transport, accommodation, etc.)
- Trip comparison: Bar chart comparing your spend across trips
- Settlements: Who owes who across all trips, with trip names

A visual chart showing how your trip spending splits across categories like Food, Transport, Accommodation, Activities, Shopping, Drinks, and Other. Percentages are calculated from your personal share of expenses, not the group total. This helps you understand your travel spending habits over time.

A single view of all unsettled debts across every trip. Instead of checking each trip individually, you can see all of your "you owe" and "owed to you" balances in one place, with the relevant trip names listed. Great for settling up with friends you travel with repeatedly.

A vertical timeline showing all your trips in chronological order. Trips with locked dates appear on the timeline with their date ranges. Active trips (happening right now) show a progress bar. Past trips are dimmed. Trips still in planning appear with their approximate month. It’s a quick way to see your travel history and upcoming plans.

The Insights tab ranks the people you travel with most. It shows each person’s name, the number of shared trips, and which trips you’ve done together. Useful for seeing your core travel crew at a glance.

A simple tracker showing your total trips, how many have confirmed dates, and how many are recent or upcoming. If you’ve had 3+ trips in the last 6 months, you’ll see a "you’re on a roll" badge. It’s a fun way to track how much you’re traveling.

A country-grouped view of all destinations across your trips. Each destination city appears as a chip, with a checkmark if it’s the locked (confirmed) destination. The trip names are listed below each country. It’s like a mini travel map without the map.

Your at-a-glance view of everything happening across your trips. It shows quick stats (total trips, confirmed count, debts), attention alerts, trip status cards, and conflict warnings. Think of it as your trip planning inbox.

Three types of attention alerts:

- Availability alerts: Trips that are still gathering dates but you haven’t submitted yours yet
- Deadline alerts: Date or destination voting deadlines closing within 7 days
- Packing alerts: Upcoming trips where you still have unchecked packing list items

Each alert links directly to the relevant trip so you can take action.

Yes. On the anniversary of a confirmed trip’s start date, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 years later. Tripsyc sends each member a gentle throwback push and email. Tap through to the trip’s recap page to revisit stats, the timeline, who was there, and destinations you considered. From the recap you can one-tap "Plan another trip with this crew" and Tripsyc will clone the old trip skeleton and fan out fresh invites, so a nostalgic ping can become a whole new trip in seconds.

Throwbacks respect the normal notification mute rules: if you’ve muted a trip, you won’t get pinged about its anniversary either.

Each trip card shows its current stage:

- Gathering: Still collecting dates, destinations, and budgets
- Voting: Destinations have been suggested, voting is active
- Locked: Either dates or destination (but not both) have been locked
- Confirmed: Both dates and destination are locked. The trip is planned!

No problem. Tripsyc detects that the trip already has confirmed dates and skips the availability step entirely. You land straight on the trip dashboard where you can see the locked dates and start planning. There is no need to vote on something that is already decided.

When you join a trip with locked dates, you can enter your personal arrival and departure dates. Tripsyc stores these so the organizer knows exactly which days you are there. This also tells the expense system you are a partial attendee, so future accommodation or per-night costs can be split proportionally based on your actual days rather than the full trip length.

Expenses that were created before you joined are not automatically assigned to you. When you join, the trip organizer receives a notification listing any unsettled group expenses you were not included in, and can choose to add you to the ones that apply (for example a shared villa or group dinner). Expenses that are already fully settled cannot be changed.

Yes. When a new expense is added and split equally among the whole group, Tripsyc automatically excludes members who have RSVPd as Maybe or Can't make it. Only confirmed Going members (and members who have not yet set their RSVP) are included in the default equal split. You can always manually override which members share any individual expense.

They do not need to leave. Staying in the group is often the right move:

- Plans change: Can't go in February might become yes in April. They can update their RSVP anytime.
- Still helping: They might know the destination well and want to help plan, suggest restaurants, or review itinerary items.
- Financial history: If they were already part of any settled expenses, the records stay intact.
- Visibility: The organizer can see exactly who is committed, who is out, and plan group size for accommodation and transport accordingly.

The main effect is that they are excluded from new equal-split expenses going forward.

Maybe is a soft commitment. You are included in date voting (your flexibility matters for scheduling), included in destination voting (your preferences count), and you stay in the group chat. However, you are excluded from automatic equal-split expenses until you confirm Going. Think of it as 'I want to be part of planning but I am not locked in financially yet.'

Yes. RSVP is always editable. Any member can change their status from Can't make it back to Going or Maybe at any time from the trip's member settings. Once they update to Going, they will be included in new equal-split expenses from that point forward.

A shared board where anyone can drop links (TikToks, Instagram reels, YouTube videos, Airbnb listings, Google Maps locations) or plain notes for the group. Links are auto-detected and show rich previews. Great for sharing restaurant recommendations, hotel options, or travel inspo.

Notes can be pinned to stay at the top for quick reference, and organized with categories like Restaurants, Activities, Accommodations, Packing, Ideas, and Other. Filter by category to find what you need fast.

Lightweight messaging built into each trip. It’s designed for quick coordination, not as a replacement for WhatsApp, but as a focused space where trip-related conversations stay organized alongside your planning tools.

Chat includes pinned messages so important info stays visible at the top, and a search bar to quickly find past messages. Long-press any message to pin or unpin it.

Polls let you create quick group votes on anything, "Which restaurant tonight?", "Beach day or city tour?", "Should we rent a car?". Supports single-select or multi-select voting. You can set an optional expiry date so polls auto-close after a deadline, with a live countdown showing how much time is left to vote.

A shared checklist where members can add items the group needs. Useful for coordinating who brings what, no one needs to pack three portable speakers.

Once your trip is locked, you can build a day-by-day itinerary with flights, hotels, activities, restaurants, and transport. Each item can include a time, location, URL, phone number, and confirmation code. Everything your group needs in one place instead of scattered across emails and booking apps.

On web, itinerary lives under its own tab inside the trip. You can add, edit, or delete items and filter by category. On iOS, the itinerary is accessible from the trip’s More grid and is also compiled into the Trip Guide: a clean read-only view that combines your itinerary and tasks in one place for easy day-of reference.

The Trip Guide is a read-only summary of your trip designed for day-of use. Open it from the trip’s More grid on iOS.

It shows:
- Emergency contacts pinned at the top with one-tap phone links
- Itinerary grouped by date, with category icons (flights, hotels, restaurants, etc.), times, locations, confirmation codes, and booking links
- Tasks split into pending and completed, with assignee names

Everything you need during the trip without having to navigate through planning tools.

Tasks (also called Responsibilities) are to-do items tied to a trip, things like "book airport transfers", "confirm hotel check-in time", or "collect everyone’s passport details". You can assign tasks to specific members, add descriptions, and mark them complete.

Tasks now support due dates and priority levels (High, Medium, Low). Overdue tasks are highlighted in red so nothing slips through the cracks. Tasks can be filtered by status: All, Overdue, Upcoming, or Completed.

Pending tasks appear in the Trip Guide, and completed tasks can be expanded to review what’s been done.

When you tick a task off, the checkmark spring-bounces (iOS), and the moment the last task flips done a “WE’RE TRIP-READY” banner slides in at the top of the Tasks tab with a one-tap share to brag (“We’re 18/18 on prep tasks. Trip-ready 🤝”). The all-tasks-done confetti burst pairs with both.

Each member can mark themselves as Going, Maybe, or Can’t make it. This gives the trip creator a quick headcount without chasing everyone individually. The invite page shows a live summary of the group’s status.

Snaps are Stories-style photo posts scoped to a trip. Tap the camera plus on the Snaps tab, pick a moment, optionally caption it. The crew sees a circular avatar row with rotating coral→gold rings on authors who have unseen snaps, just like Instagram Stories. Tap a ring to play through that author’s snaps; tap-and-hold pauses, swipe across to scrub authors. React with emoji.

Snaps expire 7 days after the trip ends (or 7 days from upload if dates aren’t locked), they’re meant to be in-the-moment, not permanent. When a snap crosses the reaction threshold the server auto-posts it to the trip chat as moment of the day so the whole group sees the highlight in the conversation they’re already watching.

On the iOS Trips list, any trip card whose crewmates are currently viewing it wears a soft pulsing sage halo that breathes via two slightly out-of-phase sines, and any trip with activity in the last 5 minutes pulses coral. Most cards have no halo, so the live ones really pop. Data flows over Supabase Realtime; the moment someone backgrounds the app or navigates away, their presence drops.

When big moments happen in a trip, dates lock, destination locks, both decisions land (trip confirmed!), or someone new joins. Tripsyc auto-posts a short message into the trip chat so the whole group sees the planning momentum in the conversation they’re already watching. You’ll see messages like:

- 🔒 Dates locked: Jun 15, 2026, Jun 22, 2026
- 📍 Destination locked: Lisbon, Portugal
- 🎉 Trip is officially confirmed, start packing!
- 👋 Alex joined the crew!

These post under the person who caused the event (the organizer who locked it, or the member who joined) so they read naturally in the thread rather than from a robotic "system" account.

Yes. When another member has the same trip open on web or iOS, a pulsing green "live presence" row appears at the top of the trip with their avatar and name ("Sarah is here now", or "Sarah and 2 others are here now"). It works over Supabase Realtime with a 10-second heartbeat, so it reflects who’s actively viewing within the last 15 seconds. When they background the app or navigate away, they disappear from the list automatically. Great for knowing when to start a conversation in chat vs. wait for later.

Anyone can log an expense with a title, amount, and category (Food, Drinks, Transport, Accommodation, Activities, Shopping, or Other). Expenses are automatically split equally among selected members.

The Expenses tab now includes a Spending Insights card showing category breakdown with progress bars, per-person spending, and averages. Click any expense to see the full split breakdown with settle toggles. Click any balance in "Who Owes Who" to see the underlying transactions that make up that debt.

Two ways:

1. Per-trip: Switch to the "Who Owes Who" tab in any trip’s Expenses page for that trip’s balances
2. Cross-trip: Go to Overview > Costs > Settlements to see all unsettled debts across every trip in one place

Tripsyc calculates net balances, so instead of 10 individual debts, you might only have 3 simplified transfers.

Yes. Settle buttons are role-aware: if you owe someone, you see "I Paid". If someone owes you, you see "Mark Received". If it is between two other people, you see "Nudge" to send them a reminder. The balance view updates automatically across both the trip and the Overview.

Tap any member avatar in the balance view to see their profile with payment methods (Venmo, Cash App, PayPal, Zelle, etc.) so you can pay them directly outside the app.

Yes. When adding an expense, choose Custom split and select exactly who was involved. If only 4 out of 6 people went to dinner, deselect the two who didn’t. The per-person amount adjusts automatically. You can also choose Just Me to log a solo expense with no split.

Yes. When adding an expense with a Custom split, toggle to Per-person amounts mode. Instead of splitting equally, you can enter a specific amount for each person, useful when someone ordered more, used a different room tier, or paid a different share for any reason. The individual amounts must add up to the total expense.

Yes. On the Expenses page, tap the export button (top right) to download a CSV of all trip expenses. Each row includes the date, title, category, amount, currency, who paid, and split type. Great for accounting, tax purposes, or settling up in a spreadsheet.

When the last open balance flips to zero — i.e. nobody owes anybody on the trip — the All Settled Up view fires a confetti burst (iOS) and surfaces a one-tap share button with a pre-filled “We just settled every balance on . 🤝” message. The confetti is latched against “have we ever had a balance” so a fresh trip with zero expenses doesn’t accidentally celebrate.

On the Overview page, the Net Balance card is now a button — tap (or click on web) and Tripsyc smooth-scrolls down to the All Settlements section so you can act on the number, not just stare at it. If everything’s already settled, the chevron is hidden and the tap quietly no-ops.

Never. Your exact budget is completely private. Only an anonymous range (the group’s comfort zone) is shown, and only when 4 or more members have submitted budgets. No one, not even the trip creator, can see individual budget numbers.

Three roles:

- Creator: The person who made the trip. Full control: rename, delete, lock decisions, manage phases, promote members
- Co-organizer: Promoted by the creator. Can lock decisions and manage destination phases
- Member: Can suggest destinations, vote, set dates, add expenses, and use all collaboration features

Yes, the creator can promote another member to creator in trip settings. This is useful if the original planner wants to hand off organizing duties.

Yes, go to Trip Settings and you’ll see a "Leave Trip" option. Note: the trip creator cannot leave, they must transfer ownership to another member first, or delete the trip.

Five ways:

1. Copy link: Share the invite URL anywhere
2. WhatsApp / iMessage: One-tap share buttons with a pre-filled message
3. Email: Enter their email and we send a branded invite
4. QR code: Perfect for in-person sharing. They scan and join instantly
5. Crew: Save a friend group once and pick it when you start a new trip, everyone gets invited automatically.

A Crew is a saved group of friends, think "NYC Ride or Dies" or "the hiking crew". Create one under Profile → Account → Crews (or the Crews screen in the iOS app). Each member needs a name and email address; you’re auto-added as the owner.

Once you’ve saved a crew, pick it on the Create Trip screen under "Start with a crew" and everyone on the roster gets invited to the new trip without you having to enter their addresses one by one.

We look at everyone on the crew (except you), then for each person:

- If they already have Tripsyc installed and signed in, they get a push notification so they can accept the invite in the app.
- We also send a branded invite email with a join link they can tap from anywhere, so contacts who aren’t on the app yet still hear from us.

They’re not auto-added as trip members, they still need to accept the invite (and pick their RSVP) before they show up on the roster. Declining doesn’t change the crew; the crew and the trip are separate records.

Invites only go out to people with an email address, that’s how both the push notification and the branded invite email get delivered. Adding a name-only contact wouldn’t actually invite them to the trip, so the form requires both fields.

Yes, this is the fastest way to plan trip #2. From the trip’s recap page (web) or the Memories view (iOS More grid), tap "Plan another trip with this crew". Name the new trip and Tripsyc clones the skeleton (same destination candidates, same approximate month carried over, fresh votes, fresh availability) and automatically fans out branded invite emails plus push notifications to every member of the old trip except you.

You’ll see a success message like "Created! Invited 5 crewmates" and land directly on the new trip, ready to go. Perfect for the "loved it, let’s do it again" moment on the way home from the first trip.

No hard limit. Tripsyc works best with groups of 3-15 people, which covers most friend-group and family trips.

No. You need the invite link with the trip’s unique code. This keeps your trip private and prevents random people from joining.

Yes. In Trip Settings → Invitations, organizers can toggle invites off to stop new joins via the link. Useful once your group is finalized. Available on both web and iOS.

Yes! The Tripsyc iOS app is available on the App Store. It has all the same features as the web version: dates, destinations, expenses, itinerary, photos, chat, and more, optimized for mobile. Your account and trips sync instantly between web and app.

Yes. On any trip's date page, tap the Import button next to the month name. Tripsyc reads your iOS calendar for that month and pre-fills your availability: days with events are marked Unavailable, empty days are marked Available. You can still adjust anything before saving. Tripsyc only reads your calendar; it never writes to it without your action.

Yes. Once dates are locked, you'll see an "Add to Calendar" button. Tap it to create a calendar event for your trip in any of your iOS calendars. It uses iOS's native calendar picker so you can choose exactly which calendar to add it to.

In the Photos tab, tap the + button to add a photo from your library. Photos are compressed automatically before uploading. In the photo viewer, you can pinch to zoom, save photos to your Camera Roll, share via AirDrop or any app, or delete your own photos.

The app requires an internet connection to load and sync data. There's no offline mode. Your trip data lives on our servers so the whole group sees the same thing in real time.

The Memories view is a recap card for your trip, accessible from the trip’s More grid. It pulls together:

- Trip summary card: boarding-pass style header with trip name, destination, dates, and member count
- Stats: total activities, itinerary items, photos, tasks, and days until (or since) the trip
- What’s planned: breakdown of itinerary categories (flights, hotels, activities, etc.)
- Your crew: all members with home cities as colored chips
- Destinations considered: every destination the group voted on
- Key milestones: a timeline of highlights from the trip’s activity feed

Great for sharing, reminiscing, or just seeing your trip at a glance.

Yes, on both web and iOS. In Trip Settings → My Info, you can set your home city for that specific trip. Your home city is used to calculate distance and estimated travel time to the trip’s destination, so if you’re flying from a different city than usual, you can update it here without changing your global profile.

On the Trips screen, tap the sort button (top right) to cycle through sort options:

- Recently updated: trips with the most recent activity appear first (default)
- Upcoming: sorted by trip start date, nearest first
- Alphabetical: sorted A-Z by trip name
- Newest created: most recently created trips first

On each destination card, Tripsyc shows estimated travel time from your home city. For destinations within ~1,500 km, it shows a drive time estimate. For longer distances, it shows an estimated flight time. Your home city comes from your profile (or per-trip My Info in Trip Settings). Distance is shown in both km and miles.

When someone is composing a message in the trip chat, a "typing" indicator appears for other members. It shows their name and a pulsing animation while they type, and disappears when they send or stop typing. Typing state updates in real time.

Yes. The iOS app sends push notifications for the moments that matter: new members joining your trip, new chat messages and @mentions, new destination suggestions, date + destination deadlines closing, expense activity (added, settled, nudges), RSVP changes, and throwback notifications on the anniversary of confirmed trips (1-5 years after). Tripsyc suppresses notifications for the trip you're currently viewing (we show in-app banners instead) so you don’t get pinged about things you're already looking at. You can tune categories per-trip in Settings → Notifications.

Check your spam/junk folder first, since some email providers filter one-time codes. If it's not there, wait 60 seconds and request a new code. Make sure you entered the exact email address you used to sign up. If you're still stuck, try a different browser or device.

Three things to check:

1. Invites disabled: the trip creator may have turned off invites in Trip Settings
2. Already a member: if you're already in the trip, the link will redirect you to the trip page
3. Expired session: try opening the link in an incognito/private window

If none of those apply, ask the trip creator to generate a fresh invite link.

Try a hard refresh (Ctrl+Shift+R on Windows, Cmd+Shift+R on Mac). If the issue persists, clear your browser cache or try a different browser. For the iOS app, force-quit and reopen it. If you're getting a specific error message, note it down and contact us, it helps us diagnose the issue faster.

After marking your dates, tap the Save Availability button at the bottom of the calendar. Changes are staged locally first and only sent to the server when you save. If the save fails, check your internet connection and try again. Your selections stay visible until you reload the page.

Locking requires organizer or co-organizer role. If you're a regular member, ask the trip creator to do it. If you are the creator and the lock button is grayed out, check that the voting threshold has been met (60% availability for dates, majority vote for destinations).

Photos are compressed automatically, but very large files (20MB+) may still time out. Try selecting a different photo or a lower-resolution version. On iOS, screenshots and recently taken photos usually upload fine. If uploading from a URL, make sure the URL points directly to an image file (ending in .jpg, .png, .webp, etc.).

On iOS, the Group Profile screen leads with a hexagon radar chart scored across six axes (activity level, planning style, budget overlap, trip length, daily walking floor, accommodation pref). 1.0 means the whole crew agrees; the polygon shrinks toward the centre wherever the group splits. Per-axis scores are coloured sage / gold / coral so you can see where the friction is at a glance, and a one-tap share button snapshots a 1080×1350 “OUR CREW VIBE” card with the radar + a Tripsyc watermark, ready for Instagram Stories. Web parity for the chart is on the roadmap; the existing Compatibility page already supports PNG capture and share.

On both web (Account → Crews) and iOS (Crews tab), every saved Crew wears a tier badge derived from member count: DUO (2–3), RIDE OR DIES (4–7), INNER CIRCLE (8–11), LEGENDS (12+). Pure flair — no behaviour change — but it turns a flat directory into a leveled identity, and growing past a threshold visibly graduates the crew.

These Tier-3 group-fit axes feed two things: the Compatibility radar (so the chart is honest about where the crew aligns) and the Smart Plan group profile lines (so the AI knows you’re sober, motion-sick on long boats, prefer sunset over sunrise, etc.). Filling them is optional, but the more you fill the sharper Smart Plan’s suggestions get and the more accurate the radar.

Only what’s needed to run the app: your email, name, trip preferences, and planning data (dates, votes, expenses). We don’t sell data, run ads, or share information with third parties.

Yes, contact us and we'll delete your account and all associated data. We're working on a self-service option in the account settings.

Yes. Go to Account to set your name, profile photo (with built-in compression), home city, bio, preferred travel style, and default currency. Your default currency is used as the fallback when a new trip hasn't set its own currency yet. Your travel style and city are pre-filled when you join new trips.

Tripsyc accepts any ISO 4217 currency for the trip's denominator and your personal expenses. When someone logs an expense in a currency that isn't the trip's, the row automatically shows the equivalent in the trip currency underneath using live ECB reference rates, no widget, no taps. Live conversion covers the ~30 most-traded currencies (USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, AUD, CAD, INR, CNY, MXN, BRL, ZAR, and the rest of the major set). Currencies outside that set still log fine; the row just shows the raw amount.