The trip planner app that stays with you after the plan is made

Open the app and describe the trip the way you would tell someone about it, a week somewhere warm with the kids, say, and the planner pulls out the place, the month, the group and the pace on its own. The result sits on a map rather than in a list: each day is a route, each stop is a pin, and each leg between them carries its own travel time.

Three pace settings shape how full a day looks: relaxed holds it to one or two stops, balanced runs two or three, and packed fits three to five. The app lets you set a pace for the whole trip or change it for a single day that needs to be lighter or busier.

A stop that looks better on another day moves with a drag, and a place can be swapped for a nearby one in a tap. After either change, the plan checker re-orders the rest of that day so nothing is left clashing.

A side panel assistant in the app knows which day, stop or moment of the trip film you currently have open, and can make the same change you would make by hand, just through a typed or spoken request instead of a button.

The whole trip can also play back as a short film on the map inside the app, the route, the stays and each day shown in order, a quick way to check a plan feels right before anything is booked.

March break, summer vacation and the Christmas break are the three stretches most Canadian families build a trip around, and the app reads a sentence like a week somewhere warm for March break the same way it reads any other request. Outside those weeks, the Long Weekend planner inside the app turns a single day off around a Monday or Friday into a short trip.

With a typical worker banking around 10 vacation days a year, the app's job is to make each one count, stretching a long weekend into a real change of scene without a lot of planning time spent first.

A search like Cancún for March break shows the shape of what the app expects: a place, a reason for the timing and a group, enough for the first version of the plan to appear before a single flight is searched.

One link from the app opens the exact same plan for anyone you send it to, with roles for who can view and who can make changes. From there, the group can vote on a stop or leave a comment on a day without a separate message thread.

The app also builds a packing list from the plan, the month and the climate at the destination, and keeps passports, tickets and confirmations in a document vault attached to that trip, so none of it needs to be dug up from an inbox at the airport.