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Everything you need to plan, customize, and share your trips — from your first itinerary to advanced features.

Getting Started

Travaio drafts personalized, day-by-day itineraries with AI. Here's how to go from sign-up to your first saved trip.

  1. 1. Create your account

    Sign up free — no credit card required. You can start planning the moment your account is active.

  2. 2. Take the Traveler DNA quiz

    The quiz is 9 questions, about 3 minutes, covering your travel pace, social style, food preferences, interests, budget, and more. Your answers shape every itinerary Travaio builds for you.

  3. 3. Generate your first itinerary

    Enter a destination and your travel dates. Travaio's AI drafts a day-by-day plan (short trips finish sooner than long or multi-city ones): activities, timing, meals, and downtime, all tuned to your Traveler DNA. Each stop is then looked up in Google Maps, and stops that match carry its address, hours and rating.

  4. 4. Save your trip

    Like what you see? Save the itinerary to your account so you can return to it, keep editing, or export it later. Free accounts can keep up to 3 active trips; Pro has unlimited.

Tip

You can regenerate an itinerary at any time — change your destination or dates and Travaio will build a fresh plan from your current Traveler DNA.

Daily plan limits

Each full itinerary you generate is one plan. Guests can make 3 plans a day, free accounts 10. Pro has no daily cap, subject to fair use (50 plans in any rolling 24 hours). The count is rolling: it is the last 24 hours, not a calendar day. Swapping or adding a single activity is not a plan.

Three Ways to Start

An AI-drafted itinerary is one way in. There are three, and each one ends in the same editable trip.

Understanding Traveler DNA

Your Traveler DNA is Travaio's way of understanding who you are as a traveler. Think of it as a travel personality profile that informs how every itinerary is built.

What it is

A snapshot of your preferences across pace, social style, food, interests, and comfort with spontaneity. The more precisely you set it, the less the AI has to guess.

How it personalizes itineraries

  • Pace — whether you pack every hour or leave room to wander.
  • Vibe — the overall mood, from high-energy city days to slow, scenic mornings.
  • Rhythm — how activities are sequenced so you don't burn out by day three.
  • Interests — prioritizing the things you actually care about (food, history, nature, nightlife, and more).

How to update it

Your preferences change — and your DNA should too. Head to Account › Preferences to retake the quiz or adjust individual answers at any time. New trips will reflect your updated profile right away.

Customizing Your Itinerary

A generated itinerary is just the starting point. Travaio makes it easy to shape any plan until it's exactly right.

Swapping activities

Don't love a suggestion? Click any activity and choose Swap. Travaio looks up nearby alternatives in Google Places that fit the slot. This is a place lookup, not a fresh AI generation.

Adding activities

Want more in a time slot? Choose Add and Travaio looks up nearby places that suit that part of your day.

Editing activity details

Open any activity to adjust its time, cost, description, or your own notes. Regenerating a day or trip drafts a fresh plan for what you regenerate, so edits inside that scope are replaced. Version history is the way back.

Drag and drop reordering

Prefer a different flow for the day? Drag activities to reorder them and Travaio recalculates the travel times as you go.

Edit by typing Pro

In the More tab, describe a change in plain words, such as making a day slower. Travaio shows a before and after of only the stops it would touch, and nothing changes until you apply it. You can undo an applied edit. Pro accounts can send up to 30 of these instructions in any 24 hours.

Locate my stops

If a day's map says the activities have no location data, and you can edit the trip, choose Locate my stops to look the stops up on the map. Stops Travaio cannot place stay unpinned.

Multi-city trips Pro

Planning a route across several cities? Free supports up to 2 cities per trip and Pro up to 5. Set the order of your stops and Travaio plans each leg, including travel time between cities.

Saving & Managing Trips

Saved trips live in your account so you can return to them anytime — on any device you're signed in on.

  • Free tier: up to 3 active saved trips at a time. Archived trips do not count.
  • Pro tier: unlimited saved trips. Pro

Accessing saved trips

Go to Account › My Trips to see everything you've saved. From there you can open, duplicate, or continue editing any trip.

Archiving and deleting trips

Finished a trip? Archive it to keep your active list tidy without losing the plan. Need it back? Unarchive anytime. To remove a trip for good, use delete — this can't be undone.

Exporting Your Trip

Take your itinerary anywhere. From any saved itinerary, click the Export button and pick the format that fits how you travel.

Available on Free

  • PDF — a clean, printable itinerary
  • Calendar (.ics) — a file you import into your calendar app
  • KML — your stops as a file for mapping tools

Added with Pro Pro

  • Google Maps list — your stops, ready to navigate
  • Markdown — for notes apps and wikis
  • CSV — for spreadsheets and expense tracking
  • DNA export — your Traveler DNA, portable

How to export

Open any saved itinerary and click Export. Pick a format, and Travaio prepares your file. For formats that open in another window, allow the pop-up or check your browser's pop-up blocker if nothing appears. There is no live Google Calendar link: the .ics file is imported by your calendar app.

Printing and large-print PDF

Choose Print this trip in the Export window to print straight from your browser. This works without an account. In the PDF export, tick Large print for bigger times and text that are easier to read on paper. Every PDF ends with a short "Before you go" page with emergency numbers, an entry note and safety notes.

During Your Trip

When you open a saved trip on a day you are traveling, Travaio switches to what you need right now.

Today view

A strip at the top of today shows your current stop and the next one. It offers directions to the next stop and an open or closed chip taken from the stop's own opening hours. A leave-by time appears only when Travaio has a measured travel leg to the next stop; otherwise it asks you to check the travel time. Nearby looks up places around you by category, and only when you pick one.

Changing today's plan

Choose Running late and pick +15, +30, +60 minutes or your own amount. Travaio shows what would move, what cannot move, and what would clash with opening hours. Nothing is saved until you confirm. It suggests dropping a stop only when the delay causes a problem, and only removes it if you tick the box. You can also move stops to tomorrow.

Regenerate day lets you say what changed: it rained, you are worn out, someone is unwell, you arrived late, you finished early, something was closed, or a stop is not for you. The new plan for that day is built around your answer. Booked, locked and completed activities are kept.

Trip reminders

With notifications on, Travaio sends a reminder when a saved trip is within two days, and on trip days a day summary plus reservation and check-out reminders. Reminders are only sent between 09:00 and 20:00 on your own clock, using the time zone in your account settings. During a trip, reservation and check-out reminders follow the trip's local time; if Travaio does not know the trip's time zone, it skips them rather than send them on the wrong clock.

Editing without a connection

Replanning (regenerating, swapping, adding) needs a connection. Small edits such as ticking a stop done, logging spend or changing a time are different: if a save cannot reach us, the website keeps the edit on that device and offers to send it later, and the phone app queues them. If someone else changed the trip meanwhile, small edits are merged and other changes are kept for you to re-apply (see Editing together).

Documents, Journal & Collections

Trip documents

Attach tickets, booking confirmations, and passport, visa or insurance details to a saved trip. Files can be PDF, PNG, JPEG, WebP or HEIC up to10 MB, and you can add a note instead of a file. Travaio only stores them: it does not read them or book anything. Free accounts can store 3 documents per trip; Pro has no limit. Pro

Travel journal

Add a note, a star rating and a photo to any activity once you have been there. A trip holds up to 10 journal entries and 5 photos on Free; Pro has no limit. Entries whose activity was later removed move to an "Unattached notes" list and still count toward your limit.

Trip collections

Group saved trips into collections such as "Summer in Europe" from your dashboard. Use the collection chips to filter your trips, and rename or delete a collection at any time. Deleting a collection does not delete the trips in it.

Trip Check & Version History

Trip Check

Trip Check re-runs the planner's own checks on your current plan: pace, timing, opening hours, budget, and the dietary, accessibility and no-go preferences you set. It switches on after your first edit, because a fresh plan has just been through the same checks. Each check reports clean, issues found, skipped or error. A skipped check is never counted as clean: a trip you built by hand has no preferences to check against. Some findings offer a one-click fix, and you choose whether to apply it.

Version history

Travaio saves a restore point for you before a change that rewrites more than one activity at once, such as regenerating a day, reordering, or removing several stops. Single edits do not create one, and they carry a short undo instead. You can also keep the trip as it stands now, with an optional label, and restore or delete any earlier version. Free accounts keep the last 3 versions; Pro keeps all of them. Pro

Sharing & Collaboration

Travel is better together. Travaio lets you share plans, and Pro lets you plan with other people.

Share a read-only link

Anyone with the link can view your itinerary — no account needed. Free accounts can have 3 active links; Pro has no limit. Revoke a link any time.

Make a copy of a shared trip

If you are signed in, a shared trip has a Make a copy button that saves your own copy of the plan. The copy carries the days, stops, notes and the general shape of the trip. It does not carry the owner's bookings, dietary, accessibility or party details, done ticks, logged spend or personalization tags. The copy counts toward your saved-trip limit.

Invite collaborators by email Pro

On Pro, invite specific people by email so they can help build the trip with you.

Editing together

Collaborators with edit permission work on the same itinerary, plus activity voting and comments. If two people save the same trip at once, small changes such as ticking a stop done, logging spend, changing a time or locking a stop are merged automatically. Any other change is kept for you behind a banner, where you can choose Use my version to re-apply it, so nothing is silently overwritten.

Collaborator permissions

Choose what each collaborator can do: view only, or edit. You can change it later, and you stay in control of the final plan. If you move from Pro to Free, existing collaborators keep their access, but you cannot add new ones.

Weather & Packing

Travaio looks at the forecast for your destination so you pack smarter and stay flexible.

Weather-aware packing lists

Based on the forecast for your dates, Travaio generates a packing list that accounts for expected temperatures, rain, and the activities on your itinerary. No more guessing.

Weather contingency Pro

On Pro, the weather tab shows rainy-day alternatives you can apply to a day, so you have a plan B before the morning of. Nothing is swapped automatically.

How to access

Open any itinerary and switch to the Packing tab to see your weather-aware list. Check off items as you pack.

Budget & Expenses

Travaio helps you keep money in view while you plan.

  • Per-activity cost estimates — every activity includes an estimated cost so you can see what a day adds up to.
  • Daily and total budget tracking — watch your spending add up across the whole trip and spot days that run hot.
  • Shared expenses and settle up — record who paid for each cost and how it is split. Settle up then shows the fewest payments to square everyone. Travaio only calculates this: it moves no money.
  • Logging what you actually spent — on a stop, use What the group spent. That figure is the whole group's total for the stop, not a per-person price: it replaces that stop's estimate and is never multiplied by your party size. Estimates are per person, so the totals keep the two apart.
  • Per-traveler cost splitting — see what a trip costs per person, so you know what to ask everyone for.
  • Currency conversion — for international trips, see costs in your home currency so you always know what you're really spending.

AI Agent Access (MCP)

Connect AI agents like Claude Desktop to Travaio so your agent can work with your trips from your chat. This is a Pro feature.

How to set it up

  1. Go to Account › Subscription › AI Agent Access.
  2. Generate an API key for your agent.
  3. Copy the provided Claude Desktop configuration snippet.
  4. Paste it into your Claude Desktop configuration file and restart Claude Desktop.

What your agent can do

The server offers five tools: list your itineraries, get one in full, create a new (blank) itinerary, edit an activity, and export an itinerary. So you can ask things like “What's on day two of my Japan trip?” or “Export my Paris itinerary as text.” Create and edit make no AI or Places calls.

Good to know

A key acts as you, so keep it secret. We store only a hash, so a lost key cannot be shown again. Revoke it any time from the same settings page.

Account Security

You can protect your account with two-factor sign-in.

Two-factor sign-in (MFA)

Under Account › Security, add an authenticator app. Once a factor is verified, signing in asks for its six-digit code after your password. Create recovery codes on the same page and keep them somewhere safe: if you lose your authenticator, a recovery code lets you back in, and a recovery-code sign-in does not count as having passed the authenticator check for the most sensitive actions, so those may still ask for your authenticator.

On the Phone App

The iOS and Android apps are in testing and not yet in the app stores. They cover the everyday trip tools: your saved trips, shared expenses, documents, journal, packing, version history, Running late and Replan day, booking import, collaboration invitations and offline copies of your trips.

These are on the website only for now: Trip Check, collections, Locate my stops, Edit by typing, AI agent (MCP) key management, and PDF, KML, CSV and Markdown export. The app can send a trip as text, send its link and add it to your calendar.

Subscription Tiers

Travaio is free to start. Pro adds the features that matter most for frequent and group travelers. Guests can make 3 plans a day without an account.

Free

  • Up to 3 active saved trips
  • 10 plans a day
  • Up to 2 cities per trip
  • Basic itinerary personalization
  • Core export formats (PDF, calendar (.ics) & KML)
  • Read-only sharing links (3 active)

Pro

Pro

$12.99/month or $99.99/year. New subscribers may be offered a 7-day free trial, once per account.

  • Unlimited plans (fair use)
  • Save unlimited trips
  • Multi-city trips (up to 5 cities)
  • Real-time collaboration
  • Extra export formats: Markdown, CSV, Google Maps list and Traveler DNA
  • Weather forecast tab with rainy-day alternatives
  • Regenerate your packing list any time
  • Unlimited version history
  • Unlimited share links
  • Unlimited travel journal
  • Hyper-personalized plans - how each morning, afternoon and evening should feel, adventure level and comfort zone
  • Import flight and hotel bookings into your trip
  • Edit by typing - describe a change and review it before applying (up to 30 a day)
  • AI agent access (MCP) - connect Claude Desktop & other agents

How to upgrade

Go to Account › Subscription › Upgrade and pick the plan that works for you. You can switch between monthly and yearly billing at any time.

Keyboard Shortcuts

  • ? — open the full list of keyboard shortcuts (available in-app)
  • Esc — close any open modal

Press ? anywhere in the app to see every shortcut and what it does.

FAQ & Troubleshooting

Quick answers to the most common questions. If something here doesn't solve it, we're a message away.

My itinerary didn't generate

Check your internet connection and try again. Generation needs a connection to work; a brief network hiccup is usually the cause.

I can't save my trip

Check whether you've hit your plan limit — free accounts can keep 3 active saved trips. Archive or delete an older trip to make room, or upgrade to Pro for unlimited saves.

The AI suggestions don't match my style

Your Traveler DNA drives personalization. Update it under Account › Preferences and your next itinerary will reflect the changes.

Export isn't working

Try a different format first — if nothing happens, your browser's pop-up blocker may be stopping the export window. Allow pop-ups for Travaio and try again.

Still need help?

If the docs didn't cover it, our support resources are here for you.