My trips

How Travely works

A one-minute walkthrough. Tap play.

Step by step

  1. 1Start a tripTap Start a trip, say where you're going, and add dates if you know them. You land in the trip's group chat.
  2. 2Invite your friendsTap Invite and send the link. Friends see the plan right away and join with just a name, no account needed.
  3. 3Just talkChat like you normally would. When someone suggests a place, Travely offers to add it to a day. Nothing is added until someone taps.
  4. 4Decide togetherWhen the group can't choose, "museum or market?" becomes a quick vote everyone can tap.
  5. 5Your itineraryEvery day's plan lives in the Itinerary tab, with a map. Hold any message to add it, or move stops between days.
  6. 6Split costsSay who paid in chat ("I got dinner, $84") or scan a receipt. Travely keeps the tab, in any currency.
  7. 7Settle upAt the end, Travely works out the fewest payments. You pay each other in the apps you already use, then mark it paid.
  8. 8Come home with a storyThe Recap tab gathers the places, photos and best lines into a story you can share.
  9. 9Ask Travely anythingAsk for restaurants, ideas for a rainy day or what's open late. It remembers what you love, so its ideas fit you better.

Chat with Travely

For a quick question or lookup, tap Travely at the bottom of the screen (or Chat with Travely on your trips list). It's a private chat, just you and Travely. It knows your trips and how you like to travel, and nothing there is shared with your trip groups.

What Travely knows about you

Travely learns how you like to travel from your chats and notes. To see it, tap You, then What Travely knows about you. On a computer, it's You in the sidebar. You can rewrite your travel style in your own words, change or delete anything, add favorites, or pause learning.

Your travel style and favorites are Only me. Travely uses them quietly to suit its ideas to you in your trips, and never shows them to anyone else. Personal things it picks up, like the people you mention, stay private and are never used in a group chat. Notes and photos saved inside a trip are seen by that trip group.

Open the You page

Questions? Email elephant@mbybco.com.