Create your first trip

One line is enough: where you’re going and when. Trovelo works out the name, the days and the currency.

2 min read Updated Nov 1, 2026 iPhone iPad Mac
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Tap Create a trip

Open the Trips tab and tap Create a trip. Once you have trips, the + at the top does the same. Just looking around? Try a demo trip opens a ready-made trip to Tokyo.

An empty Trips tab with Create a trip and Try a demo trip
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1Create a trip2Or tap +
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Say where and when

Type the city and the dates the way you’d say them, like Lisbon, December 4 to 8, and tap ✓. Going to more than one city? Name them all in the same line.

Typing Lisbon, December 4 to 8 in the new trip bar
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1City and dates2Create it
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Open your trip

Your trip is now in the list: tap it. The strip at the top holds the packing list, the Overview of every day, Unplanned for ideas without a day, and then one button per day.

The Tokyo & Kyoto trip open on its Overview
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1Packing2Overview3Unplanned4Your days
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Change it whenever you like

Swipe the strip of days to the end and tap the sliders. Or touch and hold the trip in your list and choose Edit Trip…. There you change the cover, the cities, the dates, the currency and your daily pace.

The end of the strip of days, with the trip’s settings
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The trip’s settings: cover, cities and dates
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1Settings2Cities3Dates
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New Trip

Choose File › New Trip… and type one line, like Tokyo, March 15 to 22. You can also drop a flight ticket there and Trovelo builds the trip from it.

⇧⌘NNew trip ⌘OOpen trip
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One column per day

The Board shows one column per day. Switch to the map, the expenses or the packing list at the top, or with ⌘1 to ⌘4.

A trip on the Mac: one column per day, and Board, Map, Expenses and Packing at the top 1
1Board, Map, Expenses, Packing

Good to know

No dates yet? Turn on Flexible Dates in Edit Trip and plan Day 1, Day 2 and so on.

A trip whose dates have passed moves to Past Trips on its own.

The free plan holds two upcoming trips at a time. Trovelo Pro removes the limit.

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