The real problem is not finding places
Nobody is short of ideas. The group usually has too many: a friend sent three restaurants, someone shared a Google Maps list, another one saved reels they never opened again. The trouble is that those ideas live in five different places, and none of them is a map.
So the night before leaving, somebody spends two hours scrolling back through the chat to rebuild what was said. And on the ground people open the conversation instead of a map — which means they never go.
What a shared map changes
A shared trip is a map that belongs to no one in particular. Every participant adds their own places, and everyone sees them appear live, with nothing to reload.
The gain is not only tidiness. Seeing the points together on a map makes obvious what the text was hiding: three of the suggested addresses are on the same street, and the fourth is an hour's drive away. The argument about the plan gets a lot shorter.
Step 1 — Create the trip and send the link
One person creates the trip and names it (“Sicily in May”, “Lisbon weekend”). They get an invitation link.
That link is enough: whoever receives it joins the trip with no request, no approval, no waiting for someone to let them in. Inside the app the link can be pasted straight into the trips window — handy when it arrives by message on a phone.
Step 2 — Everyone pours in their places
From then on, everything you add goes into the trip: an address pasted from Google Maps, a place searched by name, or a whole imported list.
And if you had already saved good addresses in previous years, there is nothing to retype: the “📤 My places” button opens your own favourites and lets you send a copy of any of them into the trip, one at a time. That is often where the best material is — the spots you noted down thinking “some day”.
Create the map, send the link, and let everyone pour in their addresses — yours are already there.
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Step 3 — Turn it into a day-by-day itinerary
Once the places are gathered, the itinerary is built inside the trip itself: pick the places for one day, the order gets optimised, and travel times appear.
Itineraries created inside a trip belong to the trip: the other participants can see them and open them, and nobody has to ask you to send the plan again.
What stays private, and it matters
Your own favourites are never shared. Entering a trip does not open your collection to the others: the trip shows its own places, and your favourites are waiting untouched when you leave it.
That is deliberate. A collection built over several years holds things you would rather not show a whole group — a relative's flat, an appointment, an address noted for yourself. Sharing should be a decision, not a side effect.
Three traps of planning together
The first is deciding everything before looking at the map. As long as the places sit in a chat, everyone defends their idea in a vacuum. Pour them in first, argue after: geography settles half the debate on its own.
The second is writing nothing down. A dot on a map does not say why it is there. One line — “Léa's pick, book ahead, closed Mondays” — beats ten catch-up messages once you are there.
The third is inviting the others at the last minute. A shared trip fills up slowly over weeks, as ideas come. That slow filling is exactly what makes a good plan — not the cramming session the night before.
What it costs
Joining a trip is free, and will stay that way: if guests had to pay to show up, sharing would be pointless. A free account is enough to enter a trip, add places to it and read the itineraries.
Creating a trip is part of the Explorer plan. In practice only one person in the group needs the subscription: the one who starts the trip and sends the link.
