Thatch: Travel, Plan, Share

Had high expectations for this app but the guides were not useful (didn’t take into account holiday and travel times). We ended up booking everything ourselves. App has weird bugs. Sadly won’t use it again

I currently use thatch both as a creator and as a traveling individual searching for guides. Lots of the reviews mention everything being paid which it seems a ton are, but there are so many free guides as well. I do think there need to be better free guides as some are very minimal or incomplete. If people have requests for other cities submit them online so creators know what places to make guides for. I personally use it on my laptop the most and find the online website to be very well structured and easy to use. Then I use the app on my iPad as well. Would love to see the map feature continue to develop to a point you can connect multiple locations on the recommended map to create a game plan for the day vs having to enter all of the locations from a guide into Google maps to create their own connected plan.

I follow a couple in Paris and they’ve used Thatch to make hundreds of restaurant, bakery and chocolate/ice cream shop recommendations. All this app does is plot them on a map for you. There’s no way to search within a certain category for a specific place or food offering. They recommend certain restaurants for one type of cuisine or food and I have to know where in Paris this is first, find it and then add it to my list. Not helpful unless I’m walking around Paris, have this app out and happen to be walking by a particular restaurant. There is no way to really plan ahead with this.

I’ve updated my review as the issues that were causing nothing but errors and issues have all been resolved. Thatch.co has become my go to tool for capturing and organizing reference information I gather from various sources for upcoming trips. I’ve not been relying on existing Thatch.co guides, but more online articles and sources elsewhere and using Thatch to organize and track the reference info. Pulling from those reference guides that I create to create more itinerary focused guides. Simple, slick and so helpful. The ability to pull many years worth of info I’ve accumulated in Google My Maps maps using KML exports has been a game changer. I hope Thatch.co doesn’t evolve too much or focus too much just on people trying to make money by selling guides. So far, at least, I haven’t found the guides created by others to be that helpful.

seems like a cool idea but the app just doesn’t work. tried redownloading several times. tried using safari or chrome on iphone. just doesn’t work at all. cant search cant purchase home page doesn’t load anything. errors everywhere. shame because there is a guide i would really like to purchase. wish the person would have made it somewhere else.

Not easy to navigate

All of these reviews are clearly fake. This app has ZERO functionality. They’re only concerned with follow counts if you want to create a guide which is crazy. The people the app wants to create guides don’t even travel to places that need guides- nobody needs a guide for NYC, they need guides for smaller places. This app completely misses the mark.

These reviews must be paid or random people on this app trying to make money because this is not a good app for travel planning. It’s a marketplace of guides. You have to buy everything lol all you can view is your own stuff. But a guide and don’t like it, well too bad you just paid $35 for nothing. I’m an avid traveler and this just seems like a waste of time. Was hoping it would be interesting. Not recommended.

I really enjoy this app’s user experience both as a guide creator and as a user who uses the other people’s guide. Easy to use, intuitive and user friendly!

Love the concept and design. Can’t wait to upload my own itineraries too! @alexevans997 on IG!