pebblar

Pebblar is my second-favorite app in this category. It does a lot of things right, and I especially like its ability to collect brainstorming ideas and then add them to a final itinerary. The interface is a bit cluttered and confusing, however, and the app doesn’t quite handle all the fundamentals as well as some competitors. The app has also crashed on me several times, and produces audio feedback for every button click, which can’t be turned off and quickly becomes annoying. The web interface is better than the app in almost every way.

Used this to plan our trip, super helpful specially if you are going to a lot of places you’re not familiar with. It helps you group them together.

If you have used google map trip planning feature, this is the plus version of it! Easy to use and digest travel info, and they are always rolling out new features!

There was a major glitch that occurred on the app causing me to be unable to use it for the first day of my roadtrip I had planned (and paid for). Nan was very helpful in making sure the problem was resolved in a timely, professional manner. The glitch did screw up the first day of my trip, but now that it’s fixed, the app works perfectly and I am happy to continue to use it!

Pebblar is a great no-frills app for travel planning. It calculates mileage between stops, lets you pick your method of travel, input hotels, dining, and points of interest from a database (and I didn’t run across anything that WASN’T in the database). Has a great expenses breakdown chart feature. You can download all your trip data in case you lose mobile service while on your trip. And you can purchase a one-time trip so you don’t have to pay for an expensive yearly subscription like with other travel apps — this is great if you only travel once a year like I do. There is also a companion web app. My favorite feature on the web app is the “print” function, which sounds odd, but it spits out a PDF containing everything under the sun! Maps, daily routes, daily lists, overall itineraries… so great. Developer is extremely responsive to questions and feedback. I’m very glad I found this app for planning my summer road trip.

The app loads to a screen that tells me there are two kinds of tabs in the app. I cannot click out of this screen and get to the app itself. This is literally all it is.

So the concept is great but the app itself is kinda buggy. The UI has panels with instructions that don’t go away. I’ve been using it to plan a 10 Roadtrip. It would be nice if it functioned more like a regular calendar with the map on a separate panel like it set out to do. Also on the computer you can reorder the route much easier.

They’ve thought of almost everything! I just started using it for a weekend birthday trip coming up and am looking forward to using it for my upcoming 22 day trip to London and Paris. Absolutely love the expense tracking, check lists, and document uploading. Is there a notebook or journal area so you can write about the fun things you did or take notes, or is that just in the reservation/note section of each event?

This app and the desktop version are awesome overall however a few things could be majorly improved. On the desktop app, there is no option to sort your big list of activities that show up on the left side of the screen for each city. It would be nice if you could sort by date, or type of activity (I.e food vs attraction). It would also be nice if there were more options to filter the map, again based on type of activity, I.e. all the restaurants saved. You can assign color labels but there’s nothing then that you can do interactively with these labels other than see them pop up on your map. It’s also not easy to shuffle around your itinerary, I.e. if I want to move all my June 4th activities to June 5th, I have to individually click a new date for each activity on the left side panel, which is especially difficult because, again, you cannot sort this panel by date. Still overall highly recommend but needs lots of improvement!

It’s written towards the end of the description that it needs subscription. I downloaded and started editing my trip. The interface is good, looks modern and simplistic. Too bad I can’t use any of it unless I pay money. Though it’s not entirely developers fault, wish Apple marked Apps that require subscription separately.