Travel Planner Guide: Awayster

I’ve been using this app to plan my bachelorette party and I love this app but I can’t share my itinerary with half my girls because it’s not compatible with android, Samsung, or google phones. Not everyone has Apple so it’s best to make your app cross compatible for all devices.

So far I am liking this app very much. I am using it to plan a trip to London and with the exception of o e bug I am finding it useful. When adding an activity to a daily itinerary the transportation menu only gives you walk,car,bike as options and excludes public transportation. Once you have added the activity you have to select the travel time in the itinerary and switch it to public transportation. It would be nice if the app tied into Google maps and calculated transportation time rather than relying on the person to figure it out.

Great for people who enjoy outstanding graphic visuals as opposed to bland black and white itineraries thrown together on Google docs.

I’ve used this for my last 5 trips. I’m never going back to TripIt!

I am absolutely blown away at how beautiful this app is. I am building apps with the same technology that the developers of this app uses, and I admire them for being able to pull this off so well.

I’ll start with what I love: - Beautiful UI with nice details throughout - Does a great job of using location photography and the UI to make the places your going exciting (compared to a lot of overly utilitarian apps out there like TripIt) - The map with lines to where all you’re going and the sequence is awesome and something I’ve really wanted on past trips before finding this app - Easy to discover places to go in the city you’re going What still needs some work: - When searching for places to add, the font size is too large and cuts off the right end of names so it can be hard to tell which is which (like with hotel names that can be different locations for the same chain) - Before getting to exact times for each place you want to go there needs to be a staging step where you can add locations w/o time to decide on which you want to go to, then add a time or to the timeline after sharing or knowing for sure you want to go. - The drag and drop is frustrating currently because as you add more places to the timeline it ends up making existing ones shorter instead of pushing them to the next hour. Having to go back and make something that became 10-15 minutes (which very few events make sense to be that short) and resizing them doubles to triples the time it takes to add all the events. What would make it a 6 star app: - Having hotels in it is fantastic...but why not the flights? If you’re going to multiple destinations it leaves an odd whole in your timeline to not have the flights and be able to plan for how early you need to checkout of the hotel or how much time you have for other stuff. - iPhone is great for while you’re traveling, but an iPad version would help a ton for planning the trip and seeing the details of locations and events with more room.

Tried this app during the beta and liked it, but I did not get to try it much. Now I can’t get it to work because all it does is crash. Edit: Still crashes on startup. I did not say it crashes when opening old trips because I can’t even open the app. Edit2: I don’t know if it’s a bot answering my reviews, but again: opening old trips is not the issue. The issue is that I can’t open the app because all it does is crash. I wish I could enjoy the potential of this app, but it is impossible when it won’t open. Edit3: App is now working!

Looking forward to seeing this continue evolving.

Adding more than 2 cities to a trip didn’t work. Sometimes a third popped up, but when adding a fourth both the third and fourth just disappeared.

UI seems nice but functionally there are some issues as others have mentioned. Right now I can’t even remove a trip, it just freezes up during the loading state. Really want something like this to work but at the least, devs should have some sort of tests in place that catch these kinds of major bugs. Edit: originally gave 3 stars but I literally can’t even open my trips now without an error. It’s not functional at all.