Frequently asked.

Yes. You can plan a full trip without a card, without a password — sign-in is a one-time magic link to your email. We may add paid tiers later for power users (longer trips, priority generation), but the core planner stays free.

ChatGPT will happily invent a restaurant that closed in 2019. TripAdvisor gives you ten lists and no itinerary. TripSmith picks from a vetted catalog of 40,000+ real venues across 132 cities, then schedules them around your diet, pace, and the actual geography of the day.

No. The first trip can be drafted anonymously — you only enter an email if you want to save it across devices or come back to edit later. Magic link, no password.

Five to ten minutes for a full multi-day trip. The model runs in three passes — anchors (the must-dos), backbone (lodging + transit), then filler (meals, walks, breaks) — so it isn't a fast autocomplete. We're working on shaving this down, honestly.

Yes — that's most of the point. "Ask Smith" is a chat agent that can swap a venue, shift a whole day, add a kid-friendly afternoon, or remove anything with peanuts in it. Nothing in the plan is locked.

Set the relevant constraint at the start and Smith filters against it. Diet: vegan, vegetarian, Jain, halal, kosher, pescatarian, gluten-free. Mobility: wheelchair (manual or power). Group composition: family with young kids, family with teens, multi-generational. Trip type: honeymoon, anniversary, religious pilgrimage, business. It isn't perfect — flag anything that slips through and Smith will swap it.

Yes. Tokyo → Kyoto → Osaka, or Lisbon → Porto → Madrid — TripSmith plans the transit days, picks lodging in each city, and adjusts the pace so you aren't sightseeing on a travel afternoon.

Yes. Day trips are first-class — Nikko from Tokyo, Sintra from Lisbon, Versailles from Paris. Smith picks the train, fits the return, and won't pretend a four-hour temple visit is a half-day.

List multiple personas on one trip — two vegetarians, one toddler, one early riser. Smith optimizes for the union, picks venues that work for everyone, and flags days where the group should split for an afternoon.

It will. Hours change, restaurants close, a museum is shut on the Tuesday Smith picked. Tell "Ask Smith" what's wrong and it re-plans the affected slot. You can also flag a venue and it goes into our weekly catalog review.

Hotels link to Booking.com, attractions to GetYourGuide or Viator, restaurants to OpenTable where reservations exist. We earn a small affiliate cut on some bookings — it's how we keep the planner free. The links are picked because they match the venue, not because they pay more.

Ratings come from Google + local sources on a rolling cadence — priority cities re-crawl weekly, mid-tier monthly, the long tail quarterly. Hours are best-effort. Always re-check before a long detour, and tell Ask Smith if something's stale so we can refresh it.

Yes. TripSmith is a PWA — once you've opened a trip on a device, the full itinerary, addresses, and notes are cached locally. Useful when you're underground in Tokyo or on a slow train through the Algarve.

Yes. Hit share and you get a clean URL — works in iMessage, WhatsApp, email. They can read it without an account. If they want to fork it and edit their own copy, they sign in with their own email.

Not yet, and probably not soon. The PWA installs to your home screen on iOS and Android and behaves like an app — offline, full-screen, with its own icon. We'd rather ship features than maintain three codebases.

Affiliate revenue on bookings — hotels, tours, restaurants — when you choose to book through the inline links. We don't sell your data, we don't run display ads, and the same itinerary is generated whether you book or not.

We save the trips you generate (so you can open them later from any device) and your email (for magic-link sign-in). That's it. No analytics SDKs, no third-party trackers, no shadow profile. The full list lives in our colophon.

By default, only you can see it. Each trip gets a private URL — anyone with the link can view but not edit. Toggle "private" in the trip menu and the link stops working for everyone but you.

Yes. There's a delete button in account settings — it wipes your trips, email, and any cached drafts within 24 hours. Email aditya@tripsmith.io if you want it done faster and we'll do it manually.

The interface is English today. Itineraries can reference venues in their local script (e.g. Japanese restaurant names alongside the romanized version), which is useful for showing taxi drivers. Translated UI is on the list — Spanish and French first.

Please do. There's a suggestion form inside the app (top-right menu → "suggest something"). Every submission goes through an evaluator agent that scores it and drafts an implementation spec, then lands in the founder's queue for approval. High-impact ones tend to ship the same week.

Built by Aditya, a small team, and a lot of caffeine. We're independent — no VCs, no growth team, no AI hype budget. If you write to us, a human replies.