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Your first packing list from a built-in template

The fastest way into the app is not a blank list. Start from one of the fifteen built-in templates, and the copy you adjust becomes your template for every trip after this one.

  1. 1Pick the built-in template closest to your trip

    Beach week, city weekend, business trip, camping, road trip, festival, a trip with a baby — fifteen of them, each already grouped into sections and sized for a real trip. Pack from the nearest one as it is, or make your own copy: then everything in it can be renamed, removed or added to, and the packing list you finish writes your changes back to that template for next time.

    The picker with fifteen built-in packing templates

  2. 2Tell it when you leave

    The departure date is the one piece of information the app builds everything else on: the countdown, the preparation plan, the reminders, and the weather suggestions for where you are going. Add it once and the week in front of you gets scheduled backward from it.

    The Home screen with an active packing list three days from departure

  3. 3Clear the shopping list first

    Anything you flag as “needs purchase” collects on the Shopping tab instead of hiding inside the packing list. Sunscreen, an adapter, snacks for the flight — one trip to the store a few days early, and packing night has nothing left to go wrong.

    The shopping list with items flagged to buy before the trip

  4. 4Pack it down to zero

    Check items off as they go in the bag and the counter falls to zero. End packing, and the trip lands in History — with the option to keep your version as a template of your own.

    The packing screen with the counter falling to zero
Video coming soon
A 30-second walkthrough of the same four steps.

That is the whole loop

End packing and the list you actually packed becomes your starting point for the next one. Your next packing list takes about a minute to set up.

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