# Argo - Encounters — Learn where your paths cross > Learn where your paths cross (iPhone/iPad app by Dan Brockway.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/argo-encounters/id6762091647 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Dan Brockway](https://appshunter.io/developer/1892869215) - Category: Travel, Lifestyle - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.6 · 10 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-05-12 - Data updated: 2026-08-11 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/argo-encounters/id6762091647/reviews.md ## What is Argo? In Argo, trips planned by you and your fellow travelers are loaded, analyzed, and visualized to uncover Encounters — places where two or more trips either intersect at the same place and time or come close in either time, location, or both. Argo comes with Sample Data so you can see how it works with three trips that converge on Minot North Dakota in August 2026. Why there? Why not? (I couldn't resist the pun) Because the Airstream International Rally is in Minot this year and 1000+ Airstreams will be converging on Minot. Those going will likely run into fellow Airstreamers along the way. Argo was made to help them see these possible encounters ahead of time -- while they are planning their trips. Since people will be coming from all across the country, many will form hop-on-hop-off caravans. Argo can help them keep track of each other and alert them when close to another traveler's planned stops. Timeline The Timeline View shows each traveler's itinerary side-by-side. Encounters are called out with colored bars to show who's encountering who. Tap on the bars for details  about the encounters. Tap the camps and activities to learn about those.  Map The Map View plots each traveler's route and circles the different types of Encounters -- the colors match the filters shown on the top.  Tap on the map to see details about who's encountering who and who's doing day trips or activities enroute to the next camp. List The List View spells out the Encounters in plain English.  Tap the Map or Timeline buttons to navigate to the other views.  When you get there, use  the filters to control which travelers are showing. Trips After you’ve loaded your own trips, give each one a traveler name. This is the name you'll see in all the other views.  Select one trip to be My Trip (blue) and as many as you like to be Friends (green). All the rest will be Others (grey). Map Animation Step through each day and watch all the trips progress at the same time.  Tap the Heatmap icon to see the routes thicken when multiple travelers are on the same route.  Settings You're in control of the time and distance tolerances that define what defines a close encounter. You can also control what details show up in the timeline and on the map. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.3 — 2026-08-08 1.3 • Import from more sources. Argo can now interpret non–Trip Wizard spreadsheets using on-device Apple Intelligence and automatically look up each stop's location. • Navigate in one tap. Open driving directions to any stop in Apple Maps or Google Maps — pick your preferred app in Settings. • Today, at a glance. The stop you're at today is now highlighted on every route's map. Choose the highlight color in Settings. • Focus your encounters. New "My Encounters Only" vs "All Encounters" mode to show just the overlaps that involve your trip. • Location controls. Turn your location dot and proximity alerts on or off, with an easy path to re-enable location access if it was denied. • Clearer loading. The loading screen now shows which file is being read, analyzed, and located. • More map options (including animation dot size) and various refinements. ### 1.2 — 2026-06-19 1.2 Add Trips to Calendar - New "Add to Calendar" button on each trip in the Trips tab. Pick one of your existing calendars (or one you've created in the Calendar app) and Argo writes the trip's events directly into it — no .ics file to manage. - Multi-day camp stays become a single multi-day all-day event. Day trips, en-route stops, and trip start/end become single all-day events. - Event notes include drive info, comments, reservation number, phone, email, features, nights, and any encounters with other travelers. The stop's URL goes into the Calendar event's URL field. - Confirmation before adding shows which calendar will be used and how many events will be created. Update Previously Added Calendars - After a trip has been added to a calendar, the button becomes "Update Calendar". Tapping it replaces the previously added events with the latest from the spreadsheet — no duplicates. - Identity is tracked using the trip name set in Trip Wizard (the value in cell A1 of the exported spreadsheet), so renaming the .xlsx file before importing still finds the right calendar entries. - If you've deleted some Argo-created events manually, the update flow detects this and reports how many were found vs. could not be located. Trip Wizard Trip Name - Argo now reads the trip name set inside Trip Wizard. It appears on the Trips tab below the filename when the two differ. Timeline Pills - Phone, URL, and email now appear on timeline pills at the medium zoom level (previously visible only at the largest zoom). - Phone numbers are reformatted to (XXX) XXX-XXXX and are tap-to-call on iPhone. - URL and email continue to be tappable links in the pills. Excel Parsing - URL, phone, and email fields now pick up values that Trip Wizard writes as inline strings or hyperlinks — these previously came through blank for some users. - Header matching is more tolerant of label variations (for example "Website" or "Web Address" in place of "URL"). 1.1 - Map Animation finally looking really good. Still someissues with slow mode, but maybe tweaking the timing variables will sort that out. - Moved the dismiss button up into the footer of all cards for more clean UI - Added Link Detector. Now any URLs found in Reservation Info or Comments fields will be converted to a tappable link. - Fixed distance displays to consistently use the user's specified units. - Fixed "days apart" references to only show if encounters were specified by a tollerable number of days (also user specifiable) - Added Details buttons on the rows in the List view - Improved the centering and information card presentation of encounters when navigating from the List View to the Map View - Improved navigation from List View to Map View to highlight what was selected. - Fixed Stop Info card from mis-representing day trips and en route activities. - Now loads sub folders of folders (so one can load way too many trips ;-) 1.0.28 - Navigating from the Timeline to the Map now ensures that the travelers participating in the event or encounter are filtered-on on the map. - removed support for iOS 16 to get newer APIs (email me if that is a problem for you) - Added haptic feedback to scrubbing Map Animations 1.0.27 - Adjusted the map Animation to more clearly step through the trips. - Added the stop identification to proximity alerts. - Added a check for newer version to update at app launch. 1.0.26 - Cleaned up the interactions between the encounter type and traveler filters and info cards and map symbols. 1.0.25 - Trip name comes from file name, not the trip name inside the Trip file. This will help people who collect trips in a folder to name them meaningfully. - Trips View now uses the full screen on iPad. - Stop Info Cards are now responsive to changes in the Encounter Type and Traveler filters. 1.0.24 - Supports older versions of iOS (16+) - Fixed text color in darkmode on TimelineView ### 1.1 — 2026-05-26 1.1 - Map Animation finally looking really good. Still someissues with slow mode, but maybe tweaking the timing variables will sort that out. - Moved the dismiss button up into the footer of all cards for more clean UI - Added Link Detector. Now any URLs found in Reservation Info or Comments fields will be converted to a tappable link. - Fixed distance displays to consistently use the user's specified units. - Fixed "days apart" references to only show if encounters were specified by a tollerable number of days (also user specifiable) - Added Details buttons on the rows in the List view - Improved the centering and information card presentation of encounters when navigating from the List View to the Map View - Improved navigation from List View to Map View to highlight what was selected. - Fixed Stop Info card from mis-representing day trips and en route activities. - Now loads sub folders of folders (so one can load way too many trips ;-) 1.0.28 - Navigating from the Timeline to the Map now ensures that the travelers participating in the event or encounter are filtered-on on the map. - removed support for iOS 16 to get newer APIs (email me if that is a problem for you) - Added haptic feedback to scrubbing Map Animations 1.0.27 - Adjusted the map Animation to more clearly step through the trips. - Added the stop identification to proximity alerts. - Added a check for newer version to update at app launch. 1.0.26 - Cleaned up the interactions between the encounter type and traveler filters and info cards and map symbols. 1.0.25 - Trip name comes from file name, not the trip name inside the Trip file. This will help people who collect trips in a folder to name them meaningfully. - Trips View now uses the full screen on iPad. - Stop Info Cards are now responsive to changes in the Encounter Type and Traveler filters. 1.0.24 - Supports older versions of iOS (16+) - Fixed text color in darkmode on TimelineView ### 1.0.28 — 2026-05-21 1.0.28 - Navigating from the Timeline to the Map now ensures that the travelers participating in the event or encounter are filtered-on on the map. - removed support for iOS 16 to get newer APIs (email me if that is a problem for you) - Added haptic feedback to scrubbing Map Animations 1.0.27 - Adjusted the map Animation to more clearly step through the trips. - Added the stop identification to proximity alerts. - Added a check for newer version to update at app launch. 1.0.26 - Cleaned up the interactions between the encounter type and traveler filters and info cards and map symbols. 1.0.25 - Trip name comes from file name, not the trip name inside the Trip file. This will help people who collect trips in a folder to name them meaningfully. - Trips View now uses the full screen on iPad. - Stop Info Cards are now responsive to changes in the Encounter Type and Traveler filters. 1.0.24 - Supports older versions of iOS (16+) - Fixed text color in darkmode on TimelineView ### 1.0.27 — 2026-05-20 1.0.27 - Adjusted the map Animation to more clearly step through the trips. - Added the stop identification to proximity alerts. - Added a check for newer version to update at app launch. 1.0.26 - Cleaned up the interactions between the encounter type and traveler filters and info cards and map symbols. 1.0.25 - Trip name comes from file name, not the trip name inside the Trip file. This will help people who collect trips in a folder to name them meaningfully. - Trips View now uses the full screen on iPad. - Stop Info Cards are now responsive to changes in the Encounter Type and Traveler filters. 1.0.24 - Supports older versions of iOS (16+) - Fixed text color in darkmode on TimelineView ## Apps similar to Argo | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [MyAirstream](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/myairstream/id6504977465) | 4.0 (42) | Free | Travel | | [MouseWait for Dollywood](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mousewait-for-dollywood/id6670341805) | 4.0 (3) | Free | Travel | | [CurbNTurf](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/curbnturf/id1541921570) | 4.1 (9) | Free | Travel | | [SkyMed](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/skymed/id6444456488) | 5.0 (2) | Free | Travel | | [Discover Greece Audio Guides](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/discover-greece-audio-guides/id6742910887) | — | Free | Travel | | [Camping.Tools-Travel Companion](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/campingtools-travel-companion/id1672658613) | 4.6 (10) | Free | Travel | --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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