MemoryRoute: Bucket List

Ideas for trips and experiences arrive in bursts, usually at a moment when you can't act on one. The motivation fades, the idea is forgotten, and then a free weekend arrives and you can't think of anything to do. Meanwhile months pass without much in them worth remembering, and you don't notice until they're gone. MemoryRoute does three things about that. CATCH AN IDEA IN FIVE SECONDS Type a sentence, press return. It becomes an idea with sensible defaults and no follow-up questions. Anything that adds friction here would defeat the point. Or don't open the app at all: share a page, a post or a place from Safari, Maps or Instagram straight to MemoryRoute, or tell Siri "Catch an idea in MemoryRoute". SHOW THE EMPTY STRETCHES WHILE THEY CAN STILL BE FILLED A calendar at three zoom levels: a month, a year as twelve tiles, and every year you've used the app. One glance tells you which months are alive and which are dead space. Underneath it, one line that says what is actually true — "Nothing at all for the next 26 days", or "5 of your next 8 weekends are empty". It is a nudge, never a scold. No streaks, no guilt, nothing turns red. RESURFACE THE RIGHT IDEA AT THE RIGHT MOMENT Bored on a Saturday? Two questions — how much time, how much money — and three ideas that fit, filtered by what the season allows. Some experiences have a door that shuts. An idea whose season is closing rises to the top of the list with the number of days it has left, so you find out before it closes rather than after. And you don't have to open the app to hear about it: a note on Thursday evening when the weekend ahead is open, with an idea that would fit, and another three weeks before an idea's season closes. Worked out and scheduled on your phone. THEN KEEP WHAT HAPPENED A logbook of what you actually did, with a rating and a line written afterwards. Bring in the photographs you took that day and the entry plays back as a story. You can send that story to someone. They can open it whether or not they have the app. STARTING FROM NOTHING An empty app has nothing to browse and nothing to match against. Answer three questions — what pulls you in, how far you would go, where you are based — and get ten proposed experiences to keep or throw away. They range deliberately, from twenty minutes from your door to the other side of the world. FREE, WITH ONE OPTIONAL UPGRADE Everything above is free. MemoryRoute Pro is a one-time purchase that lifts two limits, on the two features that cost us something every time they're used: the first ten proposals are free and Pro asks for more whenever you like, and the free app keeps three shared stories live at once while Pro shares them all. No subscription. ON PRIVACY, PLAINLY There is nothing to sign up for, no analytics, no telemetry and no advertising. Your ideas and plans sync between your devices through your own iCloud account, which we cannot read. Photographs stay in your photo library — MemoryRoute stores a reference to each one, never a copy, so a fortnight abroad costs a few dozen characters rather than a few gigabytes. Sharing a story is the one thing that uploads. The photographs you tick are encrypted on your device before they leave, the key travels in the part of a link that browsers never send to a server, and the copy deletes itself after thirty days. What is hosted is something we have no way to read. Two features reach a server at all: the idea proposals, which go to Google's Gemini, and story sharing. Catching a bare link from another app looks that link up, the way Messages draws a preview. Everything else runs on your device. Mirroring your plans out to a calendar is off until you turn it on, and it never reads what is already in your calendar. iPhone only. Requires iOS 26.