# Pin and Plot — Plans, maps, packing & costs > Plans, maps, packing & costs (iPhone/iPad app by Paul DeSalvo.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pin-and-plot/id6800444562 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Paul DeSalvo](https://appshunter.io/developer/1892507755) - Category: Travel, Productivity - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 26.0 · 20 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-09-28 - Data updated: 2026-10-10 ## What is Pin and Plot? Pin and Plot is a complete travel planner. Every part of a trip lives in one app: the places you want to see, the plan for each day, every flight, train and ferry, how you'll get between stops, what to pack, and who paid for what. It works on iPhone, iPad and Mac. YOUR WHOLE TRIP, DAY BY DAY • A timeline for every day: where you're sleeping, how you're getting there, what's booked and what's still open • Weather for each day at each stop, with hourly forecasts • A trip assistant that spots what's missing, like a night with no hotel or a connection with no plan, and asks one clear question at a time • To-dos before you leave and on the day they're due • Summarize any day: a brief of what's coming before it, a journal of how it went after EVERY FLIGHT, TRAIN AND TRANSFER • Flights, trains, buses, ferries, cable cars and drives, leg by leg, with local times at both ends • Layovers and connections worked out, and gaps in your route flagged before you travel • Flight numbers, terminals, gates and confirmation codes in one place • A Live Activity keeps each trip day on the Lock Screen, always on what's next • Pick a train straight from the Apple Maps timetable FIND AND SAVE PLACES • Search Apple Maps and save restaurants, sights, hikes and hotels to your trip • Look Around, details and directions for every saved place • Every stop and saved place on one map, grouped by where you're staying • Keep ideas unplanned until you're ready, then give them a day PLAN HOW YOU'LL GET AROUND • See each day's route with walking, driving and public transport times between stops • Reorder a day's stops into the shortest route • Open any leg in Apple Maps for turn-by-turn directions PACKING THAT LEARNS • A packing library that remembers what you own and how many you usually bring • Suggestions from the forecast, the destination, the kind of trip and who's coming, kids included • Set up your family once: children's profiles and packing follow them onto every trip • Lists sorted the way you pack, with progress as you go SHARED EXPENSES, SETTLED FAIRLY • Log expenses in any currency and photograph receipts • Split equally, by exact amounts, percentages or shares, or item by item from a receipt with tax and tip shared out • Running balances for everyone, and the fewest payments needed to settle up • Group the people who pay together into households, and settle up between them • Estimate costs before you go and see where the money went • Export expenses to a spreadsheet BRING IT IN, DON'T TYPE IT • Paste a booking confirmation, pick a screenshot, photograph a ticket or just say what you've planned, and on-device Apple Intelligence reads it into your trip • Review everything before it's added TRAVEL TOGETHER • Share a trip through iCloud; everyone sees the same plan and can add to it • Personal packing items and receipt photos stay private to you • Syncs across iPhone, iPad and Mac • Siri and Shortcuts can log an expense, save a place, set a day's plan or start a travel day PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No accounts, no ads, no tracking • Your trips live on your devices and in your own iCloud • Reading documents and answering questions happens on your device Without iCloud, your trips stay on your device; sign in to sync and share them. Reading bookings and documents into a trip, and the trip assistant, use Apple Intelligence and need a supported device with it turned on. Everything else works on any device running iOS 26 or later. ## Is Pin and Plot safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Pin and Plot. ## Is Pin and Plot legit? Pin and Plot has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Pin and Plot is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.3 — 2026-10-07 The Plan is now the whole day. Pick a day to see its agenda, hourly forecast and summary in one place, and add activities, travel, places and to-dos right there. Move things with a hold or a swipe, and undo any change from the banner. • Unscheduled ideas are grouped by town, ready to add to a day • Day routes start and end at your hotel • On iPad and Mac, the map lists its places in a sidebar • The trip-day Live Activity looks right on Apple Watch • Smarter expense imports and lots of fixes ### 1.2 — 2026-10-05 A new Plan, day summaries, families and a smarter Lock Screen. • The Plan is rebuilt: the trip assistant, the day's route map and a rail of days sit at the top, and every day gets its own card. Past days fade, and today shows where you are. • Summarize any day from its page. Before the day you get a brief of what's coming; afterwards, a journal of how it went. Copy it from Export day. Needs Apple Intelligence. • Send a day to Desandar, the private journal app: choose Send to Desandar in Export day and the day opens there as a journal entry, written up for you when Apple Intelligence is on. • The hourly forecast is now part of each day card, and it tells you when rain is coming. • The Lock Screen Live Activity follows the whole trip day and always shows what's next. You get one card for the day instead of one per journey. • Families: add your children's profiles and packing once and share the family from the You tab. Their packing follows them onto every trip. • Settle up by household: group the people who pay together, and balances and suggested payments work out between households. Each expense is still split per adult. • Imported trips can bring their expenses and households with them, and you can link each new traveler to a contact before the trip is made. • Pick a train straight from the Apple Maps timetable in the leg editor. • When there's a gap in your route, the assistant asks how you'll cover it instead of assuming a car. Choose the new Lift option when friends or family are picking you up. • New Shortcuts: Save Place adds a place to a trip, and Set Day Plan retimes a day from a list. • Each stop's notes show on the day route, and a journey draws as its own stretch of the day. • Tap the map's location button to allow location, and then it shows you where you are. • Pasted bookings: a return journey is recognized, the airline code is split off a flight number, and a leg's ends link to places already in your trip. • Fixes: times stay whole at large text sizes, iCloud no longer warns about rejected changes after a single retry, and packing questions stop once a trip has begun. ### 1.1 — 2026-09-29 No release notes. ## More apps by Paul DeSalvo - [Little Learners Lab](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/little-learners-lab/id6762405831) All apps by Paul DeSalvo: https://appshunter.io/developer/1892507755 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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