Mingle

The problem

While influencers and social media love to hype up traveling and show off how perfect things are, the truth is, it can be incredibly stressful. Not just because many things can go wrong, but the planning of it, especially if traveling with other people feels like a chore.

Having to figure out things like what everyone wants to do, eat, availability and what each day looks like then trying to put it all in one place in a way that makes sense for everyone using docs, spreadsheets, notes, group chats, social media bookmarks, maps or even other travel apps - it can get chaotic quick.

Things get lost or you end up with long walls of text that nobody wants to read. Apps spam you, are restrictive in terms of what you can add or how you organize things and try to upsell you at every turn to pay for dark mode and other bloated features, itineraries filled with things you don't wanna do. None of these are actually built for the way people actually plan or track things throughout trips.

Because of this, most people, myself included, just resort to using the notes app and group chats to plan things even if it's not ideal.

So I decided to make a travel planner & tracker called Mingle which is available on the iOS store now: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mingle-travel-planner/id6753762705

How it works

The core ideology of Mingle is to make the core planning and tracking experience before and during trips as simple as possible. Essentially, a more powerful notes app that makes it easier to follow what's going on and collaborate.

• Create trips for anything - from a hangout to weekend getaway, big vacation or anything in between

  • Our app is designed to be as flexible as possible so you can use it for specific destinations (countries, cities) or as a living tracker for things like local restaurant hotspots to hit with friends and bucket list

• Add activities inside of trips

• Invite others or join through a shareable link

• Build trips together with friends, family, partner

• Vote on activities and see what people actually want to do

• Create custom sections and organize things in a way that works for you

• Create polls to make decision

• Schedule a date and time while also setting dates to avoid

• Mark activities and trips complete

• Link activities to anything - whether it's a reservation site, reel or website for others to get an idea of what that thing is

• Add trip to calendar

• Add whatever you want

  • Sometimes it's not about going to a specific place or thing and while other apps require that to be the case, we don't. If you and your friends just want to try some Neapolitan Pizza or Gelato while in Italy and don't care where, add it as an activity

Who this is for

Anyone looking to plan a trip that wants a more functional and simpler way to collaborate with others and track things. From a day trip to weekend getaway, big vacation or anything in between.

While our app is targeted mainly at travelers because our app is flexible, anyone looking for a better way to manage and track lists will also find this useful. Doesn't need to be travel related and could be as simple as a weekly grocery list for you and your significant other, list of restaurants or bars to hit with friends, errands, things to do, etc.

If you need to plan it, track it, share it, collab, and it requires you to leave the house, our app has you covered.