Release Notes

What's New in journeybot

Every update to journeybot — new features, improvements, and fixes across all versions.

The latest version of journeybot is 2.0.0, released on November 3, 2026, with Plan journeys with several stops, Explore your travel history with Passport and journeybot on Mac, Apple Watch and iPhone Duo.

journeybot is a private travel planner and packing list app for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. Release notes below are the same ones shown inside the app, going back to version 1.0.

  • Plan journeys with several stops

    Add stops and nights to build your route, with dates calculated automatically. See the whole route on one map, including driving distances and times for road trips, and choose campervan travel. Each stop has its own forecast, local time and currency, while smart packing lists consider weather and activities across the journey. Two stops per journey are free; Premium removes the limit.

  • Explore your travel history with Passport

    Look back on your travels in your Passport. Import past journeys from your photo library and share a travel recap.

  • journeybot on Mac, Apple Watch and iPhone Duo

    Plan and pack with a fully optimised native Mac app and layouts that adapt to iPhone Duo. On Apple Watch, tick off packing items from your wrist, check your current stop’s weather, local time, plugs and currency, and count down to your next trip with a complication.

  • Bring your own bags

    Create custom bags with photos, split your items between them and reuse them in packing templates. Your chosen bag type determines what can go inside. Find bags and templates together in the new Gear tab. One custom bag is free; Premium removes the limit.

  • Keep a bucket list

    Save travel ideas before you have dates, with places, rough timing and activities. Turn an idea into a journey when you’re ready. With Premium, discover suitable months based on climate and activities, and get a reminder three months ahead to start planning.

  • Pack one thing at a time

    See your next item in a large, easy-to-read view, then tap Packed, Later or Not taking it. Work through a bag or category at your own pace.

  • Your next journey, up front

    See your current or next trip at the top of your journeys, with today’s stop, upcoming plans, packing progress and reminders you can tick off.

  • Know when and how much to tip

    Check tipping customs for each country on your route, with amounts by service, service-charge guidance and links to sources.

  • Celebrate and share your journeys

    See destination and travel stamps when you create a journey. Share your plans as a stamp, ticket or countdown, sized for stories and posts.

  • Connect your assistantPremium

    With Premium on Mac, connect an assistant in Settings to view journeys, edit packing lists and reminders, and manage bags and templates.

  • Bug fixes and performance improvements

    A round of fixes to keep journeybot running smoothly.

  • Bug fixes and performance improvements

    A round of fixes to keep journeybot running smoothly.

  • A fresh layout for journey details

    Journey details now sit on one card led by your destination, with the weather beside the map and your activities included. Tap any temperature to switch between °C and °F.

  • One search for journeys and templates

    Search has its own tab and finds journeys and packing templates together. Settings moved to the top right of the journeys list.

  • Smarter packing lists

    Smart packing lists now cover everyday essentials and the key items for your weather and activities.

  • Extra large widget on iPad and iPhone

    The upcoming journey widget now comes in an extra large size. On iPad it shows more of your trips at once, and on iPhone with iOS 27 it fills a whole Home Screen page. While you're away, every size leads with the trip you're on and counts down to its end.

  • One filter for active and upcoming trips

    The journey list has a new Active & Upcoming filter, and it remembers the filter you picked last time.

  • Fresh copies of gallery templates

    You can now add a clean copy of a gallery template you've already changed. Duplicates get a number at the end of their name.

  • Choose templates before generatingPremium

    Activity-linked templates now appear before smart generation, showing what matched so you can include or skip each one.

  • See what shapes your smart packing list

    Journey forms now show which details shape your smart packing list, with clearer guidance for adding useful notes.

  • More complete smart packing lists

    Smart packing lists are more thorough. Every category comes properly filled in, so there's less left for you to add yourself.

  • Apple Private Cloud Compute for smart lists

    Smart packing lists are generated privately on your device by default, offline and with no limits. Switch to Apple Private Cloud Compute in Settings when you want stronger suggestions.

  • Reminders for your trip

    Add your own reminders to a journey: check-in times, a booking to confirm, anything you'd rather not carry in your head. Give one a time and journeybot notifies you. On iOS 27 you can just ask Siri, and the more you do, the better it gets at knowing where they belong.

  • Create a Genmoji in one tapPremium

    On iOS 27, tap Create a Genmoji in the icon picker to jump straight to the system's Genmoji creation screen, for journeys and templates alike.

  • Performance improvements

    Opening a journey and scrolling through its details is quicker now. journeybot loads what it needs up front instead of looking it up again and again, so the app stays responsive while you browse and pack.

  • Import a packing list from Notes, Files, or a spreadsheet

    Paste a checklist from Notes, pick a file from Files or another app, or bring in a spreadsheet as CSV. journeybot groups the items into categories and lets you review everything before adding it, and anything already checked off arrives already packed.

  • Custom categories, wherever you edit them

    Add your own packing categories and manage them from a journey's packing list or a template: rename, change the icon, merge, reorder, or delete. Touch and hold a category's header right in the list for the same options, and imported items match your existing categories instead of piling into new ones.

  • A few packing and planning improvements

    Your medications list now sorts alphabetically as it grows. Touch and hold a packing category's header to mark every item in it as packed. And picking a destination now opens transport selection right away, so it's easier to set the right one from the start.

  • Keep the screen on while you pack

    The packing list menu has a new switch that stops the display from locking, so you can set your phone down between items without the screen going dark.

  • Visual and bug fixes

    Polish for the Home Screen widgets, plus the usual round of fixes.

  • Siri and Shortcuts

    Ask when your next trip starts or what's left to pack, add items and check them off by voice, and build your own shortcuts from any journeybot action.

  • Journeys in Spotlight

    Search for a trip by name or destination from the Home Screen and go straight to it.

  • Boarding pass widgets

    The journey widget is now a boarding pass in your trip's color, with a countdown stub and packing progress. Siri's cards match it.

  • Currency converter, now free

    Live conversion inside every journey is free for everyone now, with no upgrade needed.

  • Faster and steadier

    The app launches quicker, and Siri and the widget now pick the trip you're actually on.

  • Item photo stickers

    Snap a photo of anything you're packing and journeybot cuts out the background to make a clean sticker. Five free for everyone, unlimited on Premium.

  • Journey reminders

    Switch them on and journeybot nudges you as each trip gets close, with weather outlooks and packing prompts at the right moments.

  • Faster and more polished

    A faster Settings screen, a tidier experience on Mac, and the usual round of fixes.

  • Family Sharing on your premium card

    When your premium comes through Family Sharing, the premium card now makes that clear.

  • Manage your subscription in-app

    Jump straight to managing or canceling your subscription from Settings, without digging through the App Store.

  • More reliable premium access

    Premium now holds up better offline, and access ends right on time when a subscription lapses.

  • Custom template iconsPremium

    Give each template its own personality. Choose from a free set of travel emoji, or create your own with Genmoji on Premium.

  • Style & personal care tagsPremium

    Add quick tags for your wardrobe, footwear, and grooming routine. Your smart packing lists use them to suggest the items that are right for you.

  • Redesigned template editor

    Editing a template now opens to a clean header with its icon and name front and center.

  • Medications you control

    Decide whether your saved medications are added to packing lists. It's on by default, so essentials never get left behind.

  • Tab bar navigation

    Your key sections now live in a persistent tab bar at the bottom. Moving between Journeys, Templates, Profile, and Settings is instant; the bar steps aside when you open a journey so the packing switcher has full room at the bottom.

  • All preset journey colors, free

    Every color in the palette is now available to everyone. Premium users also get a Custom slider to mix any exact shade; the color carries through to the journey card, packing list, and widget.

  • Redesigned journey editor

    The add and edit screen has a fresh header card that previews your color and icon live as you set them up.

  • UX and performance improvements

    The Template Gallery is now reachable from a row at the end of your templates list at any time. Journey search expands inline without leaving the list. A category badge now shows only once every item in it is checked off. Journey detail no longer dismisses by accident on a downward swipe. Fixed a layout overflow in landscape on journeys with a destination map.

  • Custom Journey IconsPremium

    Make your journey icon truly yours. Create one with Genmoji or pick any emoji from the keyboard, and it shows up everywhere, including the widget.

  • Smarter Always-Pack Items

    Give each always-pack item its own category, bag, priority, and quantity. Smart packing lists now place them exactly where they belong instead of lumping them under Other.

  • A Friendlier Start with Templates

    The My Templates screen now explains how templates work and lets you add ready-made starters like Weekend Getaway or Business Trip in a single tap.

  • Helpful Tips Along the Way

    journeybot now points out handy tricks as you go, like linking a template to an activity or saving a big packing list as a template.

  • Expand and Collapse All

    Open or close all categories at once in your packing list, template details, and the smart list preview.

  • Alphabetical Sorting

    A new sorting option in the filter menu puts your packing list items in A to Z order.

  • Smarter Defaults

    New packing items start with the bag and priority you used last, and quick-added items follow your active filter so they stay visible.

  • Smarter Search

    Finding a journey now works without typing accents or apostrophes: Kaneohe finds Kāneʻohe, and Sao Paulo finds São Paulo.

  • Quick Temperature Flip

    Tap any temperature in the weather section to peek at it in Celsius or Fahrenheit, without changing your settings.

  • Better with Accessibility

    journeybot now adapts more gracefully to large text sizes across the whole app.

  • Pick Your Temperature Unit

    Choose Celsius, Fahrenheit, or let journeybot follow your device. You'll find the option in Settings under Language & Region.

  • Light & Dark Mode

    Switch the app between light, dark, or system default right from Settings, without touching your device settings.

  • Smoother Journey Creation

    Tapping date and transport fields now works reliably anywhere on the row, and the keyboard stays out of the way while you browse options.

  • Templates for everyone

    Create and reuse up to three packing templates on the free plan. Start fast with ready-made ones like Weekend Getaway and Business Trip, and open the whole library right from your My Journeys toolbar.

  • Summer Travel Pack

    A new seasonal event with ready-made templates for beach trips, festivals, and road trips, plus a matching set of sunny app icons.

  • Smarter packing lists

    Smart packing lists are now more reliable in your app's language, with natural item names throughout.

  • Motorcycle trips

    Add motorcycle as a transport option for your journeys, complete with its own icon.

  • Fresh app icons

    Give journeybot a fresh look with new alternative app icons to make it more your own.

  • Italian and Korean

    journeybot now speaks two more languages: Italian and Korean.

  • Cycling trips

    Add cycling to your activities and get smart packing suggestions for helmets, gear, and repair tools.

  • Bulk list editing

    Select multiple items at once to move them between bags or delete them in a single action.

  • Local time widget

    See what time it is at your destination right from your home screen.

  • Smarter packing generation

    Packing list suggestions are now smarter and more focused, tuned to the details of your journey.

  • Currency converter

    Check the exchange rate for your destination right inside the journey. You can type arithmetic like 20+5+10, with a handy calculator toolbar above the keyboard.

  • Premium status card

    Premium subscribers now see a membership card in Settings showing their plan and renewal date.

  • Redesigned journey sections

    Section headers across the journey detail view are now larger and cleaner, so everything is easier to scan at a glance.

  • Baggage Check

    journeybot now scans your packing list for items with special flight rules, like lithium batteries, power banks, lighters and aerosols, and flags anything that needs attention before you fly. The new Baggage Check screen appears on any journey with a flight, showing common restricted categories and the matches from your list.

  • Pre-flight Reminders

    Turn on optional notifications 2 days before departure and 2 days before you head home. If restricted items turn up in your checked bag, you get a personalised message, and tapping a reminder takes you straight to the Baggage Check screen.

  • Reliable Premium offlinePremium

    Your Premium access now stays reliable even when you are offline, so all your features keep working wherever you travel.

  • Polish & Fixes

    We squashed some bugs and tuned performance so journeybot feels faster and steadier across your trips.

  • Welcome to journeybot

    Plan every trip in one place. Create a journey with your dates, destination, and how you're getting there, and let journeybot help you get ready.

  • Smart Packing Lists

    Generate a tailored packing list built around your destination, dates, and the weather you'll meet. Tick items off as you pack so nothing gets left behind.

  • Weather at a Glance

    See what to expect at your destination before you go. journeybot shows the forecast for upcoming trips and typical seasonal weather for dates further out.

  • Plan Your Activities

    Keep your plans next to your packing. Add the activities you have in mind for each journey so your list reflects everything you'll actually do.

  • Synced Across Devices

    Your journeys travel with you. With CloudKit, everything stays in sync across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac, ready wherever you open the app.

  • Next Journey Widget

    Keep your countdown on the Home Screen. The Next Journey widget shows your upcoming trip at a glance so departure day never sneaks up on you.