A 5-minute guide to planning a trip your crew will actually agree on

Wondorah is an AI travel planner that:

1. Drafts a full day-by-day itinerary from a single paragraph of trip-intent.
2. Checksthe places, prices, weather claims, and travel times against live sources, and flags anything it can't confirm.
3. Collaborates: invite your crew, swipe + poll on options, chat with the AI together.
4. Adapts:kosher, halal, celiac, accessible, multi-generational, pet-friendly, solo, road trip, open-destination "surprise me". Every trip gets shaped around your real life, not a faceless average traveler.

Nothing is handwaved. Every card in your itinerary has a confidence badge showing whether we independently verified the address, hours, price, and more.

1. Sign in → tap Home → tap Plan a new trip.
2. Describe what you want in plain English. The more you say, the better the first draft. Examples:

   Three-day Paris trip for 2 adults + 1 teen in mid-May. Budget ~$3k excluding flights. Loves art + food, hates early mornings.

   10 days in Tokyo with my wife and our 4-year-old. We keep kosher and need naptime built into the afternoons.

   Wheelchair user (manual chair), Rome for a week with my husband. Step-free hotels, accessible Colosseum + Vatican.

   PCH from San Francisco to LA, 4 days, stops in Big Sur, Cambria, and Santa Barbara. Two adults, food + viewpoints.

   5 countries in Southeast Asia in 3 weeks. Surprise me, no overnight flights.

   Beach week in Outer Banks with our golden retriever. Dog-friendly everything.

3. Tap Generate. First draft arrives in ~60s.
4. The Intelligence tab begins running in the background: crowd, weather, cost, safety, budget, climate risk, and transport.

Every trip has the same sidebar (and bottom-nav on mobile):

Tip:the sidebar adapts to your trip's phase. Features you don't need yet are tucked under a More drawer to keep things calm. As your trip date approaches, more surfaces promote to the main rail.

Every card carries its own state, so you can see what was checked and what wasn't:

• Verified: address, hours, reviews, and price confirmed from live sources.
• Partial: some fields confirmed, others still pending.
• Unverified:not enough independent data. We'll still show our best guess but flag it.

Verification runs automatically right after generation. There is no button to click. If you want to re-run it after an edit, tap Verify all at the top of the Itinerary tab.

Recently-closed restaurants are auto-filtered before they ever reach you. That's the closed-venue prevention sweep running ahead of the verification pass.

The Crew tab is the one place group trips happen. Three subtabs in one URL. Tap a friend in and they land here.

Inviting

1. Crew → Manage.
2. Type an email and pick a role:
   • Editor: can vote, comment, chat, add / remove items.
   • Viewer: read-only.
3. Tap Send invite. Your invitee gets a one-tap accept email and lands straight on the trip board.

Chat subtab

Group thread tied to your trip, with reactions and replies. Anyone can @Wondorah (or type @w + ↵) to bring Wondorah in: regenerate a day, swap an activity, answer a logistics question.

Swipe subtab

1. Organizer taps Start session. Activities are pulled from your itinerary.
2. Each crew member independently swipes 👍 Like, 👎 Pass, or ❤️ Love.
3. Tap See Matches for ranked group overlap. Unanimous picks get a special badge.

No more "what do you want to do?" / "I don't know, what do YOU want to do?"

Polls subtab

Quick decisions Swipe doesn't cover: "Sushi night or izakaya night?"

1. Anyone on the crew proposes options.
2. Each member ranks 1st / 2nd / 3rd. Wondorah uses Borda count so quieter voices get heard, not just the loudest.
3. Wondorah picks the option with the highest aggregate rank.

Tip:if an invite email lands in spam, mark it "Not spam" once and all future Wondorah emails will land in the inbox.

Inside the trip → Crew → Chat (or the standalone Chat link in the sidebar):

• Ask things like "Move day 2 dinner earlier, we have tickets at 8 pm" or "What's a rainy-day alternative for day 4 afternoon?" or "Is the day 4 restaurant wheelchair-accessible?"
• The AI sees your full itinerary + verification data + intelligence dossier + preferences and responds with specific, actionable changes.
• Use @Wondorah (or type @w + ↵) to summon it explicitly in a long thread.

The AI has per-trip memory. It learns your family's preferences (no peanuts, early dinners, needs naps) as you chat, and applies them on regeneration.

What the AI won't do:infer your faith, orientation, or identity from indirect words like "spouse" or "partner". It uses only what you actually tell it. If you ever see it guess, that's a bug. Tell us.

Hidden Gems

Wondorah spots 2+ hour gaps in any day and offers curated, lesser-known finds: the place a local cousin would tell you about, not the top-10 listicle. Restaurants, viewpoints, cultural experiences, off-the-beaten-path stops.

• Pet-friendly trips: gems are automatically filtered for dog-welcoming venues.
• Road trips: gems appear along your actual driving route, not just at named stops. Find the diner only on the map between miles 87 and 112.

Tap a gem to expand it → tap Add to Day → it slots into your itinerary at a sensible time.

The Inbox

You see that rooftop bar in a TikTok at 11pm. Instead of bookmarking it and forgetting by Wednesday, drop the link straight into Wondorah.

1. Open your trip → Inbox.
2. Paste a URL from TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, Reddit, a travel blog, or any public page about a place.
3. The AI reads the post, extracts the place + location, and queues it for you to Accept onto the itinerary or send to Failed (with a reason).
4. On mobile: hit your phone's native Share button from any app → pick Wondorah from the share sheet. The link lands in your inbox instantly, no copy-paste.

Photos tab

A real photo album per trip. Upload as you go (or after). Caption. Delete. Multi-select. Drag-and-drop on desktop. Native camera on mobile. HEIC files from iOS are auto-transcoded so they display normally.

The Photos page is also the fuel for Trip Replay. Every photo you upload becomes available to the AI's storytelling pass.

Trip Replay

Spotify Wrapped, but for the trip you actually took. The Replay auto-generates a swipeable, vertical, Instagram-Stories-style stack of cards:

• Cover card with destination, dates, theme emoji, and a hero photo (auto-picked from your album).
• Stats card: places visited, days, crew size, miles or kilometers traveled.
• Day highlight cards anchored to your favorite moments. Photos auto-match to the right day via their taken_at timestamp.
• Crew, hidden gem, and closing cards wrapping the story.

Cards with 4+ photos render as a 2×2 Instagram-style grid. When there are more photos than fit, the corner gets a "+N more"chip. Tap it and you're back on the Photos page.

Export as video

1. Open the Trip Replay → tap Export Video.
2. Wait for the encode. Output is 9:16 vertical, designed for TikTok and Instagram Reels.
3. Share natively from your phone, or drop it in iMessage / WhatsApp / a group chat.

No photos yet? The Replay still renders with theme-aware gradients + emoji per card. Once you upload, hit Regenerate on the Replay and the grids fill in.

One unified page combining pre-trip tasks and packing items. Two AI buttons drive it:

• Regenerate: rebuilds the entire checklist with items specific to your trip. Atlantic City weekend? Boardwalk cash tip, NJ Transit reminder, no passport. Tokyo with a toddler? Visa check, yen exchange, JR Pass, kid items, naptime-aware schedule, kosher substitution reminders if you said you keep kosher.
• AI Generate: adds smart packing items on top, categorized: Clothing · Toiletries · Electronics · Documents · Health · Accessories · plus trip-specific (Beach Gear, Safari Kit, Pet Travel Kit, Ski Bag).

Both buttons share the same list:

• Smart auto-categorization with 10+ categories.
• Add a custom item manually and Wondorah picks the best category.
• Check-off tracking with a progress bar.
• Checked items survive Regenerate. Your manual work is never lost.
• For road trips: accounts for all stops and climate changes across your route.

What's built into the AI's tailoring:

• Domestic trips never get passport / visa items.
• International trips always include destination-specific health, visa, currency guidance.
• Kid trips always include a set of kid-specific items.
• Trips with infants / toddlers protect a naptime window in the itinerary.
• Faith- and diet-aware (kosher, halal, celiac, nut-allergy) substitutions are concrete, not vague: Chabad listings for kosher abroad, halal-certified directories, etc.

The Costs & Savings tab is the financial home for every trip. Sub-pages live inside it:

• Affordability Reframe:instead of one big intimidating total, the trip is broken into the cost of three small daily habits ("this trip is the equivalent of 4 weeks of lunch out, or 11 weeks of coffee runs"). The goal: make it feel reachable.
• Savings Goal: set a target. The page shows your daily / weekly target, a progress bar, a streak counter that rewards consecutive on-target days, and a milestone burst at 25 / 50 / 75 / 100%.
• Date-shift hint: when your trip has flex on the dates, the page surfaces a small chip with the season label + crowd level for the cheapest nearby week. Tap to apply.
• Price Watches: set threshold alerts for flights + hotels. Background monitor pings you when a price crosses your threshold.
• Booking Links: one-tap deep links to flights / hotels / activities with your dates pre-filled. No more copy-pasting into Booking.com.
• Expenses & Settlements:log shared expenses across the crew, see who owes whom, settle in one tap.

Tip: the site-wide Deals page (bottom nav) surfaces curated flight + hotel deals you can save to any existing trip with one tap.

Every trip has a public share link. Tap the share icon in the top-right of the itinerary.

• Copy-link to send as a text.
• Downloadable PDF itinerary (single page).
• Per-day share (just one day at a time).
• Per-item share (just one restaurant / activity).
• Trip Replay share: share the swipeable story or the 9:16 exported video. (See Section 8.)

Shared pages show no login wall, which is great for showing family the plan before they join the crew.

Every trip, day, and individual card has a rich social preview (Open Graph image), so when you drop the link your friends see a hero image, not a grey placeholder. Here's how each platform handles it:

Where you can share

• Instagram Stories: copy the share link → paste into a Story with the Link Sticker. The preview auto-populates with your trip's destination, dates, and a hero photo.
• Instagram Reels & TikTok: export the Trip Replay as a 9:16 video and upload natively. Vertical, native aspect, captions baked in. (See Section 8.)
• X / Twitter:paste and tweet. You'll get a large-image summary card with the trip title + dates.
• Facebook / Messenger: links show a full-bleed preview with the destination photo and crew count.
• WhatsApp / iMessage: preview cards auto-expand in both.
• Pinterest: share the PDF export (printable one-pager with your whole itinerary + map) as a pin-worthy image.
• LinkedIn: yes, really. Remote-work travel and bleisure trips fit right in. Clean preview card, no emoji spam.

To share, tap Share on any trip, day, or item card and pick a platform. Wondorah pre-fills a suggested caption you can edit or use as-is. Share links look like wondorah.com/share/trip/paris-may-26, and when you've uploaded trip photos the day cards render as 2×2 grids with a "+N more" chip on cards that hold extras.

Pet-friendly mode

Mention your pet anywhere in the trip brief ("weekend in Asheville with our dog," "road trip to the Keys with our pup") and Wondorah activates pet-friendly mode end-to-end:

• A pet-friendly badge appears on the trip header.
• Itinerary generation biases toward dog-friendly restaurants, hotels, parks, activities.
• Hidden Gems search appends pet-friendly to every query.
• AI Checklist includes leash, travel bowls, pet first-aid kit, vaccination records.
• AI Chat knows your trip is pet-inclusive ("is this beach dog-friendly?").

Inclusive AI

Wondorah is built on the idea that the world should be plannable by anyone. The AI's tailoring covers:

• Faith & diet: kosher, halal, celiac, nut-allergy, vegan, pescatarian. Concrete substitutions, not vague "research local options."
• Multi-generational: toddler naptime windows, mobility-aware pacing for older travelers, kid-specific packing items.
• Accessibility: step-free routes, wheelchair access, hearing-impaired-friendly experiences when you explicitly tell us.
• Solo travelers: neighborhoods that feel safe to walk at night, anxiety-aware crowd levels.
• LGBTQ+ travelers: neighborhood + venue recommendations when you explicitly mention it. Wondorah will never infer orientation, faith, or identity from indirect words like "spouse" or "partner."
• Open-destination: "5 countries in Southeast Asia, surprise me" resolves to concrete places before the planner runs.

If you ever feel the AI made an assumption you didn't give it, tell us. That's the bug we care about most.

• Avatar menu (top-right) → Preferences → save reusable profiles: budget tier, food preferences, dietary notes, accessibility needs, activity interests, travel pace. Attach a profile to any trip and the AI weaves it into every recommendation.
• Preference rules: write explicit constraints like "no early mornings" or "always include a cooking class" that the AI follows across all your trips.
• Your Onboarding Quiz answers seed your first preference profile automatically.
• Sign out lives on the avatar menu.

Wondorah is currently invitation-only. With an invite email, follow its link. Your first sign-in uses the temporary password from that email, then you set a permanent one. No invite yet? Join the waitlist.

Signing in & passwords

Sign in with your email and password. Forgot it? Tap Forgot password? on the sign-in page. Wondorah emails a reset code; enter the code and a new password to get back in.

Your data

• Export a copy: email support@wondorah.com and a person prepares your export.
• Delete your account: email support from your account address. Your data is removed or anonymized within 30 days, and residual encrypted backups within a further 90 days (see the Privacy Policy).
• Change your email, or need help when locked out? Email support; these are handled by a person.

Take a trip offline

Inside a trip, tap Download for offline to save the itinerary and key trip surfaces to your device. They keep working with no connection, and a banner shows when the offline copy was last refreshed. You can also export the itinerary as a PDF for a reliable copy to print or read anywhere. Re-download after big edits so the offline copy stays current.

Is there an app?

Native iOS and Android apps are in pre-release testing and not yet in the App Store or Play Store. Today you can add Wondorah to your home screenfrom your browser for an app-like experience, and everything syncs because your account and trips live on Wondorah's servers, not on a single device.

• Crew tabon the bottom nav always jumps to the most recent trip's crew board.
• Trip list → tap the × on any card to delete abandoned drafts.
• Typing destination? Use real city names. Avoid {city} or placeholder text.
• Be specific in your brief:kosher, halal, celiac, accessibility needs, kid ages, pet, "surprise me." The more you say, the more tailored the first draft.
• Stuck? Pull to refresh (on mobile). The preview sometimes caches a stale state.
• Found a bug? Use the in-app Report Bug button in the sidebar. Include the trip URL, a screenshot, and one sentence about what you expected vs. what happened.