Built by someone who kept re-typing the same spreadsheet.

Why it exists

Every trip I planned went the same way. A spreadsheet, a tab per day, and a column of times that were right until a flight moved and I spent an evening re-typing the lot. Timezones were a column I maintained by hand and got wrong at least once per trip. Costs were in four currencies and totalled in none of them.

The planners I tried had the opposite problem. They all wanted me to commit to a date before I could write anything down, which is backwards. I usually know what I want to do weeks before I know which day it lands on. Most of them also wanted to be the place I booked flights, found restaurants and read reviews, which meant doing a worse job of things Google already does well.

So RPlan was born. It has all the features I wanted: a day-by-day plan, times and timezone control, costs tracked properly, a packing list I don't have to rebuild every trip, and a link so my family can follow along while I'm away. When I need directions, pricing information, or the very latest reviews, RPlan sends you to Google who've already solved that problem.

What RPlan doesn't do

So everything is clear up front, before you sign up.

• It doesn't book anything. There are no affiliate links. You can't book flights, hotels or travel from RPlan, there are a bunch of other great apps for that.
• It isn't a review site. Place data and opening hours come from Google, and RPlan links out to them. Notes, tags and categories you add to places are private to you.
• It has no social features. No feed, no profiles, no discovering other people's trips. RPlan isn't the next social media site.

How it's run

RPlan is an independent project.

What that means is there's no investor expecting the numbers to go up, there's no reason to add a feed, harvest your location, or start emailing you about deals.

Sharing is off until you turn it on. Location data is only captured when a trip is active and is encrypted at rest and in transit.

Your trips export to PDF at any time, on the free plan included, so leaving is always possible.

The full terms are in the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy.

The photographs

The pictures on this site (the fjord, Teide, the Lisbon sunset, the harbour at dusk) were all taken by me personally, from my actual trips (planned through RPlan), if you're interested, you can see more at rod.photo.

There's no stock photography anywhere on RPlan. I've always hated companies using stock photos when most of the time, their real staff would be honored to be featured.

AI

We all know AI is getting increasingly more involved with software development, so let me be up front:

• What I use it for. UI mockup ideas (I rebuild each view by hand in Figma and then in code once I'm happy), a sounding board when I'm debugging (the modern Rubber Duck), and some coding work through Claude Code, such as refactors and clean-up passes.
• What I don't use it for. Deciding what RPlan does or how it works. I started building apps long before AI came along, and I design and run my projects myself.

Credits

RPlan wouldn't be possible without a number of other projects: OpenStreetMap, Leaflet, OpenFreeMap, MapTiler, Laravel, Livewire and more. They're all listed, with their licences, on the credits page.

Let me know your thoughts

If something's broken or you have a feature you'd like to see added, I would appreciate you getting in touch via email: contact@rplan.org.