In development — iOS TestFlight first
Plan smarter.
Roam freely.
Born to be free ⚡️
RoamGuru is a trip readiness app for groups. Shared gear lists, menus you reuse, and one clear answer to the question everybody asks the night before: are we actually ready?
The problem
Group trips fall apart in the last 48 hours
Not because anyone is careless — because the plan lives in six places. One person has the gear list, someone else is handling food, the dates are in a calendar invite, and nobody can say whether the second tent is actually in the car. RoamGuru puts that in one place, and keeps it there between trips.
The app
What it looks like
Captured from the build that goes to TestFlight — not mockups.
Every trip, and how ready it is
Readiness sits on the list itself, so the trip that needs attention is the one you can see needs attention.
One calm next move
Rather than a wall of everything outstanding, the trip names the single most useful thing to do next.
Kits that outlive the trip
Lists live in your library and get attached to trips — so next spring starts from last spring, not from nothing.
Screens from the current build. The trips shown are examples, not a real account.
How it works
Three things it does well
Narrow on purpose. It is not an itinerary builder and it does not book anything.
Readiness you can see
A trip shows how ready it actually is — what is packed, what is planned, and what is still outstanding — instead of making you reconstruct it from a group chat the night before.
Kits you build once
Gear lists and menus live in your library, not inside a single trip. Attach them to the next trip, switch off what does not apply, and stop rewriting the same packing list every spring.
Built for a group
Invite the people coming and see who has confirmed, so the trip carries the load rather than the one person who always organises it. Gear checkoff records who actually ticked the box.
Straight answers
Where the app actually is
RoamGuru is early. Rather than have you find that out after installing it, here is the real state of things.
Working today
- Accounts, with sign-in and full account deletion.
- Trips: create, plan, browse, and archive past trips.
- Gear lists and menus in a reusable library, attachable to any trip.
- Trip gear checklists, recording who checked off what and when.
- Friends and trip invites, saved on the server.
- Real maps — your destination and meetup point on the trip, in the trip list, and while you are building it.
- Real forecasts for US trips, from the National Weather Service. Outside the US the card is absent rather than guessing.
- Nearby places from Google Places — actual parks, trailheads and campgrounds near where you are heading.
- A profile that is yours — name, handle, a short bio and your own interest tags, not sample text everyone shares.
- Readiness view, categories, trash with restore, and awards.
Not real yet
- Trip chat is turned off until messages actually send. You will not find a composer that quietly goes nowhere.
- The weather card shows a forecast and a conditions summary, but not the hazards and precautions the design calls for — no weather service supplies those, and we will not invent safety advice.
- Flights, lodging and trip documents are not built at all.
Anything unfinished is labelled inside the app too. You should never have to guess which parts are real.
Beta
Founding testers keep free access
The first round of TestFlight testers gets the app with no paywall, and stays free permanently if a paid tier ever arrives. That is recorded on your account the day you sign up rather than reconstructed later from an invite list, so it cannot quietly go missing.
The core of RoamGuru — planning a trip, knowing whether you are ready, and getting your group aligned — is not the part that would ever sit behind a paywall. Safety-adjacent features never will either.