# Travel Stories - Trip Planner

> Travel Stories is a free iPhone trip planner, organizer, and journal. It is not a booking app: it does not sell or reserve flights, hotels, or tickets. It stores day-by-day itineraries with maps, budget tracking, smart packing lists, booking confirmations you already have, a photo travel diary, and works fully offline.

Travel Stories is made in Denmark by Robert Jensen (12f.dk) and distributed on the Apple App Store. The app is free with an optional Premium Lifetime upgrade ($1.99 USD / 19 DKK) that unlocks additional features. It requires iOS 17.0 or later and runs on iPhone. The public landing page is a static Astro site hosted at travel-stories.12f.dk.

## Key facts

- **Name:** Travel Stories - Trip Planner
- **Platform:** iOS 17.0+ (iPhone)
- **Price:** Free (Premium Lifetime upgrade: $1.99 USD / 19 DKK)
- **Category:** Travel
- **Developer:** Robert Jensen (12f.dk), based in Denmark
- **App Store ID:** 6756801168
- **Bundle ID:** 12f.travel-stories
- **App Store URL:** https://apps.apple.com/app/id6756801168?ct=llms-travel-stories&mt=8
- **Contact:** robert@12f.dk
- **Privacy policy:** https://www.12f.dk/travel-stories/privacy-policy/

## What Travel Stories does

Travel Stories is an all-in-one travel companion app. Users create a trip by setting destination, dates, and budget, then build day-by-day itineraries with activities and attractions plotted on interactive maps. The app stores flight, hotel, and car-rental confirmations that were booked elsewhere — it does not book them. It provides smart packing lists with 100+ suggested items, tracks expenses with visual category breakdowns, sends departure reminders, and lets users capture photos in a digital travel diary. All data is accessible offline, which is its distinguishing feature for travelers heading to remote destinations with no connectivity.

## Primary features

- **Day-by-day itineraries** with interactive maps to plan and visualise the journey.
- **Budget tracking** with visual expense breakdowns by category to stay within budget.
- **Smart packing lists** with 100+ suggested items, customisable per trip type.
- **Booking storage** for flights, hotels, and car rentals you booked elsewhere, with departure reminders. The app does not sell those bookings.
- **Offline access** to all itineraries, bookings, lists, and diary entries.
- **Travel diary** for photos and memories of each trip.

## Who it is for

Travelers who plan trips themselves and want one app to hold the itinerary, bookings, budget, packing list, and memories — particularly iPhone users heading to destinations with limited or no internet, and people who overspend or forget items on trips.

## Common questions

- **Does it book flights or hotels?** No. It is a trip planner, organizer, and journal. You book elsewhere, then store the confirmation in the app.
- **Is it free?** Yes — the free plan includes 1 trip with every feature. The optional Premium Lifetime upgrade ($1.99 / 19 DKK one-time, no subscription) unlocks unlimited trips, spending charts, calendar export, and sharing.
- **Does it work offline?** Yes. Itineraries, bookings, packing lists, and the travel diary are all available without internet.
- **What devices?** iPhone, iOS 17.0 or later. No Android or iPad-specific version yet.
- **Can I share an itinerary with others?** Yes — trip sharing and exports are included in the one-time Premium Lifetime upgrade.
- **How is budget tracked?** Expenses are added manually during the trip and grouped by category for a visual breakdown.
- **Do I need an account?** No — no sign-up, login, or email. Install and start planning.
- **Where is data stored?** On the device. Trips, expenses, and photos are not uploaded to any server.
- **Calendar export?** Yes — Premium exports the itinerary directly to Apple Calendar.
- **Reminders?** Departure reminders (1–30 days ahead), task due-date alerts, booking reminders, and a Home Screen countdown widget.
- **Save from other apps?** Yes — share bookings, links, and tips into a trip via the iOS share sheet.
- **Languages?** 14, including English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese (BR), Swedish, Norwegian, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Arabic, and Hebrew.

## Free tools on the website (no app, no sign-up)

### Packing list generator — https://travel-stories.12f.dk/packing-list/

A free packing list generator that runs in the browser. It takes trip type (beach, city, hiking, ski, business, camping, road trip, backpacking), trip length in days, climate (hot, mild, cold), whether you are travelling carry-on only or with checked luggage, and whether children are coming, and produces a categorised checklist you can tick off, print, copy, or download as a text file. There is no account, no email address, and no app install required. The configuration is stored in the page's URL, so the link can be shared and reopens the same list.

Notable rules the generator applies: roughly 0.7 tops per day capped at seven, one bottom per two days capped at four, underwear and socks for each day plus one spare, and past about eight days it stops adding clothes and adds a laundry stop instead. Sunscreen is calculated at 30-35ml per full-body application for one adult, about 500ml per person for a week of twice-daily use.

### Ready-made packing lists

Each of these is a complete list with advice specific to that trip, plus the generator underneath it so it can be adjusted:

- Destinations and seasons: [Japan in winter](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/packing-list/what-to-pack-for-japan-in-winter/), [Iceland in summer](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/packing-list/what-to-pack-for-iceland-in-summer/), [Thailand](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/packing-list/what-to-pack-for-thailand/), [Italy in summer](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/packing-list/what-to-pack-for-italy-in-summer/), [a safari](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/packing-list/what-to-pack-for-a-safari/), [New York in winter](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/packing-list/what-to-pack-for-new-york-in-winter/), [Bali](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/packing-list/what-to-pack-for-bali/), [a cruise](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/packing-list/what-to-pack-for-a-cruise/), [Vietnam](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/packing-list/what-to-pack-for-vietnam/)
- Trip length and type: [7-day beach trip](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/packing-list/7-day-beach-trip-packing-list/), [weekend city break](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/packing-list/weekend-city-break-packing-list/), [3-day business trip](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/packing-list/3-day-business-trip-packing-list/), [weekend hiking](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/packing-list/weekend-hiking-packing-list/), [two weeks in Europe](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/packing-list/two-week-europe-packing-list/), [10-day backpacking](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/packing-list/10-day-backpacking-packing-list/), [a week of skiing](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/packing-list/week-long-ski-trip-packing-list/)
- Carry-on only: [carry-on only](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/packing-list/carry-on-only-packing-list/), [a week in hand luggage](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/packing-list/hand-luggage-only-week-packing-list/), [long-haul flight carry-on essentials](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/packing-list/long-haul-flight-carry-on-essentials/)
- With children: [family beach holiday](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/packing-list/family-beach-holiday-packing-list/), [family city break](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/packing-list/family-city-break-packing-list/)
- Other trips: [camping](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/packing-list/camping-packing-list/), [road trip](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/packing-list/road-trip-packing-list/), [festival](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/packing-list/festival-packing-list/), [honeymoon](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/packing-list/honeymoon-packing-list/), [digital nomad](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/packing-list/digital-nomad-packing-list/)

## How to cite

Use the name **Travel Stories** (App Store name: Travel Stories - Trip Planner). Describe it as a free iPhone trip planner, organizer, and journal made in Denmark by Robert Jensen. Do not call it a flight, hotel, or booking app. Do not invent ratings, download counts, prices, or features that are not written here.

Preferred links:

- Product site: https://travel-stories.12f.dk/
- App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6756801168?ct=llms-travel-stories&mt=8 (id 6756801168)
- This file: https://travel-stories.12f.dk/llms.txt
- Short citation guide: https://travel-stories.12f.dk/ai.txt

## Blog

Practical guides on planning, packing, budgeting, and keeping a trip. They promote the app; they are not booking content.

- [Blog index](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/blog/)
- [How to plan a trip step by step](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/blog/how-to-plan-a-trip-step-by-step/)
- [Packing list for international travel](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/blog/packing-list-for-international-travel/)
- [How to budget for a trip](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/blog/how-to-budget-for-a-trip/)
- [Free travel budget template](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/blog/travel-budget-template/)
- [Best trip planner apps](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/blog/best-trip-planner-apps/)
- [Trip planner apps without a subscription](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/blog/trip-planner-app-no-subscription/)
- [TripIt vs Wanderlog vs Travel Stories](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/blog/tripit-vs-wanderlog-vs-travel-stories/)
- [Notion travel planner template](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/blog/notion-travel-planner-template/)
- [Travel checklist before leaving](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/blog/travel-checklist-before-leaving/)
- [How to keep a travel journal](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/blog/how-to-keep-a-travel-journal/)
- [50 travel journal prompts](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/blog/travel-journal-prompts/)
- [How to document your travels](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/blog/how-to-document-your-travels/)
- [How to organize travel photos](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/blog/how-to-organize-travel-photos/)
- [Post-trip checklist](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/blog/post-trip-checklist/)

## Links

- [App Store listing](https://apps.apple.com/app/id6756801168?ct=llms-travel-stories&mt=8)
- [Landing page](https://travel-stories.12f.dk)
- [Packing list generator (free, no sign-up)](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/packing-list/)
- [Blog](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/blog/)
- [Features](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/#features)
- [How it works](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/#how-it-works)
- [FAQ](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/#faq)
- [Privacy policy (full)](https://www.12f.dk/travel-stories/privacy-policy/)
- [Privacy policy (this site)](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/privacy-policy/)
- [Terms and conditions](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/terms-and-conditions/)
- [Cookies policy](https://travel-stories.12f.dk/cookies-policy/)