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Tips

  • 🧳 Try everything without an account — open the demo trip and click around.
  • 🎚️ Match the depth to the trip: switch Detail Level (High-Level → Ludicrous) right on your Packlist, Tasklist, or Quicklist.
  • 📚 Browse our free Gear Guides for packing advice and curated gear picks.
  • 🔒 We never run ads or sell your data — see Security & Privacy for the details.
  • Stuck? Help has step-by-step troubleshooting; have an idea? Contact Us — we read every submission.

Pack smarter. Forget nothing.

Packlist PRO is a free packing list and trip planner. It's the second brain for everything you bring, do, and remember on a trip — from a weekend getaway to a months-long expedition.

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What you can do

Smart Packlists

Build a packing list from a curated catalog organized by trip type — beach, hiking, business, ski, camping, international, and more. Set quantities, mark items always bring, and check them off as you pack.

Trip Tasks

Stop forgetting to refill prescriptions, set out-of-office, water the plants, or hold the mail. Schedule tasks by timing — weeks before, day before, day-of, when you arrive, when you return.

Travel Notes

Confirmation numbers, addresses, restaurant picks, lessons learned for next time. Notes can apply to a date, stay private, or be shared with co-travelers via a trip link.

Works Offline

Once your trip pages load, you can review your packlist and tasklist offline. Useful on a plane, in a basement hotel, or anywhere your signal drops. Install Packlist PRO to your home screen for full PWA support.

How it works

  1. Create a trip. Name it, set dates, tag it (beach, hiking, business, …).
  2. Build your list. Items auto-suggest from your tags. Add custom items as you go.
  3. Plan tasks. Schedule pre-trip prep, in-trip reminders, and post-trip follow-up.
  4. Take notes. Addresses, confirmations, anything you'd otherwise scribble on a napkin.
  5. Pack and go. Check items off as you pack. The site keeps working when your signal doesn't.

Three levels of detail

Pick the depth that matches the trip and the planner:

High-Level

A clean checklist for short trips. Just essentials — no clutter, no rabbit holes.

Standard

Quantities, descriptions, and common items by category. The everyday default for most travelers.

Ludicrous

Every option exposed: weight, volume, products, brands, alternates. For multi-week expeditions and gear nerds.

Switch any time with the Detail Level selector on your Packlist, Tasklist, or Quicklist — each user picks their own.

Built for everything from a long weekend to a six-month trip

  • Weekend getaways. Use Simple mode and a single beach or city tag — done in three minutes.
  • Business travel. Save your standard work-trip packlist; clone it for each new trip in one click.
  • Family vacations. Share a trip link so a partner can review and tweak the list before you head out.
  • Backpacking and expeditions. Ludicrous mode tracks weight, volume, and gear alternates across hundreds of items.
  • International travel. Tag-based suggestions cover passports, adapters, currency, vaccinations, and travel-specific tasks.

Three principles

Free. No subscription, no upsells, no “premium” features hidden behind a paywall. Every feature is available to every user. We keep it free through optional gear recommendations — as an Amazon Associate, Packlist PRO earns from qualifying purchases when you buy through those links, at no extra cost to you.

Private. Your trip data is yours. We don't run third-party ads or trackers, and we don't sell or share your information. See Security & Privacy for the technical details — cookies, sessions, encryption, logging, what we store, and what we don't.

Focused. One job done well — a packing list and trip plan that scales from a weekend to an expedition. No social feed, no gamification, no inbox.

Why we built it

We were tired of forgetting things on trips, of starting every packing list from scratch, and of cluttered apps that buried the basics under ads and upsells. Packlist PRO is the tool we wanted to use ourselves — fast, focused, and built to help you pack like a pro.

Have an idea or hit a bug? Tell us. Every submission gets read by a human.

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