About PacklistPRO

Everything PacklistPRO does, in one place. You don't need to read this to get started — tag a trip and the right items appear on their own. This is here for people who want to know exactly what they're signing up for.

The trip dashboard

• One trip is “selected” and every page follows it, so you're not re-picking the trip on each screen.
• A readiness card for each part of the trip — packlist, tasklist, itinerary, expenses, notes, weather, parks and gear — each showing what it's still waiting on.
• A prep timeline showing what should be done by when in the run-up to leaving.
• What's changed on the trip lately, and the retrospectives from your earlier trips right there while you plan the next one.

Your Home page

• The trip you've got selected, what's due on it, and the invitations waiting for you — all on one screen.
• Quick actions for the things you do most, and a short list of suggested next steps you can reset or hide once they're done.
• Join a trip by code straight from here, without hunting for the right page.
• The weather for where you are or where you're going, with a radar you can play, scrub through and open full screen.
• Collapse any card you don't want and it stays collapsed next time.

Setting a trip up

• Description, multiple destinations and stops along the way, leaving and return dates.
• Tag the trip by activity and context — 98 tags answering eight questions (what you'll do, who you're packing for, where you're staying, how you're getting there, the weather, the terrain, the wildlife, your constraints), with 50 activities among them. That's what decides which items and tasks you're shown out of the thousands available, through 78,000+ tag-to-item and tag-to-task links.
• A new trip arrives pre-filled with a starting set of items and tasks, and tells you it did.
• Start from a ready-made template, or duplicate a trip you've already run — optionally clearing every tick so it's ready to reuse.
• Have a trip summary drafted from the trip's own data instead of writing it yourself, and record a retrospective afterwards.
• Keep templates and backups as separate lists, and filter trips to All, Upcoming, In Progress, Past, Templates or Backups.

The packlist

• Over 6,800 packable items in 20 categories are already in the catalog, each carrying its typical size and weight, who it's for, and whether it's shareable or gets used up — so you start from a real list, not a blank page.
• SEL and PKD — two independent ticks per item, selected and packed, plus a third for group items — so you always know the difference between what you meant to bring and what's in the bag.
• A progress bar and summary, and a Pack mode for the day you're actually loading.
• Record how many to bring, and how many uses it needs to cover.
• Select all on the filtered list, or clear the whole selection, in one action.
• Filter by main filter, status and grouping with a search; sort and page it; switch to compact rows when it gets long.
• Copy items across from a trip you already packed, and use your own alternate names for things.
• Always Bring: mark an item and it's added to every new trip automatically.
• Print it, save it as a PDF, email it to yourself, or export it.

The tasklist

• Everything to do before, during and after the trip — the half most packing apps ignore.
• Over 2,500 trip tasks already written and scheduled by when in the trip they matter — weeks before, the day before, on arrival, on the way home.
• SEL and DONE — selected, and actually done.
• Always Do: mark a task and it's added to every new trip automatically.
• Set how important a task is and when in the trip it needs doing.
• Copy tasks from a trip you already ran. Detail levels, sorting, paging, filters and search, same as the packlist.
• Print, save as PDF, email to yourself, or export.

The itinerary

• Flights, drives and stops in date order, stepped through a day at a time.
• Each entry takes a title, description, type, status, start and end date and time, or all day.
• Booking details: provider, confirmation number, contact phone, email and website — so the confirmation number is with the flight, not in your inbox.
• Full location details: name, street address, city, state, postal code and country.
• Suggested activities for your destination — real dated events that are on while you're there, well-rated attractions and places to eat, worked out per stop from that stop's own city and dates. Regenerable and emailable, and one tap turns a suggestion into a real entry.
• Parks near your final destination, cataloged on the itinerary itself.
• Push the cost of an entry straight into the trip's expenses.
• Sub-items — a checklist of smaller things inside one plan: the six trails at that park, the stops on a food tour, the errands before a flight. Each takes a name, a description and its own place in the order.
• Tick sub-items off from the itinerary list itself — a ☐ 2 of 6 badge opens the list where you're standing. Ticking saves immediately, records the date, and on a shared trip records who did it.
• Sharing a plan takes its sub-items with it, and every member can tick, add and delete. They print with the itinerary, as empty boxes beside anything still to do.
• Move a sub-item to a different day when the plan changes — it keeps its tick and who ticked it, so rearranging your itinerary never loses what you've already done.
• The search box looks inside titles, descriptions, locations, providers, confirmation numbers and sub-item names — so searching a trail finds the park day that contains it.
• Add the whole trip to your calendar as an .ics file, or just one dated entry.
• Print it, save it as a PDF, or email it to yourself.

Trip documents

• The paperwork lives with the trip — boarding passes, hotel and rental-car confirmations, tour tickets, a photo of a passport — on every device you sign in from.
• PDFs and photos, Word and Excel documents, saved emails and web pages. 10 MB per file, ten at a time, up to 100 files or 100 MB per trip.
• Attach a document to one plan so the hotel voucher sits with the hotel, or leave it on the whole trip. Deleting a plan never deletes its documents.
• Private unless you say otherwise. Share one with the group at upload or afterwards, and take it back again whenever you like.
• Only the person who uploaded a document can delete it, and a delete is permanent — we keep no other copy.

Expenses

• Date, type, summary, amount, who it was paid to, location and notes.
• Enter an estimate before you know the real figure, and record what currency it was in. Nothing is converted — each currency is totalled on its own line, because there are no exchange rates here.
• Rate an expense overall, and on satisfaction and value — so next year you know what was worth it.
• Add to the group's shared expenses rather than only your own, with a running summary of what the trip has cost.
• Search and filter to today, this week or everything; bulk-delete; print, save as PDF, or export.

Splitting the bill, and settling up

• Every expense says what kind it is: don't split, purchased for someone else — reimburse me, someone else paid for me — I owe them, or shared — split with the group.
• Two more answers record the people: who paid, and who it was for. Both list you, everyone on the trip, and somebody without an account here — a parent, a friend meeting you there — because not everyone you travel with is a member.
• Tick who shared a cost and each share is worked out for you. Whoever paid keeps their own share and is owed the rest. Odd cents are handed out one at a time rather than rounded away, so the shares always add back up to the receipt.
• A Settling Up card lists every person who owes you and every person you owe, with the amount and how many expenses it came from. Balances are netted per person — if they owe you $58 and you owe them $10, one line reads $48. Never netted between different people, and never across currencies.
• Settle up with one person at a time: one button squares everything between you and them on that trip — their share of each split, plus any reimbursements either way. Or tick an expense settled to square everybody at once.
• Clicked the wrong name? Undo puts back exactly what that click changed.
• The trip summary keeps owed to me, I owe and split — unsettled as separate figures rather than one number, because they're three different problems.

Notes

• Free-form notes for the trip, dated ones first.
• Write in Markdown — headings, bold, italic, lists and links — and see it rendered.
• Give a note a title and the date it applies to, and tidy the title's capitalization in one click.
• Search by title or by what's written inside. Shared notes for the group, or private ones just for you.
• Print, save as PDF, or email to yourself.

Shopping

• One shopping list gathered from across all your trips, not one per trip.
• Mark something Buy on any packlist and it appears here on its own, filed under the trip it came from — and checking it off here clears the Buy flag back on the packlist.
• Add anything to buy, with a product link if you have one.
• Tag an item with stores and a department, and filter by store — so you're not walking the shop twice.
• Set a priority and hide anything below a level you choose. Two-level sorting and filters.
• Work with no signal and push the changes up with Sync Now.
• Copy the list as text, share it from any app, print it, save as PDF, or export it.

Packing with other people

• Invite a companion from your contacts or by email — or share a trip link code they enter straight from the Home page.
• Claim a group item: say you'll bring it, and nobody else packs a second one.
• Mark a group item packed so everyone can see it's handled — and group tasks work the same way, recording who did it.
• Shared expenses, shared itinerary and shared notes — each can be the group's, or just yours.
• Share your packlist or tasklist view-only with somebody who should see it but not change it.
• Leave a trip and it releases every item and task you'd claimed back to the group, rather than stranding them.
• A contact list you build by looking someone up by email address or phone number — and it's the same list on qMEET, so you only build it once. Block someone or just remove them, with the difference between the two spelled out.

Quicklist — for the trips that aren't really trips

• Browse items by tag as a preview pad, tick what you want, and you're done — no trip created, nothing saved.
• Expand the tag tree and pick exactly the activities and contexts you care about, or restrict it to the items most people bring.
• Send what you ticked to a brand new trip you name right there, or into a trip you already have. Copy a link to the list you built.
• This is how you get out of the door for a day hike in about thirty seconds.

Ten free packing guides, no account needed

• Camping Essentials, Day Hike, Beach Vacation, Carry-On Only, International Travel, Long-Haul Flights, Packing Cubes 101, Sun Protection, Toiletry Kit & TSA 3-1-1, and Travel Tech.
• Real guides, not listicles: water math for a day hike, capsule-wardrobe math for a week in one carry-on, sizing a power bank and flying legally with it, passport validity and document backups, SPF decoded and how much to actually apply, the liquids rule explained.
• Each names specific recommended products — and any guide converts into a real packlist with one tap.

Your own catalog

• Configure my items and Configure my tasks are your personal catalogs — change something there and it applies to every trip.
• Add an item with its group, alternate name, description, notes, search keywords, size, weight and gender.
• Mark an item luxury, consumable or shareable, with size, cubic inches, weight and grams.
• Set when in the trip an item gets packed, and when it should be bought rather than packed.
• Change how important a catalog item or task is, and when in the trip it matters, for you alone — your override sits beside the shared entry rather than rewriting it, so nobody else's list moves.
• Hide anything you never use without deleting it — including hiding trip tags so they stop cluttering Quicklist and the trip editor.
• Reset everything back to defaults in one go if you overdo it.

Places, parks and weather

• Places Near Me — gas and truck stops, food, coffee, hotels, parking, rest areas, public restrooms, urgent care, campgrounds, trails, parks, beaches, malls and the overnight-parking spots RV travelers use, on an interactive map: near you, around any stop on your trip, or tiled along the entire route to your next destination. Parks, trails and campsites come from our own catalog and cost nothing; for the rest, you're told what a search will use before you run it.
• My Places — your own pins for parking, a hotel, a spot worth remembering. These follow you, not one trip, and they draw on Places Near Me, Parks and every park's page too. Pin your exact location, mark roads you'd rather not drive and routing avoids them, and see the same pins on qMEET — they are one list, not two. Nobody else can see them, not even a companion on a shared trip.
• Over 67,000 parks in 36 kinds — national parks, state parks, county and city parks, wilderness areas, state and national forests, nature preserves and wildlife refuges, in all 50 states. Filter by eighteen activities from hiking and paddling to stargazing and birdwatching, plus type, size and state.
• Rate a park, log visits with who you went with, and keep your own notes on it. Your ratings can count toward the community average, or stay yours alone.
• Your ratings and tips get published — a park's community rating, how many would go back, and the tips people left about the best time to go and the best areas to head for all appear on the park's own page, visible to everyone, signed in or not.
• Put a park on your own list and set a Priority to Go, then jump straight to My Parks, Visited, Not Visited or High Priority. Route to a park from the list, or hand the drive to Google Maps.
• Add a park nobody has listed yet, and fill in the planning details — best season, typical visit length, reservations, fees, passes, pets, camping and accessibility.
• Add a park straight into a trip's itinerary. The parks you mark carry over to qMEET and back.
• Weather for your destinations and saved places, up to sixteen days out, with an animated radar you can play, scrub through and open full screen.
• “Where am I?” and “What place am I at?” on the Home page — find your location, or ask what place you're standing at, and copy either as a Google Maps link. No account needed.

Trails

• Over 103,000 hiking trails at more than 8,900 parks — 228,000 miles of trail, with the route itself drawn on the map for 98,000 of them — browsable without picking a park first, for the question a single park page can't answer, like a waterfall hike under five miles in Utah.
• Filter by state, park, difficulty, shape (out-and-back, loop, point-to-point, lollipop), round-trip length and what you'll see — a waterfall, a summit, big views, a lake, a river, wildflowers, wildlife, a cave or arch, old growth, a historic site — or narrow to trails open to bikes, running, horses, backpacking or winter use.
• Sort by distance from you or from any place you name, and show only the top-rated picks at each park.
• Your filters live in the web address, so a filtered list is a link you can bookmark or send, and Back steps through them one at a time.
• Search reaches a trail's name, the names it also goes by, its trailhead and its park.
• Each trail page carries the facts that decide whether it suits today: round-trip length, shape, difficulty, elevation gain, typical time, surface, best season, dog rules and whether a permit is genuinely required — plus the trailhead on a map, directions handed to Google Maps, and the park's other trails.
• Log a hike with as much of the date as you remember — a day, a month, a year, or “I don't remember”. Walk it again next year and log it again; both are kept.
• Rate a hike overall and on views, say how hard you found it against how it's billed, record how long it took you and what the conditions were, whether you'd go again, who you went with, and a link to your photos.
• Keep private notes, or leave a public tip for other hikers — tips appear on the trail's page for everyone, signed in or not. Every rating you give counts toward the trail's public average.
• Add a trail to a trip and the park becomes that day's plan if it isn't already there, with the trail on a checklist underneath it — so three trails at one park is one park day, not three entries.

Camping, and where the free sites are

• Over 50,000 campsites in 50 states, 15,000 of them free (free ones in 48 states — Delaware and Rhode Island have none) — from the US Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Army Corps of Engineers, the National Park Service, the Bureau of Reclamation, Fish & Wildlife and state agencies, straight from their own published data, plus community-mapped sites from OpenStreetMap.
• The page opens on free sites only, because that's usually why people come looking — and the count line always tells you how many you aren't seeing.
• Three honest answers on cost, not two: free, fee charged, or fee not stated when the agency's record simply doesn't say. We never guess, and a site we're unsure about is never counted as free.
• Filter by state, agency and site type, search by name, see them all on a map, and add a campsite to a trip's itinerary as a place to stay, coordinates already filled in.
• We tell you plainly where the data is thin: coverage reflects which agency offices filled in the national database, not where you can actually camp.

What's on the way there

• Pick a trip and the map draws the whole drive — from the city in your profile, through every stop along the way in your own order, to the final destination.
• Then tick only show what's on my route and trails, campsites and parks all narrow to the ones near your road, closest first, with each one telling you how far off it sits.
• You set how far off the route still counts. The route view costs nothing and shares your location with nobody.

Print the whole thing

• A combined trip printout — choose which lists to include, build it, and print it or save it as a PDF. One document with everything.
• Or print any single list on its own: packlist, tasklist, itinerary, expenses, notes, shopping.
• Add the trip's dates and itinerary to your own calendar, and email any list to yourself.

Recommended gear

• Top-rated picks for what you're actually packing and buying, with ratings, and one tap to send a pick to your shopping list.

Reminders

• Separate switches for trip tasks, packing items, itinerary events and urgent shopping.
• Push on the devices you choose, email, or both. Quiet hours, and a 12-hour Do Not Disturb.

Bringing somebody with you

• Invite by email with one-tap common domains, hand your join link to any app, copy it, or let them scan a QR code.
• Preview the invite email and see exactly what they'll receive before you send it.

Trust and account safety

• Two-factor authentication is on by default. Sign out everywhere in one tap, or make every device ask for a code again.
• Sign in with Google if you'd rather not have another password.
• Deactivate your own account yourself, without emailing anybody.
• Choose separately whether your age and gender are shown; the birthday itself stays private.

Help, and getting hold of us

• A Help hub gathers the walkthroughs, tutorials, tips, glossary and troubleshooting in one place.
• Troubleshooting for when something is stuck, including a Clear Cookies button that tells you exactly what it keeps.
• What's New — the release notes, filterable, with a badge in the navigation when there's something you haven't read.
• A site map you search by what you want to do rather than by page name, and an All Pages list color-coded by who can open each one.
• Contact us with a bug report, a feature request, a question or a security report — attach screenshots, say how urgent and how important it is, and say whether you want a reply.
• Everything you've sent is kept in your own message log with any reply, searchable and filterable — and you can still edit a message that's open.
• Donate if you want to, by PayPal or Venmo, or find the free ways to help. Nothing on the site is locked behind it.

One account, three sites

• Your PacklistPRO login is the same login for qMEET (local events, groups and people who share your interests) and qFIT (a goal-driven fitness and wellness checklist). One sign-up, one password, nothing to join twice.

It works where you are

• Works offline — a banner appears and pages you've already visited still load, so a packlist works on a plane.
• Try much of it without an account at all, including a real demo trip.
• Install it to your home screen like an app, with separate iPhone/iPad and Android instructions.
• Three site modes — Simple, Standard and Everything — themes including dark mode and dark maps, adjustable font size, a re-tintable background, and a choice of which page the app opens on.
• iPhone HEIC photos are converted in your browser before upload.
• A feedback button on every page, with screenshots, about that exact page.
• If your session expires you're offered a way to stay signed in, rather than silently losing what you were doing.
• Three full walkthroughs — the essentials, the day-to-day loop, and every option there is — plus a tutorial on every page, Need to Know popups, dismissible tips, a searchable glossary, and ? anywhere for keyboard shortcuts.