Make an app
Make a travel planner and packing list app for iPhone
A trip planner gathers what's scattered across emails, notes and maps. Describe how you travel and Borel builds a native iPhone app in SwiftUI: each day's plan, the places on Apple Maps, bookings saved for offline use, a packing list you reuse from trip to trip, and a running total of what you've spent.
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“A travel planner: each trip has dates, a destination and a day-by-day plan of places with times and notes. Places show as pins on a map. A bookings screen keeps flight, hotel and train details offline. A packing list starts from my template and I tick items as I pack. Track spending for the trip.”
Screens
What a travel planner app needs
The screens Borel builds from the prompt above. Ask for more, fewer or different ones.
Trips
Upcoming and past trips with their dates and a cover photo.
Days
Each day's places in order, with times, notes and the walk between them.
Map
All the trip's places as pins on Apple Maps, coloured by day.
Pack
Your packing template, adjusted for this trip and ticked off as you go.
Data
What it keeps
Borel writes these as Swift models. On the phone they work with no connection; in Borel's cloud they follow a signed-in person.
| What | Holds | Kept |
|---|---|---|
| Trip | Destination, dates, cover photo, budget | On the phone, with SwiftData |
| Place | Name, day, time, address, coordinates, notes | On the phone, with the trip |
| Booking | Kind, reference, times, address | On the phone, with the trip |
| Packing item | Name, category, packed | On the phone, with SwiftData |
Native iPhone features
What it can use on your iPhone
Written in Swift with Apple's own frameworks, so they work the way iPhone owners expect.
- Maps and locationEvery place as a pin, and how far you are from the next one.How Borel builds it
- Offline dataBookings and plans open with no roaming data at all.How Borel builds it
- CalendarPut flights and dinner reservations into your calendar.How Borel builds it
- Built-in AIAsk for a rainy-day plan in the city you're in.How Borel builds it
Make it yours
What to ask for next
Once the first version runs, ask for changes in the chat, in words like these.
- “Make packing lists depend on the trip: beach, city or skiing.”
- “Convert spending into my home currency at a rate I enter.”
- “Show a countdown to the next trip on the Trips screen.”
- “Let my travel partner see and edit the plan.”
How to make it
From a prompt to your iPhone and the App Store
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Describe it
Paste the prompt on this page into Borel, or write your own in plain words. Borel plans the screens with you before it builds.
- 2
Try it in your browser
Borel writes the app in Swift and SwiftUI, builds it with Xcode on its own Mac and opens it in a live iPhone simulator in your browser, free.
- 3
Put it on your iPhone
With Pro, Borel Companion for Windows or Mac installs it on your own iPhone with your Apple ID: a cable the first time, then Wi-Fi.
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Publish it when it's ready
Pro publishes to the App Store from the same project. Apple's Developer Program, $99 a year, is the one thing you pay Apple.
Turn on airplane mode on your iPhone and open the app: bookings and plans should all still be there. Then walk to a place on the map and check the distance updates. Location only asks for permission when you open the map.
Travel guides and tour operators can publish a guide app with their routes built in. Shared trips for a group work through Borel's cloud, with each traveller signing in.
Building starts free, with 5 free credits a day, up to 30 a month, and the simulator in your browser costs nothing. Pro, from $20 a month, adds installs on your own iPhone through Borel Companion and publishing to the App Store.
Before you start
Good to know
- It doesn't read booking emails or search for flights and hotels; you add bookings yourself.
- Maps need a connection to load new areas; your saved places and notes don't.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Describe your trips, days and lists, and Borel builds a native iPhone app with your places on Apple Maps.
Yes. Plans, bookings and packing lists are saved on the iPhone and open offline. Only loading new map areas needs a connection.
Yes. Ask for a template, and each new trip starts from it so you only add what's different.
Yes, with accounts and a shared trip in Borel's cloud, once the app is on the App Store for them.
Make your travel planner app
Start from the prompt on this page, change it to fit your idea, and Borel builds it while you watch.