What is Rambleto?
A trip planner for groups. Each day of the trip is a timeline and a map: you add the places you want to see, Rambleto works out the travel between them and keeps the times in order, and everyone you invite sees the same plan.
Questions and answers
Short answers about how Rambleto works today.
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Getting started
What does it cost?
Nothing. Every feature is free for everyone in the group. If you book a hotel or an activity through Rambleto, the booking site pays us a small commission; your price is the same.
How do I sign in?
With a link sent to your email, or with a passkey on your device. Where the login page shows them, you can also continue with Apple or Google. Rambleto stores no passwords. Your first sign-in with an email link creates your account.
Is there an app to download?
Rambleto runs in the browser and installs like an app. On an iPhone, open rambleto.com in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. On Android, open the browser menu and choose Install app or Add to Home screen.
Which languages does Rambleto speak?
English and Norwegian. It follows your device's language until you pick EN or NO yourself; after that your choice is remembered.
Planning
How do I start a trip?
Press New trip and fill in a name, the destination, the dates and how many adults and children are coming. The time zone and currency fill themselves in. Next you can find a place to stay, say you have already booked, or skip.
How do I add places?
Search Apple Maps, tap the map, or paste a link from Google Maps or Apple Maps. Places you are not sure about yet go in the trip's Ideas list until you put them on a day.
How do I keep places for a later trip?
Put them in Saved places. Press Add a place and search by name, paste a Google Maps or Apple Maps link, or add a spot yourself with a pin on the map. Give a place a note or a list if you like, and add it to any trip's Ideas when you go. On iPhone a Shortcut lets you save straight from the map apps' Share menu.
What happens when I drag a stop?
It snaps to fit the travel time, and the flexible stops after it move along. Booked stops keep their time; if a move squeezes one, the gap shows in red. Timeline changes are drafts until you press Save changes.
How does Rambleto choose walking, bus, train or taxi?
A leg you can walk within your limit (15 minutes unless you change it) is a walk. A longer one is bus or train when there is a reliable transit time and connection, and a taxi otherwise. You can change the mode of any leg yourself.
What does Optimise route do?
It looks for the order of stops that wastes the least travel time, for one day or the whole trip. Booked stops and flights never move, and meals stay near their time. You see every new time first, and nothing changes until you press Use this.
Can I use it during the trip?
Yes. The map can show where you are, and walking or driving directions open inside the app; bus and train directions open in Apple Maps. On the trip day, Behind schedule replans the rest of the day from where you are, starting now.
How does the weather work?
Forecasts come from Yr (MET Norway) or Apple Weather, your choice in Settings, and reach about ten days ahead. Every stop is indoor, outdoor or either, and when rain is forecast for an outdoor stop, Rambleto suggests a swap or a move. It never changes your plan by itself.
Why don't I see a forecast for my trip yet?
Forecasts reach about nine days ahead. Until then, Rambleto shows typical weather for your dates, worked out from the last four years and marked “Typical”. The real forecast replaces it by itself as the trip gets closer.
How are flights and time zones handled?
Type an airport code like OSL or a city name and the airport fills in with its time zone. Times on the trip are shown in the destination's time zone, a flight shows the clock change, and connecting flights are drawn as one journey on the map.
Together
How do I invite people?
From People on the trip: invite by email, or make an invite link to share in your group chat. Links last seven days and can be revoked. Accepting an invite never lowers the role someone already has.
What can each role do?
The owner and editors change the plan and invite people. Commenters comment on stops, save alternatives, add costs they paid and help with the packing list. Viewers follow along and vote. Everyone on the trip sees the plan and the costs.
How do votes on alternatives work?
Save different orders of a day, or of the whole trip, as alternatives. Each person on the trip has one vote per set and can change it. An editor applies the winner with Use this; nothing changes by itself.
Can two people edit at the same time?
Yes, but changes are not merged live: if two people save the same thing at once, the last save wins. For bigger changes, agree in the comments first.
Money
How are costs split?
Evenly between everyone on the trip, unless you choose who a cost is for. Leftover øre from rounding go to the person who paid. Only paid costs count in the balances; planned costs show in the totals.
Which currencies can I use?
Any. Rambleto converts with Norges Bank's daily rates. A planned cost uses today's rate, and a paid cost locks the rate of the day it was paid, so what people owe does not drift.
How does settling up with Vipps work?
Rambleto shows who pays whom. Pay with Vipps copies the amount and a message and opens Vipps, where you paste them; the money never goes through Rambleto. A payment the receiver records counts at once; one the payer records waits for the receiver to confirm.
Hotels and activities
Can I book a hotel in Rambleto?
Rambleto shows places to stay near your plan and sends you to the booking site to book. The booking site takes the payment and helps with changes and cancellations.
How do the Tickets and tours links work?
Sights, museums and tours in your plan, in Book ahead, in Ideas and in Explore have a Tickets and tours button. It lists GetYourGuide, Viator, Tiqets and Booking.com; each opens in a new tab with a search for the place and the city, and the day where the site takes it. You book and pay on that site, and it helps with changes and cancellations. Nothing from these sites loads on Rambleto's pages, and the link carries only the place, the city and the date.
Does booking through Rambleto cost more?
No. The booking site pays Rambleto a small commission out of its own share, and your price is the same as going there directly. The app says so wherever such a link is.
Why does the stay page ask about cookies?
Hotel prices come from Stay22 and Booking.com, which set cookies so that a booking can be traced back to Rambleto. Nothing from them loads until you accept. Not now still shows hotels on Rambleto's own map, with links that carry no third-party code.
Privacy & account
Does Rambleto track my location?
No. When you use the locate button or Behind schedule, your position is used on your phone only. It is never sent to Rambleto's servers or stored.
Can Rambleto see my tickets and boarding passes?
No. Tickets you add under Tickets are encrypted on your device before upload, and only you and the travellers you choose can open them. Your key is protected by your passkey and a recovery key shown once when you set it up; keep that safe, because if you lose both, nobody can open the tickets, not even us. They also open offline once saved on your phone. One limit to know: in a web app the encryption code comes from our server each time, so you are trusting that server to send the right code. Files under Files are not end-to-end encrypted.
How do I download or delete my data?
In Account settings, Download my data gives you one file with your profile and your trips. Delete my account removes your account; trips only you are in are deleted, and shared trips pass to someone else on them.
Who can see my email and picture?
Only the trip's owner sees the email addresses of the people on a trip. Your profile picture is shown only to people who share a trip with you.
What is saved on my phone for offline use?
Up to 20 of the trips you open, for reading without signal. They are kept per account and wiped when you log out or delete your account. You can't edit while offline.
Partners
I run a travel agency. Can we use Rambleto?
Yes. Build your customers' itineraries in Rambleto and invite them to the trip. A partner dashboard with statistics is coming later. Write to hello@rambleto.com.
Is there an API for hotels, transit or activities?
Not a public one yet. If you have data travellers need, write to hello@rambleto.com and tell us what you have.
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