The Product
Your trip hub.
A private digital guide, built for this trip, for you.
What's Inside
Seven sections. One guide. Built for the way you travel.
Your Itinerary
The spine of the trip. Flights, transfers, check-ins, reservations, and activities, organized day by day with times, confirmation codes, and a status on every item. Confirmed looks confirmed. An idea looks like an idea.
Today
Open the app on a trip day and it lands on that day, with an Up Next banner for whatever is coming and a leave-by time so you are never rushing to a table I worked to get you.
My Picks
Restaurants, bars, shops, and sights I chose for you, filtered by category, each with my personal note. Save one and the app asks which day and what time. It joins your itinerary.
The Map
Everything placed on one map, marked by type and status. Tap a day and the map shows that day. Directions hand off to the maps app your phone already uses.
Your Documents
Boarding passes, hotel confirmations, tickets. Attached to the reservation they belong to, one tap away, no digging through email at the front desk.
Getting Around
Transport notes, key phrases, which neighborhoods are walkable and which aren't. The things guidebooks skip. Plus Essentials: emergency numbers, the 24-hour pharmacy, your hotel's address ready to show a driver.
My Notes
On every entry. What to order, when to arrive, what to skip, who to ask for. Written by me, the person who built your trip, not pulled from reviews.
Paris · October
Prepared for Aspen & Warner · Your advisor: Gabe
Up next
Septime · 8:30 PM
Leave by 8:05
Septime
Dinner · 8:30 PM · 11e
“Table for 2. Ask for Claire. Order the tasting menu.”
Le Marais Walk
Morning · Neighborhood
+ Add something of your own
In Your Pocket
Built for the day you're actually traveling.
A trip hub earns its place on the worst travel day, not the best one. Dead battery bars, a driver who doesn't speak English, a gate change at midnight. It is built for that.
Works offline
On a plane or in a dead zone, your trip hub still opens with everything in it. It refreshes itself whenever you have signal.
Lives on your home screen
Add it from Safari's share menu and it opens full screen with a Carta compass icon, like any app on your phone. No app store.
Show the driver
Any address, full screen, in large type, with the ask phrase in the local language. Hold up your phone. Done.
Add to calendar
One tap sends the whole trip to your phone's calendar: times, addresses, confirmation codes, my notes.
Live flight status
Every flight in your itinerary links to live tracking. Delays, gates, the lot, without opening another app.
Make it yours
Add your own plans: a run, a nap, a place a friend mentioned. They land on your timeline, tagged as yours, and I see nothing unless you ask me to book it.
Updates while you travel
I can change a time, swap a reservation, or drop in a new pick from wherever I am. You refresh, it's there.
I'm one tap away
Text or call me from inside the app. Plus a one-tap save so I land in your contacts as Gabe, Carta Travel.
“Something goes wrong at midnight in Tokyo, I'm the one who fixes it.”
Gabe · one tap away, inside your trip hub
The Difference
Not a travel app. Yours.
Generic travel app
Your trip hub
200 restaurant results
18 restaurants, the ones right for you
User review aggregates
My personal notes on every entry
Generic "top sights"
Filtered to your stated interests
No reservation status
Every bookable item, handled by me
Same for every user
Named for you, rebuilt every trip
Sample Entry
This is what an entry looks like.
Septime
Dinner · Modern French · Paris
Specialist note
“Table for two. Ask for Claire when you arrive, she runs the floor and takes good care of my guests. Order the tasting menu and let them pace it. Don't fill up on the bread, the fish course is the one you're here for.”
Gabe
Every restaurant, sight, and experience in your trip hub looks like this.
The Technology
No app store required.
Your trip hub is a private web link, built for your trip alone and delivered about two weeks before departure. No download. No account. Open it on any phone, tablet, or laptop. Add it to your home screen and it behaves like an app. Lose signal and it keeps working anyway.