Getting started

DPRT lays your trip out on a vertical timeline, one day at a time. You add events — flights, meals, hotels, sights — and DPRT places each one at its real local time.

The first time you open DPRT, you'll be asked to sign in with a one-time email code — an account is required to create or open a trip. Once you're signed in, a short three-screen intro walks you through the timeline, adding events, and how flights across timezones are handled. You can skip it anytime, and it won't show again. When it finishes, you're dropped straight into creating your first trip.

Creating a trip

From the start screen, give your trip a name and pick a start and end date, then tap Depart.

1. Enter a trip name.
2. Choose your start and end dates — the date picker opens to your start month.
3. Tap Depart to open the planner.

Your trips are listed under My Trips in the menu. Free accounts keep up to two itineraries; DPRT First raises that to five.

Editing a trip. Tap the edit icon (pencil) in the top right of the planner to rename the trip or adjust its dates. Date changes are guardrailed — you can't shrink the date range past an event you've already added.

Navigating days. The date bar at the top of the planner shows a tab for each day. Swipe the tabs to scroll, or use the ‹ and › arrows at either end to step through days one at a time.

Deleting a trip. Open the menu, choose My Trips, and tap the ✕ button on the trip you want to remove. Deleted trips can't be recovered.

Trip notes. Tap the edit icon (pencil) to open the trip editor — there's a notes field at the bottom for anything that belongs to the whole trip rather than a specific event. Confirmation numbers, visa requirements, packing reminders — whatever you need close at hand. Notes save with the trip and appear whenever you reopen the editor.

Adding & rescheduling events

Tap any time slot on the timeline to add an event. Pick a type from the category and subtype menus — choose a category first (Travel, Transit, Lodging, Food & Drink, Ticketed Event, Attraction, Self-care, Business, Shopping, or Activity), then the specific subtype, which sets the icon and colour together. Attraction expands to Zoo, Aquarium, Park, Amusement Park, Sightseeing, Museum, Art Museum, and Tour.

1. Tap a time on the planner, or the add button.
2. Enter a name, time, and pick a category and subtype.
3. Fill in duration and a location — everything's on one scrolling form, no separate steps to click through. Required fields are marked with a white asterisk.
4. Save — the event appears on your timeline in its slot.

The 📌 Activity category is a general-purpose option for anything that doesn't fit the other named categories.

For Travel events, you can search locations by airport code — type LHR, ORD, NRT, or any IATA code and the airport appears instantly with its timezone set automatically. All 9,000+ IATA-coded airports are supported.

Use Event Notes (up to 100 characters) for anything you want to remember about the event itself — confirmation numbers, booking references, access instructions.

You can also drag an event block up or down the timeline to reschedule it. Tap and hold, then drag to the new time slot.

Event actions. Tap any event to open an action menu with these options:

• View Details — full event summary with all fields
• Note — add or edit a note on this event
• Edit — reopen the event form to change any field
• Duplicate — instantly copy the event to the same day. The copy appears with "(copy)" appended to the name and can be edited normally
• Move to Date — move the event to a different day in the trip without re-entering any details
• Delete — remove the event permanently. This can't be undone

Planner and List views. A toggle in the lower right of the planner switches between two ways of seeing a day: Planner shows events on a proportional timeline, and List shows every event for the day as a plain chronological list — useful for a packed day where the timeline gets crowded. Both views show a small link on any event that crosses into a different timezone — tap it to jump straight to that arrival day/timezone tab.

Moving between days. Arrows pinned to the left and right edges of the screen move to the previous/next day tab — they grey out at the start and end of your trip. For a longer trip, the calendar icon in the header opens a scrollable list of every date in the trip — tap any date to jump straight there.

Travel vs Transit

DPRT separates the two kinds of getting around, because they behave differently on a trip:

Travel  Intercity and international journeys — flights, helicopters, intercity trains, intercity buses, ferries. These carry departure and arrival points, and DPRT tracks the timezone at each end.

Transit  Getting around locally — Public Transit, Auto (car, taxi, or rideshare), Walk, or Bike. Quick hops within a destination.

For Transit events, DPRT can calculate the duration for you First: once you've set an origin, a destination, and a start time, it looks up real travel time in the background and fills in the duration automatically — no manual lookup needed. You can still adjust it by hand afterward if you want. On the free tier, you enter duration manually — location search and everything else about adding an event works exactly the same either way.

Tap an actual suggestion from the dropdown for both fields — typing a location without selecting one leaves it looking filled in but with no coordinates attached, so auto-duration silently never fires. If duration isn't filling in, this is the first thing to check: clear the field, retype it, and tap a suggestion this time.

Duration is calculated per mode — switching between Auto, Public Transit, Walk, and Bike on an event that already has origin/destination set automatically recalculates for the new mode.

Occasionally auto-duration won't return a result and you'll see a prompt to enter the duration yourself. Two known causes: public transit routes within Japan specifically, where Google's underlying transit data currently has a gap — this isn't a DPRT bug, it's a limitation on Google's side that's out of our control, with no workaround other than entering the duration manually. And separately, a transit event scheduled far enough in the future that the transit agency hasn't published timetables for that date yet — driving/walking/biking directions don't have this limitation, only public transit does, since it depends on real published schedules rather than just the road network.

For the second case specifically, DPRT doesn't just give up — it automatically tries the nearest upcoming date that falls on the same day of the week (Saturday schedules and weekday schedules often differ, so this keeps the estimate meaningful) and uses that as a stand-in. If this succeeds, you'll see the duration filled in with an amber Estimated duration badge, explaining which date it's based on. Revisit the event closer to your trip date — once the real schedule is published, the estimate is automatically replaced with the actual duration for your real date.

For flights, helicopters, intercity trains, intercity buses, and ferries, you can add a route or flight number. DPRT will warn you if two long-distance journeys are scheduled less than 45 minutes apart, so a tight connection never sneaks past you.

Want turn-by-turn navigation instead of just a duration? Open a Transit event's details and tap its origin or destination — it opens your phone's own maps app, already set to the right travel mode, ready to navigate.

Timezones & the day tabs

This is what DPRT does that other planners don't: every event keeps its own real local time, and journeys across timezones are shown honestly.

When a flight crosses timezones, its card shows departure and arrival in their own local times:

The day selector at the top of the planner shows a tab for each timezone your day touches. Each tab also shows the day of the week underneath its date, so you don't have to work it out yourself. A travel day that starts in London and ends in Chicago gives you two tabs:

The departure tab holds your morning in London and the flight leaving. The arrival tab shows a slim Arrives marker at the moment you land in local time — so you can see and plan the rest of your day on the ground without doing any mental arithmetic. It's the clearest way to plan a long "thirty-hour day."

On the departure tab, cross-timezone flight cards show a small → JUN 25 · CDT link at the bottom — tap it to jump directly to the arrival tab without having to find it in the day selector.

Weather

A weather line sits just below the day tabs, showing conditions for wherever your day actually takes place — the city of the first event with a resolved location on that tab. If your day touches more than one city more than about 25km apart, you'll see a separate line for each: Tokyo, 78° / 65° ☀️.

Within the next 16 days, this is a real live forecast, shown in bold. Further out than that, no forecast exists yet — DPRT shows a 5-year average for that calendar date instead, in italics, labeled (5-yr avg) so it's clear it's an estimate, not a prediction. As your trip gets closer and a real forecast becomes available, it automatically replaces the estimate.

This is informational only — DPRT doesn't tell you what to pack or wear. See Pack List below if you want to track that yourself.

Notes & details

Confirmation numbers, check-in instructions, a reminder to call ahead — anything you want attached to an event goes in its note. Tap an existing event, choose Note, and type. A small yellow dot appears on the event in the timeline whenever it carries a note, and the full text shows in the event's details and in your exported PDF.

In the event detail view, tapping a location or address opens it in your maps app — useful for getting directions to a hotel, restaurant, or transit stop directly from your itinerary.

Pack List

Open Pack List from the menu for a simple checklist tied to your trip. DPRT doesn't suggest what to pack — it shows you your trip length and an aggregate weather pattern across every day (e.g. "Average high 75-80° — 3 days"), purely as context, and leaves the actual list entirely up to you.

Add up to 50 items free, or 100 with First. Tap an item's checkbox to mark it packed — unpacked items show a red box, packed items turn green with a check. Unpacked items stay sorted alphabetically at the top so what's left to do is always easy to scan; packed items sort alphabetically below them.

Tap an item's text to rename it in place. Press Enter or tap away to save, or Escape to cancel without changing anything.

Sharing your itinerary

Share a read-only view of any trip with a single link — whoever you send it to can open it without an account. The shared page shows your days, events, and tappable map links, in your trip's real times.

1. Open the menu and choose Share.
2. Turn sharing on to generate a link.
3. Copy the link and send it. Turn sharing off anytime to disable the link.

The shared page also shows an Add to Calendar button so recipients can import your itinerary into their calendar app — no DPRT account required.

If your trip spans more than one timezone, a dropdown in the top right of the shared page lets viewers choose how times are displayed: Local time shows each event in whatever timezone it actually happens in (the default), or View as [timezone] converts every event into one single timezone — the one your trip started in. When a converted time lands on a different calendar day than the one it's grouped under, a small +1 (or −1) appears next to it so the day shift is never ambiguous. This toggle only appears when a trip actually crosses timezones — for a single-timezone trip there's nothing to toggle.

Shared links reflect your itinerary at the moment someone opens them — if you make changes after sending the link, the recipient will see the updated version next time they open it. The link always shows the current state of your trip, not a frozen snapshot.

Sharing requires a free account (so the link has somewhere to live in the cloud) but is available on the free tier — no First subscription needed.

PDF & calendar export

PDF First Export a clean, DPRT-styled itinerary you can print or carry offline. It lays out each day with your events, details, and notes — handy when you're travelling without reliable data. The PDF is a snapshot of your itinerary at the moment of export — it does not update if you make changes later.

Calendar (.ics) Free Adds your trip as a live subscription in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook — not a one-time file, a feed your calendar app checks on its own schedule. Each event carries its own timezone, so a flight shows the correct local time at both ends rather than collapsing everything into one zone. Unlike the PDF, you don't need to re-export after making changes — the subscription picks them up automatically. Both exports live in the Share menu.

The shared link and PDF are built for handing to other people. Calendar export is different — it's meant for you, as a backup way to reach your itinerary if you can't get to DPRT itself. The calendar feed includes your private event notes — treat your calendar subscription link as personal, not something to forward.

Account, sync & offline

An account is required to create or open any trip. Sign in with a one-time code — enter your email, and we send a 6-digit code. Type it in and you're signed in. No password, no link to click.

Signed in, your trips sync to the cloud and follow you across devices. DPRT also keeps everything on your device, so it keeps working with no connection. When you go offline a small banner lets you know your changes are saved locally; they sync back up automatically when you reconnect.

If you're subscribed to DPRT First, the menu shows a Manage Subscription option that takes you directly to the right place to change or cancel your plan — the App Store, Google Play, or a Stripe billing portal, depending on how you subscribed.

To delete your account and all associated data, contact support@nvwl.app. We'll process it within 30 days.

DPRT First

Cloud sync, shareable links, and calendar export are all free for every signed-in account — DPRT First is specifically for travellers who need more room, a document to carry, and a faster way to plan a repeated trip:

1. 7 itineraries, up from two.
2. Branded PDF export, including your Pack List.
3. Trip duplication — copy a trip in one tap, with every event's date shifting together to keep its shape.
4. Automatic duration for Transit events — no manual travel-time lookup needed.
5. Pack List capacity — 100 items instead of 50.
6. Mobile notifications App only — timely reminders for flights, trains, and ticketed events, timezone-aware wherever you are.

Upgrade from the menu. When you try to use a First feature as a free user, DPRT shows an upgrade prompt — this is intentional, not a bug.

Restoring a purchase. If you reinstall DPRT or switch devices, open the menu and tap Restore Purchase. Sign in with the same email you used to subscribe and your First access will be restored automatically.

FAQ

How do I sign in?

Tap Sign In from the menu or the start screen, enter your email address, and tap Send Code. Check your email for a 6-digit code and type it in — you're signed in. No password, no link to click.

How do I add my itinerary to my calendar on my phone?

Tap the Share menu, then Export Calendar (.ics). The file downloads to your device. Open your Files or Downloads app, tap the .ics file, and choose your calendar app. On iOS this is usually Apple Calendar; on Android, Google Calendar.

Why does my flight appear on two day tabs?

Because it crosses timezones. The departure tab shows it leaving; the arrival tab shows when you land in local time. Same-timezone trips only ever appear once.

Why did a connection warning pop up?

Two long-distance journeys are scheduled less than 45 minutes apart. You can save anyway — it's just a heads-up about a tight connection.

The timezone didn't fill in automatically.

DPRT sets it from the location you pick. Choose a place from the search suggestions so it can resolve the correct zone, rather than typing a free-form address. For flights, try typing the airport code (e.g. LHR, ORD, NRT) — the airport appears instantly and the timezone is set automatically.

Can people I share with edit my trip?

No. Shared links are read-only. Collaborative editing is planned for a future tier.

Do my trips work without internet?

Yes. Everything is saved on your device and syncs to the cloud when you're back online and signed in.

How do I delete an event?

Tap the event to open its details, then tap Delete at the bottom. Deletion is permanent and can't be undone.

Can I copy an event to another day?

Yes — tap the event, choose Duplicate from the action menu. A copy lands on the same day with "(copy)" in the name. Edit it to adjust the date, time, or anything else.

How do I move an event to a different day?

Tap the event, choose Move to Date. A list of every day in your trip appears — tap the destination day and the event moves instantly.

Can I see my day as a list instead of a timeline?

Yes — use the view toggle in the lower right corner of the planner to switch between Planner (proportional timeline) and List (plain chronological list). Useful for packed days where the timeline gets crowded.

How do I rename a trip or change its dates?

Tap the pencil (edit) icon in the top right of the planner. You can change the name, start date, or end date — but the date range can't be shrunk past an event you've already added.

I got a new phone. How do I get my trips back?

Sign in with the same email address. Your trips sync automatically — cloud sync works for every signed-in account, not just DPRT First. If PDF export or your 5-trip limit isn't showing after signing in, tap Restore Purchase in the menu.

How do I cancel my subscription?

On iOS, go to Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions and cancel there. On Android, go to the Play Store → Subscriptions. Cancelling stops future renewals; you keep access until the end of the period you've paid for.

How do I delete my account?

Email support@nvwl.app and we'll delete your account and all associated data within 30 days.