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, 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 three itineraries; DPRT First raises that to five.

Adding events

Tap any time slot on the timeline to add an event. Pick a type from the emoji grid — the grid is the type selector, so one tap sets the icon, the category, and the colour all at once.

1. Tap a time on the planner, or the add button.
2. Pick an event type from the emoji grid.
3. Enter a name, set the time and duration, and add a location.
4. Save — the event appears on your timeline in its slot.

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

Travel vs Transit

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

Travel  Intercity and international journeys — flights, long-distance trains, coach buses, ferries, helicopters, road trips. These carry departure and arrival points, and DPRT tracks the timezone at each end.

Transit  Getting around locally — metro, local buses, taxis and rideshares, cycling, walking, scooters. Quick hops within a destination.

For flights, long-distance trains, coach buses, ferries and metros, 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.

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. 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."

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.

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.

Sharing is part of DPRT First.

PDF & calendar export

PDF. 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.

Calendar (.ics). Export your trip straight into Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook. Each event carries its own timezone, so a flight shows the correct local time at both ends rather than collapsing everything into one zone. Both exports live in the menu and are part of DPRT First.

Account, sync & offline

Sign in with a magic link — enter your email, tap the link we send, and you're in. No password to remember.

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.

DPRT First

DPRT First unlocks the features for travellers who plan in earnest:

1. Five itineraries, up from three.
2. Cloud sync across your devices.
3. Shareable read-only itinerary links.
4. Branded PDF export.
5. Timezone-aware calendar (.ics) export.

Upgrade from the menu. You can restore an existing subscription on a new device with Restore Purchase.

FAQ

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.

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.