The travel app your kid helps plan
For families with kids ages 6 to 14. Your child sees where the trip is going, helps plan activities, and keeps a photo diary along the way. Works offline, no account.
Free · No ads · No tracking
You plan a trip and your kid asks from the back seat if we're there yet. TravElly turns that around.
Instead of being taken along, your child knows where they're going. They see that you'll spend four days at the beach house first and then head into the mountains, and they can find out for themselves what there is to do there. Whatever they find, they add to the trip. The vacation doesn't start at departure, it starts weeks earlier at the kitchen table.
Along the way, your child writes and takes photos. At the end of the trip you don't just have snapshots on your phone: your child has their own record of something they helped build.
Overview
TravElly lays out the whole trip: where you're going, in what order, on which dates, and how long you'll stay. The trip becomes concrete before it begins.
For your child, the overview answers the question where are we going. For you and your partner, it's the shared trip plan, on everyone's own phone.
Planning along
The trip overview shows your child where the trip is headed. From there, they can look up what they want to do at each stop. A cave, a special shop or a waterfall. Whatever they find, they add to the plan for the day.
A passenger becomes a co-planner. Your child helps shape the trip instead of just going along with it, and the anticipation starts weeks before departure.
Capturing
During the trip, your child records what they experience. TravElly includes a travel diary for kids ages 6 to 14: picking the photos of the day and writing down what happened in their own words.
One tap turns a diary page into a digital postcard. Send it via WhatsApp, iMessage, or email to grandparents or friends. Sharing goes directly to people you choose, not to a platform.
In practice
We saw this pattern with a family planning a tour of Malaysia. The parent put the route in the app, the child looked up what there was to do at every stop and filled in the plan. Along the way, the child kept the diary.
Destinations, dates, and places to stay go into the app. Done in an evening.
Share the trip in one tap via WhatsApp, AirDrop, or iMessage. Your partner and your child open it in their own TravElly and see the same overview.
Your child sees where the family is going, looks up what there is to do, and adds it to the destinations. The trip becomes their trip too.
Picking photos, writing about the day, and sharing it as a postcard with grandparents or friends.
Privacy
For parents who don't want their child in a social app, this is not a side note. TravElly has no account, no server, no ads, and no social feed.
All data stays on your device. There is no cloud and no server.
Nothing is shared with me or any third party.
No account needed. Install and go.
No social feed, no followers, no likes. Your kid writes for themselves, not for an audience.
No live following. TravElly doesn't broadcast your location. The home front knows the trip through the shared trip plan and the postcards you choose to send.
Information only leaves the device when you tap share. You choose what and with whom.
TravElly contains no ads and no tracking.
Full privacy policy (Dutch).
Who it's for
An app where parents and kids work on the same trip.
TravElly is built for kids ages 6 to 14 and works for that age on its own. Parents set up the trip, kids plan along and keep their diary on the road. Everyone looks at the same trip plan.
The app can live on a parent's phone, so kids use it together or with supervision. That fits families who prefer limited or controlled smartphone use. You can also install TravElly directly on your child's phone. You decide what works for your family.
About
TravElly is built by me, Jeroen (49). I started in December 2025 and shipped within four months. It's my first app. I built it with what I call artisanal vibe coding: writing the app by hand alongside AI tools, taking the time to keep things small, clean, and honest. No team, no investors, no business model — just an app I wanted my own family to use.
Accessibility
TravElly follows your iPhone's dark mode setting automatically. The calm, dark color scheme reduces visual strain. People with light sensitivity or an acquired brain injury may especially benefit from it, as does anyone who prefers softer light.
FAQ
TravElly is made for kids ages 6 to 14. Young enough to find it fun, old enough to look up activities and write on their own. Younger kids can use it together with a parent.
Yes. Your child sees the destinations of the trip and adds activities to them. They plan along and know before departure what there is to do.
Yes. Everything works offline, which is ideal on vacation. You only need a connection to share a postcard or the trip.
No. TravElly is a free download on the App Store. No subscription, no in-app purchases.
Yes. Once the trip is set up, share it via WhatsApp, AirDrop, or iMessage. Anyone with an iPhone and TravElly receives the same trip and can keep their own diary.
No, by design. TravElly doesn't broadcast your location; there is no server and nothing is tracked. What you can do: share the trip beforehand, so the home front knows exactly when you'll be where. And along the way, kids send digital postcards of their day.
Yes. You can create multiple trips. Each trip gets its own overview and its own diary.
No. The app can live on a parent's phone, so kids use it together or with supervision. Or install TravElly directly on your child's phone, whichever fits your family.
Not right now. TravElly is only available for iPhone and iPad. An Android version is on the wishlist.
Download TravElly for free and set up your next trip together.