Frequently asked questions

RoamDrop is a travel inbox for iPhone. You drop in screenshots, bookings, tickets, PDFs, links and notes, then organize them into a clear, day-by-day trip. It is a home for the travel stuff you already have, not another blank itinerary to fill in.

Yes. RoamDrop is on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, and planning a trip is free. Get it here.

No. Open the app and start planning, no sign-up first. The one place your Apple ID comes in is trip sharing, because invitations travel through iCloud (more on that below).

Yes. Your trips are stored on your device, so the plan opens without a signal, exactly when you're abroad and data is spotty. Reading a screenshot or PDF also happens on the phone, so imports keep working in roaming and in airplane mode.

Share it into RoamDrop from any app with the iOS share sheet: a screenshot from Photos, a PDF from Mail or Files, a link from Safari. Or add a card by hand inside the app. RoamDrop reads the dates, times, places and prices on your device and shows a quick review step, so you confirm before anything is saved.

Copy the text of the plan, then in the app tap the plus button and choose "Paste a plan". RoamDrop splits the text into cards, and when the plan mentions dates or days like "Day 1", it sorts the cards onto the right days. A plan without dates lands in Unplanned, ready to sort later. You tick which lines become cards, and everything stays editable afterwards.

Stays, flights, food, tours, places, transport and plain notes. Photos, files and links attach to any card, so the booking confirmation lives with the day it belongs to.

No. Keep booking and navigating where you do today. RoamDrop sits on top and pulls the pieces together into one organized, day-by-day trip.

Two ways. The quick one: export the trip as a clean PDF and send it anywhere; that is the right choice for someone who just needs to look. The live one: share the trip itself. Tap Share, send the link through Messages or Mail, and the trip syncs between you through your own iCloud. Anyone who opens the link can edit the trip with you.

Send the invitation to the phone number or email tied to that person's Apple ID: that is how iCloud matches them. If you forward the link through WhatsApp or Telegram instead, keep "Anyone with the link" selected in the share options. Under "Only people you invite", a forwarded link shows "Item Unavailable".

Your trips and documents are stored on your device, and screenshots and PDFs are read there: nothing is uploaded to be read. A few things do leave the phone, each for a stated reason: a trip you share or copy to iCloud is stored in your own iCloud at Apple, a trip you publish as a web page is stored encrypted, links and places are looked up when you add them, and the app sends usage statistics without any content, which you can switch off. The full list is in the Privacy Policy.

It is not meant to. A passport page is not read into a card, and a passport, ID or card number found in a booking is cut out before the card is filled in. You choose whether such a file is kept, and it can stay on this phone only. The check is automatic and can miss things: RoamDrop is for tickets and bookings, not identity documents.

Export any trip as a PDF, or export all trips and cards as one file via Settings, "Your data", "A copy of my data"; attached files are exported from their cards. Deleting a trip removes it from the app and from iCloud, and "Erase my data" removes every trip at once. If you published a trip as a web page, turn its link off first.

Unlimited trips, the day-by-day board, manual cards, the trip budget, PDF export and trip sharing. That part is free, not a trial.

Keeping the work RoamDrop does for you. You can save 3 recognized cards and import 1 whole plan for free. Beyond that, recognition, who owes whom, packing by person, the calendar and a PDF without the footer come with a trip pass (one trip, 90 days) or RoamDrop Plus (every trip, by the year). Adding cards by hand never costs anything.

Every recognized card goes through a review step before it's saved, so you can correct a field on the spot, and you can edit any card later. If recognition missed something it should have caught, we'd genuinely like to know: see how to report it.

Bugs go to support@roamdrop.app, ideas to hello@roamdrop.app. We're a small team and we read every message. The support page lists what to include so we can help faster.