Feature tour · 07 modules
Everything a trip needs, in one place
The spec sheet: every module in detail, from the first “we should do a trip” to settling up afterwards.
01
Decide together, not in a group chat
Every idea (a restaurant, a museum day, an Airbnb) becomes a proposal the group votes and comments on. Organizers lock in winners; lodging proposals count who's actually staying with one tap.
- Lodging and Activity proposals, each with place search and a map pin
- One tap on a lodging proposal counts you in: “I'd stay here”
- Organizers decide; winners land on the shared calendar automatically
- Open proposals can be deleted by their suggester or the trip owner
02
Date-finding that ends the doodle-poll era
Set a rough window, everyone marks their free days, and the best overlap surfaces on its own, with a straight answer about who a date range would leave out before anyone books anything.
- Everyone marks their free days once, no reply-all thread
- The best overlaps rank themselves, with a count of who each range leaves out
- Locking the dates tidies the whole section away for good
03
A calendar the whole trip lives on
Decisions, flights, check-ins, and check-outs land on one shared calendar with overlap warnings: month grid or day-by-day, and subscribable from Google or Apple Calendar.
- Month grid and day-by-day views of the same plan
- Flights, check-ins, and check-outs are placed for you
- Clashing plans get an overlap warning before they collide in person
- Subscribe once from Google or Apple Calendar and it stays current
04
Logistics without the spreadsheet
Everyone logs how they're arriving. Join a friend's flight or train with a tap. Drivers offer spare seats, pick passengers, and see exactly who still needs a ride.
- Flight, train, drive, or other: the form adapts to each
- Join someone's flight or train with one tap: “Same Flight”
- Drivers set a seat cap; when the car's full, it says so, and means it
- A “Needs a Ride” list shows who's still unaccounted for
05
Money, settled
Log expenses as they happen and split them across whoever took part. Balances update live, and settle-up computes the fewest payments that make everyone whole.
- Anyone logs an expense and picks who's in, split to the cent
- Balances stay live for the whole trip, visible to everyone
- Settle-up computes the fewest payments that zero everyone out
- The payer or an organizer can edit or delete any expense
06
Chat where the plan is
A trip-wide chat lives next to the plan it's about, with the latest messages surfaced on the overview and notifications each person tunes themselves.
- One thread per trip: the talk and the plan share an address
- The latest messages surface on the trip overview
- Notifications are tuned by each person, not blasted at the group
07
The whole trip on a map
Stays, proposals, and locked plans pinned together, filterable by day, with travel times from every stay, so “how far is that?” answers itself.
- Stays, proposals, and locked plans pinned on one map
- Filter the pins by trip day
- Travel times from every stay, so “how far is that?” answers itself
Questions, answered
The short version
- Is it free?
- Yes. Slothing is free for everyone on the trip. Some outbound booking links are affiliate links; they never change what you pay.
- How do my friends get in?
- They tap your invite link, type their email, and get a sign-in link back. No password to invent, no app to download. Google and Apple work too.
- Does it work on phones?
- Slothing is built mobile-first and runs in the browser, nothing to install. Add it to your home screen and it behaves like an app.
- Who controls what?
- Anyone can propose, vote, comment, and log their own travel and expenses. Organizers lock dates and decisions, and a proposal can be deleted by whoever suggested it, or the trip owner.
- We already half-planned our trip. Too late?
- No. Nothing is gated. Skip the phases you've done, add what's already decided, and use Slothing for the rest.