Project overview
Trip planning that works offline.
Wanderly, a boutique tour operator, needed an app its guides and guests would actually open every day: live itineraries, instant rebooking and offline maps for areas with no signal. We delivered iOS and Android apps plus a web console for the operations team in 16 weeks.
- Client
- Wanderly
- Timeline
- 16 weeks
- Services
- App + API
The challenge
Paper itineraries, missed connections.
Guides carried printed schedules that went stale the moment weather or traffic changed. Guests called a hotline for updates, and rebooking took up to a day. Anything we built had to survive patchy mountain connectivity and be simple enough for first-time smartphone users.
Approach & solution
Offline-first, guest-obsessed design.
We prototyped with six real guides on live tours, then built an offline-first app with cached maps, one-tap rebooking and push updates from the ops console. The backend syncs deltas only, so a full day's itinerary loads on a 2G connection.
- Offline maps and itineraries with background sync
- Guide console for live schedule changes and broadcasts
- Three-tap booking flow with Apple Pay and Google Pay
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Inside the build
4.8★
Store rating
62%
Repeat bookings
3 min
Avg. rebooking time