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The trip planner that catches what you missed

Treader is a free group trip planner that puts every stop on one live map and checks the plan against sunset and public holidays on your dates. Made in Canada.

Free, no card. Your account and that trip are made together.

Or open a finished trip
A three-day Banff trip in Treader. Choose a day to see its stops, times and legs on the map; choose a stop to read its note.
Three days in Banff

Town first and then the mountain

  1. walk 10 min
  2. walk 8 min
  3. drive 8 min
  4. drive 7 min
  5. drive 10 min
  6. drive 9 min
Day
09:00 → 21:15
Stops
7
Driving
34 min
Walking
18 min

You shouldn’t have to retype a plan into a map

The stops go in once. Treader times the day, draws the route, and checks it against sunset and public holidays on your dates.

  • Free Forever, with no card
  • 45 trips Ready-made, with every stop on a map
  • No ads Your data is never sold
  • Canada Made in Alberta

Stops from the ready-made trips

  • Banff Avenue 51.1784° N  115.5708° W
  • Shibuya Crossing 35.6595° N  139.7005° E
  • Old Faithful 44.4605° N  110.8281° W
  • Colosseum 41.8902° N  12.4922° E
  • Moraine Lake 51.3217° N  116.1860° W
  • Hallgrímskirkja 64.1417° N  21.9266° W
  • Tunnel View 37.7156° N  119.6772° W
  • Eiffel Tower 48.8584° N  2.2945° E
  • Peyto Lake 51.7174° N  116.5074° W
  • Fushimi Inari Taisha 34.9671° N  135.7727° E
  • Cadillac Mountain 44.3521° N  68.2251° W
  • Ponte Vecchio 43.7680° N  11.2532° E
  • Château Frontenac 46.8121° N  71.2054° W
  • Mather Point 36.0616° N  112.1078° W
  • Jökulsárlón 64.0484° N  16.1794° W
  • Brooklyn Bridge 40.7061° N  73.9969° W
  • Schwabacher Landing 43.7137° N  110.6707° W
  • Rialto Bridge 45.4381° N  12.3358° E
  • Bixby Creek Bridge 36.3714° N  121.9022° W
  • Logan Pass 48.6957° N  113.7180° W
  • Chesterman Beach 49.1183° N  125.8926° W
  • Johnston Canyon 51.2453° N  115.8394° W
  • Lake Agnes Tea House 51.4164° N  116.2442° W

From a chat to a map

Already asked ChatGPT? Paste it

Paste the day-by-day answer from ChatGPT or Claude. Every stop lands on a real map, on the right day, with the travel time between stops. Anything it can’t place is listed, never guessed.

Then it checks what the chat could not

  • A stop you can’t reach in time Every leg is timed on the map, so a stop set before you could get there is flagged.
  • A day that doesn’t fit Hours at the stops plus the travel between them, against the clock.
  • A stop that runs past sunset Sunset on your dates, where the day is.
  • A night with nowhere to sleep Any night without a hotel or a camp in the plan.
ChatGPT or Claude Treader

Read on your device. Nothing is sent until you start.

Ready-made

Or start from a trip that already exists

45 itineraries with every stop on a map, from a day trip to a week on the road. Read one in full, then copy it and change what you like. Free, no card.

All itineraries

What it does

Plan the whole day, not just the list

Stops, legs, times and money sit in one plan, so when one of them moves, the rest of the day moves with it.

Open a finished trip

One clock/Free

Walking and driving on one clock

Every stop sits at its time and every leg takes its minutes, so you can see where the day is tight and where it has room.

  • Across the three days: 19 h 45 at stops, 3 h 03 walking, 2 h 34 driving, 35 min on transit and 9 h 48 free.
  • Day 1, 09:00 to 21:15: 7 h at stops, 18 min walking, 34 min driving, and 4 h 23 free.
  • Day 2, 07:00 to 19:30: 6 h 15 at stops, 2 h 45 walking, 1 h 02 driving, 35 min on transit, and 1 h 53 free.
  • Day 3, 09:00 to 20:00: 6 h 30 at stops, 0 min walking, 58 min driving, and 3 h 32 free.
An empty two-lane desert highway running straight toward distant mountains

Trip check/Free

Catch the holiday before you drive there

Trip check reads every day against public holidays on your dates, sunset and how full the day is, then lists what needs a look. On Pro it reads each place's opening hours too.

  • Public holidays
  • After dark
  • Day too full
  • Opening hours On Pro

Retime/Free

Add a stop, then fix the day in one tap

Treader flags the stop you can no longer reach. Tap Fix timing and it pushes back only what overlaps, walk or drive included.

Day 1 in Treader with Whyte Museum added after Banff Avenue. Fix timing moves Cascade of Time Gardens from 10:30 to 11:40 and Park Distillery from 12:00 to 12:33, and Banff Gondola keeps 14:00 with 4 minutes to spare.

Scout/15 free a month

An assistant that reads your plan

A chat app knows only what you paste into it. Scout works inside the trip, and what it proposes goes in with one tap and comes out with one Undo.

Scout reads

  • Every stop, time and drive in the trip
  • Your pace, diet, access needs and must-avoids
  • The forecast, once a day has a date
  • Real places near the day, from a live search

A traveller asks Scout: We leave the Fairmont at 4:30. What are we missing on the way back?

Scout answers: Morant’s Curve is 20 minutes down the Bow Valley Parkway. Stop there at 5:30 for the evening light and day two still ends at 7:30pm at the lodge. That is a long day after a 7am start, so I have left the evening open and moved the good meal to day three, where you end in town anyway.

The changes it proposed, applied in one tap: Added Morant’s Curve to day two, 5:30pm. Moved The Maple Leaf to day three, 6:30pm. Applied in one tap. Undo puts the plan back.

Four friends with backpacks gathered around a phone, planning together in the mountains
4 people on the sample Banff trip: Logan, Maya, Devon, Priya.

Plan it alone. Or don’t.

A trip you plan by yourself works exactly the same. Send one link and everyone follows the same map. A friend who edits adds stops you see as they go.

A comment thread on the Moraine Lake stop, day 2 at 07:00. Devon: Seven is brutal. Can we not do eight? Maya: Shuttle seats are gone by eight and the light is flat by nine. Sleep on day three. Priya: Fine. I am not talking until the tea house.

  • Edits land live

    A friend pins Lake Agnes from their desk in Toronto and it turns up on your Tuesday a second later.

  • Settle it in the trip

    Vote on dinner, pin the winner into the day, and stop arguing about it in the chat at midnight.

  • Guests never pay

    Anyone you invite follows along free, whatever plan they’re on. Free plans with one friend; Pro with three.

Pricing

Free forever. Upgrade when a trip earns it.

The free plan doesn’t expire and never asks for a card. Upgrade for longer trips, more editors and more Scout.

Compare every plan Prices in CAD, cancel anytime

Free

$0 / forever

No card, no trial clock

Included

  • Plan on a live map
  • Up to 50 trips, each up to 7 days long
  • Pin and share your own spots
  • Trip album and a shareable recap, 40 photos a trip
  • Trip check, a live calendar feed, and Paste anything for places and links
  • 15 Scout messages a month

7-day trips 1 editor a trip

Pro

$4.99 / mo

or $49.99 a year, save 17%

See Pro

Pro adds

  • Scout, your AI travel agent: 100 messages a month
  • Full place detail: hours, photos and reviews
  • Trip budget with per-stop costs and receipts, plus a cost split of who owes who

30-day trips 3 editors a trip

Discovery

$9.99 / mo

or $99.99 a year, save 17%

See Discovery

Discovery adds

  • Everything in Pro, plus unlimited Scout*
  • Travel Data vault: documents, records & wallet
  • Flight claims drafted for you: up to $1,000 for a delay, $2,400 for bumping
*Unlimited Scout is for your own trip planning, under our fair use terms.

60-day trips 10 editors a trip

Is it really free?

Yes, and it stays free. No card, no trial clock. A trip you make is yours: open it on your phone, share it as a page, or export it any time. Paid plans add longer trips, more editors and more Scout.

Where does my data go?

Into your trips. Nothing is sold, there are no ads, and the privacy policy names every service that touches your data and says what is kept and for how long. Treader is made in Canada.

Privacy policy

Who keeps it running?

One person, Logan. Members keep it going: paid plans pay for the maps, the trip AI and the servers. 45 ready-made itineraries with every stop on the map are here to copy, free.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

What people ask before they plan a first trip. The docs go further.

Read the docs
01 How is this different from asking an AI for an itinerary?

A chatbot writes the itinerary once and hands it back as text you still have to turn into a trip. Scout works inside the plan with you. It can already see what you have built, so you can ask it to fill the gap on Tuesday or find dinner near your last stop, and what it suggests arrives as stops on the map that you can drag, retime, swap or undo in one tap. It also keeps the preferences you set once, the pace you like, what you eat, what you would rather skip, so you are not re-explaining yourself every time you ask it something.

02 Is the free plan really free?

Yes. $0, forever, no card and no trial clock. You get up to 50 trips of up to 7 days each, one person to plan each one with (everyone else you invite follows along), and 15 Scout messages a month. Upgrade only when you outgrow it.

03 Do my friends need to pay to plan with me?

No. Joining someone else’s trip is always free. Hosting is the part that scales with your plan: one editor on Free, three on Pro, ten on Discovery. Everyone else you invite follows along free. Trip length and editor seats follow the host’s plan; Scout messages and full place detail follow each person’s own plan.

04 What is Scout?

Scout is the planning assistant built into the app. It has read your itinerary, so you can ask what Tuesday is missing or where to eat near your last stop, and it answers with places that fit the day, then makes the change for you to keep or undo. Free includes 15 messages a month. Pro raises that to 100 and gives Scout more to work with, including the full detail on every place it suggests. Discovery is unlimited for your own trip planning.

05 Can I cancel anytime?

Yes, in a couple of clicks. Prices are in CAD: Pro is $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year, which saves 17%. Discovery is $9.99 or $99.99. You keep access until the period ends, and your trips, spots and notes stay yours after that.

06 What is the flight-disruption claim?

Canada’s air passenger protection rules entitle you to compensation when a flight is delayed long enough or you get bumped: up to $1,000 CAD for a delay on a large airline, and $2,400 CAD for bumping. Most people never claim it. Discovery drafts the claim from your booking.

07 Can I get my bookings into the trip without typing them?

Yes. Paste anything takes the confirmation email, the booking PDF, a link or a screenshot, and lists the flights, stays, places and the amount paid for you to tick onto the trip. Discovery also gives you an address to forward confirmations to, which does the same reading and leaves the result waiting for you. Nothing ever reads your inbox, and nothing is added until you tick it. Every plan can paste places and receipts; on Discovery the flights and stays also file themselves into the travel vault.

08 Where do the places come from?

Map search and discovery run on Google’s live place data, the same source behind Google Maps, on every plan including Free. Full detail on a place, its photos, reviews and opening hours, comes with Pro and Discovery. Community spots are pinned by travellers who have been there.

Logan standing on a mossy ledge at the foot of a tall waterfall, in a cap and rain shell with his pack straps in both hands

So, why’d I build Treader?

Planning shouldn’t be a hassle.

I’m Logan. I take photographs, and I spend a good chunk of the year planning trips and trying to be everywhere at once. Too many of those trips never left the group chat, and I’d end up watching someone else’s video of the place we kept saying we’d go.

The planning tools didn’t help. Most were too limited, none let me plan with the people I actually travel with, and more than once I turned up at a spot that didn’t exist. So I built the thing I wanted: a map I can trust, with my friends planning on it beside me. Treader is for people who want to plan together and get out there.

Plan less, live more.

Logan, Treader

Where to first?

Type a place and your first trip is made with your account. Everything after that is the fun part.

Free, no card. Your account and that trip are made together.

Still deciding? Open a finished trip