How Globe Skimmer Works — A Guide to Every Tab

GET STARTED

Add it to your Home Screen.

Globe Skimmer installs like a native app, no App Store required. Add it once and it opens full-screen, no browser bar, right from your Home Screen.

1On iPhone: tap the Share icon in Safari, then choose "Add to Home Screen."
2On Android: tap the ⋮ menu in Chrome, then choose "Add to Home screen" or "Install app."
3Open it from your Home Screen from then on — full screen, no address bar, just Globe Skimmer.
4Once it's installed, your itinerary still opens with no signal — on the plane, on the train, in the hotel lift.

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01 / TRIPS

Every trip, one hub.

The Explore tab is home base. Switch between trips, jump into today's plan, or start a new one — all from a single screen.

1Tap Switch trip on the trip card (or pick one under Your trips in Profile) to change trips.
2Hit + New Trip to start planning your next one.
3Your featured card shows a live countdown, or trip status once you're there.
4Entry requirements are checked against your passport nationality and flagged right here.
5Swipe in from the right edge (or tap ☰) for the menu. Its This trip card holds Edit, Share, and PDF export.

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Good morning, Steve

🇯🇵 Japan Trip🇵🇹 Portugal Trip + New Trip

Departs In

12 days

Visa-free · 90 days

Good morning, Steve

🇯🇵 Japan🇵🇹 Portugal

Departs In

12 days

Visa-free · 90 days

02 / MAP

See the whole trip, pinned.

Every place you save shows up on the map automatically, color-coded by type, so you always know what's nearby. Directions stay in the app.

1Every saved place drops a numbered pin, color-coded by type.
2Tap Directions to route between any two stops — walking, transit, or driving.
3Find Near Me surfaces restaurants, sights, and more around any pin — or type anything into search (“diner”, “gelato”, “laundromat”) and it looks around your hotel or next stop.
4Tap a result to see its photo and whether it's open right now — then save it or ask Itchy about it.
5Trains, rides, buses, and ferries get their own illustrated card with the route underneath. Tap one for the details.

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Meiji Jingu

OPEN NOW · CLOSES 5:20 PM

Ask Itchy

Meiji Jingu

OPEN NOW

03 / PLANNER

Search flights, stays, trains, and tours.

Planner pulls real flights, stays, trains, and tours into one search, and tells you what your trip is still missing — so you're not juggling six other tabs.

1Start with What's missing at the top: nights with nowhere to stay, cities with nothing connecting them, no flight home, free afternoons. Tap one and the search is filled in for you.
2Search flights, stays, trains, and tours without leaving the app. Compare real prices per person, with stops and layovers shown clearly.
3Heart the ones you like. The shortlist lines them up side by side with the best value marked, and Itchy can tell you which fits the trip.
4Tap See prices ↗ to reserve wherever is cheapest, then save it — stays keep their check-in and check-out dates on your timeline.
5Looking for food? That lives on the Map now: search “ramen” or tap Find Near Me › Food.

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JFK → NRT

Nonstop · 13h 40m

$412

Park Hyatt Tokyo

4.8 ★ · Shinjuku

$289/nt

Tokyo → Kyoto

Shinkansen · 2h 15m

$98

Save to Itinerary

JFK → NRT

Nonstop

$412

Park Hyatt

4.8 ★

$289

Tokyo → Kyoto

2h 15m

$98

Save

04 / ITINERARY

Every detail, on one timeline.

Everything you save lines up by date automatically — flights, stays, reservations, and notes, all in order.

1Entries group automatically by date, so your trip reads like a real schedule.
2Toggle what you see — time, price, confirmation, notes — with the settings gear.
3Packing, documents, budget, and notes live in the tabs right alongside it.
4Upload boarding passes and reservations to Documents so they're on the trip, not buried in your inbox.

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$412

✈️ Flight to Tokyo

Thu, Aug 6 · 9:40 AM

$289

🏨 Park Hyatt Tokyo

Check-in · Thu, Aug 6

🍜 Ichiran Ramen

Fri, Aug 7 · 7:30 PM

$412

✈️ Flight to Tokyo

Aug 6 · 9:40 AM

$289

🏨 Park Hyatt

Check-in

🍜 Ichiran Ramen

Aug 7 · 7:30 PM

05 / BUDGET

Know what it costs, and who owes what.

Set a budget, log what you spend, and let the trip do the math — including everyone's share when you're travelling together.

1Prices you save from the Planner count toward the budget automatically.
2See spending broken down by category and by traveler at a glance.
3Split an expense across the group and each person's share is worked out for you.
4Add your Venmo or Cash App handle and every share gets a prefilled payment link.

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$2,140

of $3,000

Flights$824

Stays$867

Food$449

Dana$713.33Venmo

Marcus$713.33Cash App

$2,140

of $3,000

Flights$824

Stays$867

DanaVenmo

MarcusCash App

06 / SHARED TRIPS

Bring everyone along, without losing control.

Share a trip and the people travelling with you see the same plan you do — while every change still goes through you.

1Open the menu and tap Share on the This trip card for a link, or send an invite straight to someone's email.
2They follow the trip and it lands in their own Globe Skimmer, itinerary and all.
3Followers suggest places; suggestions wait in your review inbox until you approve them.
4Approved entries keep a "From [Name]" tag, so credit sticks to whoever found the spot.

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🍜 Afuri Ramen, Harajuku

From Dana

ApproveDismiss

🏛️ Nezu Museum

From Marcus

🍜 Afuri Ramen

From Dana

🏛️ Nezu Museum

From Marcus

07 / MOMENTS

The trip, after the trip.

Photos you add along the way collect into an album for that trip — so the plan and the pictures end up in the same place.

1Add photos from your phone as the trip happens, or all at once when you get home.
2Each trip gets its own album automatically — no folders to set up.
3Tap any photo for the full-screen view, and swipe through the trip.
4Anyone following the trip sees the album too.
5When the trip ends, Itchy's Moments Maker turns it into a short story you can play back and share.

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🇯🇵 Japan Trip · 46 photos

🇯🇵 Japan · 46

08 / ITCHY

Ask, and it works from your actual trip.

Itchy is grounded in your own saved trip details — not guesses. Ask questions, attach documents, and let it fill in the itinerary for you.

1Ask Itchy anything about your trip — it's grounded in your own saved details.
2Attach a confirmation PDF or screenshot and Itchy reads it for you.
3Approve a suggestion and it's added straight to your itinerary.
4Ask it to move, edit, or drop an entry and it changes the real trip, not just the chat.
5“Remind me to check in 24 hours before my flight” — Itchy works out the time from your itinerary and a push lands on your phone then. Upcoming reminders sit on the Itchy screen, one tap to cancel.

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Remind me to check in 24 hours before my flight

Set for Wednesday at 9:40 AM, a day before your 9:40 AM from JFK. Your phone gets a push then.

⏰ Reminder set · Wed 9:40 AM

Remind me to check in a day before my flight

Set for Wed 9:40 AM. A push lands then.

⏰ Reminder set

09 / PROFILE

Your travel history, your settings.

Profile tracks where you've been and holds the settings that shape the whole app — including the ones that quietly do work for you.

1See your stats — trips, countries, places saved, and days traveled.
2Your trips are listed by on now, upcoming (with a countdown), and past. Tap one to switch to it.
3Set your passport nationality once and every trip gets checked for entry requirements.
4Turn on notifications for a countdown as departure approaches, plus packing and budget nudges and any reminders you ask Itchy for.
5Flip dark mode, add two-factor sign-in, and keep saved places and travel documents in one spot.

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Trips

9

Countries

58

Days traveled

Notifications

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Your trips · 1 upcoming

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Trips

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Countries

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Your trips

Everything the app does, tab by tab.

Add it to your Home Screen.

Every trip, one hub.

See the whole trip, pinned.

Search flights, stays, trains, and tours.

Every detail, on one timeline.

Know what it costs, and who owes what.

The trip, after the trip.

Ask, and it works from your actual trip.

Your travel history, your settings.

See it, then get it.