Do I have to turn offline mode on?

No. Your holiday saves itself the first time you open it, and tops itself up whenever you come back with signal.

Does offline cost extra?

No. It works on the free version and the paid one. Other planners charge around £30 a year for offline access.

Can I add a new plan while I am offline?

Not yet. Reading everything works offline, and your packing list is fully editable offline. Adding and editing plans needs signal, because those are shared with the group and two people editing the same day in different places would need reconciling.

How much space does it use?

A holiday is a few hundred kilobytes of text, or a few megabytes if you have saved booking screenshots. Less than a couple of photos.

Does it work on aeroplane mode?

Yes. Anything you had opened while online is there, which is why it is worth opening the board once before you fly.

A holiday planner that still works with no signal

The moment a holiday planner matters most is the moment it is most likely to fail. You land, roaming is off, the hotel wifi has a login page that will not load, and the one thing you need is the address of the villa and what time the transfer goes.

Holiday Board saves your whole holiday to your phone the first time you open it. No button to find, no setting to remember, and no extra charge on any plan.

What is there when the network is not

Every day of the trip, with its plans in order
Leave times and start times
Venue names, addresses and map links
Notes: the reservation name, the booking reference, the door code
Booking screenshots you saved: flights, hotels, restaurants
Your packing list, including ticking things off
What everyone spent and who owes whom

Ticking off your packing list still works

Packing is the one thing people genuinely do with no signal: in the bedroom before the taxi, in a hotel room on the last morning. So ticking items, adding your own and removing ones you do not need all work offline and save on the phone.

When signal comes back they sync on their own. Until then the board tells you plainly how many changes are waiting, rather than pretending everything is fine or losing them quietly.

The failure nobody designs for

Losing signal cleanly is the easy case. The common one abroad is worse: a network that accepts the connection and then never answers, which your phone still reports as being online. Most apps spin forever on that.

Holiday Board gives the network a few seconds and then shows you your saved holiday instead. You get an answer either way.

Keeping it for the whole trip

Add Holiday Board to your home screen and what is saved stays saved for as long as you want it. Left in a browser tab on an iPhone, Safari clears saved data after about a week of not opening the site, which is fine during a holiday and less fine for one booked months ahead.

You can also top it up deliberately. Trip settings shows what is saved and lets you update it, which is worth doing the night before you fly, once the plans have stopped changing.

Nothing to install

This is not an app you download. Holiday Board runs in the browser, and adding it to your home screen simply gives it an icon and makes what it has saved permanent.

That also means the person who organised the trip and the person who joined by clicking a link get exactly the same thing, without anyone being sent to an app store at the airport.

Questions

Do I have to turn offline mode on?: No. Your holiday saves itself the first time you open it, and tops itself up whenever you come back with signal.
Does offline cost extra?: No. It works on the free version and the paid one. Other planners charge around £30 a year for offline access.
Can I add a new plan while I am offline?: Not yet. Reading everything works offline, and your packing list is fully editable offline. Adding and editing plans needs signal, because those are shared with the group and two people editing the same day in different places would need reconciling.
How much space does it use?: A holiday is a few hundred kilobytes of text, or a few megabytes if you have saved booking screenshots. Less than a couple of photos.
Does it work on aeroplane mode?: Yes. Anything you had opened while online is there, which is why it is worth opening the board once before you fly.

Open it once before you fly and it comes with you

Every day, every address, every leave time, saved on the phone in your pocket.

Create your Holiday Board

Free to start. No card needed. £6.99 per holiday if you want the lot.