About Nomad

The trip is the people.
The plan should be too.

Most planning tools are built for one traveler with one inbox. Nomad is built for the table on the terrace: everyone who is going, planning the same trip in the same place.

Why Nomad exists

The hard part was never the booking.

Booking a trip takes an afternoon. Keeping it straight takes the rest of the month, because the plan ends up in a dozen places that do not talk to each other.

The confirmations sit in two inboxes. The restaurant list is a message thread, and the addresses are screenshots. The costs are in a spreadsheet one person keeps, and the packing list is on the fridge. By the second day of the trip, nobody is sure which version of the plan is the real one.

Nomad puts all of it in one trip that everyone on it can see and change. Confirmations are read out of your email and filed where they belong. The days fill in from the ideas you saved. Costs are split as you go, in whatever currency you paid. And the whole thing is on your phone when the signal is not.

It is part of a family of apps from Renkara®, which is why it can reach into your mail, your calendar, and your lists instead of asking you to copy things between them.

Four beliefs

What Nomad is arguing for.

Nobody should retype a confirmation number

Every booking you make already arrives by email, with the dates and the codes in it. Copying them into a planner by hand is work a computer should do, and Nomad does it, while leaving the final say with you.

A shared trip needs one shared plan

When four people plan a trip in four places, the plan quietly forks. One trip that everyone edits, live, is the only version that stays true.

Money is part of the plan

Who paid for what is the conversation every group trip ends with. Tracking it as you go, in the currency you actually paid, turns it into a tap.

The plan has to work with no signal

The moment you need your itinerary most is at a gate, in a station, or on a mountain road. If it lives only in the cloud, it is not there when you need it.

What Nomad is not

Two things it deliberately does not do.

It is not a booking site
Nomad does not sell flights or rooms. Book wherever you get the best price, and Nomad keeps track of what you booked.
It is not a social network
There are no public profiles and no feed. A trip is seen by the people you invite, and by anyone you send a read-only link to, and nobody else.
Who is building it

Made by Renkara.

Charles Sieg, founder of Renkara Media Group.

Charles Sieg

Founder, Renkara Media Group, Inc.

Nomad is one of a family of apps built at Renkara in Keller, Texas, alongside the mail, calendar, list, and accounting apps it works with. They share one sign-in, one design, and a habit of doing the tedious part for you.

Questions

The six that come up first.

When does Nomad open?

Nomad is not open yet. Join the waitlist, and we will email you the day it opens.

What will it cost?

Pricing has not been announced yet.

I already plan my trips in another app. Can I bring them?

Yes. Nomad imports your Tripsy® trips, with their days, places, bookings, and costs, and importing again never creates duplicates.

Do my travel companions need an account?

To plan with you, yes: they accept an invitation and edit the trip alongside you. To follow along, no: a read-only link shows the itinerary and map to anyone you send it to.

Does it work without a signal?

Yes. The trip you are on, including its map and documents, is kept on your device, and any changes you make offline sync when you reconnect.

Is there an app for my phone?

Yes: a native app for iPhone® and iPad®, and the web app works in the browser on any phone.

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