Planitum — travel that's actually yours

The problem

The world got crowded.
Your trip stopped feeling like yours.

Cheaper flights, one shared feed and a thousand identical top-ten lists have funnelled all of us into the same places, at the same hours. The queue gets longer every year, the neighbourhood is tired of us, and the fantasy you flew for - is somewhere behind three hundred raised phones.

Travel today

Everyone, in the same place, at the same time

▬ You find out how packed somewhere is once you're standing in it
▬ 28 open tabs, hundreds of Reels, and the same five spots in all of them
▬ Hidden gems are hard to find beyond the creators you already follow
▬ Local communities carry the burden while their hometowns are reduced to superficial photo stops.

Travel on Planitum

Same place, better hour — or somewhere better

✅ A crowd forecast on every place you save, by hour, day and season
✅ A quieter alternative offered the moment something is going to be packed
✅ Local-first discovery in your own language — creators you'd never have found
✅ All your travel ideas in one place, for free, shared with the friends you travel with

Most crowding is a timing problem and an information problem. Planitum works on both.

Solution 01 · Crowd forecasts

Know how full it gets before you go.

Save a place and Planitum forecasts the crowd for it — by hour, by weekday, by season. When the thing you want is going to be shoulder to shoulder, we hand you the quieter hour, or somewhere close by that nobody has queued for yet.

Fushimi Inari Taisha

Kyoto · Saturday in April

Forecast

Quiet Busy Packed

Packed 11:00

You'll move through the torii gates at the speed of the group in front of you.

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Quieter nearby: Kifune Shrine trail

40 minutes north, cedar-lined and calm at this hour. Add it and Planitum re-times the rest of your day.

Illustration with sample data — tap any hour.

The forecast gets sharper with every trip.

This is the part nobody can copy quickly. It starts with public signals and compounds with every traveller who uses it.

Start from what's already public

Opening patterns, review timestamps, event calendars, transport and foot-traffic estimates — enough to be useful on day one.

Travellers on the ground sharpen it

Send a photo and we read how packed the frame is. No photo? Rate it one to ten in a tap, right where you're standing.

Everyone gets pointed somewhere better

Every busy place gets a quieter alternative attached to it — which spreads the pressure instead of piling it onto one street.

Solution 02 · Local creators

The people worth asking are already there.

A hidden gem isn't a listicle entry. It's something a person tells you — because they live on that street, or because they've been ten times and worked it out. Planitum puts two kinds of those people in front of you, and lets them earn from what they already give away in DMs.

Jonathan T. ✔

Tel Aviv → Japan · 6 trips · Hebrew, English

Origin creator · from your country

Speaks your language, and knows your idea of a good trip.

Someone from home who has learned your destination properly — what's worth the day trip for someone travelling the way you travel, what to skip, what nobody tells you before you land.

Japan in 14 days, off the golden route

Map + itinerary · 62 pins

$24

Mika ✔

Paris local · guide · French, English

Destination creator · lives there

Can send you two streets past the tourist strip.

Locals with knowledge that never makes it into English at all — the bar that fills with their friends on a Thursday, the market morning worth setting an alarm for, the walk their family does in spring.

A Thursday in the 11th

Walking route + 3 hours with Mika

$68

One storefront, instead of a hundred DMs.

Every verified creator gets a page: maps, itineraries and hours for sale, imported into the buyer's trip in a single tap. Planitum takes a modest fee — the creator keeps the rest.

✓ Sell what you already made

✓ Discovery by region and language

✓ Purchase and plan in the same place

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And anyone can share, for free

You don't need a verified badge to post a trip. Share your maps, your itineraries and your finds with friends or with everyone — the map you built for your sister is worth more than another ranked list. Every plan that comes from a person instead of an aggregator moves someone off the same crowded square.

See it in action

Our prototype. Your first look at Planitum 1.0.

Join the launch waiting list and be among the first to use it — the crowd layer and the creator marketplace in one free app.

Forecast

Hour by hour on every place you saved — and a quieter alternative when it's packed.

Planitum screen asking how crowded a place is right now

Contribute

A photo or a one-to-ten while you're standing there. Everyone's forecast gets sharper.

Planitum creators tab showing verified local creators by region and language

Discover

Verified creators, local-first — your own language in every destination.

Planitum live plan showing a day of stops with crowd warnings

Travel live

A day you can actually walk, timed around when each place empties out.

How it works

One map. Real people behind it.

AI handles the logistics — routes, timing, opening hours. The taste, the curation and the "trust me on this one" come from people who've actually stood there.

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Collect

Save pins from anywhere — your own finds, a friend's list, or a map you bought from a verified local creator.

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Time it

Every pin comes with a crowd forecast. Planitum builds the day around the hours each place is actually worth being in.

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Travel

Live mode keeps you moving — check off stops, or swap a packed one for a quieter alternative in seconds.

For Travelers

Skip the crowd. Keep the trip.

Plan your trip around when places are actually good, browse real creators who've been there, and keep all your ideas in one place. Free, and yours.

Traveler Waitlist

No spam — just one email when Planitum opens.

For Local Creators

You're already selling this. One DM at a time.

You know your city, your niche, your people — and right now you're answering the same questions individually, for free. Planitum gives you one storefront, real discovery beyond your own following, and keeps the purchase and the plan together for the traveller who buys from you.

Sell what you already have

Your Google Maps lists, itineraries or guided tours — published as products inside a social platform.

Reach travellers by region and language

Local-first discovery means Planitum sends you buyers well beyond your own following — including people from their own country planning your city.

Keep the majority of every sale

Planitum takes a modest platform fee. You keep the rest — no negotiation, no chasing invoices.

Send people where you'd actually send them

Your quieter recommendations get surfaced when the obvious spot is packed — good for your city, good for your name.

Founding Creators · limited spots

Apply for early access

The first cohort shapes how this platform gets built. Tell us your niche and we'll reach out personally.

We'll reach out personally — no mailing list, no spam.

Stay tuned · Compass

A feed of places worth going.
Every video is a swipe from your next trip.

A swipeable feed of stays, tables and finds — swipe right to bucket-list it straight into a collection, swipe left to skip. Weighted toward the places that can take the visitors, so what you save is worth going to when you finally get there.

Quiet in May

🏨 Stay

Ryokan with an onsen view

Hakone, Japan

🍽 Table

Nishiki Market stall

Kyoto · via Maya K.

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Built for between trips

No trip booked? Still something to open — save ideas the moment inspiration hits.

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Every swipe teaches your planner

What you save shapes smarter plans and better timing later — no extra effort required.

Built to scale, honestly

Businesses can appear here — clearly labeled, never inside a purchased creator's map. That line never moves.

The world got crowded.Your trip stopped feeling like yours.