LumelaTwo cars, six people,
one itinerary.
A road trip is a plan that changes twice a day. Somebody finds a better viewpoint, the second car stops for coffee, the cabin booking is in an email nobody else can open. Keep the route, the receipts and the people in the same place — and let it change without falling apart.
What a road trip actually needs
Less a rigid schedule, more a shared memory that survives the day.
Stops by day, not a wall of pins
Search a place, save it, and drop it into the day you'll actually be there. When plans move — and they will — drag the stop to another day instead of rebuilding the list. Everyone sees the change at once.
- Drag to reorder or move between days
- One tap out to your navigation app
- Past days fold away so today is what you see
Gas, tolls and a cabin split four ways
Road trip money is small and constant, which is exactly the kind that gets forgotten. Add each expense while you're standing at the pump and the week settles itself.
- Two drivers, two payers, one honest total
- Split only between the people in that car
- Receipts attached, in case anyone wonders
Where's the other car?
Two vehicles never stay together. Instead of a call every forty minutes, switch on live location for the drive and check the map when you need to decide whether to wait or order.
- Opt-in, and off again when you park
- Honest about stale pins in dead zones
- Presence shows who's actually looking at their phone
A week on the road
Roughly how groups use it, start to finish.
Planning
Everyone drops the places they want to hit into the group. Assign them to days, add the bookings as documents, and put the departure time on the timeline so 'we're leaving at eight' means something.
On the road
Log expenses at the pump and the counter. Move stops around as the day changes. Turn on live location when the cars separate, off when you're all in the same parking lot.
Getting home
Open the wallet once. Two or three transfers close the whole week, and the trip stays in the app as a record of where you actually went.
Road trip questions
Can we plan the route in the app?
You plan the stops, not the turns. Search for a place, save it to the trip, drag it into the right day — then hand it to your maps app for turn-by-turn navigation. Lumela is the itinerary; Waze and Google Maps are still better at left turns.
What about gas and tolls split between drivers?
Add each fill-up as an expense at the pump — thirty seconds, while you're standing there anyway. Two cars means two payers over the week; the balances sort out who covered more without anyone having to remember.
Half the drive has no reception. Is that a problem?
No. The plan, the saved stops and the documents are on the device. Add an expense in a canyon and it queues locally, then syncs to everyone the moment you're back in range.
Put the whole drive in one place
Stops, bookings, gas money and the other car. Free, and it works where the signal doesn't.