A trip planner that is still a test bench for itineraries. Drop stops on the map, add one, remove one, and the app answers straight away with the consequences: kilometres, hours at the wheel, days, new regions and countries, budget — and a sentence that says the trade-off in plain words. Then book, check, pack and go: the whole trip lives in one place.

The map is a support, not the subject

Where Cartina draws borders and honest areas, Bivio draws streets, real road distances and real driving times. Two different jobs, deliberately two different apps.

Variants, side by side

Keep several versions of the same trip and compare them on the numbers instead of arguing from memory.

Suggestions that stay on your phone

When the app proposes stops, the thinking happens on the device with Apple’s on-device model. Nothing about your trip is sent to a model on a server.

Plan with your AI

Prefer to talk the trip through with Claude, ChatGPT or another assistant? Bivio writes the request for you — what you want and, if you leave them in, the trip’s stops, scenarios and numbers — you paste it into the AI of your choice, and paste its answer back. Every place it names is checked against Apple Maps, and you see the whole plan before anything is added.

A connector for Claude and ChatGPT

Skip the copy-paste: in Claude, add Bivio from the connector directory; in any other AI, add the Bivio connector by its address (an MCP server, bivio.nidello.ca/mcp). It gives the AI Bivio’s plan format, checks what it wrote, and hands you a link that opens the trip in Bivio. No account, no sign-in. Ask it for “ten days in the Gaspé Peninsula in July, from Quebec City”, or for three versions of a fortnight in Portugal to compare side by side. How to set it up · terms of use.

It knows where you have already been

Bivio reads what Cartina recorded, through a file the two apps share on your device, so a “new region” really is new.

Bookings and their papers

Accommodation, activities, car or RV rental, flights with their connections, ferries, trains: each with its confirmation number, its times in the right time zone, and the PDF or photo of the confirmation, shown in one tap even offline.

What’s left to do

Every booking and activity by status, from idea to booked. And the app checks what does not add up: two hotels on the same night, a night with no roof, arriving after the desk closes, a connection that is too short, a rental returned after the flight leaves.

An agenda you drag

One column per day on iPad, next to the map. Drag an activity to another day and the kilometres, hours, budget and warnings follow — and it all undoes.

A budget in every currency

Each cost keeps its own currency; the total is in yours, with what is paid, what is left, and the cash to bring in each local currency. Reference rates are downloaded once a day, and any rate you type in always wins.

Before you go, and while you’re there

A packing list with reminders — including a passport that expires too soon — a notebook for ideas outside any trip, and a Today view, a widget and a Live Activity on flight days.

On the road, even with no signal

Your trip book, bookings and their attachments, the Today screen and the budget open offline. Finding a place, routing a new leg or checking the weather need a connection; until then, a new leg is estimated.

It leaves with you

Export the itinerary as .ics, .gpx or .kml, or print a full booklet as a PDF, with a version to share that hides amounts and confirmation numbers. Share the trip to be followed read-only, or send a .bivio file someone can copy and make their own.

Free for one trip, and what Pro adds

Bivio is free on one trip at a time, up to 5 days, with one scenario, three attachments and one currency: the stops, the bookings, the budget, the agenda, the suggestions and the .ics and .gpx exports. Pro lifts those limits and adds planning with your AI, reading bookings and documents on the device, a budget in several currencies, travel mode, the PDF booklet, the .kml export, sharing and read-only following, Cerchia circles and sending a route to Racconto. By the month, by the year or once for life, shared with your family.

What it sends, and to whom

Planning a route means asking Apple Maps, and a forecast means asking Apple Weather. Exchange rates come from our relay, which receives nothing about you. If you add the AI connector, the plan your AI wrote is encrypted with a key that exists only in the link: we cannot read it, and it is deleted after 7 days. All of it is listed on the privacy page, with exactly what each one receives. Two optional services go through our server: the Community, for the itineraries you choose to publish, and the bookings you forward by email, encrypted for your device and kept 7 days at most.

The name is Italian: a bivio is the fork in the road, the place where two routes part and you have to choose. That is the whole app.

Thirteen languages: English, French, German, Spanish (Spain and Latin America), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Russian, Arabic and Chinese (Simplified).

On the U.S., Italian and Japanese App Stores the app is listed as Bivio Routes: the short name was already taken there.

Bivio has been submitted to the App Store and is not available yet. There is nothing to download yet — this page will carry the link when there is.