The Home screen explained
A tour of Home — the decisions inbox, trip cards with chat bubbles, plans waiting for review, notifications, and the buttons that start everything.
Home is Limbo's front door: your trips, the decisions waiting on you, and everything that arrived while you were away. Every signed-in member sees the same layout — some pieces only appear when there's something for them to show.

The header, left to right
- Greeting — changes with the time of day. Purely decorative; it asks nothing of you.
- Plans waiting for review — a circular envelope button that appears with your pending plans. It pulses when new plans are waiting, and a red badge shows how many you haven't seen yet (capped at 99+). These are bookings Limbo parsed from forwarded confirmation emails, plus AI-suggested plans. Tap it to open the review sheet: tick the plans you want, tap confirm, and anything left unticked is dismissed.
- Offline cloud — appears only when you have no connection. Tap it for a quick explanation of offline mode; a banner also tracks the offline → syncing → all-synced journey. You can keep working — changes sync when you're back online.
- Notifications bell — opens your notifications inbox. A badge shows your unread count, and tapping any notification jumps straight to the trip, plan, or ballot it's about.
- Your avatar — opens Settings: account, crew, notification preferences, checklist templates, and archived trips.

The decisions inbox
When any trip has a ballot waiting on your vote, a horizontal row of decision cards appears above your trips — one card per pending ballot, sorted so the tightest deadline comes first. Cards only show while the ballot is still open; once a deadline passes, the card goes away.

- 1Tap Yes, No, or Abstain directly on the card — the card flips to confirm your vote.
- 2Or tap the card itself to open that trip's voting dashboard for the full ballot, deadline, and details.
Every trip member can vote on their own pending ballots. Once you've voted from the inbox, the card won't let you vote on that plan again — head to the voting dashboard if you want to change or remove your vote while the ballot is open.
Trip cards
Each upcoming trip gets a card. On it:
- Tap the card to open the trip — Overview, Itinerary, Budget, and Checklist tabs.
- Avatar stack — the faces of your crew, shown once the trip has at least two members.
- Chat bubble — appears alongside the crew avatars and opens that trip's chat directly. A red badge on the bubble counts messages you haven't read.

If you have no upcoming trips yet, Home shows a hint box pointing you at the + button instead.
Start or join a trip
Two buttons live in the bottom-right corner:
- Join a trip — the pill button. Enter the six-character code from a friend's invite link, preview the trip, and join. Anyone with a valid code can join; no special role needed.
- + — the red circle. Starts a new trip, which makes you its owner.

Pull to refresh
Drag the screen down to refresh everything at once: your trips, pending ballots, plans waiting for review, and chat unread counts.
Permissions
member Everything on Home is available to every signed-in member. What varies is visibility: the decisions inbox needs a pending ballot, the chat bubble needs a trip with two or more crew members, and the chat unread badge needs unread messages.
Related articles
Plan your first group trip
The full walkthrough — create your account, set up a trip, invite your crew, propose plans, and run your first sealed vote.
Join a trip with an invite link or code
Tap an invite link or enter a 6-character code to preview a trip and join the crew.
Plans from your email
Forward booking confirmations to Limbo, review the parsed plans, and add them to the right trip in one tap.




