The trip screen
A tour of the map-first trip screen: the draggable hub, day-coloured map, quick actions, tiles, workspaces, and trip settings.
Tap any trip card on Home to open the trip's map-first hub. The map stays underneath two draggable sheets: the hub you see first, and a workspace sheet for Plans, Preflight, Checklist, Voting, Expenses, Balances, Attachments, and available trip tools.
Using a wider browser window
The desktop browser workspace keeps your trips and app-wide tools in a left sidebar. Choose a trip there, then use the labelled sections across the top to open Overview, Plans, Flights, Map, Checklist, Voting, Expenses, Balances, Attachments, Preflight, Smart Route, Open in Maps, or Chat.
Select a plan, flight, or expense item to open its existing Limbo details on the right while keeping the list visible. Crew and task editors also use the right-hand pane. Close the pane with its close button or Escape. Crew, trip history, trip actions, and Add plan stay in the trip header; AI appears when available to you. Tools still follow your trip permissions and service availability. Balances needs cost splitting enabled in Crew.
The sidebar also provides Home, Incoming plans, email-import settings, Notifications, travel friends, offline travel packs, archived trips, Settings & account, and Help & feedback. Travel map sits near the top, above your trip list. Creating or joining a trip remains available there. Travel guides are not available in the browser; old guide links return to Home.
Home fits two or three trip cards across when there is room. Days stay in order, with plans within each day arranged side by side. At narrower browser widths, Limbo returns to its compact mobile-style layout. The installed mobile app keeps its existing map-first hub.
The map
Drag the hub down by its handle to reveal the map. Located plans appear as day-coloured pins. A day with more than one place has a route line: an applied Smart Route follows roads, walking paths, or joined public-transport legs, while other days use dotted direct connectors.
Google Maps supplies the basemap on every Limbo map. Limbo adds your trip pins, day colours, and route lines on top, while keeping Google Maps attribution visible.
- Tap a pin to open that plan's details.
- Tap a day chip to fit the map around that day's located stops. The dot and number on each chip match the day's pins and show how many plans it contains.
- Tap the fit all button on the right to bring every located plan back into view.
- Plans without a usable location still appear in the Plans timeline, but not as map pins.
When an organizer applies Smart Route, the Plans summary, full Plans timeline, numbered pins, and route line all use the same saved stop order. The selected mode may be Driving, Walking, or the complete Driving, Walking, or Public transport result selected by Shortest path. Limbo labels Public transport explicitly and explains that Google transit was evaluated leg by leg using a Google-derived Driving or Walking stop order. A Walking result also carries a warning because the suggested path may not include clear sidewalks or pedestrian paths. See Plans timeline and trip map for the complete Smart Route and Maps handoff flow.
The day strip and fit button appear while the sheets are lowered. If neither the destination nor any plan has map coordinates, Limbo shows the trip photo instead.
Note
With saved offline content, your saved itinerary remains available offline, but the Google basemap is not downloaded with it. If the map cannot connect, Limbo shows that the map is unavailable until you reconnect; use the Plans timeline for the trip details already saved on your phone.
The hub
The first sheet opens near the top of the screen. Its quick actions stay pinned along the top:
- Crew avatar: opens the crew list. A +N badge shows when more people are on the trip.
- Chat: opens the trip conversation and shows an unread badge when needed.
- Checklist hand: opens the trip's shared planning jobs in the Checklist workspace.
- + Add: opens the plan-type picker. Adding needs edit permission. organizer
Chat, Checklist, and Add are icon-only transparent glass circles.
Below those actions you may see the next flight, followed by the two-column set of live tiles. Every account is ad-free.
| Tile | What it previews |
|---|---|
| Plans | The next plans, or undated ideas marked Anytime |
| Preflight | Your personal readiness score, status, and tasks still to go |
| Expenses | Your share, the group's total, and the amount settled |
| Checklist | Open and completed planning jobs for the crew |
Preflight appears when a readiness score is available for the trip. When it is not available, the remaining live tiles simply reflow.
Tap a tile to open its full workspace. Tap ✕ or drag that workspace all the way down to return to the hub.
The workspaces
The workspace sheet has a horizontally scrolling row of pills. Inactive sections stay as compact icons; the selected section smoothly expands to show its name. The full section name remains available to screen readers in either state:
- Plans: a day-by-day timeline with plan-type filters. Eligible free accounts may see one compact Sponsored card at the top while this workspace is visibly expanded.
- Preflight: your personal preparation score and tasks, when available.
- Checklist: the trip's shared planning jobs, with the same add, claim, assign, and complete controls as the Checklist tile.
- Voting: open proposals and voting settings.
- Expenses: costed plans and the group total.
- Balances: who owes whom after confirmed expenses and settlements.
- Attachments : filter trip files by All, Photos, or Files, open them, and add a photo or document when you have edit access.
- Smart Route : reorganize one itinerary day and preview the measured route before applying it.
- Open in Maps : hand the currently saved day order to a supported maps app.
Smart Route, Open in Maps, and Attachments use the same top pill row as Plans, Preflight, and the other workspaces. Attachments sits immediately after Balances. Selecting one expands its icon into a named pill and opens its controls as a child of that workspace, so the shared pill row remains visible. All available tools are free. Services that are currently unavailable remain hidden.
You can drag the workspace between a small peek, a half-height view, and a nearly full-screen view. The title at the top changes with the active workspace; the + button appears in Plans.
Section colors
Trip sections have distinct colors on mobile and in your browser. The same section keeps its color across both: for example, Plans is lavender, Voting is orchid, Expenses is gold, and Attachments is tan. Use the icon and section name as well as its color to navigate.
Header and trip settings
The floating header contains Back, the trip name and dates, and a gear. The gear opens:
| Menu item | Who can use it | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Invite by link | Owner only | Shares the trip's join link and code; creating one needs a connection |
| Edit | Owner and crew with edit permission | Opens the trip form; other members get a permission message |
| Trip log | Anyone on the trip | Opens the trip's full history |
| Confirm trip | Owner only, until confirmed | Makes the trip official for free while online |
| Archive | Owner and crew with edit permission | Moves the trip and its plans to Archived Trips |
| Leave trip | Joined non-owner member | Removes this trip from your account after confirmation |
Permissions
member Everyone on the trip can browse the map and available workspaces, open plan details, view the crew, and use chat. Adding or changing plans and trip details needs edit permission. The invite link stays owner-only. owner
Discover places for your crew
Tap Find your crew’s next yes on the trip overview to browse place suggestions. Swipe left to skip or right to add a proposal for voting. The cards learn from the places your crew adds and offer more matching ideas. See Discover places for limits and connection requirements.
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Preflight
See your personal trip-readiness score, check off essential and recommended tasks, and restore anything you removed.
Plans timeline and trip map
Use the Plans timeline and trip map, build a day's Driving, Walking, or Shortest path order with Smart Route, or open the saved route in Apple Maps or Google Maps.
Expenses and balances
Read the Expenses total, shares, payments, statistics, and activity, then open Balances to see who owes whom.
Divvy up the work
Checklist is your trip's shared to-do list, add the big jobs, sort them into groups or start from a template, and watch every task move from up-for-grabs to done.
The voting dashboard
Find every ballot in the trip's Voting section, switch between Votes and owner-only Settings, or jump in from the Decisions inbox.