The Packing Index

Rebuilt native for iOS. Scan your gear with the camera and it comes back weighed, score every trip 0 to 100, and read the whole app in six languages.

The Packing Index is a field manual for people who pack seriously: one-baggers, ultralighters, EDC nerds, and anyone tired of dragging a heavy suitcase.

It does not just list your gear. It weighs it, scores it, and tells you what to leave behind.

SCAN YOUR GEAR Lay your kit out flat and take one photo, with the camera or from your library. Every item comes back named, categorised and weighed. A review screen stands between the scan and your manifest: weights are estimates, anything uncertain arrives unticked, and nothing is added until you say so.

BUILD A LIST FROM WHAT YOU OWN Say where and when you are going and it drafts a list: the gear you actually pack, quantities set for the trip length, and what the weather at your destination calls for. Never packed anything yet? It starts you from a sensible baseline rather than a blank page. Every row explains why it is there, and nothing is added until you approve it.

THE PACKING INDEX SCORE Every trip gets a 0 to 100 ultralight score built from weight discipline, packing readiness and bag limit adherence. Track base against wearable weight, set a personal base weight goal, and see how each trip measures up.

WEATHER FOR YOUR ACTUAL DATES The forecast covers the days you are travelling, not the days you happen to be looking, and it is checked against what you have packed. A cold snap with no insulation, or rain with no shell, gets flagged before you leave. For a trip booked months out, where no forecast exists yet, it shows what those dates are typically like and tells you that is what you are reading.

FABRIC AWARE ROTATION The app knows merino can be worn for days and cotton cannot, and works out how many of each garment your trip actually needs.

LOADOUT BLUEPRINTS Build reusable modules, a tech pouch, a camera cube, a toiletry kit, and see which one is carrying the most weight.

AN OPERATOR PASSPORT Your account is a passport: field record stats, standing orders, and twelve collectible commendations from Maiden Voyage to Featherweight. Earn the Featherweight commendation and unlock an app icon you cannot pick any other way.

TWO LOOKS Field Manual and Aurora, switchable at any time.

IN YOUR LANGUAGE English, Spanish, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese, with a language picker in Account. Every screen honours Dynamic Type, so it stays readable at the text size you actually use.

PLUS • Pack by day: assign items to the days you need them • Select several items at once to pack, move or delete • Print, save as PDF, or share a read only page anyone can open • Compare two templates side by side • Quick add the things you pack on nearly every trip • Mark what you never used when you get home, so the next trip is lighter • Weigh an item once and it fills itself in everywhere, scan drafts included • Bags with weight limits, live gauges, and their own empty weight • Templates with total weights, and save any trip as a template • A library of every item and bag you have packed • Export a trip as a spreadsheet or as Markdown • Trip reminders, cover photos, real destination photography • Finished trips archive themselves and stay in your stats • Import a kit from Carry Index by link, bags included • Nine app icons, eight pickable and one earned • Syncs with your account at packingindex.com

Pack lighter. Prove it.