Michinori - Worth the Trip

Some places, you only get to go once. This is an app for those places.

■ A list worth keeping

Save the restaurants, the stays, and the sights you dream about — three shelves, and that's it. Each place holds its address (one tap opens the map) and any links you want close at hand: the website, the booking page.

■ Rank, don't rate

When you finally go, you don't give the place stars. You place it — above this one, below that one — in your own ranked list for that category, looking at the list as you decide. Five stars can't tell your two favorite restaurants apart. A ranking can. "What's the best meal you've ever had?" becomes a question you can answer on the spot.

■ Hand someone your number one

Your ranking for a category becomes a single image you can send. So does any one place — the photo, where it ranks, when you went, what you wrote at the time. When someone asks you for somewhere good, you show them instead of trying to remember.

■ How many did you actually reach

Saving is easy. Getting there is not. Each shelf shows how many of the places you wrote down you have actually been to. Eight out of nine is not the same as eight out of eleven, even though both are eight.

■ On the map, both kinds

Every place you have saved appears on a map, and you can switch between the ones you still want to go to and the ones you have been to. Open it somewhere new and you will find the place you wrote down once and forgot, sitting close by.

■ One list, two people

Share the list with one person — a spouse, a friend, the person you travel with. No account, no sign-up: an invitation goes to their Apple ID, and from then on you both add places, record visits, and argue about the ranking. That argument is half the fun.

■ What a visit becomes

A date, or a stay of several days. Up to ten photos. What it cost, in the currency you paid it in. What you thought. Not a post for an audience — a record for the two of you, and for you ten years from now.

■ Quietly yours

・No ads, no feed, no followers, nothing to like ・No account and no server of ours — everything lives in your iCloud ・Your first 20 places are free. One purchase, once, unlocks the rest for good