LumelaThe plan lives in five places
A screenshot in the chat, a note on someone's phone, a spreadsheet only one person opens, and two things that were only ever said out loud. Ask three people when you're leaving and you'll get three answers.
✋ For groups that actually go
Bring your people.
Bring your people.
Plan the trip together.
Festivals, road trips, weekend getaways. Lumela puts the plan, the money, the map and the people in one shared space — so nobody has to scroll back through 400 chat messages to find the meeting point.
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Group trips don't fall apart on the trip
They fall apart in the three weeks before it, in a chat where six people are answering three different questions at once.
Money becomes the awkward part
One person fronts the cabin, another buys all the groceries, someone pays for gas twice. Three weeks later nobody remembers the numbers, and asking feels rude — so it quietly gets dropped.
The moment you need it, there's no signal
Fifty thousand people on one cell tower, or a canyon road with one bar. That's exactly when you need the address, the ticket and the meeting point — and exactly when the chat won't load.
One app, five tabs
Everything the trip needs, in one shared space
Not a chat with extra buttons. Five focused screens that each solve one part of travelling as a group.
Wallet
Split expenses without the awkward conversation
Add what you paid the second you pay it. Lumela handles the arithmetic — including the messy kind, where four people split dinner but only two of them had the wine.
- Even, custom or per-person splits — and more than one payer per expense
- Multi-currency, with the exchange rate frozen at the moment you paid
- Clear pairwise balances: exactly who owes who, and how much
- Attach receipts, and split with guests who never installed the app
Reminders
One timeline everybody is actually looking at
Departure times, set times, check-in, the dinner reservation someone made in March. Day by day, in order, with reminders that reach everyone's phone instead of one person's memory.
- Shared events with per-person notification opt-in
- Each event keeps its own timezone — useful the moment you fly
- Undated 'T.B.A' items for the plans that aren't fixed yet
- Connect a known festival and its official schedule appears inside your group
Places
A map of your trip — and of your people
Save the campsite, the parking spot, the viewpoint someone swore was worth the detour. Then, when it matters, turn on live location so the group can find each other without ten phone calls.
- Saved places grouped by day, with one-tap navigation
- Opt-in live location, shared only inside the group
- See who is online right now, and when others were last seen
- Works on the road: CarPlay support for your saved places
Checklist
The packing list that doesn't get forgotten
Who's bringing the speaker, the cooler, the tent poles that were left behind last year. Shared lists everyone can tick off, with an approval step for the tasks that matter.
- Assign items to people, or leave them open for whoever gets there first
- Tags and drag-to-reorder, so the list matches how your group thinks
- Personal items stay private; shared items go to the whole group
- Tick things off offline — it syncs when signal comes back
Documents
Tickets and bookings that load with no signal
Entry tickets, the cabin confirmation, insurance, a photo of the passport page. Stored for the group and downloaded to the device in advance, so the gate doesn't become a problem.
- Automatically downloaded for offline access
- Folders and link collections, not one long dump
- Shared with the group — or kept to yourself
- Contacts too: the driver, the host, the emergency number
Up and running in about a minute
No onboarding marathon, no credit card, no 'invite your contacts' screen.
1 · Create the group
Name it after the trip. That group becomes the shared space for everything below — and you can be in several at once, because life has more than one trip in it.
2 · Share the link
One link in the chat. Tapping it joins the group directly; if someone doesn't have the app yet, the link takes them to install it and then straight into the group.
3 · Start adding things
An event, an expense, a place, a packing item. Everyone sees it instantly, in their own language, on iPhone, Android or the web.
Built for the way trips actually go
Some of these took months to get right. They are the reason the app holds up on day three of a festival.
Offline-first, not offline-tolerant
Your trip is cached on the device and edits queue locally. Add an expense in a dead zone, and it lands in the group the moment you have a bar again — with no duplicates.
Your group's data is your group's
No ads and no data sales. Location is opt-in and group-scoped. You can delete your account and its content from inside the app — no email thread required.
Hebrew, English and Spanish
Fully translated, right-to-left included — down to the widgets and push notifications. Everyone reads the same trip in the language they think in.
Lives outside the app too
Home-screen widgets for what's next, a Live Activity while an event is running, Apple Watch, CarPlay for saved places, and Siri shortcuts for adding things hands-free.
Guests, not just members
Someone joining for one night still belongs in the split. Add them as a guest — no account, no install, and the math still works out.
An assistant that stays in its lane
Ask what's on tomorrow or add three reminders in one sentence. The assistant only ever sees the group you're in, and can only create things — never quietly change them.
Made for the trips you're already taking
The needs change; the chaos is remarkably consistent.
Festivals
Twenty people, no signal, five stages and a camp nobody can find in the dark. Live location, offline tickets and the official line-up inside your group.
Road trips
Gas, tolls, a cabin split four ways and a route that changes twice a day. Keep the stops and the receipts in the same place as the plan.
Group travel
Flights, apartments, and eight people in three timezones trying to agree on dinner. Shared documents, per-event timezones and one honest balance sheet.
See it in the hand
Real screens from a real trip — not a mockup with lorem ipsum.
Guides from the road
Practical writing about planning, splitting and surviving trips with other people.
How to split trip expenses without anyone feeling cheated
A practical system for splitting trip expenses with friends: what to log, how to split unevenly, multiple payers, and why trust beats the maths.
Who owes who: settling up after a trip without a spreadsheet
Who owes who what after a trip: simplified debts vs pairwise balances, why the "optimal" answer feels wrong, and a four-minute script for settling up.
The festival packing list that actually works for a group
A festival packing list for groups, split into what each person brings and what the camp shares — plus the eight items every group forgets, every year.
Questions people ask first
Is Lumela free?
Yes. Creating groups, planning, splitting expenses, sharing location and everything else in the app is free — no ads, no trial timer. An optional Lumela+ subscription is planned for people who want bigger groups, more groups at once and a managed AI assistant.
Which devices does it run on?
iPhone via the App Store, Android via a direct APK download (Google Play is on the way), and any browser through the web app. Everyone in a group can be on a different platform — it is the same trip.
Do my friends need to create accounts?
Members who want to see and edit the trip do. But you can also add guests — people who are part of the trip and part of the expense splits without installing anything. Useful for the friend who joins for two days, or the one who never installs apps.
Does it work without signal?
Yes — this was a design requirement, not an afterthought. Lumela is offline-first: everything you already loaded stays readable, and anything you add offline is queued and synced the moment you have a connection again. Festivals and mountain roads were the test cases.
Is live location always on?
No. Location sharing is opt-in, per group, and you turn it on when it is useful and off when it is not. It is never shared outside the group and never sold anywhere. Most groups switch it on for a few hours at a festival and forget about it the rest of the year.
How is this different from a group chat and a spreadsheet?
A chat is a stream — the important message is always scrolling away. A spreadsheet is structured but nobody opens it on the road. Lumela keeps the structure of a spreadsheet with the immediacy of an app: the plan, the money and the map are always one tap away, on everyone's phone, in their language.
Still wondering something? Head to support.
Your next trip deserves better than a group chat
Free to use, works offline, and about a minute to set up. Bring your people.