MaiCation keeps a trip's ideas, bookings, budget and passports together, from the first "what if we did Paris first?" to the morning you leave for the airport. It runs in the browser on a phone, an iPad or a laptop, and everyone in the family signs in to the same trip.
Most trip planners want a finished itinerary on day one. A family doesn't have one. It has school holidays, a points balance, three hotel tabs open and a confirmation email somewhere. MaiCation starts there.
A flight, a hotel, a note and a task are all the same kind of thing. They start as ideas, get shortlisted, held, then booked. Booking one option puts the others away.
Connect a mailbox and confirmations are found and offered for review, including the ones your partner forwarded. Nothing goes on the itinerary until you say so.
Ask it about the trip, hand it a booking PDF or a fare screenshot. It proposes a change and you apply or reject it. It can't spend your money.
At 6pm, tomorrow's bookings with their references, where tonight's bed is, the forecast, and when to leave for the first thing.
A fare or a room rate is a snapshot with a date on it. Nothing is shown as live availability, because "A$2,950 seen 20 July" and "A$2,950" are different facts.
Passports, visas, insurance and emergency contacts, encrypted, behind a second passphrase. It locks itself after ten minutes.
A share link or an exported page has no booking references, loyalty numbers or passport details. The grandparents get the itinerary and nothing else.
Pages you've opened are kept on the phone and shown when roaming is off, with a note saying so. The budget keeps working too.
Example day page — not live data
One screen per day. What's booked, in local time, with the reference the desk will ask for. Underneath, the memo that goes out the evening before: where you'll be, what's checking in, what still needs paying.
Passport and document numbers never appear in the memo. They stay in the vault behind its own passphrase.
Add the site to the phone's home screen and it behaves like an app. The same account works on the iPad on the couch and the laptop at 10pm.
MaiCation is made by Mai Software, an independent studio in Australia. We also make Maicasa, MaiCellar, ProBono and MaiCaddy for iPhone. The people who write the code answer the support mail, so if something is confusing or broken, write to support@maisoftware.app and we'll fix it.
The assistant runs on Claude, made by Anthropic. It sees the trip you're asking about and the document you hand it, nothing else, and it treats what's inside a document or a web page as information rather than instructions.
Most families won't pay anything. Every account gets the email reader, the vault, the board, the budget and 30 assistant questions every six months, after 14 days with no limits. A pass adds a trip's worth of questions, once. Nothing renews.
| Free | A$0 | Everything except the assistant, plus 30 questions every six months. |
|---|---|---|
| Your own Claude or ChatGPT | A$0 | Connect the subscription you already pay for. Same trip, no limit from us. |
| Trip Pass | A$19 once | 100 more questions over six months. Passport reading into the vault. |
| Trip Pass Plus | A$49 once | The same, with the assistant on Anthropic's deepest model. |
Book a stay through one of the app's Booking.com or Expedia links and we refund the pass when the commission reaches us, which is six to eight weeks after the stay. Those links carry a referral tag and say so. The price you pay is the same either way. Prices in Australian dollars, GST included; payment by Stripe. Full pricing · Privacy
No. The assistant can set up a search with your dates and party and hand you the live site, but it can't make a booking or spend money. Every price it shows is a snapshot with its date, not a hold.
It lists sender, subject and date, reads a body only when the message already looks like travel, and keeps only travel emails. Everything else leaves an anonymous fingerprint so it isn't looked at twice. Every decision is listed and you can override any of them.
Yes, through a share link or an exported page. Both are built from a view with no booking references, loyalty numbers, full names or contact details. People on the trip can be invited to edit it.
Everything stays and stays editable. The email reader keeps working and the assistant goes back to the free 30 questions. Nothing is deleted and nothing renews.
Yes. In ChatGPT, add the MaiCation GPT and sign in from the chat. In Claude, add the connector from Set up. Your own assistant can read the trip, search stays and flights and propose changes for you to approve. Nothing runs on our side, so there's no charge from us.