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Trunkly builds a packing list and a to-do list for your trip, based on where you're going, when, who's coming, and what you plan to do.

You tell it your stops, dates, travelers, activities and bags. It works out what to bring (clothes for the weather, items for kids and pets, passport and visa items for international trips, and more) and what to do before you leave. Then it's your list: check things off, change quantities, add your own items, share it, or print it.

No. Choose Start packing, fill in your trip, and tap Generate my lists. You'll get your lists right away without signing up.

Until you save, your trip only lives in the browser you built it in. If you clear your browser data or switch to another browser or device before saving, you won't be able to get it back. To keep it, use Save your trip (see "How do I save my trip?").

Tap Save your trip at the top of the page, or Save your trip & profile in the banner on your trip. Add an email and a password, and the trip you've already built stays exactly where it is, now attached to your account.

If that email already has a Trunkly account, you'll be asked to log in instead. When you do, your trip moves into that account.

1. Choose Start packing (or + New trip from your trips page).
2. Itinerary: enter a destination, how you're getting there, and your arrive and depart dates. Use + Add another stop for a multi-stop trip. Each stop has its own destination, transport and dates, and the stops need to be in order.
3. Travelers: add each adult and child. Names are optional, and kids' ages help Packlet suggest the right things (diapers, car seats and so on). You don’t need an adult, but you do need at least one traveler.
4. Activities: tick anything you plan to do, like hiking, snow sports or formal dining.
5. Pets and bags: say how many pets are coming, and which bags you're taking, or turn bag tracking off.
6. Laundry: say whether you’ll do laundry (see “How do I plan laundry on my trip?”).
7. Tap Generate my lists.

Trip dates can't start in the past.

When you sign up, Trunkly may send you a confirmation link to make sure the address is really yours. Open the link and your account is active.

It can take a minute to arrive. If it doesn't show up, check your spam or junk folder, and add no-reply@trunkly.co to your address book so our emails reach your inbox. You can also use Resend confirmation email on the "Check your email" page (you can ask again after a minute).

If you try to log in before confirming, Trunkly will remind you and offer to send a new link.

You can log in without a password. On the Log in or Sign up page, type your email address and choose Email me a login link (or Skip the password — email me a link when signing up). You'll get an email with a link and a code.

• Open the link in the same browser where you asked for it, or
• type the code into Code from the email and choose Log in with code. The code works on any device.

If you're new, this also creates your account, and clicking the link confirms your address. Each link and code works once and expires after a while; if yours has, ask for a new one with Resend login link.

A passkey is a way to log in with your fingerprint, face or device PIN, instead of a password or an emailed link. Your device, or your password manager, keeps it safe, and it only works for Trunkly.

You add one from your Account page, and after that you can choose Log in with a passkey on the login page. Your email and password keep working too.

If you don't see the passkey options, your browser or device may not support them.

Log in, open Account, and choose Add a passkey in the Passkeys section. Your device will ask you to confirm with your fingerprint, face or PIN.

Add one on each device you use, unless your password manager syncs passkeys between them. In the same section you can Rename a passkey to tell them apart, or Remove one you no longer use.

You need an account with an email address to add a passkey. If you've only been trying Trunkly, save your trip with an email first.

On the login page, choose Log in with a passkey, then pick your passkey and confirm with your fingerprint, face or PIN. You don't need to type your email first.

If you built a trip before logging in, it moves into your account, as it does with any other way of logging in.

You can still log in with your email and password, or with an emailed login link. Once you're in, open Account and use Remove on the passkey for the lost device, then add a new one on your new device.

That's why it's worth keeping your email and password even when you use a passkey.

On the Log in page, choose Forgot password?, enter your email, and choose Send reset link. For your privacy, Trunkly gives the same answer whether or not an account exists for that address.

The reset link expires after 1 hour and can only be used once. Open it in the same browser where you asked for it, then choose a new password. Your trips and packing lists aren't affected, since this only changes how you sign in.

Prefer to skip passwords? You can also log in with an emailed link and code (see "What is the login link and code?").

Open Account from the top of the page. Enter your current password, then your new one twice, and choose Change password.

Your new password needs at least 8 characters, with an uppercase letter, a number and a symbol. When it's changed, you stay signed in on this device and are signed out everywhere else.

When you log in to an existing account, the trip you built while trying Trunkly moves into that account, along with any share links you made for it.

If the move ever doesn't work, you'll still be signed in and you'll see a message saying so. If you save your trip by signing up instead, the trip never has to move at all, because it just becomes yours.

Trunkly follows a set of packing rules. It looks at your destinations and dates (including the weather), how you're travelling, your activities, each traveler's age, pets, and your bags. It doesn't use AI to guess.

For example, cold weather adds warm layers, a cruise adds formal-night and motion-sickness items, kids add things by age, a carry-on-only trip adds liquids reminders, and international trips add passport and visa items and to-dos.

Clothing quantities are capped at 8 outfits, on the assumption that you'll do laundry once on longer trips.

If you tell Trunkly when you’ll do laundry, it works out clothing quantities from that instead (see “How do I plan laundry on my trip?”).

In the trip form, under Laundry, choose No laundry, Once, mid-trip or Every few days (then set Wash every (days)). You can change it later with Edit trip details.

Trunkly then packs clothes to last between washes instead of for the whole trip. Underwear and socks get a spare, tops and bottoms are worn more than once, and shoes, jackets and swimsuits stay the same. It also adds a few laundry items, tagged laundry: detergent pods, a laundry bag, coins or a card for the machines, and a stain remover stick.

• A trip short enough that nothing needs washing is left as it was, and so is a wash interval longer than the trip.
• With No laundry, the laundry items are removed again.
• A quantity you changed yourself is never overwritten when you change the laundry plan. Quantities you haven't touched are recalculated.

It depends on how far away your trip is. The weather box on your trip tells you which kind of information you're looking at:

• Weather forecast: a real forecast, used when the trip is within about 16 days.
• Average weather: further out, Trunkly uses the average for the same dates over the last 5 years.
• Typical weather: if Trunkly couldn't get weather data for a place, it makes a seasonal guess and says so.

Each stop is sorted into one of four zones: Snow & ski country, Cold, Warm & tropical or Mild & variable. The weather is checked when you create or save a trip, and isn't updated after that, so check the real forecast before you go. There's a to-do reminding you.

Above your packing list, choose Person, Category or Bag under "Group by". Trunkly remembers your choice for each trip.

• Person: one section per traveler, plus a Shared section for things that belong to the whole group.
• Category: one row per item with the total quantity. Tap the arrow to see each person's own row.
• Bag: one section per bag, plus Unassigned. This view appears when bag tracking is on.

On a phone, swipe a section header to the left to reveal Mark all packed and Unmark all.

• Check things off as you pack. Each traveler has their own copy of an item, so everyone can check theirs.
• Edit names and quantities: choose Edit list, change the fields, then Done.
• Add an item: choose + Add an item for this person (or + Add a shared item), type a name and quantity, and choose Add.
• Reorder items: while Edit list is on, drag an item by the dots at the left of its row to move it up or down within its category. This works in the Person and Category views. On a keyboard, tab to the dots, press space, use the up and down arrow keys, then press space again to drop it.
• Delete an item: while Edit list is on, each item has a trashcan on its row. Deleting it removes it from this trip only, and your other trips are not affected. It stays deleted even if you later change the trip's dates or stops.

Items you add yourself are never removed when you change your trip's details.

When you create a trip you can turn on Tracking bags and say how many Checked bags, Carry-ons and Personal items you're taking. If you turn tracking off, Trunkly leaves bags out of the trip entirely.

• Put an item in a bag using the dropdown on its row. Choose "No bag" to take it out again.
• See what's in each bag with the Bag view.
• Rename a bag: choose Edit list, then use the Bag names panel. A renamed bag keeps its type, and clearing the name goes back to the default.
• Carry-on limits: if a bag is a carry-on or personal item, liquids get a reminder about the 3.4 oz / 100 ml limit.
• Battery warning: if you put something that looks like it has a lithium battery in a checked bag, Trunkly shows a warning under it. Spare batteries, power banks and vapes aren't allowed in checked luggage, and phones, laptops, tablets and cameras are safest in your carry-on. Trunkly goes by the item's name, so it can't catch everything. Check your airline's rules for anything unusual.

Open the trip and choose Edit trip details, change what you need, and choose Save changes.

Changing dates, destinations or bag counts rebuilds your lists. Anything you’ve already checked off or put in a bag stays as it was wherever it still applies, and items you added yourself are kept. A quantity you changed yourself is kept too; quantities you haven’t touched are recalculated for the new dates or laundry plan.

Anything you've deleted from the trip stays deleted. You can edit a trip until its first day. After it starts, the details are locked, although you can keep using the lists.

Choose the ✕ next to their name on your trip. This takes effect straight away; you don't need to save.

If they had items, Trunkly asks what to do with them: give them to another traveler, move them to Shared, or delete them. Nothing is thrown away without you choosing it. You can remove every adult, for example for a child going to camp alone, but a trip always needs at least one traveler, so the last person can’t be removed.

It's your trip to-do list: things like renewing a passport, checking in for a flight, refilling prescriptions or arranging pet care. Trunkly picks them based on your trip and gives each one a deadline counted back from your departure.

The soonest deadlines come first, and anything due within 48 hours or overdue is flagged. Choose Edit to reorder, edit, add or delete to-dos.

When you check a to-do off, it slides to the bottom of the list and shrinks to a single line. Uncheck it to bring it back.

Yes. Choose Duplicate, on your trips page or on the trip itself. Packlet copies the destinations, travelers, activities and bags, moves the dates to start today with the same number of nights, and leaves out confirmation and flight numbers. Change what's different, then generate fresh lists.

Archiving tucks a trip away without losing it. Archived trips are hidden under Archived trips on your trips page, and you can choose Unarchive to bring one back.

Deleting is only offered for archived trips. A deleted trip disappears from your account, and you can't bring it back yourself, so archive it if you might want it again.

1. Open your trip and choose Share.
2. Pick the traveler the list is for under "Who's this list for?". A link is for one person's list, so make a separate link for each person.
3. Tick Include Before You Go if you want the to-do list too.
4. Choose Generate link, then copy it, email it, or text it.

Anyone with the link can view and print that person's list. They don't need an account, and they can't check things off or change anything. They see the trip name and dates, the list by category with quantities, and the sharer's name as "Trip owner". Your email address is never shown.

A shared link shows the list as it was when you made it. It doesn't update by itself.

Find your links in the Shared links section of your trip:

• Copy copies the link again.
• Refresh updates what the link shows to match your trip now, at the same address.
• Revoke switches the link off for good. Anyone who opens it sees that it isn't available. To share again, make a new link.

Removing a traveler from a trip also deletes their link.

Choose Print on your trip, tick the travelers you want (and Before You Go if you like), and choose Print. This opens your browser's own print window. To get a PDF, choose "Save as PDF" as the destination there.

Trunkly lays the lists out on a US Letter page, shrinking the text if needed to fit, and prints each item with a checkbox and its quantity. Items someone else is carrying show who. Bag names and notes aren't printed.

After your trip ends, you'll see How did your packing go? on it. Choose Review this trip and tick anything you packed but never used, and add anything you needed that wasn't on the list. It saves as you go; choose Done when you're finished, even if nothing applies.

Trunkly uses your reviews to suggest things on your next trips, in a "From your past trips" box on upcoming trips. These are suggestions only. Trunkly never changes a list on its own, and you add a suggestion with + Add to list.

Trunkly runs in your web browser on a phone, tablet or computer. There's nothing to install.

It needs an internet connection. If your connection drops, changes might not save, and Trunkly will show the last saved version of your list. Print or share your list before you head somewhere with no signal.

They’re short explanations of the part of the screen next to them: on the new-trip form (itinerary, confirmation and flight numbers, travelers, bags, activities, pets, laundry) and on your trip page (travelers, the Person, Category and Bag buttons, and “Before you go”).

Tap or click an i to read it, and tap anywhere else, scroll, or press Escape to close it. On a computer you can also rest the pointer on it, or tab to it with the keyboard.

Yes. Destinations outside the US get passport, visa, vaccination, insurance, phone and currency items and to-dos.

Start typing a destination and pick it from the suggestions. If your destination isn't suggested, you can still type it in, but Trunkly may not recognize it as international, so double-check passport and visa requirements yourself.

The Check vaccination requirements & recommendations to-do is a reminder to look up your destination at least 4 to 6 weeks before you travel, because some vaccines need time to work. Its link opens the CDC’s destination list in a new window. Trunkly doesn’t know which vaccines you need, so check with the CDC or your doctor.

Your trips belong to your account, and other people can't open them in the app. The only way someone else sees a list is a share link that you create, which shows one traveler's list as "Trip owner" and never your email address. You can revoke a link at any time.