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What's new in Payani, version by version.

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Version 2.3

Update November 4, 2026

Payani 2.3 puts your travel day on one card and leaves every event's start and end to you, with a live update while it's under way. It also adds App lock, My documents, Copy a trip, event costs, cruises, and how-to videos in Help.

Travel Day and Day trip

  • On a day you travel, Today brings the whole journey into one card: where you set off, your stops and where you arrive, the weather at each place, and a timeline of the day. Each journey shows its length, and an overnight journey shows which day you're on.
  • A trip there and back in a day gets the same card, with Arrive and Leave times and weather for each place.
  • "For the ongoing event" shows the documents and checklist items you need right now.
  • Prefer the old layout? Switch to the event view from the top of the section.

You start and finish every event

  • Nothing starts or ends by the clock now. As an event's time comes, Payani asks Start or Later, and when one you started reaches its end, Done or Extend, with a notification each time. Events you never started aren't asked about.
  • Later and Extend open the day so you can re-plan it: hold an event to move it and everything after it, drag its end to change its length, or swipe left to cancel one still to come. Anything that now overlaps turns red.
  • Stays, rentals and cruises get Mark as checked in, picked up or boarded, and Mark as checked out, dropped off or disembarked.
  • The event under way stays in view outside the app. On iPhone it's a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. On Android it's an ongoing notification, shown as a Live Update with a status bar chip on Android 16 where the phone supports it. Samsung phones show a plain icon instead of the chip.
  • On Android, allow alarms and reminders when Payani asks. Without that, Android can hold these notifications back by up to an hour.

Live maps

  • Live maps now starts on Automatic: tap Start on a journey and its map starts with it, and nothing is recorded until you do. Payani tells you once when you update. A mode you've chosen stays as it is, and Ask each time becomes Manual. You can change it any time in Settings > Live maps.
  • Start, stop and resume a journey's map right on the Travel Day card.
  • Tap a route on the event screen for a full-screen map you can pan and zoom, with its stops, stats and stretches, and route lines coloured by speed.
  • Auto rentals and cruises are mapped too, as one route over their days, with shorter journeys inside them added to the same map.
  • "Open in Maps" is now "Open map" everywhere.

App lock and My documents

  • App lock in Settings opens Payani with your phone's own Face ID, fingerprint or passcode, straight away or after 1, 5 or 15 minutes away. There's no Payani PIN to remember, and Payani stays covered in the app switcher.
  • My documents in My profile keeps your passport, licence and other papers ready for every trip. They stay out of your trips and search, the Trip assistant never reads them, and Import & export can include them.

Copy a trip and event costs

  • Swipe left on a trip in My trips to copy it to new dates, with the events, documents, checklists and notes you choose. Dates move to match, bookings go back to Not booked and tasks start fresh. Routes, costs and cancelled events aren't copied.
  • Add what an event cost, in its currency. The trip header adds up each currency, then the total in your home currency at today's rates. Cancelled events don't count, and costs are included in the events CSV.

Cruises

  • A new built-in Cruise event type, with boarding, on board and disembarking.
  • Ports of call are trip stops. The itinerary shows nights at sea and each port, and the cruise card says which port you're in or that you're at sea.
  • The Trip assistant can propose a cruise with its ports.

Trip assistant

  • With Automatic assistant on and an AI provider set up, a document you add to a trip or an event is read, including from Add the confirmation. The assistant proposes the event, or an update to the one you have, with the document attached. A confirmed booking goes in as Booked with its Book task done, and nothing changes until you review it.
  • A document can now belong to several events, such as a flight out and back.
  • Events the assistant adds now land on the map, with their place shown on the review card.
  • Location search can ask the assistant for things like "gelato near me" or "pharmacy near my hotel": up to five places, each linked to its page. Every match shows how far it is, nearest first.
  • Settings and setup offer a shortlist of supported models for each provider, and Test connection now runs during setup too. Token size is gone, as Payani handles it for you. Groq and Together AI are no longer offered, and if your provider or model has gone, Payani tells you once.

Calendar

  • In Day and 3-day views, hold an event to move it and everything after it, or hold still for a moment to move just that one. Drag its end to change its length, or swipe left to cancel, restore or delete. A pill shows the new time as you drag, and if an event can't move, Payani says why.
  • The clock choice now works from every day in view, your phone's time or a trip place's time, and only shows when something in view is on another clock.
  • Cancelled events show struck through in Day, 3-day and Month views, and remember the status they had before.

Help

  • A new Help button on Today opens short how-to videos and tips, with search across both. Tips have moved here from the bell.

Also new

  • A trip now ends on its last day once its last timed event is over, instead of waiting for midnight. With no events that day, it still waits for midnight.
  • Trip checks show ticks and crosses, and tapping a cross asks the assistant to fix it.
  • Every event shows its Status, with No booking needed among the choices, in place of the "Needs a booking" switch.
  • Exports now always include files, photos and routes, and an imported trip that overlaps another can move to the first free dates or keep its own.
  • With AI set up, event time zones can be searched by any town, station or airport.
  • Today and Calendar open once you have a trip.

Bug fixes and polish

  • Fixed freezes when adding a booking confirmation and when importing a trip, and pop-ups now open one at a time.
  • Editing a journey's start time no longer changes its end time zone, and journey ends are named from your trip's stops.
  • Imports now keep every route, Calendar names your location from where your phone is rather than its time zone's city, and dropped AI connections retry on their own.
  • On Android: fixed a crash on launch while a route was recording, a tap in Calendar no longer shows the zoom percentage or jumps the grid, and the app icon is rebuilt, so themed icons work on Android 13 and later and launchers no longer clip the logo.
  • Plus many smaller layout and reliability fixes.

Version 2.2

Update October 22, 2026

Payani 2.2 reworks the Trip assistant around building a trip step by step and looking over any day or a whole trip, gives every event a booking status, and makes the assistant quick to set up.

Trip assistant: build a trip step by step

  • New trips come together in the order a trip is planned: the trip and its dates, then travel there and back, travel between stops, one stay per stop, and finally each stop's days. Skip a step or stop whenever you like, and pick a half-built trip back up later with "Carry on".
  • For anything to pick — a flight, a hotel, a restaurant — the assistant offers three choices, proposes the one you pick, and doesn't offer it again.
  • It now adds, rewrites, and deletes notes and can delete documents, as well as events, checklists, and checklist items, with every change shown for you to review before anything is saved.
  • It leaves out anything already in your plans, avoids places you've already been, and ends every reply with next steps to tap, plus "I'm done" for a summary of what changed.

Trip assistant: look over a day or a whole trip

  • Analyse today, tomorrow, or any other day: see the day laid out, what the assistant noticed — free time, meals not yet planned, rain or heat on outdoor plans, events not yet booked — and picture cards of what it can help with.
  • Analyse my trip looks over a whole trip in order — travel there and back, travel between stops, a stay every night, bookings still to make, and free days — with a card to fill each gap.
  • Travel days are timed around the journey, leaving out the time it takes to get to and through the airport, port, or station, and a staycation needs no travel at the home end.
  • Known to work with Google Gemini 2.5 Flash, Anthropic Claude Haiku 5.5, OpenAI GPT-6 Luna, and xAI Grok 4.7, all tested through OpenRouter.

Easier AI setup

  • A new setup wizard connects your AI provider: sign in to OpenRouter and authorize Payani, or follow plain-language steps for any other provider, with its key page a tap away. Every key is tested before it's saved.

Booking status for events

  • Every event now has a status — Not booked, Booked, Completed, or Cancelled — and "No booking needed" sets aside one that doesn't, like a drive.
  • An event that needs booking gets a Book task on its checklist, kept in step with its status, and Booked events complete themselves as they end.
  • Status chips on Today's cards and in the calendar and trip lists. Past travel and stays are marked Completed and upcoming ones Not booked, with a one-time sheet to mark those you've already booked.
  • Events the assistant adds need a booking only when they really do, so an itinerary no longer brings a Book task for every bus and lunch.

Calendar

  • Overlapping events no longer cover each other: overlapping stays get a line each, and an event laid over another points to its real start.
  • In Day and 3-day view, all-day events and reminders fold into one line per day, with a "+N" to see them all.
  • Auto rentals are held like stays, from pick-up to drop-off, and event time zones can be searched by city or country for stopovers.

Today

  • A "You are in" chip shows where you are, from your phone or your trip; the date, weather, and exchange rate follow it, with that place's local time.
  • Overdue events show their date, start time, and length.

Also new

  • Event photos for places, Explore outings, and your own event types, found by place or name — or pick your own.
  • Allow overlapping trips in Settings > Trips: off by default, so a trip can't land on another trip's dates by accident.
  • Delete a trip, checklist, note, document, or folder wherever you open it.

Bug fixes and polish

  • Release notes now refresh reliably, edit screens start with the item's name, trip cards get a round edit button, and a document opened from an event opens over it, plus many smaller layout and reliability fixes.

Version 2.1

Update October 13, 2026

Payani 2.1 puts your trips on the map: record the route of each journey as it happens, pin every place you visit, plan a trip's stops on a new itinerary timeline, and open a Trip assistant that knows what you're looking at.

Live maps

  • Record the route of a journey as it happens — flights, land and sea travel, auto rentals, and the new Explore type for a walk or a day out — with stats like distance, duration, steps, speed, and stops. Off until you turn it on in Settings, and routes never leave your device.
  • Places — stays, restaurants, and sights — get a saved location: search for it by name or address, use where you are now, or tap the map to move the pin, then Open in Maps.
  • The "Other" event type is retired; existing Other events become Place events.

Trip itinerary

  • Edit trip has a new Itinerary: your stops on a timeline with their dates and nights, the travel between them, and where you're staying, with one-tap fixes for gaps, overlaps, and bookings that don't line up.
  • A Locations list, stops that can repeat (Tokyo, Osaka, Tokyo), and a cover photo you choose, zoom, and reposition.

Today

  • The weather tile opens a 24-hour forecast with today's high and low and PM2.5 (PSI in Singapore); the exchange rate opens a currency converter.
  • With nothing on today, swipe through your upcoming trips and see the tasks due before the next one.
  • Event cards show the trip's photo and let you extend, postpone, complete, or start an event early, with its contacts, tasks, and documents a tap away.

Trip assistant

  • The tab bar now stays on every screen, with the Trip assistant's wand in the middle.
  • The assistant knows which screen and day you opened it from, so "find me lunch" means that day, near where you'll be.
  • A new Automatic assistant setting offers to move a trip's events and due dates when its dates change, and reads newly added documents to suggest events.

Calendar

  • Follow your own location's time or a trip place's local time. Stays show as check-in, each night, and check-out, and journeys that cross time zones show when they depart and arrive.

Redesigned editing

  • New edit screens for trips, events, checklists, documents, and notes, quick-edit sheets throughout, and a "Discard changes?" check so nothing is lost by accident.
  • A redesigned Settings, and your own event types can have an emoji icon.

Also new

  • Search across all your trips, events, tasks, checklists, notes, and documents, and edit what you find in place.
  • Import & export: save trips as a ZIP of spreadsheets, notes, and documents, edit them, and bring them back — or start a new trip from a folder.
  • Event contacts you can call or message from Today, notes with formatting, documents you can rename, a Sea travel event type ("Transport" is now "Land travel"), one-level checklists, and a pure black dark mode.

Bug fixes and polish

  • Trips created by the assistant now show their country flags, the hourly weather starts at the right hour, and fields stay above the keyboard on every edit screen, plus many smaller layout and reliability fixes.

Version 2.0

Redesign October 2, 2026

Payani's first visual redesign: a new "Trailhead" look sampled from the app's own icon, four-tab navigation, and a trip assistant that now works across every trip at once.

A new look: Trailhead

  • A forest-green and compass-gold palette sampled from the app icon, new typefaces (Fraunces and DM Sans), and four tabs — Today, Calendar, Trips, Settings — replacing the old house-button navigation.

Today, rebuilt

  • Down to two sections: "Happening now," the one event in focus, and "Later today" for what's overdue and what's coming up.

Calendar, now a tab of its own

  • Cross-trip Day, 3-Day, Month, and List views in one place, with a trip filter and pinch-to-zoom.

Trips and trip assistant

  • Photo-first trip cards, multi-city trips with their own per-leg dates, and one trip assistant reachable from anywhere that works across every trip you have.

Also new

  • In-app notifications, custom event types and colors, folders for documents, checklists, and notes, and a trip assistant that reviews a shared document or a trip's shifted dates before anything changes.

Version 1.3

Update September 1, 2026

A currency converter joins the Today screen, the AI assistant now knows exactly what your chosen provider can do with documents, and a batch of Android fixes and UI polish rounds things out.

AI assistant

  • Settings' "Test connection" now also checks whether your AI provider and model can actually read images and PDFs, instead of assuming only Claude can.
  • The trip assistant can now read boarding passes, PDFs, and photos on more providers — including OpenRouter's vision-capable models — not just Claude.

Today screen

  • New currency converter under Quick tools, alongside weather — type an amount in either currency, with a smart default pair based on your active or upcoming trip.
  • The converter now remembers your last currencies and amounts when you switch to Weather and back, resetting only when you relaunch the app.
  • Section headers (Quick tools, My trips, Outstanding tasks, Calendar) are now fully tappable to expand or collapse, with clearer, more even spacing between them.
  • The trips strip now shows your upcoming trips by default, with past trips a scroll away, plus smoother snap-to-item scrolling throughout.

Bug fixes and polish

  • Fixed OpenRouter users being told document reading only works on Claude, even when their model actually supports it.
  • Fixed the AI assistant's Send button occasionally not responding to the first tap on some Android devices.
  • Fixed several Android-only assistant issues: the status and navigation bar peeking through the chat window, the keyboard covering the chat card as it grew, and long proposed titles getting cut off instead of wrapping.
  • Fixed Settings' Token size field not selecting all existing text when tapped.

Version 1.2

Update September 1, 2026

The trip assistant can now read what's actually in your documents, plus fixes for trip photos and weather reliability.

AI assistant

  • Ask the assistant to use a document's actual content — for example, "create an event from this boarding pass" — and it will read the file to fill in the details, only when you ask it to. See the privacy policy for what that sends to your AI provider.
  • Added a Feedback link in the About screen for reporting bugs or requesting improvements.

Bug fixes and polish

  • Fixed trip cover photos never showing up on the web version.
  • Fixed the Today screen's weather card silently showing nothing when your location couldn't be found — you'll now see a clear error instead.

Version 1.1

Update August 31, 2026

A more complete weather picture on the Today screen, pull-to-refresh, and general reliability improvements.

Weather

  • Sunrise and sunset markers now show right on the Today screen's hourly weather ribbon.
  • Fixed the current-conditions icon occasionally disagreeing with the "Now" hourly chip.

Today screen

  • Pull down to refresh weather, your trips, and today's agenda.
  • Reworked the Day/3-Day calendar controls for a cleaner look.

Bug fixes and polish

  • Fixed the keyboard not appearing when creating new checklist items on some Android devices.
  • Fixed Save/Cancel/Close buttons occasionally not responding on web.
  • General performance and dependency updates.

Version 1.0.0

Initial release August 24, 2026

Payani's first release: a private, on-device trip planner that keeps everything for a trip — the plan, the packing list, the tickets, the notes — in one place.

Today screen

  • A single glanceable landing screen for local weather, a horizontally-scrolling strip of your trips, and everything happening — or overdue — across every trip, ordered by date.

Calendar

  • Day, 3-day, month, and list views, with events color-coded by category and their icon and description shown right on the block.
  • Trip names on calendar entries link straight back to that trip.

Checklists

  • Packing lists and to-dos grouped by date, with optional due dates.
  • One consistent edit popup for checklist items everywhere in the app.

Documents & notes

  • Attach boarding passes, confirmations, and photos to a trip or a specific event, including straight from another app's share sheet.
  • A notes section for the details that don't fit anywhere else.

AI assistant (optional)

  • Bring your own API key from Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, Google Gemini, Mistral, Groq, Together AI, DeepSeek, xAI, or a self-hosted model.
  • Draft an itinerary, find real flights, hotels, and restaurants, or set checklist due dates from a plain-English request — including creating a trip and its events in a single request.

Private by design

  • No account, no server of ours in the loop. Every trip, checklist, and document lives only on your device.