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Creating a packing list

The home page offers two starting points:

  • "Generate packing list" – the 8-step wizard (see below), which assembles a complete list from your input automatically.
  • "Create blank packing list" – starts a completely empty list right away, which you fill in yourself from scratch (see Blank packing list).

With the wizard

Via "Generate packing list" an 8-step wizard guides you. At the end the list is assembled automatically and gets a name composed from your destination and travel period (e.g. "Packing list Italy, Tuscany, July 2026").

The 8 steps

1. Who are you packing for?

Add one or more people. For each person you choose:

  • Gender: female · gender-neutral · male
  • Age group: 0 years · 1–3 · 4–12 · 13–18 · 18+

A newly added person defaults to "male, 18+". You can add at least 1 and at most 9 people; the first/only person can't be removed.

2. Where are you going?

  • Country and region/place are both optional and independent of each other. You can pick only a country, enter only a region, combine both, or leave the destination out entirely.
  • Countries: pick one or more countries from a list of the most common destinations plus all other countries (A–Z). Search finds a country by its German name, its English name or the ISO code.
  • Region/place as free text (e.g. "Tuscany", "Andalusia", "Bavaria") – even without a selected country. A region without a country appears the same way in the list name and the list info.
  • What landscape & surroundings does your destination offer? (multiple choice): sea · lake or river · mountains · city.

Automatic effect: As soon as a country outside Germany is selected, the app switches to international travel (e.g. travel adapter, travel documents). For the destinations sea or lake, beach items are added (e.g. swimwear, sun protection).

3. When are you travelling?

Two options:

  • Fixed date: pick the start and end of your trip in the calendar. Below the calendar the chosen trip length is shown in days.
  • Flexible: pick a level from 1 day to longer than 1 month (weekend, short trip, 1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, 1 month, longer).

The default is 1 week if no date has been chosen yet.

4. How are you travelling?

Exactly one means of transport: own car · caravan/motorhome · car passenger · motorcycle · plane · bus/train (public transport) · bicycle · on foot.

Automatic effect: If you pick plane, public transport, motorcycle, bicycle or on foot, the app switches to "pack light". That reduces clothing quantities on longer trips. With car, caravan/motorhome or car passenger, the normal quantities stay.

5. What kind of holiday are you taking?

Exactly one accommodation: hotel/B&B · hostel · holiday apartment · holiday house · backpacking · motorhome/caravan · tent · cruise/boat trip.

6. What weather do you expect?

Multiple choice:

  • Temperatures: freezing · cold · cool · warm · hot
  • Conditions: sunny · rainy

7. What sports are you doing?

Multiple choice, grouped by theme:

  • Hiking & mountain sports: hiking · trekking (multi-day) · mountaineering · via ferrata · trail running · climbing · bouldering
  • Cycling: cycling · road cycling · mountain biking · gravel biking · bikepacking
  • Water sports: swimming · snorkelling · surfing · windsurfing · wing foiling · kitesurfing · stand-up paddling · diving · canoe/kayak · sailing
  • Winter sports: skiing · snowboarding · cross-country skiing
  • Ball & racket: tennis · padel · squash · badminton · table tennis · football · basketball · beach volleyball · golf · boules · frisbee
  • Fitness & running: running · fitness · strength training · yoga
  • Others: horse riding · inline skating · skateboarding

8. What else would you like to bring?

Multiple choice in several groups:

  • General: glasses · contact lenses · books · board games · wellness · formal clothes · kids' scooter
  • Tech: smartphone · camera (photo/video) · action cam · drone · laptop · tablet · e-book reader
  • Health: travel first-aid kit · malaria medication
  • Activities: festival · safari/wildlife watching
  • Pet: pet on the trip (food, leash, papers …)
  • International travel: international trip (passport, visa, adapter …) – this opt-in unlocks the international-travel items even if you didn't pick a country outside Germany in step 2.

With "Create packing list" the list is generated. On the finished list you also find matching travel notes – travel medicine notes and, if you're travelling by car, car travel notes.

How your choices shape the list

  • Quantities increase with the trip length (e.g. more T-shirts on longer trips).
  • "Pack light" reduces clothing quantities.
  • With several people, a shared section ("General") and one section per person are created. For a single person there is one combined section.
  • Items are selected to match gender, age and the chosen weather (e.g. child-specific items only appear for children).

The travel medicine and car-related notes shown on the finished list are described in their own chapter, see travel notes.

Blank packing list

Via "Create blank packing list" on the home page you open a new, entirely empty list right away – without the wizard. It starts directly in edit mode so you can get going immediately: with "Add section" you create sections, and within them items and, if needed, subsections (see Editing a list).

  • The list initially carries the neutral name "New packing list", which you can change any time. Destination and period are empty; you can add them any time via the pencil icon on the info block.
  • As long as the list is empty you can leave the page without a prompt. Once you have added something, the still unsaved list asks before you leave – to save it permanently see Saving, sharing & printing.

Templates as an alternative

Besides the wizard there are ready-made curated template packing lists that open via a direct link and can then be edited like any other list.

Good to know

  • The list name is composed automatically from your input when creating it (country, region, date or trip length). You can edit it any time in the list itself – from that point your input stays.
  • Destination and period are shown (each with a small icon) additionally above the description in the list – the destination with all chosen countries (incl. region in parentheses; a region without a country appears on its own) and the period, for fixed dates, as concrete days (e.g. "1–7 July 2026") or as a flexible level. Lists you saved before this change don't show the block – they simply don't have the fields yet.
  • Description, destination and travel period can be adjusted any time via the pencil icon on the info block. If a list has none of these details yet (e.g. an old saved list), a "+ Add list info" button appears in the same place. The item selection of the list stays untouched by such a change – if you want a substantially different list, it's best to create a new one.
  • You deliberately close the edit sidebar for the list info only via "Save" or "Cancel" – a click outside, the Escape key or a swipe gesture do not close it, so your input isn't lost by accident.
  • A freshly created, still unsaved list asks when you leave the page whether you really want to leave – so nothing gets lost. The dialog offers three options: "Save" (opens the save dialog directly), "Stay on the list" and "Yes, discard list". To save it permanently see Saving, sharing & printing.