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Preparing for your trip will be quick and easy with this app
When the application is presented on the portals CNN, Forbes, The Washington Post and Lifehacker, we can reasonably ask what is so special about this application.
Although the app in question is one of the older ones, it performs one basic task, namely helping us pack things for trips. There are probably many people who still rely on classic “list” apps to make lists, or even print out some pre-made things from Pinterest.
Well, with the app PackPoint That's it. With a few simple answers to questions about your upcoming vacation, PackPoint checks the weather forecast, searches its database, and suggests a list of things you should bring with you.
Most similar apps use various marketing tricks to first lure users in and then to keep them. These tricks include rewards, in-app purchases, social moments, and whatnot. It's absolutely true that these apps are useful too, but it seems that once we get an app that doesn't have any of that, we breathe a little easier.
Application properties
It can happen that after using the PackPoint application for a while, we wonder if this is all that this application can do. Despite the fact that this seems like a negative thought, we can quickly come to the conclusion that this is the advantage of this application, which means that it does one thing and one thing only.
What PackPoint lacks in complexity, it makes up for in execution itself. The user prompts are very minimalistic, the settings are easy to adjust, and scrolling through the lists is just as quick and easy. Let's look at an example of use on a trip to Malaga, Spain.
As mentioned, the PackPoint application first checks the weather forecast and asks whether it is a business trip or a leisure trip. We can also mark both. Using the PackPoint app is especially suitable for places we don't know or are visiting for the first time. When we enter the place we are traveling to, PackPoint has a very rich database, which means that we should have no problem determining the exact location.
The potential improvements of the application could be first of all when entering the date of the trip, perhaps the calendar would improve the user experience, and then also the color scheme, which is rather dry. If the developers used clearer separators with colors, it would also be quickly clear to the users what needs to be completed and what the priorities are.
Then comes the selection of activities “Select Activities”. The screen shows us a list of the most common activities, from which we can choose anything. For example, work, camping, beach, photography and more. If we decide on a premium subscription, we can also add our own, even more specific activities. The price of a premium subscription is calculated at 3.68 euros.
When we select “Begin Packing”, the real work begins. The list of suggested items is divided into categories, which increases transparency. When we put a certain item in the suitcase, we can simply check it off the list. For certain items, numbers also appear if we need a larger number of the same item. Definitely a helpful feature.
The truth is that PackPoint is good, but it’s not perfect. If you find something missing from your list, you can add as many items as you want to the list. One such item is your passport, which for some reason PackPoint doesn’t add to the “must have” list.
