Say it once. The route works out the rest.

Navido is a route planner that takes kinds of places as stops. You type the stops, or pick the kind of place you need, set when you leave or when you must arrive, and it finds what is open, picks the one on your way, puts everything in the best order, and gives a time and a distance at every stop, with a Google Maps link to drive or walk it.

They drive. Navido plans. A maps app takes places you have already chosen, in the order you put them in, and counts only the time on the road. Navido takes a kind of place as a stop and chooses which one, puts the whole day in the best order, and counts the minutes you spend inside each stop. So there is no mental arithmetic and no guesswork about when you reach each stop, or when to set off to be at the last one on time. It is not a navigation app: it hands the finished day to Google Maps to drive, or one stop at a time to Waze.

They plan the attractions and leave the rest of the day to you. A day out is also lunch, a pharmacy, a cash machine, a coffee before the museum, and a travel app makes you look those up on the way, one search at a time, between one attraction and the next. Navido takes the kind of place as a stop: type cafe or pharmacy and it picks one that is open and on your way, and gives it a time like every other stop. That is what makes the itinerary complete, instead of a list of attractions with gaps between them.

A stop you give as a kind of place instead of an address: gas station, electric vehicle charging station, pharmacy, cash machine. The list holds 161 kinds in eight groups, and you can type any other kind you need. Navido searches around the stops it could sit between, and picks the one that adds the least time to your day.

Because the closest is often not the cheapest to visit. A place a little to the side of a long leg can cost you under a minute, while a nearer one behind you costs ten. Navido compares the options by the time each one adds to the whole day, and writes that number on every one of them.

The minutes that stop adds to your day, not the distance to it. Before you press “Plan route” it is an estimate off the map. After the route runs, it is measured on the road and the estimate is replaced. A stop that costs you nothing extra reads +0 min.

One control decides it, under Advanced: how far out of your way, in minutes. It starts at 15. On a long drive it caps the real detour. On a short hop, or a plan with a single stop, it becomes how far from you it looks at all.

No. Navido solves the order of the whole day, and judges each candidate by what the finished day costs with that place in it. The same stops give the same route however you type them. An unticked stop is the one exception, and that is what unticking is for.

Flexible means the order of that stop is flexible: Navido puts it wherever the whole route is quickest. Every stop starts flexible. Untick a stop that has a time of its own, like an appointment, and it keeps the place you gave it.

The day starts at the first stop you untick, and that row is marked Start. Two presses set it: the flag on an address row makes that row the start and moves it to the top, and Use my location does the same with where you are standing. Navido never chooses a start for you.

The minutes you will spend at a stop. It is added to the arrival time of every stop after it, so a 20 minute errand moves the rest of the day 20 minutes later. On a phone you set it with a wheel, like a timer.

A flexible stop goes wherever the route is quickest, so its place in your list makes no difference. An unticked stop keeps the place you give it, and dragging is how you give it. Drag a stop by the ⠿ handle at the end of its row, on a computer or on a phone. A copy rides under your finger and a dashed slot shows where it will land.

For the place it picked, Navido reads the opening hours for the moment you would walk in, and writes what it found on the route: closes at 18:00, ten minutes after you arrive, or not open yet when you arrive. The hours are read on the clock at the place, so a day in Rome planned from home comes out right. Where Google publishes no hours, the route says nothing rather than guessing.

Yes, once per kind of stop. Name the brands it may be and the brands it may never be, and say whether the allowed list is a preference or the only thing it may choose. A blocked brand is never chosen, never offered and never on the map, even when it is the only one nearby. If nothing you allow is near your way, you decide per kind of stop whether it leaves the stop out or uses another brand. Set it on the stop itself, or under Advanced, where a kind of place can be added with nothing in the plan at all, and it holds for every route after that. One route can be excepted without changing the rule you saved.

Yes, per kind of stop, in the same rule. Least added time is the default. You can switch a kind to the best rating, or to the cheapest where Google lists prices, and set a minimum rating for that kind alone. Navido picks a place at or above the minimum. The nearest ones below it are offered too, and you can pick one yourself.

No. There is no sign-up. Your stops, candidates and routes stay in your own browser, and the free plan is counted per browser.

Free for 3 routes a month, up to 8 stops. Plus is $9 a month or $69 a year for 15 routes a month and 25 stops. Pro is $19 a month for 100 routes and up to 99 stops. Every plan runs on Navido’s own Google Maps account, so there is nothing to set up and no second bill. Two things stretch those numbers: re-planning a day you have already run does not spend another route, and connecting your own Google Maps key raises the monthly route allowance to 10 on Free, 50 on Plus and no limit on Pro.

Yes. Switch to walking, pick attractions by city, and it orders them with walking times and the minutes you spend inside each one. Save each day, so Tuesday is still there while you build Wednesday, and one button turns a finished day into a message you can send.

One stop at a time. Waze takes a single destination and no in-between stops, so the Next stop in Waze button under the route starts navigation to the first stop, and every stop in the finished route has its own Waze icon; when you arrive, press the next one. Google Maps takes the whole day, in order, from the Open in Google Maps button.

Yes. Under Advanced, in Roads the route may use, untick toll roads, highways or ferries and the route keeps off them wherever there is another way. All three are allowed until you untick them. Waze and Google Maps do not receive these settings: to drive the same route there, set the same in their own settings.

Yes, and there is nothing to install from a store. Open navido.app/app on the phone and add it to the home screen from your browser’s share menu. It then opens full screen with its own icon. On an iPhone the first visit shows you which button to press.

Navido speaks English, Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, German and French, and addresses come back in the language you are reading. The country chooser at the top of the app tells the search where to look, so a day in Lisbon works like a day at home.

Yes. Open Your plan in the app and paste a key from your Google Cloud account. Routes then run on your account instead of Navido’s, and your monthly allowance rises: 10 routes on Free, 50 on Plus, no limit on Pro. The key is kept encrypted on the server and is never handed back to a browser. Google gives every account a free monthly allowance that covers far more routes than these plans use, so the usual Google bill is zero.

The plan you are working on stays only in your browser. The server keeps a monthly route count, the days you chose to save, a licence if you paid, an email address if you gave one, and an encrypted Google key, if you connected one. Addresses are sent to Google Maps to be located and routed.