Out Of Office - OOO‪.‬ 4+

I’m already obsessed with the app as-is. It’s been. A very practical, helpful tool for trip research & planning - especially for group trips with friends or family. I don’t have a ton of friends on the app yet, so my planning process is still to go to Pinterest or travel blogs for ideas and then I save my wishlist things to do in Out of Office. If they keep building out additional features that make it more useful, building a user base I want to follow, and create more opportunities for engagement across users, this app will be an absolutely must have for anyone who enjoys a trip!

EDITS:
Would also love to see the ability to add a “manual” item- for example: hop-on, hop-off bus tours. Would be super helpful to leave a review and just save my pictures and notes from the experience for keepsakes.

This could easily be the next big social media craze, especially with travel coming back! I love the concept: plan and document all my trips in one place, with ability to recap them in the perfect mix of photos and written descriptions, WITH A SCHEDULE :) so I can easily pass down detailed plans. Amazing. BUT, there are definitely features missing before it can go viral… I’d love to see: - The ability to add photos to a place just for you/even if you don’t “rec” a place, so I don’t have to post personal pictures to the internet if I want to use it like a social network with a cute recap of me and my partner on a trips’ pictures for our friends and family. This would go along great with better privacy/sharing settings, so I can share my trips and photos and comments/notes with people, allow others to add comments who are tripmates and maybe a “view only” tier with public/private comments for what I want a friend to be able to see (if someone from work asks for trip recs, but maybe I don’t want them to see my reservation notes on a place but do want them to see my review).

I’ve used this app plenty of times to plan my trips. I’ve loved being able to wishlist places to try and recommend stuff to others. I like getting to see honest recs from people who have traveled before me! It’s nice to have things saved for other states & countries so I can check them on the map once I get there to see around me.

However, this app is only great when it works. I’ve had basic functionality issues happen all of a sudden for no reason. Recently, it’s been closing out of the app after taking too long to load or not loading any searches at all when I’m trying to search a new place to add to my wishlist. The search circle disappears after a second and nothing loads- because of this I can’t even use the app anymore until this is fixed. I’ve submitted feedback and nothing has been updated to fix the bug. It seems bugs are a common problem with this app, doesn’t seem like it’s thoroughly tested before it goes live.