Map-first
The map is the home screen. No tabs. No drawer. No onboarding. Everything happens on the map.
since 2026 · made for iOS 17+
A map whereevery dot is wortha solo detour.
Solo Compass is a map-first companion for people traveling alone. No feed. No ads. Just experiences worth your afternoon.
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Café · Chiang Mai
Ristr8to
Third-wave espresso worth walking 15 minutes to. Quiet before 10.
Verified · 2dSolo · 4.8
Solo · Score4.8
Quiet
0.9
Table
0.7
Wifi
0.6
Best now8–10 AM
Ask Solo about here…
Why we built this
It's 4 PM.
You're alone in a city you don't know.
You could open Google Maps — but the top-rated café will be full of couples on dates.
You could open 小红书 — but the "instagrammable" spot is a queue of tripods.
You could ask ChatGPT — but it will confidently invent a place that closed last year.
We built Solo Compass because none of those felt like what an old friend who knew the city would tell you.
Three non-negotiables
How Solo Compass is different.
Three design pillars from day one. If a feature pulls away from any of them, it doesn't ship.
Experience-as-unit
Not places — verb-bound, time-anchored things to do. "Watch sunset paint the stupas at 5:30" beats "Wat Suan Dok."
AI doesn't decide
AI narrows a thousand options to five, cites its sources, and shows its uncertainty. You make the call.
What you actually get
Six things nobody else does the way we do.
Not a feature list. Six rituals built for a person traveling alone — each takes 30 seconds to try and rewires how you use a map.
Every tile below is a real screen from the app.
9:41
Ask Solo
Somewhere quiet I can read for 2 hours. Not a chain.
Reasoning · 3 sources · 12 candidates
Three candidates within 8 min walk.
Ranked by ambient dB (measured), power outlets, and how full a solo traveler said it was Tuesday afternoon.
Ristr8to
8 min · 4.8
Akha Ama
6 min · 4.7
Graph.
11 min · 4.6
Hold to talk…
01 · Ask Solo
The friend in every city, in your pocket.
Long-press anywhere on the map, or hold to talk. Solo reads the neighborhood, the time of day, the weather — and answers in cards, not walls of text. Every recommendation cites its sources.
- Voice-first — hold to talk, release to send
- Grounded on the map you're looking at, not the world
- Shows its reasoning trace — never a black box
9:41
Blindbox
✦
Chiang Mai · 4:12 PM · sunny
Revealed
A rooftop nobody's told you about.
Golden hour hits the mountains at 5:47. You're 12 min away. Café closes at 8.
Commit · Take me there
02 · Blindbox
For the days you can't choose.
Some afternoons the tyranny of choice is the enemy. Tap the blindbox and Solo picks one experience for you, based on where you are and what fits this hour. You can't preview it. That's the point.
- One decision, taken out of your hands
- Only opens experiences that match this hour of this day
- Cannot re-roll — the whole point is to commit
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Time Capsule
Sealed at Nimman corner café
opens in 6 months · when you're here
"You were tired today. You almost skipped this walk. Remember it was worth it."
Seal for
1m6m1y
03 · Time Capsule
Leave a note for a future you.
Standing somewhere you love — a bench, a corner, a viewpoint? Seal a capsule to that exact spot. Return in six months and it opens. Or leave it for whoever you were.
- Anchored to a geofence — opens only when you're back
- Text, voice, or photo — sealed on device
- Time-locks: 1 month · 6 months · 1 year · when-you're-ready
9:41
Daily Omen
Tuesday · Chiang Mai✦
Today, take the long way.
The mango tree at Wat Suan Dok drops fruit around 3 PM. Nobody's told the algorithm.
drawn 7:12 am
YesterdayNotice the color of doors.
Tomorrow at 7:00 AM · next omen
04 · Daily Omen
One small prompt, every morning.
Not a horoscope. One quiet card at breakfast — a nudge Solo drew from your city, your rhythm, the weather. A gentle direction for the day, not a schedule.
- Draws once per morning — no scroll, no feed
- Reads local weather, calendar, and your last week
- Written by a language model, tuned to be terse
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Best Now
Live · updated 4s ago
Peak in 42 min
5:47 – 6:15 PM · golden hour
Light hits the stupas at this angle exactly 28 minutes a day.
24 hours · Tuenow
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Walk there · 12 min
05 · Best Now
Every place has a golden hour. We show it.
Solo Compass knows when each experience is best — not "open," but at its peak. A café's quiet window is 8–10 AM. A viewpoint's is 5:47 PM sharp. Every card shows a live heatmap of when to go.
- Learned from solo travelers' honest reports, not vendor claims
- Live now-badge when you're inside the peak window
- Countdown when peak is soon — silent when it's not
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Brag Card
Solo Compass · Passport✦
Nikita · Solo Traveler
Chiang Mai · 8 days · Feb 2026
34
Experiences
47.2
Kilometers
1
Rare finds
Walked 47.2 km. Wrote 3 capsules. Found 1 place nobody had marked.
Share as
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06 · Brag Card
A travel passport, not a highlight reel.
At the end of a trip Solo compiles what you actually did — the walks, the peaks you hit, the places nobody else on the app has been. One shareable card. Zero engagement optimization.
- Auto-composed from your archive — you don't caption anything
- Shows genuine rarity, not likes
- Exports to print — magazine-style, ready for a frame
How we treat you
Three promises we don't break.
Privacy is a promise, not a checkbox.
Your location never leaves your phone. No accounts to try. No email. No "sign up with Google." Anonymous by default.
AI is a filter, not an oracle.
Every AI suggestion shows its sources and how confident it is. Freshness signals: verified this month, fading, questioned. You know what you're trusting.
Pricing is honest.
$29 one-time, or $50 a year. That's it. No ads ever. No selling your data ever. No free-then-paywall bait.
Pricing
One decision. Two options.
Pay once and it's yours. Or pay yearly and get first access to everything new. Either way, no ads, no data selling, no subscription bloat.
Lifetime
$29one time
Every feature today. Forever yours.
- Unlimited AI cross-referencing
- Custom routes across cities
- Rituals · Time Capsule · Omen · Blindbox
- Print export (magazine-style journal)
- iCloud sync across devices
- Every future minor update
Yearly
$50per year
Everything in Lifetime, plus first access to what's next.
- Everything in Lifetime
- First access to new AI models
- First access to new Rituals
- Priority support
- Contribute to the roadmap
- Cancel anytime — no lock-in