Stowaway
Stowaway
Build your gear list once, reuse it as a checkable list for every trip, and get weather-aware suggestions for each leg of the journey.
Coming soon to theApp Store
Stowaway is a packing checklist built around one idea: you should never have to type your gear list twice. You keep one canonical master list, and every trip becomes a checkable copy of it — check items off as they go in the bag, and the master stays intact for next time.
Trips can have several legs, each with its own dates and climate, and Stowaway merges the gear you will need across all of them. A forecast for each leg nudges suggestions — a rain shell here, swimwear there — and if you are offline, a climate heuristic steps in so the list never waits on a network call.
Everything works fully offline, in an airport lounge or a hotel with patchy Wi-Fi. Your lists live on your device as the source of truth, sync additively through iCloud so nothing is ever overwritten or lost, and export as a PDF you can share with anyone.
One canonical gear list; each trip is a checkable instance of it. No blank slate, no retyping the same fifty items before every departure.
Beach, business, backpacking, cold-weather, and carry-on-only starters — all fully editable and saveable as your own templates.
One trip, several legs, each with its own dates and climate. Suggestions merge the gear you need across every stop.
A cached forecast for each leg nudges what to add or drop. Offline, a climate heuristic takes over — the list never hangs on weather.
Filter a long list down to only what is left. Mark items skipped for this trip without deleting them from the master.
Lists are local truth and work with no connection. iCloud sync is additive and conflict-merged, so an update or a second device never wipes a trip.
Start from a beach, business, backpacking, cold, or carry-on starter list — or build your own master list from scratch.
Add the destination and dates, or several legs for a multi-stop journey. Each leg gets its own climate and forecast.
Stowaway nudges weather-appropriate additions and removals per leg. Accept what fits, skip what does not.
Check items as they go in the bag, filter to what remains, and watch the suitcase fill up as you reach fully packed.
The trick is separating the list you own from the list you check: keep one master list of your gear, and generate a fresh checkable copy per trip. Stowaway is built on exactly this model — every trip is an instance of your master list, so checking items off or skipping them never touches the master. Next trip, you start complete instead of starting over.
Yes. Stowaway is offline-first: lists are stored on your device and every feature — creating trips, checking items, editing templates — works with no connection at all. Even weather suggestions degrade gracefully to a climate-based heuristic when there is no signal, so nothing ever blocks on the network in an airport lounge.
Stowaway pulls a forecast band for each leg's location and dates, then nudges suggestions like a rain shell for a wet week or extra layers for a cold snap. The forecast is cached and fetched in the background, so the list is always usable immediately. Suggestions are advice you accept or dismiss, never items forced into your list.
Model the trip as legs rather than a single destination: each city gets its own dates and climate, and the gear list is the merge of what all legs require. Stowaway supports multi-stop trips natively — a winter city leg and a beach leg in the same journey each contribute their own suggestions, and shared items appear once.
The core is swimwear, sun protection, sandals, light layers for evenings, and any water gear you actually use — plus the universal basics like chargers, documents, and medication. Stowaway's beach template gives you a sensible starting list you can edit to your habits, and the forecast for your dates fine-tunes it, like adding a rain layer for a wet week.
It is a list disciplined enough to fit airline cabin limits: capsule clothing that mixes and matches, travel-size liquids, one pair of shoes worn rather than packed, and nothing you can buy cheaply on arrival. Stowaway ships a carry-on-only template as a starting point, and your own edits can be saved as a personal template for every light trip after.
A long list becomes useless when packed and unpacked items are mixed together. Stowaway gives every item three states — packed, skipped, and remaining — and a filter that shows only what is left to do. Skipped items stay on record for this trip without being deleted from your master list.
Yes. Any list exports as a clean PDF you can send to a partner, the kids, or a travel group, so everyone packs from the same page. It is an easy way to hand a ready-made list to someone who does not use the app at all.
Stowaway mirrors your lists through your private iCloud, and the sync is deliberately additive: changes merge rather than overwrite, so a second device or an app update can never wipe a trip. The copy on your device is always the source of truth, and everything keeps working when iCloud is unreachable.
Yes. Every trip list exports as a PDF that you can print, save to the Files app, or share anywhere. The export mirrors the list's current state, so you can produce a fresh copy mid-packing if you want a paper version to tape to the suitcase.
Most travelers do best starting the list a week out and packing the bag in the final day or two — early enough to buy missing items, late enough that the forecast is meaningful. Because Stowaway keeps your master list permanently, the real work is done long before any single trip; you mostly review suggestions and check things off.
Yes, and it matters more than it sounds. Skipping marks an item as not needed for this particular trip while leaving it on your master list for the future — deleting would quietly erode the list you spent years refining. In Stowaway, skip is a first-class state alongside packed and remaining.
Type your gear list once — every trip after that is just checking boxes.
Coming soon to theApp Store