We are a small product in private beta and we would rather you could check our
claims than take them. Entries are marked For partners when they
only affect hotels, agencies and operators — everything else applies to any
traveller holding a guide. What we intend to build next is on the
roadmap.
Photographs on a phone, and a receipt on every one
Every photograph on this site is one out of a real guide. Until today you could
only see that on a laptop: below 900 pixels wide the whole set was switched off,
so anyone arriving on a phone read the words and saw none of the pictures. They
are there now at every width — fewer and larger as the screen narrows, down to a
single print above the headline, rather than shrunken copies of the desktop set.
Each one also carries its source and photographer on the image itself, read
straight from the file our image pipeline writes the moment it fetches a photo.
Three of the credits we had previously typed out by hand had already drifted from
it. A photograph we cannot attribute from that record now shows no credit line at
all — a gap we can go and fix is better than a byline we composed.
A page that says what the partner pilot actually includes
Hotels, agencies, tour operators and concierges now have a page of their own, with
a “Request pricing” form on it. It lists only what is built and working today — no
per-seat table, no trial clock, and no link into an org dashboard that does not
exist yet. What is missing is named on the page as missing.
Your brand on the guides you hand out
Set your logo, favicon, brand colour and accent colour once under Organization,
and every guide your team creates from then on carries them — through to the icon
that lands on a guest’s home screen. Your support address travels with the guide
too, so a guest with a question reaches you rather than us.
Branding is stamped onto a guide when it is created, not read live. Rebrand next
season and new guides pick it up; the ones already installed on a guest’s phone
stay exactly as you handed them over.
Every photo says where it came from
Real photographs carry their source and photographer credit. Where we have no
usable photograph of a venue, the guide shows an AI-generated impression and
labels it as one, plainly, on the image itself.
We would rather tell you a picture is an impression than let you arrive expecting
the room in it.
Up next
Open your guide mid-trip and it now leads with where you are supposed to be right
now: the current slot by the actual time of day, whether the place is open, how
far it is on foot, and directions in one tap. The rest of the day is still there
underneath — it just stops being the first thing you have to scroll past.
Tell us when a place is wrong
Restaurants close. Museums move. A tip that was good last year stops being true.
Every venue in a guide now has a way to say so, in all six languages, and it works
with no signal — what you flag is held on your phone and sent the next time you
are online.
Reports go into the shared catalogue every guide is built from, so telling us once
fixes it for the next traveller as well as for you.
The map comes offline with everything else
“Download for offline” used to save your text, your plan and your photos, and
then hand you a blank grey rectangle where the map should be — in exactly the
place you were most likely to need it.
The map tiles for your destination now download with the rest of the guide. Aeroplane
mode, a foreign SIM you never bought, a basement bar with no signal: the pins are
still there.
Opening hours, addresses and real directions on every venue
Venue cards used to give you a name, a photo and a neighbourhood. They now carry
opening hours where we have them, the street address, and a directions link that
opens in the maps app you already use. Rather less standing outside a closed door
working out where you are.
The guide's own buttons now speak your language too
Guide content has been written in English, Dutch, French, Flemish, German and
Spanish since April 2026. The interface around it was not: install prompts,
offline banners, countdowns and error messages all stayed in English, so a Dutch
guide was Dutch until something went wrong.
All six are now translated throughout and checked by people who speak them.
Your guide gets its own icon, and its own link preview
Installed to a home screen, a guide now shows an icon for its destination instead
of a generic placeholder — so three guides on one phone are three distinguishable
apps. Share the link and it unfurls with a proper preview card in the chat you
sent it to.
Guides built around who is actually going
Creating a guide now asks who is travelling, how many of you there are, whether
there are kids or a dog, what kind of trip it is, what you are into, and how you
eat. That shapes the greeting, which places land in which day, and what the
preparation tab tells you to bring.
It deliberately does not rewrite the venue descriptions. Those stay the same for
everyone, so nobody gets a restaurant described differently because of what a
form said about them.
A map of everywhere your guide sends you
Every venue in your guide now has a pin. Tap one for the card, or open directions
straight into your phone’s maps app.
Pins are placed from the venue’s own address where we have one, and from the
neighbourhood or the city centre where we do not — and the map tells you which,
rather than dropping a confident pin on a guess.
VidiVeni opens in private beta
The first guides reach invited travellers. Everything before this date lived in a
code repository rather than on anybody’s phone, which is why this changelog starts
here rather than at the first commit.
Older than the first entry here, VidiVeni was not yet in anyone's hands. If something
in your guide looks wrong, the report button inside it reaches us — or
write to us directly.