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Changelog

What changed, and when.

Everything below is live in the product today. Newest first.

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.

Improved

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.

New

For partners

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.

New

For partners

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.

Improved

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.

New

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.

New

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.

New

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.

Improved

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.

Fixed

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.

New

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.

New

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.

New

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.

New

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.