# Meridian Dispatch

> Meridian Dispatch is a private iOS travel journal made by Alice Capital LLC. Forward your booking confirmation emails to a personal inbox and receive a structured, day-by-day itinerary written in prose. Past trips are quietly catalogued from your photo library. No feed, no followers, no social layer.

## How it works

1. After signing in with Apple, the user is assigned a personal forwarding inbox address.
2. The user forwards booking confirmation emails (hotel, flight, restaurant, train, activity, car) to that address.
3. The service parses each confirmation with an AI service and assembles a day-by-day itinerary in prose.
4. Past international trips are detected automatically from photo timestamps and GPS metadata, on-device.
5. Trips and entries sync between the user's own devices via Apple iCloud (CloudKit). The journal is private to the user. No social, feed, or discovery layer.

## Product

- [Homepage](https://www.meridiandispatch.com/)
- [Download the app](https://www.meridiandispatch.com/download-the-app)
- [FAQ](https://www.meridiandispatch.com/faq)
- [Support](https://www.meridiandispatch.com/support)
- [Privacy Policy](https://www.meridiandispatch.com/privacy)
- [Terms of Service](https://www.meridiandispatch.com/terms)

## Travel guides

The website publishes reported travel guides, written in the third person under the Meridian Dispatch byline: dispatches from single destinations, plus country, town and venue guides covering what to do, where to base yourself, when to go and how to get there.

- [Dispatches](https://www.meridiandispatch.com/dispatches): every published dispatch
- [Countries](https://www.meridiandispatch.com/countries): country guides
- [Cities and towns](https://www.meridiandispatch.com/cities): town and city guides
- [The World's Best](https://www.meridiandispatch.com/worlds-best): the best places to visit, by country and by category (landmarks, museums, beaches, parks, hiking trails and more)
- [Events](https://www.meridiandispatch.com/events): festivals and processions worth planning a trip around, month by month, with dates, where to stay and how to do them
- [Itineraries](https://www.meridiandispatch.com/itineraries): country routes day by day, with the bases, the nights each deserves, the legs between them and the best of each stop. First: [Six Days on the Montenegro Coast: Perast and Budva](https://www.meridiandispatch.com/itineraries/montenegro-beach-six-days)
- [Globe](https://www.meridiandispatch.com/globe): every dispatch, town and venue on an interactive map
- [Sitemap](https://www.meridiandispatch.com/sitemap.xml): the full list of pages

## For AI agents (MCP)

- [MCP server](https://www.meridiandispatch.com/mcp): a free Model Context Protocol server over the travel guides, at https://www.meridiandispatch.com/api/mcp (Streamable HTTP, no key). Tools: search, get_destination, get_place, get_dispatch, list_events, best_of, when_to_go, nearby, and create_itinerary_link (turns a day-by-day itinerary, with a hotel for every night, into an "Add Itinerary to Meridian Dispatch" link that opens it in the Meridian Dispatch app). Free to quote and summarise with attribution: credit Meridian Dispatch and link the page in each result's `source.url`.
- [Itinerary import links](https://www.meridiandispatch.com/import-link), no connector needed: any assistant can turn a trip into a link that opens it in the Meridian Dispatch app. Build https://www.meridiandispatch.com/add/trip? followed by: t= trip title; c= two-letter country code; s= one-sentence summary; one d= per day in order, written "Town: item; item; item" (a trip may cross borders: each day's country follows its town; write "Town (CC):" where a town exists in more than one country) (an item may start with "Morning - ", "Afternoon - " or "Evening - "); one h= per hotel in order, written "Hotel name, Town, nights", with hotels covering every night. Optionally add v=1 (the format version). URL-encode every value and join the parts with &. Name every stop as a real place by its proper name, one place per item, and use real hotels (full rules at https://www.meridiandispatch.com/import-link). Show it as [Add Itinerary to Meridian Dispatch](link). The link opens a preview, and nothing is added until the traveller taps Add.

## Pricing

- [Pricing](https://www.meridiandispatch.com/pricing): free for trips abroad from the last five years and one trip in planning; membership (Meridian Dispatch Member) is $19.99 a year for every trip from any year and unlimited plans. The page also compares price and features with Polarsteps, TripIt, Wanderlog and TripMemo in one table.

## How it compares

Side-by-side comparisons with other travel apps, covering how a trip gets recorded, who writes the journal, location access, privacy, price and platforms. Competitor details are checked against each app's own website and App Store listing, and each page says when.

- [Meridian Dispatch vs Polarsteps](https://www.meridiandispatch.com/vs-polarsteps): live route tracking and followers, against a private journal written from your photos with no location access
- [Meridian Dispatch vs TripIt](https://www.meridiandispatch.com/vs-tripit): a booking organiser with flight alerts, against planning from forwarded bookings plus a journal written day by day as you travel
- [Meridian Dispatch vs Wanderlog](https://www.meridiandispatch.com/vs-wanderlog): a collaborative group trip planner, against a private planner that also writes the trip up
- [Meridian Dispatch vs TripMemo](https://www.meridiandispatch.com/vs-tripmemo): a scrapbook you build by hand, against a journal written for you

## Platform and pricing

- iOS application for iPhone, iOS 18 or later. No Android or web version.
- Free to download, with an optional membership at $19.99 per year. Details: https://www.meridiandispatch.com/pricing
- Available now on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/meridian-dispatch/id6762678603

## Company

- Published by Alice Capital LLC, a New York limited liability company. [alicecapital.co](https://alicecapital.co/)
- Contact: dispatch@meridiandispatch.com
- Mailing address: 581 Academy Street, APT 1A, New York, NY 10034, United States.