One connector, every Claude app
You add the connector once, in claude.ai or the desktop app. Anthropic says a connection then applies across Claude, the mobile apps included, so a trip you start at your desk can be changed from your phone on the train.
Claude's Free plan allows one custom connector, according to Anthropic. Paid plans allow more.
What Claude can do in the app
Claude can create a plan in the Meridian Dispatch app, change days, stops, times, notes and hotels as you talk, and read back the plans already there. It can also ask the app what suits one day of a trip, ranked for your taste.
Before it drafts anything, it can read the travel preferences you set in the app: the stays you like, your pace, how you get around. A first trip to Japan and a fifth trip to Italy get planned differently.
Underneath, its answers about places come from Meridian Dispatch guides, each with a link to the page it used. Those need no sign-in.
Claude Code and other clients
In Claude Code, one terminal command adds it: claude mcp add --transport http meridian-dispatch https://www.meridiandispatch.com/api/mcp. The connector page has the same for Cursor, VS Code and anything else that speaks MCP.
Without a connector at all, paste the prompt from the import guide into any Claude chat and tap the link it sends back.
When the trip is over
The plan becomes the frame for the journal. Meridian Dispatch puts your photos on the right days as you travel and writes each day in prose. The morning after you land home, it is a finished journal laid out like a magazine.
The app never asks for location access, and your photos stay on your phone.