Rebuilt native for iOS. Scan your gear with the camera and it comes back
weighed, score every trip 0 to 100, and read the whole app in six languages.
The Packing Index is a field manual for people who pack seriously: one-baggers,
ultralighters, EDC nerds, and anyone tired of dragging a heavy suitcase.
It does not just list your gear. It weighs it, scores it, and tells you what to
leave behind.
SCAN YOUR GEAR
Lay your kit out flat and take one photo, with the camera or from your library.
Every item comes back named, categorised and weighed. A review screen stands
between the scan and your manifest: weights are estimates, anything uncertain
arrives unticked, and nothing is added until you say so.
BUILD A LIST FROM WHAT YOU OWN
Say where and when you are going and it drafts a list: the gear you actually
pack, quantities set for the trip length, and what the weather at your
destination calls for. Never packed anything yet? It starts you from a sensible
baseline rather than a blank page. Every row explains why it is there, and
nothing is added until you approve it.
THE PACKING INDEX SCORE
Every trip gets a 0 to 100 ultralight score built from weight discipline,
packing readiness and bag limit adherence. Track base against wearable weight,
set a personal base weight goal, and see how each trip measures up.
WEATHER FOR YOUR ACTUAL DATES
The forecast covers the days you are travelling, not the days you happen to be
looking, and it is checked against what you have packed. A cold snap with no
insulation, or rain with no shell, gets flagged before you leave. For a trip
booked months out, where no forecast exists yet, it shows what those dates are
typically like and tells you that is what you are reading.
FABRIC AWARE ROTATION
The app knows merino can be worn for days and cotton cannot, and works out how
many of each garment your trip actually needs.
LOADOUT BLUEPRINTS
Build reusable modules, a tech pouch, a camera cube, a toiletry kit, and see
which one is carrying the most weight.
AN OPERATOR PASSPORT
Your account is a passport: field record stats, standing orders, and twelve
collectible commendations from Maiden Voyage to Featherweight. Earn the
Featherweight commendation and unlock an app icon you cannot pick any other way.
TWO LOOKS
Field Manual and Aurora, switchable at any time.
IN YOUR LANGUAGE
English, Spanish, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese, with a
language picker in Account. Every screen honours Dynamic Type, so it stays
readable at the text size you actually use.
PLUS
• Pack by day: assign items to the days you need them
• Select several items at once to pack, move or delete
• Print, save as PDF, or share a read only page anyone can open
• Compare two templates side by side
• Quick add the things you pack on nearly every trip
• Mark what you never used when you get home, so the next trip is lighter
• Weigh an item once and it fills itself in everywhere, scan drafts included
• Bags with weight limits, live gauges, and their own empty weight
• Templates with total weights, and save any trip as a template
• A library of every item and bag you have packed
• Export a trip as a spreadsheet or as Markdown
• Trip reminders, cover photos, real destination photography
• Finished trips archive themselves and stay in your stats
• Import a kit from Carry Index by link, bags included
• Nine app icons, eight pickable and one earned
• Syncs with your account at packingindex.com
Pack lighter. Prove it.
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The Packing Index is rebuilt from the ground up as a native iOS app. Same
account, same trips, everything faster.
BUILD A LIST FROM THE GEAR YOU OWN
Tell it where and when you are going and it drafts a packing list: the things
you actually pack, quantities set for the trip length, and whatever the weather
at your destination calls for. New here and nothing packed yet? It starts you
from a sensible baseline instead of a blank page. Nothing is added until you
approve it, and every row tells you why it is there.
WEATHER FOR YOUR ACTUAL DATES
The forecast is now for the days you are travelling, not the days you happen to
be looking. Booked something months out? It shows what those dates are typically
like instead, and says so, so you always know which one you are reading.
SCAN YOUR GEAR WITH THE CAMERA
Lay your kit out flat and shoot. Every item comes back named, categorised and
weighed, with a review screen before anything joins your manifest. Anything the
scan is unsure about arrives unticked. There is a built in guide to laying gear
out so it reads well.
PACK BY DAY
Assign items to the days you need them and read your manifest a day at a time.
FASTER ON EVERYTHING ELSE
Select several items at once to pack, move or delete them. Long press a bag to
edit or remove it. Quick add the things you pack on nearly every trip. Print
your list, save it as a PDF, or send someone a read only copy they can open
without an account. Compare two templates side by side. And when you get home,
mark what you never used so the next trip is lighter.
YOUR LANGUAGE, YOUR TEXT SIZE
English, Spanish, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese, now with a
language picker in Account so you are not tied to your phone's setting. Every
screen honours Dynamic Type.
BRING A KIT ACROSS FROM CARRY INDEX
Open a Carry Index kit link and it arrives as a trip, with its bags as bags.
TRIPS THAT TIDY THEMSELVES
Finished trips archive on their own once you are home. They stay in your stats,
and you can bring any of them back.
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