Towing combination: car and caravan for a trip If you travel with a caravan or trailer, link both into a towing combination for a trip: under Edit trip, choose the vehicle, then the trailer and the consumption of the combination. The trip detail shows the dimensions of the combination – length and weight added up, width and height following the larger vehicle. Just what ferries, pitches and passages want to know. The trailer goes along on every journey. For the day trip without the caravan, switch it off on the journey and the car’s own consumption applies. Also: – Notes for this trip now include vehicle documents and vignettes that expire before the trip ends – for the towing vehicle and the trailer alike. – New entries open the calendar in the month of the trip – handy when you add a past trip.

Apple Watch and checked trips Etappe on Apple Watch: the Today page shows the trip day, the day theme, what’s up next and the day’s appointments – in local time on trips across time zones, plus the time at home. The calendar looks two weeks ahead. The data comes straight from your iPhone and stays on the watch even without a connection. The watch app comes with Etappe on your iPhone. Checked trips: under New trip → Load from Etappe you’ll find trips by other Etappe users, checked by us. Filter by country, duration and dog-friendly, each trip with a cover image, route map, starting point and distance. When loading, you pick your own start date. The “Checked by Etappe” seal appears on every checked trip, with a credit for the person who submitted it. If a checked file has been changed since, Etappe won’t import it. Submit your own trip: Share → Send to Etappe. The trip is sent to us by email as a template without personal details, with your name or a link if you like.

Little helpers, offline mode and trips to pass on Little helpers (under More): small tools that work without a trip and offline – the deworming calculator now with time zones, a currency converter with the ECB rates, a hiking calculator using the German Alpine Club formula and a phrasebook with 155 phrases in 18 languages, read aloud or shown large. Pass a trip on as a file: Share → Trip as file. To travel companions with all dates and bookings, or as a template without personal details, where the recipient picks the start date. The file opens straight from Mail, AirDrop or Files. Offline mode (Settings): “Save data” stops Etappe from requesting anything from the internet, “Fully offline” also turns off iCloud sync. An airplane at the top right shows it’s on. Pro mode (Settings): hides the explanatory text – for everyone who already knows Etappe. Also: – Packing list templates “Camping” and “Groceries”, symbols for the categories – Research category “Shopping” – Journal and map sort entries by local date – Language-aware sorting and elevation units in English and French

Restricted dog breeds and more precise deworming planning Some countries ban certain dog breeds or require a muzzle, lead or permit. Indicate whether your dog belongs to one of these breeds, including mixed-breed dogs. Etappe checks every country on your trip, including those you only pass through, and warns you about entry bans or additional requirements. To load the rules for the included countries, go to “Countries” and select “Import from etappe.app”. Deworming: – Below the deworming time window, you can see how the border crossing was set: based on a route, taken from the start of the trip or entered by you. A button lets you reset a manual entry to automatic. – If you reschedule a trip, Etappe asks whether to shift the border crossing and deworming time as well. – If you remove a pet from a trip, its planning starts afresh the next time you add it. – A vet appointment for deworming from an earlier trip no longer counts towards the new one. – On trips across time zones, the border crossing, deworming treatment and vet appointments each use their own time zone. Also: on “Today”, times in 12-hour format no longer wrap onto two lines.

Travelling across time zones Entries now use the time of the country you’re visiting: check-in in Lisbon at 3:00 PM, the flight home from Tokyo at 10:00 PM – just as it says in your booking. Etappe remembers the time zone with them, usually on its own from the place or country, even offline. – Journeys have a departure and a destination time zone. Flights and ferries show their real duration and the time difference, even across the date line. – “Today” shows what time it is at home. The calendar places every entry on its local date. – Photos added to the journal keep their capture time and time zone. – You choose how time zones are labeled: CEST, place name, UTC+1 – or military zone letters, all the way to the date-time group. – Trips that stay in your own time look the same as before. Important: please update all devices that share your trips via iCloud. Older versions otherwise show times in each device’s own time zone. Also: dates without a time, such as the trip period or expiry dates, now stay on the right day in other time zones too, past trips in the overview can be ordered oldest or newest first, and a few English and French texts have been corrected.

Small improvements: – A trip’s documents are now in one place: under “Documents” you see, next to the trip’s own papers, all attachments from accommodations, journeys, activities, outdoor activities, budget and research – with preview and a jump to the entry. – Rabies: after a primary vaccination, Etappe now observes the 21-day waiting period before entry and names the day from which your pet may enter. Boosters given while the previous vaccination is valid take effect immediately. – The calendar’s day view now shows hours compactly (1 PM, 2 PM … or 00 to 23 in regions with a 24-hour clock), leaving more room for your plans. – The date picker starts the week the way it’s usual in your region. – Below a journey’s fuel costs, Etappe now notes that they don’t count toward the budget. Record fuel receipts as budget items so nothing is counted twice.

Etappe now speaks English. The whole app is translated: every screen, the alerts, the sample trip and the country records for all 38 countries. French is in this update as well. German remains the language Etappe was written in — you can change the app’s language in iOS Settings. What you entered yourself stays exactly as you wrote it. ALSO NEW – Country records written from an Austrian and a Swiss point of view, with their own embassies, emergency numbers and travel advice. Anything you edited yourself stays as it is. – Place search in the location fields of activities, accommodations, journeys and research items: type a town or an address, tap a suggestion from Apple Maps, and the name, address and country are filled in for you. Only the search itself needs a connection; everything else in Etappe works offline as before. – GPX import for journeys too, with the real timestamps from the file. With a connection, Etappe also enters the names and countries of the start and end points, and only into empty fields. If that country is not part of the trip yet, Etappe asks before adding it. – The arrival time taken from a recorded route is now shown as local time, with the time zone offset. – Choose your base currency: euro, franc, pound, krona and more. Costs, budget and totals appear in your currency; saved amounts keep their currency and rate. Etappe asks on first launch; you can change it in Settings. – Exchange rates on request: “Refresh Rates” fetches the European Central Bank’s reference rates and applies them to your countries. Never automatically, never at launch. – Home country from any country in the world. Embassies, emergency numbers and travel advice follow it; Etappe ships its own records for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Home country, home location, base currency and rates sync between your devices via iCloud. – A day theme for every travel day: a heading such as “North coast”, entered in the Sketch, the calendar or Today. It also appears in the itinerary PDF and the calendar file. – Duplicate a journey or create the return leg: press and hold a journey; the return leg swaps start and destination. – The manual and the getting-started guide are now in English at etappe.app/en/. New to Etappe? Tap “View sample trip” the first time you open the app and walk through a finished trip before you plan your own.