Packloom
- Status
- ActiveIn active development.
- Started
- Updated
- Role
- Product Design, Architecture, Development Orchestration, Store Operations
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Overview
Packloom is a packing checklist for people who are already at the airport. Every trip you have taken stays on the phone, ready to duplicate the next time you go somewhere similar, and none of it needs a signal to open.
Seven templates cover the trips most people actually take — beach, city break, business, camping, winter and ski, travelling with a baby, and carry-on only. You pick as many as apply; items that appear in more than one are added once. Everything after that is editable: rename it, reorder it, delete it, add your own.
Offline Is the Feature
There is no account, no sign-up and no questionnaire before the app will do anything, because there is nowhere for any of it to go. Everything is stored on the device in AsyncStorage. Aeroplane mode, a foreign SIM, a hotel with no wifi — the app behaves identically.
That is a direct answer to the category. The incumbent’s low-star reviews are a $20-a-year subscription, an app that needs a connection to show a list you already wrote, and lost data. Packloom’s failure mode is that the list is only on the phone, which is stated plainly in the listing and in the app: delete it and the lists go with it, so share a trip as text first if you want a copy.
Progress You Can Read at a Glance
A trip has a progress bar; so does each person and each category. Packed items strike through. A completed trip carries a green badge on the list, and any trip can be duplicated in a tap with everything unpacked and ready — which is what makes an old trip more useful than a template.
Categories reorder, so the list can be arranged in the order you physically pack rather than the order the app invented. One optional reminder arrives at 6pm the evening before departure, and it re-arms correctly when the departure date changes — a bug the interface audit caught, along with a stale reminder that survived a date edit.
Pricing in Front of the Install
The free tier is two trips with all seven templates switched on. A single $4.99 payment removes the limit and takes the advertising with it. Ads appear only between things — after a trip is fully packed, after a third or later trip is created, after a list is shared — never while items are being checked off, and never in the first days with the app.
The paywall is one of the store screenshots on purpose: the category’s one-star cluster is pricing surprises, so the terms go in front of the install.
Current State
Packloom 1.0 is with App Review, submitted on 9 September 2026.
It was the first of the three utilities built, which made it the one that proved the pipeline — bundle identifier registration, EAS build and submit, store metadata as configuration, and the in-app purchase record. The name is Packloom; the App Store listing reads Packloom: Packing Lists, because the plain name was already claimed by another account by the time the record was created.
The interface audit ran 48 route captures and 28 flow assertions at both device widths in light and dark, and produced nine fixes — a stale departure reminder, a missing bottom safe-area inset in Settings, a dark-mode badge at 1.7:1 contrast, and several tap targets below 44 points.
Milestones
Name and category cleared
Verified against the iTunes Search API; the Packr, PackPoint, Packing Pro and PackList family were all taken, and the incumbents' low-star reviews were subscriptions, no offline mode and lost data.
V1 built and green
83 Jest tests, clean TypeScript, expo-doctor 21/21, and the first of the three utilities to prove the build and submit pipeline.
Interface audited and nine defects fixed
48 route captures plus 28 flow assertions across two device sizes and both themes, fixing a stale reminder, a safe-area inset and five contrast or tap-target failures.
Submitted to the App Store
Packloom 1.0 went to review with both screenshot sizes and the one-time unlock attached.
