Nawa is an iPhone app for planning a trip with your group instead of for them. Every stop shows who's going and who's handling it. The AI plans around everyone, money settles itself, and your day sits on the lock screen. Arabic-first, built in Riyadh.
Hi, I'm Nawaf, I make Nawa.
The idea started with my first job. I wanted to take long weekends, work remotely for a few days, and see a bit of the world while I was at it. Everything I found for planning that was built for a different kind of traveller. I'm not the person who goes to Paris for the Eiffel Tower. I go for the neighbourhood, the people, the feel of a place. The tools didn't know that about me, so their suggestions were the same list everyone gets.
So I started building something that plans around the person. What you like, what you'd skip, how you actually travel. Then my friends started using it with me, and it became obvious that a trip with friends has a second problem: the group. Who's coming, who's booking what, who paid. That's where Nawa is now.
You say where and roughly when, and the AI puts a day plan together, built around what the whole group has said it wants, not just whoever opened the app first. Every stop shows who's going and who's not. Anyone can say "I'll handle it" and the rest see it. Before you fly, Plan Check lists what still has nobody attached to it. Expenses go in in any currency and it settles everyone in the fewest transfers. On the trip there's a Today view, a Live Activity for the flight, and passes in Wallet.
What I'd like to know from you: what do the travel apps get wrong about how you travel? I built for how I travel and I don't know yet how much of that is just me.
I'll be here all day. It's morning in Riyadh, so for once I'm awake for my own launch.
Nawaf