Hi, I’m Adrian.

Why Plyndi exists

I kept hitting the same wall planning my own trips. Search “Bangkok guide” or “Bali itinerary” and the top results all read like they were written to rank rather than to help someone standing in an airport working out how to get into the city. Same six stock photos, same vague advice, no actual numbers.

Plyndi is the opposite attempt: guides that give real prices, real transit routes and real trade-offs — including when the honest answer is “skip this one.”

The app came out of the same frustration. Once a trip was planned, it lived across a notes file, a spreadsheet and a pile of booking emails, and the budget fell apart the moment I was paying in two currencies. So I started building the thing I wanted instead.

Then the same wall showed up everywhere else — money spread across three apps, workouts buried in my notes, tasks scattered across lists. So Plyndi grew into the calm plan for all of it: one app for the day, the money, the fitness, the trips and the lists. The guides are still here, and they’re still written the same way.

How a guide gets made

Every destination is researched before it’s published — transit systems, neighbourhood trade-offs, typical costs, and the mistakes first-timers keep making. Guides carry a “last updated” date, and I go back and correct details as prices, hours and closures change rather than leaving stale information live.

I’m not claiming years of professional travel writing. I’m a student doing this alongside coursework. What I can promise: nothing goes up unchecked, corrections get priority over new content, and the site always says plainly when a link is an affiliate link.

The app

Plyndi for iOS is one calm plan for your whole life. The Daily Briefing tells you what today holds; Money keeps budgets and expenses honest in any currency, with an AI analyst on top; Fitness builds your workouts and checks your form; Travel holds the itinerary, the trip budget and the packing list; and Quick Add files anything in one sentence. It is not on the App Store yet. The app page lists exactly what’s finished, what’s in progress and what hasn’t been started — I’d rather under-promise on a page you can check than post screenshots of features that don’t exist.

How Plyndi makes money

Plyndi is funded by Plyndi Premium subscriptions — that’s the business, and that’s what pays for the app and its AI. The travel guides may carry affiliate links on some booking buttons: a temporary way to keep the guides free while we’re getting started. They’re disclosed on every page that has them, they never decide what a guide recommends, and the plan is to replace them with direct partnerships — when that happens, affiliate links go away for good. There is no display advertising on this site. Full details on the affiliate disclosure page.

What’s next

More city guides, added as they’re properly researched rather than rushed out to a schedule, and getting the app through App Store review. If there’s somewhere you want covered, or you’ve spotted something out of date, tell me — reader corrections and suggestions genuinely decide what happens next.