A local guide
in your pocket.
MicaraTravel doesn't just plan your trip — it walks beside you. Human turn-by-turn guidance, a camera that reads menus and signs, and days that re-plan themselves around rain.
Now in private beta — grab the Android APK now; the iOS store link goes live with the public release.
New trip
Hong Kong · 3 days
Day 1 · Arrival
Airport Express → Kowloon
20 min · Octopus Card
Dim sum at Lin Heung
Walk 6 min · cash only
Day 2 · Kowloon
M+ Museum
Indoor · rain-proof
Temple Street night market
Covered stalls
Day 3 · The Peak
Peak Tram at sunset
Clear window · book ahead
Trip ready
3 days · 5 stops · cached offline
Wherever you land
- 🇭🇰 Hong Kong
- 🇯🇵 Tokyo
- 🇰🇷 Seoul
- 🇹🇭 Bangkok
- 🇸🇬 Singapore
- 🇵🇭 Manila
- 🇻🇳 Hanoi
- 🇦🇪 Dubai
- 🇹🇷 Istanbul
- 🇮🇹 Rome
- 🇪🇸 Barcelona
- 🇫🇷 Paris
- 🇵🇹 Lisbon
- 🇬🇧 London
- 🇺🇸 New York
- 🇲🇽 Mexico City
- 🇦🇺 Sydney
The arrival moment
The plane lands. Micara is already talking.
“Welcome to Hong Kong. Your luggage carousel is 6. Grab an Octopus Card at the counter near arrivals. Walk 50 m and turn right to the Airport Express — ride to Kowloon and take Exit K; your hotel is 4 minutes away. It's 31°C now, expect rain around 4 PM.”
No searching. No twelve tabs. That level of proactive, human guidance runs through the entire journey.
Everything a local would tell you
One companion. The whole journey.
Google Maps + ChatGPT + TripAdvisor + a local tour guide — fused into one experience that actually walks with you.
Cantonese → English
Har Gow — steamed shrimp dumplings ¥38
Lava Bun — salted egg custard ¥36
Order the har gow first — they steam it fresh and it's the dish this place is known for.
Day 2 · Hong Kong
Wednesday
Heavy rain moves in at 4 PM. I moved the Peak Tram to tomorrow's clear window and pulled the museum forward.
Rest of today
Dim sum at Lin Heung
12:30 PM · done
M+ Museum Moved up
2:00 PM · indoor · 10 min by MTR
Peak Tram at sunset
→ tomorrow, 5:30 PM
Temple Street night market Added
7:30 PM · covered stalls
Trip budget
Hong Kong · 4 days
₱38,420
of ₱54,000
Stay ₱18,200
Food ₱9,860
Transit ₱6,410
Fun ₱3,950
Today · split 3 ways
Lin Heung dim sum
HK$ 340 · you paid
Octopus top-up
HK$ 150 · Ana paid
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1 Live Companion
The step you're on, not the map you have to read.
Your current step in plain human language, with ETA, crowd levels, tickets and the little things a local would mention — updated as you move, and never more than one glance deep.
- Human turn-by-turn, not a blue line
- Proactive nudges — leave now, it's filling up
- “Ask Micara” any time, mid-street
- ● Scanning menu
Cantonese → English
Har Gow — steamed shrimp dumplings ¥38
Lava Bun — salted egg custard ¥36
⚠ Contains shellfish ✓ Micara's pickOrder the har gow first — they steam it fresh and it's the dish this place is known for.
2 The AI camera
Point. Shoot. Understand.
Aim the camera at a menu, a sign or a landmark. Micara translates it, flags what you can't eat, tells you what it actually is — and what to do next.
- Menus — translated, with allergen flags
- Landmarks — identified, with the history
- Signs — translated, and what they mean for you
- 🌧 Rain 4 PM
Day 2 · Hong Kong
Wednesday
Heavy rain moves in at 4 PM. I moved the Peak Tram to tomorrow's clear window and pulled the museum forward.
Apply Keep as isRest of today
Dim sum at Lin Heung
12:30 PM · done
M+ Museum Moved up
2:00 PM · indoor · 10 min by MTR
Peak Tram at sunset
→ tomorrow, 5:30 PM
Temple Street night market Added
7:30 PM · covered stalls
3 Dynamic itinerary
Days that re-plan themselves.
Rain at 4 PM? Museum closed? Kids melting down? Micara reshuffles the rest of the day around reality — and tells you why, before you have to ask.
- Weather, closures, delays and traffic
- One tap to apply — or keep your plan
- Family mode: stroller routes, toilets, baby rooms
- On track
Trip budget
Hong Kong · 4 days
₱38,420
of ₱54,000
Stay ₱18,200
Food ₱9,860
Transit ₱6,410
Fun ₱3,950
Today · split 3 ways
🍜₱2,480Lin Heung dim sum
HK$ 340 · you paid
🚇₱365Octopus top-up
HK$ 150 · Ana paid
4 Budget
Budget, handled.
Live spend against plan, split across the group, converted to your home currency. Logged in seconds, visible at a glance — so the money question never hijacks the trip.
- Home-currency conversion, automatically
- Who paid, who owes — settled without the spreadsheet
- Cheaper local alternatives, offered unprompted
Now · 2:05 PM
Airport Express to Kowloon
1 Tap your Octopus at the gate
2 Any train — they leave every 10–12 min
3 At Kowloon, take Exit K
Map
Downloaded
Phrases
42 saved
Tickets
On device
Built for dead zones
Your whole day is cached on the phone. Metro tunnel, roaming gap, airplane mode — every step, map and direction keeps working.
Emergency · Hong Kong
Help, right now
Call 999
Police · Fire · Ambulance
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
1.4 km · 6 min by taxi
PH Consulate General
Admiralty · open till 5 PM
Say it in Cantonese
我需要幫助
ngo5 seoi1 jiu3 bong1 zo6 — “I need help”
Calm in emergencies
Local emergency numbers, the nearest hospital, your embassy, the phrases you'd need and the scams to dodge — one tap, even offline.
Micara AI
Not a chatbot. A companion that acts.
Micara runs on Claude Opus 4.8 for planning, conversation and vision, and Claude Haiku 4.5 for the fast proactive nudges. It reads your real trip — where you are, what's open, what the sky is doing — and moves first.
Every feature has an offline fallback
Plan the trip
A full day-by-day itinerary from one prompt — solo, couple, family or business.
Guide the walk
Human turn-by-turn directions, not just a blue line on a map.
Read the world
Menus, signs and landmarks, translated and explained through the camera.
Nudge before it hurts
Leave-now alerts, closures and crowd spikes, surfaced before they cost you the day.
Re-plan on the fly
Rain, delays, kid fatigue — one tap reshuffles the rest of the day.
Write the story
The journal fills itself, and the trip comes home as something worth keeping.
MicaraTravel for iOS & Android
Your guide, in your pocket.
The native app is in private beta — download the Android APK now. The iOS store link lands here the day we go public.
Day 2 · Hong Kong
Wednesday
Heavy rain moves in at 4 PM. I moved the Peak Tram to tomorrow's clear window and pulled the museum forward.
Rest of today
Dim sum at Lin Heung
12:30 PM · done
M+ Museum Moved up
2:00 PM · indoor · 10 min by MTR
Peak Tram at sunset
→ tomorrow, 5:30 PM
Temple Street night market Added
7:30 PM · covered stalls
Cantonese → English
Har Gow — steamed shrimp dumplings ¥38
Lava Bun — salted egg custard ¥36
Order the har gow first — they steam it fresh and it's the dish this place is known for.
Pricing
Free gets you the magic. Pro gets you the trip.
Land somewhere new on the free plan and let Micara guide you in. Upgrade when you want it for the whole journey.
Free
Land somewhere new and feel the magic once.
free forever
Get the app- 1 active trip
- 20 AI messages a day
- 1 AI-generated itinerary
- 5 camera scans a day
- Today cached for offline
Pro Traveler
The individual traveller's default.
or $79/year
Get the app- Everything in Free, plus
- Unlimited trips, chat & scans
- Full live companion + dynamic re-plan
- Whole trip cached offline
- Group coordination
- Journal story export
Family
The same power, for the whole household.
or $139/year
Get the app- Everything in Pro, plus
- Family Travel Mode
- Up to 6 members
- Stroller routes, toilets & baby rooms
- Shared budget & split
Concierge
When you'd rather someone just handled it.
or $349/year
Get the app- Everything in Family, plus
- Human-in-the-loop concierge
- Reservations made for you
- Multi-city optimizer
- Priority latency + trip hotline
Prices in USD. Micara recommends what's genuinely good — booking links are disclosed, and a cheaper local alternative is always on the table.
Land like a local.
The next time you step off a plane somewhere you've never been, you won't be alone with a map. You'll have someone who's been there.