About Pively

Pively is a personal project built by a computer-science student who loves to travel. The idea came from a simple frustration: existing tools weren't built to plan a real multi-destination trip. So he coded the one he wished had existed, and made it free for everyone.

Why Pively?

When you plan a trip that strings several cities together — a European tour, a Southeast-Asia loop, a multi-region road trip — you end up with a dozen tabs open: Google Flights for each flight, Booking for each hotel, Google Maps to check distances, a spreadsheet to add up the budget. Pively bundles all of that into a single page: you pick your cities, we optimize the order, we compute the distances, we pull live flight and hotel prices, and we tell you the total trip budget.

What Pively does that other tools don't

  • Multi-destination on a single page

    No more juggling a dozen tabs across Google Flights, Booking and Google Maps.

  • Budget calculated automatically

    Flights, hotels, food and local transport — per day, per person, and total.

  • Algorithm-optimized route

    We compute the shortest order between your cities so you save time and money.

  • Live prices in one click

    Google Flights and Booking queried in real time — no vague estimates.

  • AI mode for the undecided

    Pick a country and a length, the AI drafts a day-by-day program.

  • Instant sharing

    One URL to send to your group — it reloads the itinerary as-is.

  • PDF + calendar export

    Offline itinerary in PDF, plus an .ics file for Google Calendar or Apple.

  • Free and account-free

    No signup, no tracking cookies, no personal data collected.

  • 6 languages

    French, English, Spanish, Italian, German and Portuguese.

The gaps Pively fills

Every tool does one thing well. None of them handle the full multi-destination planning job.

  • Google Flights, KayakOne flight at a time, no hotels, no total budget. Not built to visualize a Paris → Rome → Athens → Paris loop in one view.
  • Booking.comHotels only. No itinerary, no flights, no city sequence.
  • Excel spreadsheet or NotionNo live prices, fully manual upkeep, no optimization — every change is rework.
  • ChatGPT or GeminiGeneric itineraries, no real prices, no bookable links, and tight free-tier limits.
  • Aggregators like Expedia, Trip.comForce account creation to see prices and push pre-built packages rather than letting you compose freely.

Concrete promises

  • ✅ 100% free, no "premium" tier
  • ✅ No user account, no signup
  • ✅ No tracking cookies, no data reselling
  • ✅ Transparent affiliate — hotel and activity links earn a commission, at no extra cost to you

How Pively is built

No part of Pively comes out of a magic hat. Here are the sources, tools and choices behind what you see.

Flight prices

Estimates come from the Travelpayouts cache (refreshed daily) or a self-hosted Google Flights scraper for live searches. When a price may differ from what you'll see at booking, it's flagged 'ESTIM.'. Booking links point to Aviasales (affiliate partner).

City & country guides

Content for the 142 city guides and 66 country guides (intro, neighborhoods, attractions, prices, transport) is generated by Gemini 2.5 (Google) from a strict prompt that requires concrete data (real neighborhoods, actual prices, practical tips). Each page is 1200-1800 unique words. No templated text, no word-for-word lifting from other sites.

Ranking & internal links

Suggested cities ('Also see', 'Trending') are ranked by geographic proximity (haversine) and matching budget — not by affiliate payout. No city is boosted because it pays more commission, and no partner can buy a better placement in the guides.

Code & contact

Pively is a personal project maintained continuously. If you spot an error in a guide, a price that looks wrong, or want to suggest a city to add, reach lionelleguier[at]gmail.com — every message is read and most end up in an update.