Planisky: not sure where or when to travel? The score figures it out
Sometimes the hardest part of planning a trip isn't finding the flight. It's figuring out where you actually want to go. You know you need a week off. You have a vague sense of wanting something warm, or with good food, or somewhere you haven't been. But opening Skyscanner with no destination in mind is just a slow way to feel overwhelmed.
And once you do land on a place, the second problem starts. Twelve tabs open: Skyscanner in one, AccuWeather in another, a 2023 Tripadvisor thread asking whether Lisbon "gets too crowded in May", a visa site that looks ten years old, a local holidays calendar you found by accident. Each tab answers a different question. None of them answers the one that matters: is now actually a good week to go?
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We got tired of doing all of that by hand every time. So we built Planisky: a trip planning app that helps you find where to go based on how you travel, then tells you the best week to book.
Start from nothing: Planisky finds your destination
Answer three questions (what kind of trip you're after, your usual budget, and where you fly from) and Planisky returns a destination recommendation scored for this specific week, matched to your travel profile. Not "top places to visit in Europe" sorted by whoever paid for the placement. An actual match, based on what kind of traveler you are.
The map shows 400+ destinations scored in real time. Filter by best price right now, low crowds, good weather, or what's trending among travelers with a similar profile to yours. If you're into culture and mountains and fly from Berlin, the scores you see are calculated for you, not for a hypothetical average traveler who lives nowhere and likes everything.
The more you swipe and save destinations, the better it knows you. It builds a picture of what you actually want from a trip, versus what you think you want when you're sitting at a desk on a Tuesday.
What is the Moment Score?
The Moment Score is a number from 0 to 100 that tells you how good the current week is for visiting a specific destination, calculated from your departure city, not a generic European average.
Every destination gets a weekly score that combines four factors:
- Flight prices from your home city, not from some European average that tells you nothing
- Weather at the destination during the dates you're looking at
- Crowd levels compared to peak season
- Trends among travelers with a profile similar to yours
A concrete example: search Kyoto in March and the score comes back low. Not because Kyoto in March is a bad idea (cherry blossoms are cherry blossoms), but because flights are at their yearly peak and any decent hotel was booked months ago. The score has no opinion about your trip. It reflects that the numbers, for that week, are working against you. Shift the search a few weeks and watch it move.
A high score means the price has dropped, the weather holds up, and the place isn't oversaturated. Those weeks exist for almost every destination. Finding them today takes a spreadsheet and more patience than most people have.
What we're building beyond the score
The Moment Score is the first piece. But knowing the right week to go is only useful if you can do something about it. The plan is to build everything else inside Planisky, so you don't have to open Skyscanner the moment you find a destination worth booking.
- Integrated flight search, pulling prices from your city the moment you find somewhere worth going
- Hotel search built around the weeks the score recommends, not what a booking platform decides to push that day
- Day-by-day AI itinerary based on how you actually travel, not a generic highlights reel
- Price drop alerts for destinations you're watching, so you don't have to check every morning
Not all of this is live yet. Some of it is a few months away. The waitlist exists partly so the people who care about this get in first and help decide what gets prioritized.
An honest score
Let's be clear about what the Moment Score is not. It is not a perfect-trip guarantee. It won't predict that your flight leaves on time or that the restaurant you found on Instagram will be open. A high score means exactly this: the numbers line up. Price down, weather reasonable, destination not heaving. Nothing more, and nothing less either.
We'd rather say that than sell you magic. A lot of travel apps have spent years promising "the best time to go" without ever showing where the promise comes from. Some of them call a sorted list "AI-powered." We show you the four factors and how they're weighted. If you disagree with the score, at least you'll know why it disagrees with you.
How to get started
Planisky is still in development and the waitlist is open. All you need is your email, no credit card. The first 100 on the list get one month free at launch.
Stop planning with twelve tabs.
Join the waitlist and try the Moment Score at launch. The first 100 get one month free.