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Been There Done That

The best travel tips come from friends, people you actually know.

We removed all the noise: no anonymous ratings, no endless comment threads, no hidden ads.

Just real recommendations from your friends, about the hotels, restaurants and experiences they tried themselves.

How it works Open in the browser Get it on Google Play Download on the App Store

The problem it solves

When you plan a trip, the first thing you do is ask friends. The answers arrive in private messages and group chats, and that is where they disappear. Two days later they are impossible to find, and next year, when someone else flies to the same place, the recommendation is buried under a thousand messages.

Been There Done That keeps exactly those recommendations, in a place where you find them by destination rather than by date.

Private circles

A circle is a real group of friends: family, people from work, the crew that travels together every year. Everything written in a circle is visible only to its members, and you join by personal invitation only. There is no user search, no friend suggestions and no friends-of-friends. You can be in several circles at once, and they cannot see each other.

Postcards

A postcard is one short recommendation about a place you have been: pick a country, find the place, write a sentence about what you loved and attach up to two photos. Every postcard carries a category stamp: food, lodging, attraction or local tip.

Before you fly

Type a destination in the search line and see everything your friends wrote about it on one map. A postcard you save moves to your saved list, grouped by country, and that is what you take on the trip.

What is not here, on purpose

Five stars from a stranger say nothing, and one sentence from a friend about a place they loved says everything. The moment there is a score, people write to collect points instead of to help.

Privacy is enforced on the server

The rule that circle content is visible only to that circle's members is enforced in the database permission layer, not in the app. An app can be unpacked and a screen can be bypassed, but a query that reaches the server simply gets no rows that do not belong to whoever asked.

The app is free, on Android, iPhone and in the browser. Same account, same circles on every one of them.