Packing Butler
Pack without the worry.
Something always gets left behind. Packing Butler remembers for you.
Free with an Epiphani account. Works offline once you are signed in, and every list is yours to share when you choose.
Five nights in Rome, one nice dinner, carry-on only.
🛂Essentials
- Phone charger
- Sunglasses
- Wallet
📄Documents
- Passport
- Boarding pass
👕Clothing
- T-shirts ×6
- Linen shirt
- Dinner outfit
- Shorts
👟Shoes
- Comfortable walking shoes
- Dress shoes
🧴Toiletries
- Sunscreen SPF 50+
- Toothbrush
- Deodorant
👜Accessories
- Baseball cap or sun hat
- Watch
And it tells you why
- Sunscreen and a linen shirt it is hot while you are there
- A dinner outfit and dress shoes you said one nice dinner
- Passport photocopies you checked international
Free with an Epiphani account. Works offline once you are signed in, and every list is yours to share when you choose.
The night before
It is 11pm and the bag is basically packed. The clothes are folded and the zipper closes. You are still going through the house in your head, trying to remember what you meant to grab from the bathroom drawer, beside the bed, or the shelf in the hall closet where the good jacket lives.
A forgotten toothbrush is a corner store and four minutes. It is the plug adapter for a country whose sockets you did not think about, the refill you meant to collect, the second pair of contacts, the one warm layer for an evening you pictured as warm. You find out you are missing it at the moment it is 3,000 miles away.
Filling in a checklist still takes judgment. You have to work out how many shirts to bring for seven nights, whether the dinner calls for dress shoes, and whether the forecast you glanced at last week still holds. Before you can pack anything, you have to decide what belongs on the list.
Tell Packing Butler where you are going, when, and what you have planned. You get a sorted list with quantities and a reason for each weather item. Read it through, make your changes, and start packing.
How it works
Follow these four steps in the app to build and use your list.
- 01
Describe the trip in one sentence
Give the destination, dates, and plans: “Five nights in Rome, one nice dinner, carry-on only.” You can also paste the notes already on your phone. Items keep their quantities and per-item notes. Errands go on a separate to-do list, and anything you marked as a maybe gets flagged for you to decide.
- 02
Check the weather for your dates
Open-Meteo supplies the weather for the place you named and the days you are there. Trips inside the 16-day forecast window get a forecast. For later trips, you get last year's weather for the same dates. The screen labels these “Typical for these dates” or “Forecast” so you can see which applies.
- 03
Get a list with counts and reasons
Items are sorted by category, with quantities based on the number of nights. Warm days add shorts, a linen shirt, sunscreen, and a sun hat. A 35% chance of rain adds a rain jacket and a travel umbrella. Freezing lows add a winter coat, thermal base layers, gloves, a scarf, and lip balm. Each weather item explains why it belongs.
- 04
Make your changes and share the list
Edit quantities inline, swipe to delete, and keep to-dos separate from things to pack. You can start with any of 11 templates or choose from the 299-item library across 17 categories. Send someone a live link to open the whole list in a browser. You can also pair an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant once and manage the list in conversation.
👕Clothing
👟Shoes
🔌Electronics
🧴Toiletries
What a good butler notices
Your dates and plans determine what goes on the list.
👕Clothing
🩹Healthcare
👟Shoes
To-Do
The forecast for the place you are visiting
Get clothes and gear for the weather on your dates. Rome in July gets sunscreen and linen. Reykjavík in October gets the rain shell. For trips further out, the list uses typical conditions and labels them.
Whatever you scribbled
Paste or dictate your notes: “3 tshirts, meds - the blue ones, maybe hiking boots?, stop the mail”. You get packing items and errands sorted separately, with quantities and notes kept. The maybes are flagged for you to decide.
The things everyone forgets
Crossing a border brings a reminder to pack passport copies. Shooting calls for a spare card, and a long flight gets a suggestion to download something. Each suggestion explains why it fits your trip.
Use Claude to work through your list
Connect Claude to build your list in conversation. Add something you forgot, check items off, or ask what is missing. This way of managing a list is unavailable in the four apps we checked.
Your itinerary, if you have one
Paste a Trip Underway trip link to bring across your destination, dates, weather, and plan in one step. You can use the itinerary you already put together.
Whoever is packing with you
Send someone a link to open the whole list on any phone, with no app or account required. They see your changes as you make them. Stop sharing to turn the link off.
Trips you can start packing for here.
Six occasions to use a list built around your trip.
🎿Ski
👟Shoes
A work trip booked three days out
Between meetings and an evening out, you have little time to plan. The business template includes a suit, a blazer, three dress shirts, dress shoes, the laptop and its charger, a power bank, a plug adapter, and business cards. The forecast determines the outerwear.
A family vacation where you are packing for someone else too
Keeping two lists in your head makes things easy to miss. Choose Baby as an activity or category to group the supplies, changes of clothes, and healthcare items together, each with its own count.
The ski or beach trip with gear you think about once a year
Snow sports and a beach day are two of the 12 activities. Ski adds the jacket, ski pants, a set of thermal base layers and a pair of ski socks for every day, gloves, goggles, a helmet, a neck gaiter, hand warmers, strong sunscreen, and the boots for afterward. Use the list when you pull the gear out.
The trip you have taken before and want to repeat
Duplicate the trip to bring across your quantities, notes, and categories. Everything starts unpacked, ready to check off again. The adjustments you made for the last trip are already in the list.
Packing with someone in another room
Send them the link to open the same list in their phone's browser, with no app or account required. They see your changes as you make them. Stop sharing to turn the link off.
The flight itself, with the Wi-Fi off
Open your list and edit it throughout the flight, including while you are offline. Check things off on descent and pick up where you left off when you land.
Your assistant
Hand it to your assistant.
Connect your assistant to Packing Butler at packingbutler.com/mcp using Model Context Protocol (MCP), then ask it to manage your packing list.
We checked four apps on July 26, 2026: Packerly, Packing List Checklist, PackPoint, and QuickPack. Each keeps its assistant inside its own app. Packing Butler accepts requests from the assistant you already use.
I am in Tokyo Thursday to Sunday, add two more shirts, and give me a share link to send.
Your assistant, with Packing ButlerYour Tokyo list is ready for three nights, with two extra shirts added. Here's the link to send: packingbutler.com/s/…
👕Clothing
📄Documents
Pairing is a one-time setup. In the app, Menu, then Claude, then Connect Claude publishes your lists to a private space and hands you a connector link. In Claude, Settings, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste it. The link itself is the credential the assistant uses: it carries no password, so the link is the whole of that connection's security, and anyone holding it can read and edit the published copy. Revoking it disconnects the assistant and drops that copy; your own lists are untouched.
Once paired, your assistant has 37 tools. Ask it to build a list from a sentence or a Trip Underway link, organize loose notes, add or remove items, check off a category, change quantities, edit an item, or add a category. It can also suggest what is missing and explain why, reset or duplicate a list for another trip, manage to-dos, and create or revoke a share link.
For hotels and travel companies
Give your guests a packing butler.
Guests ask what to bring, and someone on your team replies, one message at a time. Give them a packing list based on their dates, the weather, and the amenities you provide.
🏖️Beach
Tell guests what you provide
A partner-connected list uses your amenity list to tell guests what they can leave at home: “Leave the hairdryer, the beach towels, and the sunscreen: the villa has them.” Your amenity list supplies everything needed for those suggestions.
Give guests a list before they travel
They get specific packing suggestions as part of their stay, with nothing to install. Your team can offer the list without taking on app support.
Build guest lists through your assistant
Packing Butler supports Model Context Protocol (MCP), so your AI assistant can build and edit a guest's list. It can use Packing Butler to keep a counted list based on the forecast and share it with the guest, alongside the packing advice it gives in conversation.
For villa managers, advisors, operators, and hotels
Use it wherever guests ask “what should I bring?” That includes vacation rentals, travel advisors, tour, ski, and dive operators, and resorts.
Compare
Get a packing list that accounts for the whole trip.
Compare how you build, share, and use a list. Packing Butler's capabilities are in the right-hand column.
| The best of the others | Packing Butler |
|---|---|
| Drive it from outside the app. None of the four can. Packerly, PackPoint, Packing List Checklist, and QuickPack all keep their assistant inside their own app. | Connect your AI assistant to packingbutler.com/mcp once. Its 37 MCP tools let you build and edit the list from the assistant you already use. |
| Open it without installing anything. Packing List Checklist shares to a browser (v1.8.1). Packerly is native-only, iCloud, no web. | Open the whole app in a browser. Send someone a live link and they can view the list without installing an app or creating an account. |
| A generic template for “beach” or “ski”, or a forecast bolted on top of one. | Get weather for your trip dates, with a label showing whether the list uses a forecast or typical conditions. |
| Tell you what you packed, then leave you guessing at the desk whether the bag is over. | Check the estimated weight against your airline's allowance for each bag. The estimate comes from the list, saving you from weighing forty things by hand. Choose kilos or pounds. |
| An app you have to install, on the one device you installed it on. | Open it in a browser on a phone, laptop, or someone else's screen. Add it to your home screen when you want it there. |
| A list only you can see, unless the other person also signs up. | Send a live link so someone can follow your packing progress as you check things off. They can view it without an app or account. |
| Tell you the bag is over, and stop there. | Get suggestions to bring the bag under its allowance. Wear the boots, move the toiletries to the checked bag, or reduce six shirts to four. It calculates the difference and keeps your passport and medication on the list. |
| A list that lives on a screen. Several charge for quantities, and one cannot be edited at all without a signal. | Print two checkbox columns on paper or PDF to use when your battery dies. Quantities are free for everyone, and you can fully edit the list with Wi-Fi off. |
| Marketing notifications, which people ask to turn off. | One calendar entry, the night before. It lands in the calendar you already check and says how many items are left. |
| You do the typing, item by item, into a form. | Paste or dictate your notes: "3 tshirts, meds - the blue ones, maybe hiking boots?, stop the mail". Items and errands are sorted separately, with quantities and notes kept and maybes flagged for you to decide. |
| Import an itinerary from a third party, if you keep one there. | Bring in a trip from Trip Underway, our travel app. Your destination, dates, and trip length carry across with it. |
Checked July 26, 2026 against each app's own App Store listing and its own description: Packerly (v1.17.24), Packing List Checklist (v1.8.x), PackPoint, QuickPack. If one of these ships something we claim here, tell us and this table changes.
Your lists stay yours.
The full policy, in the same plain language, is at packingbutler.com/privacy.
Your trips, items, notes, and to-dos are stored in your own browser or app, on your own device. Signing in uses an Epiphani account, the one account across every Epiphani app, and it happens on the account itself. When you sign in with Butler Pro, your lists sync across every device you're signed in on.
Two deliberate actions put your lists in front of another person or tool. Tapping Share stores a copy of that one list under a long, unguessable link so someone can open it in a browser. Connecting an assistant publishes your trips, all of them, to a private space identified by a secret token, which is what lets the assistant see the list you are asking it about. Both are reversible: stop sharing, or disconnect, and the copy is deleted. Anyone holding a share link or a connector link can read the copy it points at, so treat the link itself as the key.
The weather lookup runs on our server, so Open-Meteo receives a place and a set of dates. The destination is the one you type.
Anyone with the link sees the whole list (categories, quantities, what is already packed) on any phone, with no app and no account. Change something here and their view changes too.
Anyone holding the link can read this list. They cannot change it.
Send the link Stop sharingOn duty · looking after 3 trips.
Hand this link to ClaudeAnyone holding this link can read and edit these lists. Treat it like a key.
Questions
Questions, answered.
Is it really free?
Yes, and it is not a trial. The free tier is $0 and carries no ads, and it holds the whole simple product: a sentence in, a categorized and quantified list out, real forecasts, the reason each weather item is there, live share links, seeding from a Trip Underway itinerary, the 299-item suggestion library, and full offline use. Butler Pro adds assistant control, and the cross-device sync that comes with it, because that connection runs through a private space.
Do I need an account?
Yes, a free Epiphani account. It is the one account across every Epiphani app, so anything you buy follows you to a new device. You sign in once and the app keeps working offline after that. Sign in on the Epiphani account page. Your lists live in the browser or app on your device, and Butler Pro syncs them across every device you sign in on. If you connect an assistant, a secret token identifies your private space.
How does it know the weather?
Open-Meteo supplies weather for your destination and dates. Within the 16-day forecast window, the list uses the forecast. Warm days add shorts, a linen shirt, sunscreen, and a sun hat. A 35% chance of rain adds a rain jacket and a travel umbrella. Freezing lows add a winter coat, thermal base layers, gloves, a scarf, and lip balm. Each weather item explains why it belongs.
What happens if my trip is months away?
For trips beyond the 16-day window, the list uses last year's weather for the same calendar dates. The screen labels it “Typical for these dates”; trips within the window get “Forecast”. Typical conditions come from the weather recorded on those dates last year, rather than a seasonal average.
Can I use it on a plane?
Yes. Open your list on the plane and use it with Wi-Fi off. You can add items, change quantities, and check things off throughout the flight. Your changes are still there when you land.
What can I ask my AI assistant to do?
You can use 37 tools through your assistant. Ask it to build a list from a sentence or Trip Underway link, organize loose notes, add or remove items, check off a category, change quantities, edit an item, or add a category. It can suggest what is missing and explain why, reset or duplicate a list for another trip, manage to-dos, and create or revoke a share link.
Who can see a list I share?
Anyone holding the link. Sharing creates a long, unguessable URL that is listed nowhere and opens the list in any browser, with no app and no account. The view stays live, so they always see the list as it is now. The copy sits on our server while sharing is on; stop sharing and the copy is deleted and the link goes dead.
Pricing
Get the packing app free. Add Butler Pro for $14.99.
Get unlimited lists, forecasts, weather explanations, the suggestion library, sharing, and offline use for free. These stay free. Butler Pro adds control through your assistant and cross-device sync, so you can work on your lists across devices.
The Butler
$0
no ads, no cardThe features most trips need, free for ongoing use.
- Say a sentence, get a categorized, quantified list
- The real forecast for your actual dates
- What you would forget, and why it applies
- Share a live link: any phone, no app
- Works offline, on the plane
Yours for good
$14.99
once, lifetime. Prefer to rent? $9.99 a year.One payment, and it stays yours. Manage your packing list through your assistant, with cross-device sync to keep it up to date wherever you open it.
- Everything included in the Free plan
- Assistant control: 37 tools, packing in conversation
- Cross-device sync to keep your lists current across your devices
A 100% money-back guarantee, 30 days. If the butler does not earn his keep, the fee comes back in full.
Get your list ready for the next trip.
Free, and it keeps working offline once you are signed in.
Also from Epiphani Studios, and built to work together: Trip Underway keeps the trip itself in order, and Perq Wallet makes sure the credits that pay for it do not expire.