How it works
We Pack Together is a shared packing list for a trip or an afternoon — built to stay just as simple when it’s only you.
01 — Sound familiar?
It’s nine o’clock the night before.
The group chat
The list, same moment
One list the whole group can see, answering it before anyone has to ask — including the bit that still needs someone.
Three steps to a list everyone can use.
Step 1
Start a list
Type things in, paste the list you already keep in Notes, or start from a ready-made one.
Step 2
Share one link
Drop it in the group chat. When someone is ready, they sign in, choose their name, and see a short preview of open gaps before joining. Their email stays private.
Before joining
Step 3
Take one thing. See the gap close.
A fresh join opens what still needs someone. A commitment closes a gap; a spare stays an offer. Shared coverage updates for everyone, while your packed ticks stay private.
It works for an afternoon, too.
A garden barbecue needs coordinating just as much as a week under canvas. Same list, same coverage, same spares — one afternoon instead of five nights.
Backyard barbecue
Half of it can’t be packed until you’re walking out of the door.
The tablet still on charge, the ice packs still in the freezer, the cool-bag by the door. They collect in one grab-on-the-way-out pile, while staying on the list they came from.
Grab on the way out
ticks work with no signal at all, and catch up when you’re back in range
Exactly as complicated as the trip is.
On your own it’s a plain checklist — the things, and the ticks. Add other people and who’s bringing what turns up alongside, because now that’s worth knowing.
Ivy’s weekend at Grandma’s
SoloLake District camping
4 householdsEach household’s list is visible to the whole group, so anyone can spot a gap, and editable only by them, so nothing gets tidied away by somebody else. A list you make just for yourself is the one exception: nobody else sees it, or sees that it’s there.
It carries over, so you don’t start again.
Never start from scratch
Ready-made starter lists for camping, a beach holiday or a baby’s bag — or one another group has already worked out and shared.
Your gear, saved
Gear you mark and pack joins your own gear list — and when a new trip starts, it can suggest what you usually bring.
Start next year from this one
“We should have brought a mallet” gets noted the moment it’s true, ready when you start the next gathering from this one.
You work a trip out once. After that the list carries it forward — what you own, what you usually bring, and what you swore you’d bring next time.
Stop asking who’s bringing the speaker.
Plan it together on the sofa, or let one of you quietly sort the lot. Everyone sees shared coverage; each person privately tracks what they still need to pack.
Nothing to install — it’s just a link.
Been given a code? Join with it.