Yuanzhou Luji: copy someone else's itinerary, then let the app route it

Yuanzhou Luji is an AI-assisted travel planning app that moves the starting point of a trip away from a blank spreadsheet. Paste a link, a block of text or a screenshot from a social platform, and the app parses it into a structured itinerary; give it a destination and a number of days, and it orders the stops by location and transport conditions. Around that core sit a map mode, collaborative editing, long-image and poster sharing, place reviews, and two social features for finding travel companions or posting an itinerary request. For people who start planning inside other travellers' posts, it removes the most tedious step: transcribing someone else's list into your own schedule.

The hard part of trip planning is rarely deciding where to go. It is sequencing. A guide post scatters seven or eight places and an offhand mention that one is on the way, and turning that into dated days means estimating distances, ordering stops and leaving slack. Yuanzhou Luji hands this to a rule-based planner: enter destination and days, hit one-tap planning, and the app produces an optimised route based on stop locations and transport conditions, drawn on a map. What you get is not a paragraph but an ordered list with travel times.

The second design choice is that itineraries move in and out. In: links, plain text and images are all parsed, so an itinerary written by someone else can be imported directly. Out: results can be presented as a long image, a poster for social feeds, a share code, or a live collaborative document. The itinerary stops being a private note and becomes something you can send to companions and revise together.

The third is the social layer. Companion matching and itinerary requests hand the problem of a plan that will not come together back to other people: post a request and let someone who has walked that route fill in the gaps, or find someone travelling the same way. Beyond utility, this is what makes the app worth reopening during an actual trip.

Main features

Itinerary copy: start from someone else's plan

Copy a link, text or image from a social platform and the app parses it into an editable itinerary draft. Paste a post from a travel feed or an article and skip the manual transcription.

One-tap planning ordered by location and transport

Enter a destination and the number of days, then run the planner. It sequences stops by location and transport conditions and shows the route on a map, so you can see immediately whether the order doubles back and how long each leg takes.

Map mode with live traffic

A world-map view of where your stops sit, with live traffic information and travel times between them. Dragging points on a map is far more intuitive than editing lines of text when the order feels wrong.

Collaborative editing

Companions edit the same itinerary, with changes syncing and notifying in real time, which avoids three people working from three different versions.

Sharing as long image, poster or share code

Generate a long itinerary image or a poster for social feeds, or share by code. These formats let people without the app read the plan.

Place pages with real reviews, itinerary overview and notes

Every stop has a detail page with user reviews, useful for judging whether a place is worth the detour and how long to stay. A multi-day overview with notes gives you a scannable index of the whole trip.

Travel inspiration and companion matching

The home feed surfaces destination ideas, while the companion and request features route open questions and shared-travel needs to other users.

Planning a trip in Yuanzhou Luji

1. Set the destination and the number of days; these are the two required inputs for the planner.
2. If you already have a reference itinerary, paste the link, text or screenshot so it can be parsed into a draft. Otherwise start from an empty itinerary.
3. Run one-tap planning and check the resulting order on the map for backtracking.
4. Switch to map mode and adjust stop by stop: drop places you do not care about, add the ones you do, and use travel times to decide which area belongs to which day.
5. Invite companions to edit alongside you and merge in the places they want to add.
6. Before departure, review the multi-day overview, then export the itinerary as a long image or poster for the group.

Who it suits

• Independent travellers who start from other people's guides and would rather edit a draft than build one.
• Organisers of group trips who need one itinerary everyone can edit and see.
• Short city breaks with dense stops, where the order decides how many places fit in a day.
• Multi-city trips that need an overview to manage connections between legs.
• Travellers looking for companions on the same route.

Limitations to know

• Public material does not state pricing, membership tiers or whether there is a cap on the number of itineraries; confirm inside the app before paying.
• The source does not provide a verifiable official website or a supported-platform list, so differences between Android and iOS builds and the existence of a web version cannot be confirmed.
• Parsing depends on how readable the source is. Dead links, blurry screenshots or very colloquial text may produce drafts that need manual correction.
• The optimised route is computed from stop locations and transport conditions; whether opening hours, reservation limits or seasonal road closures are factored in is not stated.
• Companion matching is social matching between users. How identities and reliability are vetted is not covered in public material, so judgement stays with the traveller.
• Coverage and refresh rate of live traffic are not disclosed; for intercity or overseas legs, verify travel times independently.

Frequently asked questions

Can I copy someone else's itinerary directly?

Yes. Links, text and images from social platforms are parsed into a draft itinerary that you then adjust to your own dates and preferences.

Can the generated route be changed?

Yes. Stops can be adjusted point by point in map mode, and companions can edit collaboratively with changes syncing live.

How do companions without the app read the plan?

Share a long itinerary image, a poster or a share code; none of those require the app to be installed.

Does it work for long multi-city trips?

It is designed for that. A multi-day overview with notes plus map travel times helps manage connections between cities.