A new travel and discovery app, Vintavia, has launched in London, offering users personalised itineraries built around their own preferences rather than lists shaped by advertising spend or generic popularity rankings.
The app works in two ways. Users planning ahead can tell Vintavia where they are travelling to, along with what they want to do, see and spend, and the app will generate a day-by-day itinerary tailored to those preferences. It is also designed to work in the moment, allowing someone to open the app after arriving somewhere unfamiliar and see suggestions for what is worth doing nearby.
Time and budget are left entirely in the hands of the user. According to the developers, either or both can be set, or left open, and the app will calculate what is realistically achievable within whatever window is available.
The developers say the app's real-time function is intended to address a gap left by many existing travel and discovery tools: the lunch break spent somewhere familiar because a better option nearby went unnoticed, or a free afternoon spent somewhere ordinary rather than somewhere memorable. Rather than repeating the same highly ranked attractions found in guidebooks or AI-generated itineraries, Vintavia is designed to build a walking route from wherever the user is currently standing, incorporating lesser-known places along the way.
Aditya Agashe, founder of Vintavia, said the app was built to differ from existing tools that rely on generic popularity or paid placement. "Most apps and AI chatbots hand you a list built from what's generically popular, or who's paid to be at the top," he said. "Vintavia starts from wherever you're standing and works outwards, taking in your tastes, your budget and the time you actually have, and cross-referencing what's possible - right now or weeks away - against opening hours, travel time and visiting time."
He added: "So if it makes more sense to hike across town for the place that closes early, then come back to the spot around the corner that's open till late, Vintavia guides you through exactly that. We built it for people who want to get out and explore, and do it efficiently, whether that's planning a trip properly or making the most of an afternoon you didn't expect to have free."
London is described as the app's most thoroughly mapped city at launch, with the developers saying it is intended for use by residents and visitors alike, whether that means Londoners rediscovering their own neighbourhoods or visitors looking beyond the most obvious sights.
At launch, Vintavia's coverage extends to more than 750 places of interest across 32 cities in five Western European countries, with new locations said to be added on a weekly basis. The developers say this is intended to allow travellers venturing further afield to plan trips that go beyond the standard checklist of attractions typically repeated across guidebooks.
Vintavia is free to download and is available now on iOS and Android, via the App Store and Google Play.
The app's approach to real-time, location-based discovery is patent pending. Agashe was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS) in 2026 in recognition of the invention and work behind the platform. A full founder biography is available on request from the company's media contact.
