How to share your trip as a link

Open the trip and use the share action. Your device's share popup appears, so the link can go to any app — messages, email, notes — with the trip's name, number of stops and length above it. Copy link, in that same popup, copies the link alone, ready to paste anywhere.

On the web, the share action offers Copy link and Share via… — or, in a browser with no share popup, copies the link straight away.

If the person you send it to has Ntripi, the link opens the trip in the app — after they sign in, if they are signed out. If they don't, it opens a preview of the trip in their browser, with one way in: See the full trip, which signs them in — or creates a free account — and opens it.

A public trip generates a preview card in most chat apps: the cover image, the title, and — when the trip has them — its rating and the start of its description.

A trip that is not public generates only a plain card that says it is a private trip on Ntripi — no title, cover photo or owner. That is deliberate — the card is seen by everyone in the group chat, including people who cannot open it.

Without an account, the preview: the trip's title, cover photo, rating and description. That is all anyone gets without signing in — a person, a search engine or a chat app alike — so your name, the stops, the transport, the costs, your notes and the reviews stay inside Ntripi.

Everything else is one free sign-in away: See the full trip opens it on the web, or in the app where it is installed. Saving it, rating it or copying stops from it needs the account too.

A link to a profile works the same way: without an account it shows the name, the @username and the profile photo.

A link opens the app only on a phone where Ntripi is installed, and only when it is tapped — in a message, an email or a note. Typed or pasted into the address bar, or opened inside another app's built-in browser, it opens the trip's page in the browser instead.

On Android, when Chrome says the app is installed, that page puts Open in Ntripi first. On an iPhone the page offers it as well, and says so if the app did not open. And if you are signed in to Ntripi in that browser, you skip the page and land on the trip on the web.

On an iPhone, tapping ntripi.app at the top right of the app sends links to Safari from then on — press and hold a link and choose to open it in Ntripi to switch back.

If you are signed out, the app asks you to sign in first, then opens the trip.

Change the trip's visibility and the link stops working for anyone who no longer qualifies, immediately. There is no need to chase the message you sent.

What you cannot undo is a screenshot, so treat publishing as publishing.