Can you build a travel app that works offline where there's no signal?

Yes — it's the requirement that keeps recurring in our travel work. Maps, routes and trip content download to the phone before departure, and GPS keeps working with no signal at all. Cicerone's walking guides and Big Trail Adventures' trail holidays navigate the remotest stages offline, and Go Quest Adventures' city quests even sync a team's progress once a connection returns. A guide that dies at the trailhead is worse than no guide at all.

Have you built software for travel companies before?

Yes — five delivered travel products, spanning guidebook publishing, self-guided trail holidays, city treasure hunts, group-trip planning and home swaps. Every one of those clients has kept us on afterwards for maintenance or ongoing product work, which is usually a fair sign the first build went well. We're a London consultancy, trading since 2019, with 50+ projects delivered overall and a 4.9 rating on Clutch.

How much does a travel booking app cost to build?

From £5,000 for something focused, with most full booking or guide apps landing higher depending on scope — payment flows, offline maps and admin tools each add work. We scope the project first and agree a fixed price before anything starts, so the number you sign off is the number you pay. A typical build takes around three months from design to launch.

Can you connect the app to the booking system and checkout we already use?

That's usually the right way round — we build against what you already sell through rather than replacing it. For Cicerone we connected the app to their Shopify store, so a guide bought on the website unlocks in the app automatically, alongside in-app purchases through the app stores. Tell us what you run — an e-commerce platform, a payment provider, a booking tool — and we'll design the integration around it.

We sell most of our trips in a short season — can the build fit around that?

Yes, and it should. A typical project takes around three months, so we count back from your season: build through the quiet months and launch with time to spare before peak bookings, rather than shipping something new the week your busiest fortnight starts. Scope and timeline are agreed before work begins, so you know exactly what lands and when.

Do we need separate iOS and Android apps for our travel product?

No — one cross-platform codebase can ship to both app stores at once, which is how we built Cicerone's guide app. Two separate native apps mean paying for every future update twice; one shared build keeps features and releases in step across iPhone and Android, and keeps maintenance after launch affordable. If a genuinely native build ever fits your product better, we'll say so before you commit.

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What we build for travel companies

Most travel products have to do three jobs at once — sell the trip, guide the traveller on the ground, and run the operation behind both. Our travel builds cluster around them.

Booking and checkout flows

A failed checkout is a lost booking, so we build purchase and unlock flows around the store you already run — for guidebook publisher Cicerone, guides bought through Shopify unlock automatically in the reader's app account, alongside in-app purchases through the app stores.
Offline GPS guides

Trails and city streets rarely come with reliable signal, so we build navigation that downloads maps and routes to the phone before departure. Cicerone's walking guides and Big Trail Adventures' day-by-day trail holidays both keep working with no signal at all.
Trip planning and itineraries

Group trips scatter across booking emails, spreadsheets and chats. For One Place we built an app where uploading a booking confirmation fills the itinerary in automatically — AI reads the document and drops travel, stays and dates into the right place.
Operator back office

Behind every good travel product sits an admin system for tours, prices, content and bookings. We build those too — Go Quest Adventures runs its city treasure hunts from a CMS we built, and Big Trail Adventures manages tours and accommodation from theirs.

Our services

Our travel work

Three of our travel builds: Cicerone's walking-guide app with offline GPS routes and a Shopify-linked purchase hub, One Place's group-trip planner that reads booking documents with AI, and the city treasure hunts we run for Go Quest Adventures. Offline navigation and reliable checkout keep recurring — the two things a travel product can't afford to fumble.

Cicerone

A cross-platform mobile app for Cicerone, the established outdoor guidebook publisher — turning trusted walking and cycling guides into GPS routes with offline maps, in-app purchases and a Shopify-linked library.
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One Place

An iOS and Android app that keeps everything about a group trip or event — travel, accommodation, agenda, guests and to-dos — in one place, built end to end by CodeLeap for a UK startup.
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Go Quest Adventures

The platform behind Go Quest Adventures' self-guided city treasure hunts — mobile app, marketing website and Django backend — built and maintained by CodeLeap so teams can play across UK cities and the client can run the business.
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Yes — it's the requirement that keeps recurring in our travel work. Maps, routes and trip content download to the phone before departure, and GPS keeps working with no signal at all. Cicerone's walking guides and Big Trail Adventures' trail holidays navigate the remotest stages offline, and Go Quest Adventures' city quests even sync a team's progress once a connection returns. A guide that dies at the trailhead is worse than no guide at all.
Yes — five delivered travel products, spanning guidebook publishing, self-guided trail holidays, city treasure hunts, group-trip planning and home swaps. Every one of those clients has kept us on afterwards for maintenance or ongoing product work, which is usually a fair sign the first build went well. We're a London consultancy, trading since 2019, with 50+ projects delivered overall and a 4.9 rating on Clutch.
From £5,000 for something focused, with most full booking or guide apps landing higher depending on scope — payment flows, offline maps and admin tools each add work. We scope the project first and agree a fixed price before anything starts, so the number you sign off is the number you pay. A typical build takes around three months from design to launch.
That's usually the right way round — we build against what you already sell through rather than replacing it. For Cicerone we connected the app to their Shopify store, so a guide bought on the website unlocks in the app automatically, alongside in-app purchases through the app stores. Tell us what you run — an e-commerce platform, a payment provider, a booking tool — and we'll design the integration around it.
Yes, and it should. A typical project takes around three months, so we count back from your season: build through the quiet months and launch with time to spare before peak bookings, rather than shipping something new the week your busiest fortnight starts. Scope and timeline are agreed before work begins, so you know exactly what lands and when.
No — one cross-platform codebase can ship to both app stores at once, which is how we built Cicerone's guide app. Two separate native apps mean paying for every future update twice; one shared build keeps features and releases in step across iPhone and Android, and keeps maintenance after launch affordable. If a genuinely native build ever fits your product better, we'll say so before you commit.