Roamy (now rebranding to Rhyme) is the closest thing to glide out there, and it's a sharp product. Same starting move: you send it a reel, it pulls the places out of the video and drops them on a map. If you're the person with a thousand saved travel posts and no time to turn them into a plan, Roamy will build you a tidy day-by-day itinerary for the trip.

So this isn't a "we do the same thing but nicer" page. The apps split on a bigger question: is the goal a plan for your next trip, or a map for where you go — including tonight, in your own city? That's the difference between Roamy and glide.

How they compare

Where Roamy stops short for going out

It's built for the trip, not the Tuesday. Roamy's job runs from "I'm planning a trip" to "here's your itinerary." That's a real, finite moment — a few times a year. But most going out isn't a planned trip; it's where do we eat tonight, what's good near this bar, where should we go after. glide lives in that everyday question as much as the vacation one. The same map that plans your Lisbon trip answers "somewhere good near me, right now" on a random weeknight at home.

A rigid, time-stamped itinerary is the wrong shape — and you feel it. Roamy builds you a day-by-day plan and sequences the whole thing. But going out isn't a schedule you clock into. A strict, timed plan can't tell that you don't want the French bistro at lunch and dinner, or that you've already done the elephant sanctuary once this trip — and worse, it turns a night out into a rulebook: be here at 4, there at 6. What people want is lighter than that. Not "no plan," and not a timetable either — just the right places grouped together, in a sensible order to move through, with the when left entirely up to you. That's the shape Glide is built around: structure, not a schedule, so the day still feels like yours.

The place card is thinner. Roamy gets your locations onto a map, which is the hard part. glide goes a step further into the details that decide where you actually go: ratings, opening hours, and the menu, attached to each place — not just a pin, but enough to choose.

Discovery only shows up when you're planning a trip. Roamy has added community suggestions inside trip planning. glide's discovery is always on and local: next to your own saves, you see where other people who love going out are heading nearby — in your city or the one you're flying to — so you keep finding the good places, not just replaying the ones you already saved.