You’ll be offered a list of preferences to select and prioritise from. You can select preferences based on what makes outings more favourable for your guardians, and we’ll recommend plans accordingly. If you share the plan with your guardian, they will also be able to see all the factors that the plan addresses.

A young woman we took feedback from said, “There are a lot of apps suggesting plans but what works for a 22 yr old guy, doesn’t work for me.” Other planning apps filter plans according to events, date or budget. We understand that it takes more to make a plan happen, especially for young people.

Well, no. You can set your preferences when you onboard and choose to save them under a unique username. The next time you log in, we’ll have your recommendations prepared until you choose to edit your preferences.

Upbeat is designed by a team of young women who have experienced restrictions in mobility at different levels. Our struggles inspired us to design interventions that respond to restrictions. Although Upbeat comes from our interactions with young women, it remains a solution for us as well.

Yes, we plan to add that and more to the next version of the app once we do justice to our primary intent of Upbeat - find plans your guardians would approve of. As human centred designers, we will iterate upon and adapt Upbeat as per the needs of our users.

Yes :)