| What it does | Instant Schengen visa appointment notifications and automated booking service
| You booked the trip. Petrel organizes it.
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| Stage | Not given
| Startup
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| Founded | 2023
| 2026
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| Based in | GB
| US
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| Pricing model | Paid
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| Pricing | Notifications: from £35 per month. AutoBooking: from £100 per applicant. For VFS: £30 prepayment per applicant plus £20 for date range, then £100 per applicant on booking (£70 per additional applicant). For TLS: £200 per applicant upfront (£100 per additional applicant). Subscriptions expire after 3
| Free first trip (every feature, no credit card); Voyager $49/year (unlimited trips); One more trip $9.99 (one-time)
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| Key features | - Instant appointment notifications when slots open up
- Automated booking across multiple applicants
- Coverage of 1500+ routes in 50+ cities
- Support for countries with waitlist systems
- GDPR compliant with Stripe secure payments
- Continuous monitoring of visa centre websites
- Non-renewable 30-day subscriptions
- Available on iOS and Android apps
| - Automatic itinerary building from booking confirmations in any format (emails, PDFs, screenshots, photos, spreadsheets)
- Live flight status with gate, terminal, and delay updates
- Offline access to complete trip
- Free invite and collaboration for travel companions with edit access
- Live calendar feed (ICS) with automatic updates
- Encrypted document vault for passports, IDs, and contacts
- Travel statistics tracking countries, continents, miles, and traveler tier
- Business trip management with expense reports and receipt attachment
- Trip recap with route, miles, and photos as travel blog
- Travel time calculations between stops with map integration
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| What makes it different | - Automatically books appointments without manual intervention
- Monitors all slots including when websites show no availability
- Catches slots in high-demand situations
- One subscription covers all travellers in a group
- Founded by engineers with personal migration experience
| - Reads any format of booking confirmation: emails, PDFs, screenshots, photos, even spreadsheets and paper vouchers
- No account required for first trip, no credit card needed to start
- Travel companions can view, edit, and split costs completely free
- Modern alternative to TripIt with simpler interface and automatic parsing
- Trips never deleted; permanently accessible, editable, and exportable
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| Community votes | 0 | 0 |
| DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs) | 46 ▼ −1 (down) since last check | 3 ▼ −1 (down) since last check |
| Trust Flow (Majestic) | 21 | 1 |
| Citation Flow (Majestic) | 25 | 26 |
| Referring domains (Majestic) | 392 | 53 |