How to use Oodies
Your first trip
in 7 quick steps
Oodies plans food-first road trips. Tell us where you're going, what you crave, and how much you want to spend — we find the best restaurants along the way.
Start a trip →Building a trip
The wizard, step by step
Pick your trip type
Choose how you're traveling: staying in one city, doing a round trip from home, or going A to B (a road trip with a different start and end).
Tip: Not sure? Most users start with "Staying there" — Oodies will plan a few days of meals around one city.
Tell us where
Type your destination (and starting city if it's an A→B trip). The autocomplete will suggest real places — pick from the list to keep search accurate.
Tip: Be specific. "Paris" is fine, "Paris, France" is better, "Le Marais, Paris" gives you neighborhood-level results.
Set your budget
Pick your currency, type the amount, and choose whether it's per meal, per day, or for the whole trip. Oodies maps this to local price points.
Tip: €30/meal in Paris is mid-range. ₪200/meal in Tel Aviv is similar. The app handles the conversion to Google's "$ to $$$$" scale automatically.
Pick days + meals
How many days? Which meals — morning, noon, evening, night out? Total stops = days × meals you check. Max 30 stops per trip.
Tip: Three meals a day fills your trip. Pick fewer if you want time between restaurants — like just lunch + dinner.
Choose what you crave
Tap any cuisines you're into (Italian, Japanese, Mediterranean, etc.) — or dietary tags like vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free. "Surprise me" mixes it up. "Local cuisine" goes regional.
Tip: You can pick multiple. Tagging "vegetarian" + "Italian" + "local" tells the AI to find vegetarian Italian and local options.
Adventurous level
How far off the highway should we look? Stick to the route, light detours, or off the beaten path. For "Staying there" trips this becomes "on foot / short ride / above and beyond".
Tip: "Light detours" is the sweet spot — finds local gems without making you drive an hour off-route.
Hit "Build my food trip"
The wizard locks in. Building takes 30–60 seconds — Oodies fetches the route, finds restaurants near every stop, asks Claude to pick the best one for each, and surfaces a hidden gem from a real local article.
Tip: You can leave the page open or come back later — the trip will be there waiting.
Once it's built
What you can do with your trip
Map first
Click any pin to scroll to that restaurant. The terracotta line shows your actual driving route.
Hidden gem
A floating mascot bottom-right points to a real local-favorite spot, sourced from a recent web article.
Don't love a pick?
Hit "Swap" on any card to ask for a different cuisine, higher rating, or describe what you want. 5 swaps per trip.
Take it with you
Export to PDF, Excel, Google Maps (with all stops as waypoints), or Wanderlog. Or share the trip URL.
Navigate
Each card has a "Navigate" button that opens Google Maps or Waze straight to the restaurant.
Private by default
Toggle "Private" to "Public" on the trip header to share with friends without making them sign in.
Common questions
Quick answers
Is it really free?
Yes. Every feature, no paywalls, no tiers. If you love it, drop a tip via the donut button — that's how the lights stay on.
Why are some stops grouped in big cities?
For long road trips, the AI picks 3 stops per regular town and up to 6 in your origin/destination city (since you'll spend more time there).
Can I redo a trip?
Plan as many as you want — there's no cap. If you don't like the picks, just generate a new one.
Why does the AI pick a restaurant in the wrong city sometimes?
Rare, but if a waypoint is in the middle of nowhere we widen the search up to 50km to find anything reasonable. Use the Swap button to fix it.
Ready to eat?
Free forever. No credit card needed.
Build my food trip →