The manual: how each thing works

What it does

Each route with its kilometres, its stages, how hard it is and the map of all 7 together.

How to use it

In the menu, THE ROUTES. The list of all seven opens; go into one and you get its whole map, the profile of the entire route and its stages, so you can scroll down to the one you want.

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What it does

From where to where, how much you climb, how much you drop and everything along the way, kilometre by kilometre.

How to use it

From a route page, or by searching the name of the town. Each stage gives you where it goes from and to, the kilometres, how much climbing and descending there is, and everything along the way in kilometre order.

What it does

The elevation drawing with every bar, every hostel and every fountain at its exact kilometre.

How to use it

Inside the stage page, near the top. The elevation drawing carries every bar, hostel and fountain at its exact kilometre: tap a point and its page opens.

What it does

Where there are ten, fifteen or twenty kilometres with no water and no food. No other guide works this out.

How to use it

It appears on its own, inside the stage, when there is a long stretch with no water and no food. It is not typed in by hand: it is worked out from the real distance between places that are open.

What it does

You type the days you have and the kilometres you walk a day, and it tells you which ones fit whole.

How to use it

In the menu, under PREPARE. You put in the days you have and the kilometres you walk a day, and it tells you which routes fit whole and where to start the ones that do not.

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What it does

What sleeping, eating and washing clothes cost, with the prices the places publish themselves.

How to use it

In the menu, under PREPARE. You pick a route and a way of travelling and out comes the budget, day by day, using the prices the hostels and bars publish themselves.

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What it does

The year month by month with our own data: how many beds open in February and how many hours of daylight there are.

How to use it

In the menu, under PREPARE. Month by month: temperature, rain, daylight hours, how many people there are and how many beds are open, from the guide's own data.

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What it does

How to reach the start of each route and how to get home from the end.

How to use it

On each route page, further down. How to get to the starting point and how to get back from Santiago: train, bus, plane and who runs them.

What it does

What you need to know before setting off and does not fit on a stage page.

How to use it

In the menu, PREPARE. It is the front page of the written guides: the backpack, feet, the phrasebook, the credencial, with a dog and by bike.

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What it does

What to put in and what it really weighs, added up for you against your own weight.

How to use it

Inside PREPARE, "backpack weight". You put in your own weight, tick what you are carrying, and it adds up the total and the percentage: that is where you see the three kilos too many.

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What it does

What you have to be able to say on the Camino, in your language and in Spanish.

How to use it

Inside PREPARE, "phrasebook". The bare minimum you need to be able to say, in your language and in Spanish, to show at the desk.

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What it does

When a stage ends in two, it says so, with the kilometres and the days on each side.

How to use it

It appears on its own, inside the stage where the route splits in two. It says where each branch goes, how many kilometres and days each has, and where they join again.

What it does

A town, a stage, a hostel — or what you are after: "washing machine", "blisters", "budget".

How to use it

The magnifying glass in the menu, top right. It searches routes, stages, towns, hostels and the site's own screens all at once: "Astorga" works and so does "washing machine".

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What it does

Roncesvalles, Astorga or Melide: what is there, which stage it falls on and how far from Santiago.

How to use it

In the menu, under PLACES, "the towns". Every town has its own page: which stage it falls in, how far from Santiago and everything that is open there.

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What it does

All of them on the Camino, by group and by town, with what we have checked about each one.

How to use it

In the menu, PLACES, with its four groups. The whole list can be filtered, sorted and seen on the map.

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What it does

Washing machine, dogs welcome, step-free, bike storage, a room without bunks, stamps your credential.

How to use it

Above any list of places. Tick what you need — washing machine, dogs allowed, step-free, no bunks, bike storage, stamps the credencial — and the list narrows itself.

What it does

The bed, the set menu, the washing machine: what each one charges, published by the place itself.

How to use it

On the place's page, the prices tab. The business puts them in itself and every line carries the date it was last touched.

What it does

Half the hostels do not open all year. It says which and when — and when we do not know.

How to use it

On the place's page, among the details. Which months it opens; and when it is not known, it says so instead of leaving a blank.

What it does

What other pilgrims say, with the owner's reply when there is one.

How to use it

At the bottom of every page. They read without an account, with the rating, the date of the visit and the host's reply when there is one.

What it does

A question written in your language about the Camino or about the guide, answered on the spot.

How to use it

The question-mark icon in the menu. You write the question in your language and it answers with what is in this guide, saying where it got it from.

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What it does

Your days, not the book's: you choose where you sleep each night and the guide recalculates.

How to use it

In your panel, MY TRIP. You pick a route and a start date and it proposes the days; then you drag them by hand until they fit the days you have.

What it does

The budget for your days and your dates, not for some average trip.

How to use it

Inside your trip, in the editor itself. The budget for YOUR days, with the prices of the places on YOUR stages, not for some generic trip.

What it does

Log the day in thirty seconds. In time, «what does the Camino cost» is answered with the real median instead of an estimate.

How to use it

In your panel, SPENDING. You note down the bed, the food and the rest of the day in thirty seconds. With what everyone notes down, "what it costs" becomes a real median.

What it does

Your itinerary printed to carry folded in a pocket, no battery needed.

How to use it

Inside your trip, the print button. Out comes the itinerary on paper: each day with its kilometres, its towns and its phone numbers, to carry folded up with no battery.

What it does

An .ics file with your days so the phone reminds you.

How to use it

Inside your trip. You download an .ics file and the days go into your phone's calendar with their date and their notes.

What it does

A link so people at home can see where you are, without installing anything.

How to use it

Inside your trip. You get a link that anyone can open with no account and nothing to install: at home they see where you are and where you are sleeping.

What it does

The stage or the whole route for your watch or GPS, downloaded the night before.

How to use it

On the stage page and on the route page, "download GPX". It downloads the track for your watch or GPS; best done the night before, with a signal.

What it does

The stage map downloaded on purpose, for the day there is no coverage.

How to use it

On the stage page and on the route page, "offline maps". It downloads the real tiles, not a picture: the next day the map pans and zooms with no coverage.

What it does

Your own days, cut where you sleep, for the watch or the GPS.

How to use it

Inside your trip. The GPX of YOUR whole itinerary, cut where you sleep, not the book's stages.

What it does

You open the guide and today's walk is there, not an index to hunt through.

How to use it

In your panel, the first entry: TODAY. It shows the day you are on according to your trip, with what you need to know about it, instead of an index to search through.

What it does

It crosses where you are with the time, the daylight left, the water ahead and what the board says. Three things at most, the most urgent first.

How to use it

Inside the stage, once you are signed in. A block that updates itself and says at most three things, the most urgent first: the daylight left, the dry stretch ahead, whether there are beds.

What it does

The phone says where you are and the guide answers how far is left and where the next fountain is.

How to use it

Inside the stage, "where am I?". You tap it, give the GPS permission once, and it answers which kilometre you are at, how much is left and where the next fountain is.

What it does

The forecast for the stretch you are going to walk, not for the provincial capital.

How to use it

Inside the stage. The forecast for today and tomorrow at the start point and the end point, not at the provincial capital.

What it does

Whether the fountain at kilometre twelve had water yesterday, because someone said so on the way past.

How to use it

On the stage and on the fountain's page. Whether it was running the last time somebody walked past, and when that was; after ten days it stops counting.

What it does

Two taps as you pass. It is what makes tomorrow’s report worth anything.

How to use it

On the fountain's page, two taps: it was running or it was not. You have just drunk from it, so you know; and that is what makes tomorrow's report worth something.

What it does

Fallen arrows, roadworks, mud, loose dogs and closures. What there is today and may not be tomorrow.

How to use it

Inside the stage. What is happening today: an arrow knocked down, roadworks, mud, a loose dog, a hostel closed. Each notice expires according to what it is.

What it does

The things that do not expire: where the fountain actually is, which bar opens at six. Free to read.

How to use it

Inside the stage, below the noticeboard. The things that do not expire: where the fountain really is, which bar opens at six. Reading them asks for nothing.

What it does

Write one and vote on other people’s. With the free account.

How to use it

Inside the stage, in the tips. You write your own or vote on someone else's with "this helped me": the useful ones rise.

What it does

You tell what you have just seen and save it for whoever passes tomorrow.

How to use it

Inside the stage, on the noticeboard. You open the notice, say what kind it is and tell it; whoever passes tomorrow confirms it or closes it.

What it does

Today’s bed, water and noticeboard reports from every route, together. The one page that changes on its own each morning.

How to use it

In the menu, under PREPARE, "the Camino today". The bed reports, the water reports and the noticeboards of all 7 routes, together and from today.

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What it does

The ones from every route together, not buried in the stage where they were reported.

How to use it

In the menu, under PREPARE, "lost and found". What has been lost and found on every route, with the place and the day.

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What it does

What you have lost or what you have found, with how to reach you.

How to use it

In lost and found, "post". You say what it is, where it happened and how to reach you; the notice expires on its own after a while.

What it does

112, the pharmacies and the health centres that fall on your way.

How to use it

Inside the stage. 112, the pharmacies and the health centres that fall on that stage, with the number dialable in one tap.

What it does

The local holidays of the district you are crossing, which is what decides whether there is bread.

How to use it

Inside the stage. Whether it is a public holiday in that district that day and what will be closed, which is what decides whether there is bread.

What it does

At what time and in which church, with the date it was checked.

How to use it

Inside the stage. Which church has mass and the pilgrim blessing, at what time, and the date it was checked.

What it does

The bus, the train or the taxi from the end of the stage, for the day you cannot carry on.

How to use it

Inside the stage, "how to get out of here". The bus, the train and the taxi from the end of the stage, for the day you cannot go on.

What it does

Who carries it from one stage to the next, what they charge and up to what weight.

How to use it

Inside the stage. Who carries the backpack to the next stage, how much they charge, up to what weight and their phone number.

What it does

The phone number and the WhatsApp in the list itself, without opening each page.

How to use it

In the list of places itself, without opening the page. The phone and the WhatsApp one tap away, which is the only thing anyone does while walking.

What it does

Today's report from each hostel: room, nearly full or full.

How to use it

On the hostel's page. Today's report: room available, filling up or full, according to what people walking past have said.

What it does

When a hostel says «full», the places further on that reported beds today, with their phone number.

How to use it

It appears on its own on the page of a hostel that has said "full". The places further ahead on the same stage that have said today they had room, with their phone numbers, so you do not walk back.

What it does

You have just called or walked past: you say it and save it for the one behind you.

How to use it

On the hostel's page, one tap. You have just called or walked past the door: you say how it is and save the person behind you the trouble.

What it does

Two people, tonight, arriving around six. The host answers yes or no and you get the alert. It is not a booking: nothing is paid and nobody is bound.

How to use it

On the page of a hostel that accepts them. You put in how many of you there are, which night and what time you arrive; the host's phone rings and they answer yes or no. It is not a booking: nothing is paid and nobody is bound.

What it does

A notice written in German, translated into your language with one tap.

How to use it

Under any review, notice or tip written by a person. You tap "translate" and it comes out in your language without leaving the page.

What it does

A phone number that changed, a hostel that closed. You correct it and it is on the record.

How to use it

On any place's page, "correct". A phone number that changed or an old opening time gets fixed by whoever walks past; it is recorded, and the owner sees it and can dispute it.

What it does

Say how it went, with the date of your visit.

How to use it

On the place's page, "write a review". You put the rating, the date of the visit and whatever you want to say; it goes out under your name.

What it does

Your experience of the whole route, with the month and year you walked it.

How to use it

In "Reviews", you pick the route and say what walking it was like: the rating, the month and year you did it and whatever you want to tell. One per person and route, editable whenever you like. It is checked before it goes out. If you have any stamp from that route, it is marked as you having been there.

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What it does

The ones that help rise; the ones that do not, sink.

How to use it

Under every review, "did this help you?". The ones that help rise and the ones that do not sink.

What it does

Ask whether there is a bed left, without their email being published anywhere.

How to use it

On the place's page, "write to them". The message reaches their inbox without their email appearing on any page.

What it does

In writing or out loud. You speak in yours, the house reads it in theirs, and the answer reaches you translated and, if you like, read aloud.

How to use it

On the business's page, "Talk to the business". Write, or press "Speak" and say what you want: the phone turns it into text. What they answer comes out in your language, with the original underneath; press "Listen" to hear it, or tick "Read aloud whatever comes in". Your conversations stay in your panel, under MY CONVERSATIONS.

What it does

Stages and hostels marked so you find them again without searching.

How to use it

The heart on every place page and every stage. Tap it and it stays in your panel, under FAVOURITES.

What it does

You scan the code on the door and the stage is stamped in your credential.

How to use it

You scan the QR the place has on its door, or you add it from your credencial. The stamp is recorded with its date, and if the house gives something for stamping, it says so right there.

What it does

Every stamp of the trip, with the date and the place of each one.

How to use it

In your panel, CREDENCIAL. The stamps from the whole trip, each with its day and its place.

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What it does

How many of the hundred kilometres you have done and from which town you have to stamp twice a day.

How to use it

Inside the credencial, at the top. It counts how many of the last hundred kilometres you have done and warns you from which town you have to stamp twice a day.

What it does

What time you actually arrive, at your pace and not at some invented average.

How to use it

Inside the credencial. Your real pace, measured from the times on your stamps, and the daylight hours left today.

What it does

If you have been walking at a different pace than planned, the itinerary says so and re-cuts with one button.

How to use it

Inside your trip. It compares what you actually walk with what you planned and, if it does not add up, trims the itinerary with one button.

What it does

The night before, what you need to know about tomorrow: heat, rain, a dry stretch or a notice on the board.

How to use it

You do not have to go looking for it: it arrives on its own the afternoon before. What you need to know about tomorrow — heat, rain, a dry stretch, a holiday, a notice from the board. If there is nothing to say, nothing arrives.

What it does

The warnings reach the phone even with the guide closed.

How to use it

In your panel, ALERTS. You give permission once on that phone and from then on alerts arrive with the guide closed. The permission belongs to that browser, not to the account.

What it does

One page per stage with what you walked, when, and what you wrote down.

How to use it

In your panel, DIARY. One entry a day with the stage filled in for you; you write what you like and it is saved with the date.

What it does

When someone says there is room on the stage you are heading for, it reaches you.

How to use it

On the hostel's page or on the stage, "alert me". When somebody says there are beds left, your phone rings.

What it does

Text and a photo of a sign, in all six directions.

How to use it

In your panel, TRANSLATOR. You type, you speak or you photograph a sign, and it comes out in the language you choose.

What it does

The Pilgrim Office, the Compostela, the mass and what to do with the last day.

How to use it

In the menu, under PREPARE. The Pilgrim's Office, the Compostela, the mass and what to do with the last day.

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What it does

All your stamps on one printable sheet, to keep or to show.

How to use it

Inside your credencial, "print". All your stamps on one sheet, to keep or to show at the Office.

What it does

It certifies that you have walked the Camino: 37 stages from at least 2 Ways, each with its 4 stamps, the stage arriving in Santiago and the selfie in front of the cathedral.

How to use it

In your panel, “The parchment”. It is earned by walking and there is one per pilgrim: you must complete 37 stages adding up those of all the Ways, from at least 2 different Ways; each complete stage carries 4 stamps — one on leaving, one on arriving and 2 more along the route, at 2 different houses —; among the complete ones must be the stage that enters Santiago; and take a selfie in front of the cathedral, which is the ending. Then it opens: you write your name, set the dates and a line of your own, and it can be viewed and printed, with the stages, the kilometres and the Ways you did it on. Not before: without that it cannot be seen, printed or downloaded, because if it could it would certify nothing. It is tied to the email you confirmed the account with, and at the foot it carries that email masked and a code anyone can use from outside to check it is genuine. The stages of Finisterre-Muxía count, but that Way does not enter Santiago and cannot be the one of the final stage. The credential stamp put there by scanning a house’s code also counts: it stands for the start or the finish of that stage, depending on where the house is. One per stage, so no stage is completed without shells. A Way shorter than 300 km is walked whole or does not count: every one of its stages complete, each with its stamps.

What it does

You point your phone at the scallop shell on the wall and the stamp is recorded, with the house, the town and the kilometre.

How to use it

On the wall of member businesses there is a scallop shell with a code inside. Point your phone at it, choose whether you are leaving, arriving or passing through, and the stamp is recorded with the name of the house, the town, the kilometre and the day. You need an account, the free one is enough, and you can create it from that same screen.

What it does

Your whole trip in one document, stage by stage.

How to use it

Inside the diary, "print". Your whole trip in one document, stage by stage, to keep when you get home.

What it does

With the public data we could gather, without signing up, without paying, and in 18 languages.

How to use it

There is nothing to do: your listing is already there, with the public details we were able to gather, in 18 languages. Look for it by the name of your house.

What it does

You say it is yours and we check it by phone.

How to use it

On your listing, "this house is mine". You need a free account and we check by calling the number already on the listing: you read out a code and it becomes yours.

What it does

Name, type, address, town, phone, a header image and the services. With the free account.

How to use it

In your panel, MY BUSINESS. With the free account you manage the name, the type, the address, the town, the phone, one header image and the services.

What it does

Your description, your photos, your prices, your hours, your WhatsApp, your social links and the languages you speak.

How to use it

On the same screen, further down. Membership opens up the description, the photos of the house, the prices, the opening times, the WhatsApp, the social accounts and the languages you speak.

What it does

One sentence with an expiry date, in your stage’s list: “pilgrim menu, €12, until ten”.

How to use it

In your panel, inside your business, "today's offer". One sentence with an expiry time that goes out on your stage's list. Only one live at a time.

What it does

Your own rates, put up by you and dated.

How to use it

In your panel, inside your business, "prices". You put in the bed, the menu, the washing machine; every line keeps its date so people can see it is current.

What it does

Who changed what and when, to check it or challenge it.

How to use it

In your panel, CORRECTIONS. Who changed what on your listing and when, so you can accept it or undo it.

What it does

One complaint answered politely sells more than ten compliments.

How to use it

In your panel, REVIEWS. You answer under each one and your reply goes out next to it, under your house's name.

What it does

How many open your listing, from which countries and in which language they read it.

How to use it

In your panel, STATISTICS. How many people open your listing, from which countries and in which language they read it.

What it does

Views tell you who walked past the window. This tells you who tapped the phone, WhatsApp or your website.

How to use it

On the same statistics screen. Besides who looked, how many tapped the phone, the WhatsApp or your website: that is the figure that looks like a booking.

What it does

First among the services of your stage, which is where the pilgrim is looking.

How to use it

It comes with membership, with nothing to set: your house appears in the first positions of your stage and of your type of business among the services on the stage.

What it does

Where people sleep tomorrow is decided the evening before. Your hostel can appear in the stage your walkers come from.

How to use it

In your panel, inside your business, "sponsorship". You pick one of the stages before yours and your house appears there, which is where tomorrow night gets decided.

What it does

The door one, with the QR that opens your listing, and the stamp one. Both twenty centimetres, with the 18 languages and the domain. Downloaded from the panel and printed.

How to use it

In your panel, inside your business. You download and print the two twenty-centimetre stickers: the venue one, with the QR that opens your listing, and the stamp one. A4 sticker paper, cut along the line and done.

What it does

Your second code, inside a scallop shell: it puts a stamp on the parchment of whoever scans it. You decide whether it goes on the door, for automatic stamping, or inside, for those who spend.

How to use it

In your panel, “Download the stamp sticker”. Out comes the scallop shell with the code inside, with the 18 languages and the domain; the bare shell can also be downloaded as SVG to take to a print shop. Put it where you decide: on the door or on the counter. A pilgrim recognises a shell from ten metres without knowing the language.

What it does

What you give to whoever stamps at your door, on your page and on the stamp screen. Plus how many stamped: people who were inside.

How to use it

In your panel, inside your business, the field "what you give for stamping". A short sentence that goes out on your listing and on the stamping screen, at the moment they are standing at your door.

What it does

What pilgrims write to you and the corrections others make to your listing.

How to use it

In your panel, INBOX. What pilgrims write to you, with their email so you can answer them directly.

What it does

Pilgrims ask for a bed from your listing and your phone rings. You answer with one tap, in your own language, even if they write in Korean.

How to use it

In your panel, inside your business, the box "take bed requests". From then on they arrive in REQUESTS and on your phone, and you answer yes or no with one tap.

What it does

They write or speak to you in Korean, German or Polish and you read it in yours. You answer in yours, typing or dictating, and it reaches them translated. Your phone rings when they write.

How to use it

In your panel, CONVERSATIONS. Every pilgrim who writes to you shows up there, with what they said already in your language and the original underneath. Answer by typing or with "Speak": it reaches them translated into theirs. Your phone rings when they write, if you have alerts on.

What it does

The whole guide, not a translated menu: every route, every stage and every notice in your language.

How to use it

The language selector, top right. It changes the whole guide, not a menu: every route, every stage and every notice. The address changes too, so you can share it in your language.

What it does

It installs on Android, iPhone and desktop from the browser itself, with no app store.

How to use it

The browser offers it: on Android, "add to home screen"; on iPhone, "share" and then "add to home screen"; on a computer, the install icon in the address bar. There is no app store.

What it does

Whatever you opened before is still there when there is no signal, which is half the meseta.

How to use it

There is nothing to do: whatever you opened earlier is still there when there is no signal. And if you open something that is not, you get a screen that says so instead of the browser's error.

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What it does

At ten at night in the dormitory, or in the sun on the meseta.

How to use it

The light and dark switch, at the top. It stays saved on that device.

What it does

Free forever, no card and no trial days. It is the one that opens the services.

How to use it

Top right, "sign in". Email and password, no card and no trial days. It is what opens the services, and it is free forever.

What it does

You download all of it or delete the account, without asking anyone.

How to use it

In your panel, PROFILE. From there you download all your data in one file or delete the whole account, without asking anyone's permission.

What it does

Downloadable, with the details frozen at the moment of payment.

How to use it

In your panel, INVOICES. Every payment with its downloadable invoice, with the details exactly as they were on the day it was paid.