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Summer update of Packing Pro App simplifies family traveling, avoids excess baggage fees

In addition to providing a convenient way of creating and managing travel packing lists, Packing Pro 9.0 adds several new family-friendly features, such as list filtering by both person and bag, filter-related enhancements to its Expert list making tool.

TAIPEI, TAIWAN – QuinnScape has released version 9.0 of Packing Pro, its popular travel app for the iPhone, iPad & iPod touch. This update adds a host of family-friendly features to this four-year-old app, as well as individual bag weight totaling to help avoid excess baggage fees.

In addition to providing a convenient way of creating and managing travel packing lists, Packing Pro 9.0 adds several new family-friendly features, such as list filtering by both person and bag, filter-related enhancements to its Expert list making tool, new list total breakdowns by person and bag, and an option to email-export a partial, filtered portion of a list to an individual family member. “Packing Pro is perfect for families and all travelers who wish to avoid excess baggage fees,” says Quinn Genzel, the founder and developer of QuinnScape.

Since its launch, Packing Pro has been highlighted on Apple’s App Store several times. Currently, it can be found in the “10 Essentials” promotion. It has also ranked at #1 for iPads and #2 for iPhones in the U.S. App Store’s Travel section. Besides Apple, Packing Pro has also been recognized by CNN, WSJ, BBC, and Budget Travel, and has earned glowing reviews on major tech and app blogs (Gizmodo, Mashable, Macworld, CNET, TUAW and iPhone Life, among others).

Packing Pro is a mobile packing app that features unlimited, 100% customizable packing lists, an extensive, yet flexible, catalog and handy sample lists that can be used as templates. A host of special functions include:

  • Multi-item selection from catalog for speedy list building
  • Multi-item editing for easy list & catalog management
  • Collapsable categories with floating headers & running item tallies
  • List sorting & filtering by bag and/or person
  • Item, weight and value totals & subtotals
  • Email export for print out & file sharing
  • Fully customized device support for all sizes of iPhone, iPod touch & iPad
  • Full multi-lingual support for English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese & Chinese.

Besides the core features listed above (which are also present in the basic Packing (+TO DO!) app), Packing Pro also gives its users the following Pro-level features:

  • iCloud auto-syncing support
  • Expert packing list wizard that can “automajically” create a list
  • iTunes & email file sharing and out-of-app editing support
  • Customized design (themes, layout, fonts, colors, textures)
  • Double-sized Master Catalog with over 800 items and to-do tasks
  • Twice as many sample lists
  • Smart Search.
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