SparkyLive is open: capture life and work as it happens

SparkyTours came first in this series. SparkyLive is the product you are most likely to open with one hand while doing something else.

SparkyLive is a personal capture app. You are at a trade show and someone hands you a card. You are in a taxi and the driver gives you a receipt. You are on a beach and the light is perfect. Each of those takes a few seconds in SparkyLive, and each ends up in the right place.

Three things to capture

Expenses: take a photo of the receipt or pick one from your gallery, type the amount on a big number pad, and it goes straight into your own SparkyExpenses. Contact notes: jot a line about someone right after you meet them, and it lands in your own SparkyContacts. Photo memories: save photos from a trip or a moment into memory books, shown as cover cards. After every save you can open the item in the product that holds it, so you never lose your place.

You can also scan a receipt or a business card, or dictate a note, and let the app fill in the form for you to check.

Personal, not organizational

What you capture belongs to you alone. It is tied to your own identity and is never shown to any organization you belong to. That is deliberate: the capture app is yours, and the products it feeds are the ones you choose to use.

Also a travel companion

When a tour operator running SparkyTours invites you on a trip, the trip sits at the top of your home screen. While it is on, the itinerary opens with today: what is next, with its time and place, a map button and an alarm button. You get reminders for the day, the pickups and your payments, a checklist of anything still needed, and a chat with your agency. Messages you send without signal queue up and go out when you reconnect, and the itinerary and emergency details stay available from the last time they loaded. It is not a fully offline app, and we would rather say so.

Accepting a trip also starts a private memory book for it. Our own family travel company, Classy Explorers, uses SparkyLive as the companion app for its travelers.

Where it runs

SparkyLive installs to your home screen from the browser today. Native iPhone and Android apps are planned, and we will say so here when they exist. SparkyLive is free.

See the details on the SparkyLive features page.

This post is part of our launch series, one Sparky product at a time. The rest of the series is on the newsletter page.