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Ziffiy: Travel App Development for Live Virtual Experiences Hosted from India

How Ailoitte built Ziffiy for Tripeers Tech: one app where travelers join live tours, festivals and hotspots from anywhere, and local hosts in India run, price and earn from those experiences.

Project facts

Industry: Travel and tourism: live virtual experiences
Platforms: iOS and Android apps for travelers and hosts, admin panel
Technologies: Live video calls, Stripe, Google Pay, Amazon Pay and Apple Pay

Summary

Tripeers Tech, a Mangaluru startup founded in 2021, wanted people anywhere in the world to experience India live: a guided walk through a market, a temple festival or a local hotspot, led in real time by someone who lives there. Ziffiy was the product built around that idea.

Ailoitte took on the travel app development from a Figma design and a functional spec. The team built one iOS and Android app with two sides, Discover for travelers and Host for locals, plus a basic admin panel, and delivered it to Google Play and the App Store. The founder rated the work 5.0 overall on Clutch.

2 sidesDiscover for travelers and Host for locals, in one app

iOS + Androidreleased to Google Play and the App Store

5.0overall rating in the founder's Clutch review

Aheadof the agreed timeline, as the founder reported

About Tripeers Tech and Ziffiy

Tripeers Tech Private Limited is a Mangaluru startup recognized by the Government of India and part of the NASSCOM 10,000 Startups program. Its first product, Ziffiy, set out to share India’s tours, festivals and hotspots with people across the world through live, interactive sessions.

Each Ziffiy experience has a host and a small group. Sessions are capped, so travelers can ask questions and talk to the host instead of watching a stream, and hosts earn from every booking. That mix of live video, booking and payouts is what made the build closer to a two-sided marketplace than a simple travel app.

Why Live Virtual Travel Needed More Than a Video App

A live experience only works when the host, the group and the payment all line up at the same moment, which makes it part travel booking app development and part live streaming app development. Tripeers needed both to feel simple on each side of the app.

Two Audiences, One App

Travelers needed to discover and book experiences, while hosts needed to create events, run sessions and get paid, without two separate apps.

Live and Scheduled Sessions

Some experiences happen right now and others are booked for later, so discovery, booking and reminders had to handle both.

Payments From Anywhere

Travelers would pay from many countries, so checkout had to support cards, wallets and local payment options with trip updates by phone.

Trust Between Strangers

People pay to join a stranger's live session, so verified hosts, reviews and ratings for both sides had to be built in from the start.

The Solution: A Two-Sided Travel App for Live Experiences

Ailoitte built Ziffiy as one app with a Discover side for travelers and a Host side for locals, on a shared backend with an admin panel. The travel app development covered booking, payments, live video and host payouts, the same building blocks we use in traveltech app development and marketplace app development.

Discover: Live Now and Explore

Travelers pick their interests at sign-up, then browse Ziffy Now for sessions happening live and Ziffy Explore for scheduled experiences, with free experiences, search and favorites.

Ziffiy travel app by Ailoitte: discover home with live and scheduled virtual experiences from India, and the trip ledger of bookings and memories — The discover home and the trip ledger of bookings and memories.

Experience Details and Booking

Each experience shows a verified host, photos, reviews, the host's past events and a per-person price, and Book Now takes the traveler straight to checkout.

Confirm and Pay

Checkout collects a phone number for trip updates, applies wallet credits and takes payment through Stripe, Google Pay, Amazon Pay or Apple Pay, then confirms the booking.

Live Video Sessions

At the booked time, the host and the small group meet in a live call inside the app, built with the patterns from our other video calling app development work, and both sides rate the call when it ends.

Host App: Events and Earnings

Hosts sign up with personal, contact and bank details, create events with highlights, track upcoming and completed events, and follow earnings and payment history in a wallet.

Ziffiy host app built by Ailoitte: host home with upcoming and completed events, and host wallet earnings and payment history — The host home and the host earnings wallet.

Trip Ledger, Reviews and Alerts

Travelers keep bookings and memories in a trip ledger, rate hosts after each session and get notifications for upcoming experiences.

Built for a two-sided marketplace

Admin Panel, Trust and Payouts

A basic admin panel gives Tripeers one view of hosts, experiences, bookings and payments. Verified hosts, two-way reviews and ratings and bank details for payouts turn a video feature into a working marketplace that strangers can trust on both sides.

Verified host profiles
Reviews and ratings for hosts and travelers
Host bank details for payouts
Admin view of hosts, events and bookings

How Ailoitte Worked With Tripeers Tech

The engagement began in August 2021 with a team of four to five people. The founder described the way of working in his Clutch review, and these are the practices behind it.

Built From Design and Spec The team worked from the Tripeers Figma design and functional spec, with our UI and UX design team on hand for gaps.

Better Technology Choices Where the team disagreed with a technology choice, it proposed alternatives with reasons, and Tripeers approved them.

A Small Senior Team A tech lead, frontend and backend developers, a QA engineer and a project manager covered the whole build.

Weekly Rhythm Weekly meetings plus WhatsApp and Skype kept decisions moving, and development ran ahead of the timeline.

Blockers Raised Early When the team hit a blocker, it said so straight away instead of working around it quietly.

Tested and Released Every release went through QA testing before it reached Google Play and the App Store.

AI in Tourism: What Comes Next for Live Travel Experience Apps

An app like Ziffiy already holds the signals AI needs: interests, bookings, reviews, live sessions and host earnings. With our AI development work, these are the features we now add to travel and experience apps. They are opportunities for apps like Ziffiy, not features of the Ziffiy release.

AI Recommendation Engine Suggests live and scheduled experiences from each traveler's interests, time zone and past bookings, so the right session shows up first.

AI Real-Time Translation Live captions and voice translation let a host in Mangaluru speak Kannada or Hindi while a group abroad follows along in English or Spanish.

AI Content Moderation Flags unsafe video, abusive chat and fake reviews in real time, and sends edge cases to a person for a final decision.

Smart Scheduling and Pricing Picks session times that suit travelers in different countries and suggests prices from demand, group size and past bookings.

AI Travel Assistant A chat assistant answers questions about an experience, books it and sends reminders. See AI chatbot development.

Session Highlights Generative AI turns a recorded session into a short highlight reel and photo set for the traveler's trip ledger. See generative AI development.

What the Founder Says

Pradeep Naithodu Co-Founder and CEO @ Tripeers Tech

What the Build Delivered for Tripeers Tech

Tripeers went from a Figma design to an app in both stores, with every piece of a live experience marketplace in place.

2 stores

Released on iOS and Android

Ziffiy shipped to Google Play and the App Store with a basic admin panel behind it.

2 sides

Travelers and Hosts in One App

A Discover and Host switch let one person book experiences or run them from the same login.

4 + wallet

Ways to Pay

Stripe, Google Pay, Amazon Pay and Apple Pay, plus wallet credits, at checkout.

5.0

Clutch Rating From the Founder

Tripeers rated the work 5.0 overall, with 5.0 for schedule and for willingness to refer.

Content checked against the Ziffiy Figma design file, the founder's Clutch review of January 2022 and public records for Tripeers Tech on 8 November 2026.

Why Travel Experiences Need Better Apps

Travel is back above its old peak, and spending on tours and activities is growing faster than travel itself, yet most of it is still booked offline. That is the gap a live experience app serves.

1.52 bn

International Travel at a New High

International tourist arrivals reached 1.52 billion in 2025, up 4% on 2024, with tourism export revenue of USD 2.2 trillion.

Source: UN Tourism World Tourism Barometer via ATTA, January 2026

33%

Experiences Are Still Booked Offline

Only 33% of tours and activities were booked online in 2025, against 64% for travel overall, even as experience bookings grew 17%.

Source: Phocuswright and Arival, Travel Experiences 2026, July 2026

9.02 mn

The World Wants to See India

India received 9.02 million foreign tourist arrivals in 2025 and earned INR 2,73,638 crore in foreign exchange from tourism.

Source: Ministry of Tourism Annual Report 2025-26 via TravTalk, March 2026

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Questions About Ziffiy and Travel App Development

What is Ziffiy?

Ziffiy is a mobile app from Tripeers Tech for hosting and joining live virtual experiences from India. Travelers book small-group tours, festivals and hotspots led in real time by local hosts, and hosts earn from every booking.

What did Ailoitte build for Tripeers Tech?

Ailoitte built the Ziffiy iOS and Android app and a basic admin panel from the Tripeers Figma design and functional spec. The scope covered sign-up and interests, live and scheduled discovery, experience pages, booking and payments, live video sessions, reviews, the trip ledger and the full host side with events and earnings.

How does a live virtual experience work in Ziffiy?

A traveler books a session, pays in the app and joins a live video call with the host and a small group at the booked time. Sessions are capped so people can talk to the host, and both sides rate the call afterward.

What features does a travel booking app need?

Travel booking app development starts with discovery, clear experience pages, secure checkout, reminders and reviews, and a marketplace app also needs a supplier side. In Ziffiy that meant verified hosts, event creation, payouts and an admin panel. See our traveltech app development services.

How much does travel app development cost?

Travel app development at Ailoitte is priced as a fixed amount before work starts, based on the platforms, features and integrations you need. The first 30-minute call with a senior engineer is free, and you can get an indicative figure in two minutes with our AI cost calculator.

Can Ailoitte build live streaming and video calling apps?

Yes. Live streaming app development and video calling app development are part of our mobile work, as the live sessions in Ziffiy show. We build group calls, live sessions, ratings and the booking and payment flows around them for iOS, Android and the web. See mobile app development.

How can AI improve a travel experience app?

AI in tourism apps helps travelers find the right experience and understand it in their own language. The most useful features are an AI recommendation engine, AI real-time translation for live sessions, AI content moderation for video and reviews, and a travel assistant for bookings. Start with our AI development services.

Why choose Ailoitte as your travel app development company?

We build two-sided travel and marketplace apps with a small senior team that challenges weak technology choices and raises blockers early, as the Ziffiy founder describes. You can start with an MVP or a fixed monthly scope with AI Velocity Pods, and you own the code and store accounts.

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