Yucts Travel｜iOS & iPadOSAvailable
Home & Content
Top of Home
Toolbar
| Position | Icon | Function |
|---|---|---|
| Top left | Person | Opens "Profile & settings" |
| Center | YUCTS | — |
| Top right | Book | "Reading history" |
| Top right | Magnifying glass | "Search" (unified search) |
| Top right | Bell | "Notifications"; the badge counts unseen forum notifications plus unread private messages (sign-in required) |
The header depends on your layout:
- Travel: a greeting ("Good morning" / "Good afternoon" / "Good evening", with your public display name when signed in) and today's date and weekday, on two lines.
- Marketing and Community: a search bar, "Search articles, destinations, deals" — tap it to open unified search. Above the search bar, the greeting and today's date and weekday appear on one line.
- The greeting changes with the time of day: 5:00–10:59 good morning, 11:00–17:59 good afternoon, 18:00–4:59 good evening.
Service status and announcements
Home shows service status and announcements in two separate areas:
- Service status: appears automatically during maintenance, outages or partial issues and says which services are affected (for example "Affected: Forum", or "The YUCTS app isn't affected"); scheduled maintenance shows its time window. Issues that affect the app's main features appear as a notice card, and others as status rows (up to 2), with "N more service updates" when there are more. Tap "View Status" to open "System Status" as a full page; under each service you'll see "Used in the app for: …" (the app features that use it). If the latest status can't be fetched, you'll see "Status may be out of date".
- Announcements: an active official announcement appears as one row, with "N more announcements" when there are several (counting announcements only). Important announcements pop up full-screen when you launch the app ("View Details" opens a full page, or "Got It"), once per announcement. All announcements are listed under "Profile & settings" → "Help & support" → "Official Announcements".
- For any notice, tap "Notice Options" to choose "Remind Me in 1 Hour", "Remind Me Tomorrow Morning" (you can postpone only once) or "Don't Show Again".
Pull down to refresh Home.
Getting back quickly
- Double-tap a tab at the bottom to go back to the first page of that tab.
- Touch and hold the back button at the top left to see the name of every page you came through, and jump straight back to one of them.
Home sections
Home is made up of sections. The default sections and their order depend on your layout:
| Layout | Shown by default (in order) | Hidden by default |
|---|---|---|
| Travel | Today / Next Trip (fixed) → Explore by Destination → Latest Articles → Forum Topics → Explore by Topic → Latest Deals → Recommended | Check-in Wall, Author |
| Marketing | Latest Deals → Latest Articles → Explore by Destination → Check-in Wall → Latest Forum Topics → Explore by Topic → Recommended | Today / Next Trip, Author |
| Community | Feed → Author → Latest Articles → Explore by Destination → Check-in Wall → Latest Deals → Explore by Topic → Recommended | Today / Next Trip |
What each section shows:
| Section | Contents |
|---|---|
| Today / Next Trip | Status of your current or next trip ("Ongoing · Day N of M", "N days to go"), "Opens the trip", and shortcuts for "Itinerary", "Passes", "Add an entry", and "Luggage". With no trips, you can "Add trip" or "Import". |
| Explore by Destination | Browse articles by region. Travel shows image cards — tap "View all" to jump to "Explore → Region"; other layouts show a row of region buttons. The directory covers Taiwan, Japan, Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, Oceania, North America, Europe, South Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa. |
| Latest Articles | The newest articles on the website; tap "More" for the full list. |
| Forum Topics / Latest Forum Topics / Feed | The latest forum discussions (the name depends on the layout). Tapping a topic switches to the "Forum" tab to open it. |
| Explore by Topic | 9 forum travel topics: travelogues, food, itineraries, transport, sights, lodging, shopping, documents, and money. |
| Latest Deals | Discounts on flights, hotels, and tickets; "All Deals" opens the full list. Sponsored articles are marked "Contains ads / affiliate links". |
| Recommended | Articles recommended from your reading interests (see below). |
| Author | YUCTS authors; tap "All" to see every author. |
| Check-in Wall | See where members have been recently and share your own check-ins (see Travel Tools). |
Below the sections, in fixed order: the "Customize Home" button, an ad banner (non–Yucts Plus members), "Subscribe to the Yucts newsletter", "Contact Us", and "Follow Us" (Instagram / YouTube / Facebook / Threads / X).
Customize Home
Tap "Customize Home" below the Home sections, or go to "Profile & settings" → "Appearance" → "Customize Home":
- Choose which layout to adjust with the segments at the top.
- Turn off the switch next to a section to hide it.
- Tap "Reorder", drag the handle on the right of a section to move it, then tap "Done Reordering".
- To go back to the original, tap "Restore Defaults".
These settings only affect Home on this device, and each layout keeps its own. In the Travel layout, "Today / Next Trip" is always shown and can't be hidden.
Newsletter and Contact Us
- Subscribe to the Yucts newsletter: enter your email, choose a "Frequency" (daily / weekly / monthly / quarterly / yearly), and tap "Subscribe". Then click the confirmation link in your inbox to finish.
- Contact Us: tap "Go to Contact Form" to open the yucts.com contact form inside the app.
The Explore tab (Travel layout)
In the Travel layout, the "Explore" tab has three segments at the top, and the app remembers which one you used last:
- Region: a destination directory organized by region.
- Map: the travel map, with pins and region buttons to filter articles (see Travel Planning & Maps).
- Check in: the Check-in Wall (see Travel Tools).
In other layouts, open the destination directory from "Explore by Destination" on Home (the "Map" button at the top right switches to the travel map), and the wall from the "Check-in Wall" card on Home.
Unified search
Tap the magnifying glass at the top right (in Marketing and Community you can also tap the search bar on Home):
- Enter keywords — the app searches blog articles and forum threads at the same time.
- Switch result types with "All N", "Article N", and "Thread N".
- Matching authors (up to 5) appear above the results; tap one to open their page.
- The "Contains marketing content" switch is off by default, but on when you open search from the Deals page.
- Before you search, you'll see "Recent Searches" (up to 10, with "Clear All") and "Popular Searches".
Reading articles
Tap an article card to open the article page (titled "Article"). At the top right:
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| Bookmark | Bookmark / remove bookmark (sign-in required; shows "Added to bookmarks" on success) |
| ⋯ More options | "Reader Mode", "Offline download" (shows "Saved offline (remove)" once downloaded), "Translate to…" / "Show Original" |
| Share | Share the article link with the system share sheet |
- When an article has 2 or more section headings, a floating "Contents" button lets you jump to a section.
- After you scroll down more than about 1.5 screens, a "↑ Top" button appears at the bottom right; tap it to go back to the top. Long pages such as articles, all articles, destinations, deals, author pages, and forum threads, forums and forum tag pages have this button.
- Pull down to reload without the cache. Articles you've downloaded are shown from the offline copy when you have no connection.
- If an article can't be found, you'll see "Article not found" with an "Open on website" option.
- Articles you read are added to your reading history automatically.
My Bookmarks
- Tap the bookmark on an article page, or "Bookmark" on a forum topic, to save it (sign-in required).
- View them under "Profile & settings" → "Travel & Sync" → "My Bookmarks", split into "Saved Articles" and "Saved Forum Posts" with counts. You can "Remove from saved".
- Bookmarks are stored on this device and sync through iCloud to your other devices on the same Apple ID.
Reading history and offline reading
Tap the book at the top right of Home, or "Profile & settings" → "Travel & Sync" → "Reading history", to open "Reading History":
- Filter by All / Saved / Blog / Forum.
- Swipe right: "Save for Offline" or "Bookmark". Swipe left: "Delete".
- The star at the top right opens bookmarks, and the download icon opens "Offline saved".
- Entries you haven't viewed for more than 90 days and haven't saved offline or bookmarked are cleared automatically. Reading history stays on this device and doesn't sync.
"Offline saved" lists every downloaded article; you can read them in Reader Mode even in Airplane Mode. The screen shows how many articles are available offline and how much space the image cache uses; swipe left to "Remove offline". You can also get there from "Profile & settings" → "Travel & Sync" → "Offline Articles".
Recommended
Based on your reading history, the app works out your interests on this device and recommends articles (subtitle: "Based on your reading interests"). Recommendations start once you've viewed at least 5 articles; no sign-in needed.
Deals
- The Marketing layout has a "Deals" tab; in other layouts, open "Latest Deals" → "All Deals" on Home.
- Switch sources at the top with "Blog", "Forum" and "Promo code" ("Promo code" appears only when the service offers it). For Blog and Forum, the "Source & campaign" filter row filters by brand or theme (only items that have a matching tag on the website are listed), and tag chips filter further.
- The page has "Monthly Picks", search at the top right, and "Load More" at the bottom; sponsored content is marked "Contains ads / affiliate links".
Promo codes: promo codes from travel booking sites. No sign-in is needed, and Yucts Plus members see them too.
- Each card shows the discount, eligibility and end date ("Until …"; "Ending soon" when it's about to end, "Not started" if it hasn't started yet) and is marked "Contains ads / affiliate links". Tap "Copy" to copy the code; offers that don't need a code explain how to redeem them.
- Tap "View details ›" to see eligibility, conditions, how to redeem, the offer period and when it was last verified. The products, eligibility and discounts that actually apply are those on the official offer page and checkout page.
- Filter by "Platform" and "Category", and change the "Sort" order (ending soon or recently verified). "Content language" follows the app by default and only changes the offer content and category names; offers are shown in their original wording, and conditions and amounts aren't translated automatically.
- Some links include partner parameters, and YUCTS may earn a commission when you book through them. For what can be listed, see Listing standards and notes.
Authors
- The Travel and Marketing layouts have an "Authors" tab; in Community, use the "Author" section on Home (shown by default in Community) or search.
- Tap an author to open their page, which has "Articles / Threads / About". When you tap an author elsewhere, such as in an article, the app switches to the "Authors" tab and opens their page; the same goes for the avatar, name and "Author page" on the "About the author" card at the end of an article. "Forum" on an author page switches to the "Forum" tab and opens their member profile.
- Join the Author Team: tap "Join the Author Team" → "Apply now" at the bottom of the Authors page, or "Join the Author Team" in the YUCTS logo menu at the top right. This opens the application form on yucts.com inside the app — no app sign-in required.
- The YUCTS logo menu at the top right also has "Author Page on Website" and "Contact the team".
Ads
Without Yucts Plus, banner ads appear below the Home sections, at the bottom of articles, in search results, in the deals list, in forum board lists, and at the bottom of topics. They disappear once you upgrade — see Yucts Plus Subscription.