GoWhee is the only global travel app and FREE web community designed exclusively for families that leverages the power of crowd-sourced information from parents themselves by providing members a platform to share authentic reviews and score places around the world, combined with unparalleled child privacy features.
Founded: 2020
Headquarters: Vermont, USA
Founders: Maud Maciak (USA) & Gabriele Gigante (Italy)
Platforms: Desktop, iOS & Android
Audience: Traveling families with children, Parents of children with sensory or mobility needs, Caregivers and extended family, Homeschooling families and educators looking for learning adventures
Price: Access to the app and exclusive members-only features starts at $2.50 per month (with a year subscription), offering unlimited access to all locations, premium features, and a community of like-minded parents.
Mission: Help families confidently discover kid‑friendly places anywhere in the world.
Vision: A world where family travel is more inclusive, joyful, and accessible to all.
For all media inquiries: maud@gowhee.com
Maud is the visionary founder behind GoWhee, the only global travel app designed exclusively for families.
Born out of Maud’s personal journey, GoWhee is a testament to her passion for making family adventures seamless and enjoyable. During an extensive RV trip across Europe alongside her husband and toddler son, Maud identified a glaring gap in travel resources: the lack of comprehensive information tailored to families seeking fun and practical destinations. Frustrated by the absence of reliable guidance for parents, she embarked on a mission to create a solution.
In April 2020, Maud launched GoWhee 1.0, creating the first and, still only, worldwide travel app designed for family fun. A community of early adopters, influencers in space, and community leaders in the industry of family travel (i.e traveling with kids worldwide Facebook group) quickly joined GoWhee’s mission and received the app with enthusiasm. GoWhee was also recognized as groundbreaking for families by major media outlets like Fodors Travel, Parents, CBS network, and more.
After years of unprecedented challenges for the tourism industry, followed by a sequence of headlines demonstrating a growing intolerance towards traveling families- paired with a shocking tolerance for child-privacy violations within social media platform companies- Maud decided that GoWhee needed a new direction, with a few new objectives.
In 2025, Maud relaunched with GoWhee 2.0 with hundreds of thousands of thousands of locations around the world, custom-added to the app based on a proprietary formula, and also always showcasing a “family-inclusive” stamp of approval by the parents themselves when
The app not only features locations that are logistically prepared to receive traveling families but also rewards the ones that desire to welcome them with open arms with a “family-inclusive” stamp of approval. Maud also ensured that the new version of the app prioritized data safety with an automatic tool to blur children’s faces when users add photos, ensuring the privacy and security of young travelers.
Maud’s entrepreneurial journey not only inspires and creates the opportunity for families worldwide to explore the globe with confidence and ease, but also reminds us that a mom with a vision and a mission can accomplish absolutely anything.
