Clear Roam: a first look at the build

Clear Roam is not finished, so this is not a launch post. It is the opposite: the app runs, we have been carrying it on real trips, and the screens below come from the actual build rather than a designer's file.

We are publishing it in this state because a page saying “coming soon” over a logo tells you nothing about whether the thing is real.

Where it is

The catalogue currently carries 197 countries across 233 destinations, including regional plans for trips that cross borders. You can search a destination, compare plan tiers, run a checkout, install an eSIM and watch your data burn down. That whole path works.

Clear Roam destinations list filtered to multi-country regions — Destinations, plan tiers with a day slider and a running total, and what a regional plan actually covers.

Clear Roam daily plan tiers with a day slider and a running total — Destinations, plan tiers with a day slider and a running total, and what a regional plan actually covers.

The two things we refused to compromise on

You see the total before you pay. The plan screen has a day slider and the price updates as you drag it. No basket surprise, no “taxes and fees calculated at checkout”.

You see what is left while you are away. An active eSIM shows data used and days remaining on one screen. This is the number you actually want at 2am in an airport, and it is astonishing how often it sits three taps deep in somebody's account portal.

An active Clear Roam eSIM showing data used and days remaining — The active eSIM view, and checkout with the carriers you will actually attach to.

Clear Roam checkout showing plan specs, carriers and credit balance — The active eSIM view, and checkout with the carriers you will actually attach to.

Fair warning about the numbers

The prices in these screenshots are development placeholders. They are not an offer, and they will not be the launch prices. The coverage figures will also keep moving while we finish the carrier side — that is the part of this product that is negotiated rather than coded.

What is left

Finalising carrier partners, which sets both the real coverage list and the real prices.
The install flow on Android, which has more variation between manufacturers than we would like.
Store review on both platforms, which we have learned to budget time for.

No date. When there is a build we would take on a trip without a backup SIM in the wallet, it ships.