Why Kuumo
Search engines need a destination. Kuumo just needs your curiosity.
"Isn't this just Google Flights alerts?" is the most commonly asked question. Straight answer: if you already know you are flying to Tokyo in November, Google Flights and Skyscanner will track that route for free and do it well. Use them. Kuumo exists for the opposite situation: you want to go somewhere, but might not know exactly where or exactly when.
A search engine
It needs you to decide first: where you are going, and when. All it adds is the price. An alert just reruns that search on a timer. You did the hard part.
You destination
Kuumo
You set what you are open to: regions, rough months, home airport. Kuumo watches every fare from KL and Singapore, then tells you where to go, and what that fare is actually worth.
Deals you
The judgement call
Cheap is not the same as a deal
Sorting by raw price puts the same nearby short hops at the top of the list every time. Kuumo judges every fare against its own price history for that route and season.
RM899 to Tokyo can be a genuine steal while RM300 to Bangkok is just Tuesday. Sorting by price cannot tell those apart. Telling them apart is Kuumo's entire job.
The honest comparison
What about searching everywhere for the cheapest fare?
That is the closest thing to Kuumo. Three honest differences.
A watch, not a snapshot
A search shows you one moment in time. Kuumo monitors around the clock and pings you the moment something unusual appears, so you catch fares that live for hours, not weeks.
Judged against history
Every fare is compared to what that route normally costs in that season. A deal means genuinely below typical, not just cheap.
Your window, not fixed dates
“Sometime around March, anywhere in East Asia” is not a query a search engine accepts. It is exactly what Kuumo takes as input.
When to use what
Know the destination and dates? Use Google Flights or Skyscanner and set an alert.
Open on where or when? That is Kuumo. Set your regions and travel window once, and Kuumo brings you the fares worth rearranging plans for.
The name
What is Kuumo?
Why the name? Kuumo comes from kumo, the Japanese word for cloud. That felt right for what this thing does: fares drift around above everyone's heads all day, most people never look up, and every so often one worth catching floats past.
The extra u? Because the short version was already taken :)
Why .to? You Grab to dinner. You Uber to a friend's place. I wanted deals to work the same way: you Kuumo to Tokyo. Kuumo to Seoul. Kuumo to wherever the fare is too good to ignore.
Valerie, founder of Kuumo