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Introducing Jitty
Jitty is on a mission to build the world’s most intuitive home search experience. With a fresh approach to property listings, Jitty puts usability and clarity front and centre, designing tools that reflect how people really think about finding a home.
This goes beyond a postcode search with simple filters for number of bedrooms and price. Instead, Jitty includes factors like commute time, lifestyle fit, map-based exploration – and even natural language search for key property features like “natural light” or “no box bedroom”.
At the heart of Jitty’s user-first philosophy is a commitment to removing friction and guesswork from the property search journey. That’s why Jitty integrated TravelTime’s API directly into their main search functionality — to make property discovery more flexible and much more powerful for users.
Daniel Cooper, Co-Founder and CTO at Jitty says: “TravelTime has helped us embed real-world commute times directly into the core of our property search experience.”
Jitty joins Zoopla, Rightmove, OnTheMarket, Foxtons, and more, as part of our growing community of property portals choosing to radically improve time-based search and location matching.
Why Jitty Chose TravelTime
For Jitty, the ability to embed commute time directly into the search experience was a must-have. Jitty’s Co-Founder and CTO, Daniel Cooper says that “using distance is an older, more limited way of searching for a home, and it’s not always aligned with how people think about locations or travel.”
Together, TravelTime and Jitty “offer a different way for users to search for a home, empowering them to choose the option that works best for their needs,” and this has been a game changer for the property search platform.
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NLP Search
TravelTime supports Jitty’s natural-language search. The API returns results for time-based search queries such as “30 minutes from King’s Cross by public transport” or “15-minute walk from a park.” Crucially, these insights can be layered with other filters and natural-language search inputs.
Daniel Cooper, Jitty Co-Foudner and CTO explains: “We love that this can be layered on all of our other filters, from the more traditional queries like number of bedrooms or price, to our more unique requests like ‘open plan kitchen’ or ‘converted church. Users can get really granular and it’s incredibly powerful, performing property searches that you literally cannot do anywhere else.”
Commute Visualisations
With TravelTime, Jitty can embed clear, user-friendly and time-based visualisations. This gives users a much more intuitive way of understanding the real-world proximity of different properties than traditional radius visualisations or search delivers.
The Jitty team shares that TravelTime “is at the heart of how people discover places in a truly natural, human way, and it works brilliantly.”
Jitty previously used TravelTime Isochrones and Distance Matrix endpoint and has recently updated their map visualisation and commute calculations using TravelTime H3.
Accuracy at Scale
TravelTime is a powerful API that delivers accurate commute time insights for every search and every user at scale. Our technology supports real-time filtering and ranking of listings based on journey time and transport mode - crucially, this can be layered with Jitty’s other property search filters.
Daniel Cooper, Co-Founder and CTO shares: “TravelTime delivers accurate commute insights for every user, and we can associate a specific commute time with every hex, which looks really cool from the Map View.”
This ensures a seamless experience for users. One that gives them more control and key information to make good decisions.
Unlimited Usage, One Fixed Cost
Jitty, like many property portals and online marketplaces, operates in a high-volume, high-engagement environment where users expect instant results and smooth interactions.
TravelTime’s pricing model, offering unlimited usage for one fixed custom cost, means Jitty can deliver a rich, time-based search experience to every user, without worrying about escalating API bills.
This commercial flexibility supports Jitty’s growth and experimentation. Whether a user runs one search or a hundred, Jitty offers the same cost-effective, high-performance experience, keeping focus where it belongs: on usability, speed, and accuracy.
Discover our isochrone and distance matrix pricing comparisons.
Spotlight on TravelTime H3
Game Changer for Search and Visualisation
Jitty is one of the property sector’s early adopters of TravelTime H3.
“The unique power of Jitty is our ability to layer lots of property filters and allow users to take a granular and more personalised approach to their search. With TravelTime H3, we went from rendering complex polygons to a simple, elegant hex grid that clicks with users. It's easier to process, easier to filter, and way faster to display.”
Daniel Cooper
Co-Founder and CTO
With H3, TravelTime returns a set of hexagonal cells representing reachable areas from an origin. It calculates an accurate commute time from the chosen location by any mode of transport. Not only does it deliver accurate results and great visualisations, H3 is highly performant, making it an ideal choice for customers that need to layer data and can’t be slowed by heavy compute.
Advantages of H3
The switch brought several key advantages:
- Simplified spatial querying: Instead of a point-in-polygon, H3 lookups speed up filtering dramatically.
- Visual clarity: Hex indexes form a uniform, structured grid that’s easy for users to interpret. Shaded gradients communicate time ranges at a glance.
- Real-time interactivity: With hover functionality, users explore the map and get instant travel time feedback for specific locations.
- Flexible filtering: TravelTime H3 integrates well with other geospatial layers. Users can stack commute time with price, type, and feature filters effortlessly.
- Seamless integration: Available through a Ruby SDK, the TravelTime H3 endpoint is quick and straightforward to integrate.
These improvements support Jitty’s mission of making search smarter and faster, while giving users more confidence in their decisions. It allows Jitty to not just visualise time but build it directly into the architecture of the search experience.
Explore H3 documentation to get started.
What’s Next for Jitty and Property Portals?
Jitty’s integration of TravelTime’s API and H3 capabilities shows how location-based search platforms can evolve beyond distance and radius filters.
By embedding time into the core of property search, they’re meeting users where they are when imagining their morning commute, planning their day-to-day life, and envisioning their future home.
TravelTime is redefining what it means for property portals and other online marketplaces to search smarter, faster, and match with confidence.
Want to improve your property search and match process? TravelTime integrates with your existing tech stack to deliver accurate journey time and transit insights, in an instant, at scale.
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