These three apps get recommended in the same breath, which is a little misleading, because they're not really competing for the same job. One organises bookings. One builds itineraries. One coordinates groups. They overlap enough to confuse people and differ enough that picking the wrong one for your situation is a genuine waste.
So here's the TripsTogether vs Wanderlog vs TripIt comparison, sorted by what each is actually good at, and which one to reach for depending on the trip you're planning. Full disclosure before we start: we build Trips Together, so we're not neutral, but we've kept this honest and given the other two their due.
The three apps in 60 seconds
TripIt is a booking organiser. You forward confirmation emails and it builds a tidy master itinerary out of what you've already booked. Passive, neat, solo.
Wanderlog is an itinerary builder. You research and plan a day-by-day route on a map before you book anything. Active, detailed, mostly solo-led.
Trips Together is a group coordinator. The group decides together where to go and what to do, shares one live plan, and splits the money inside the same app. Active, collaborative, group-first.
That framing matters more than any feature list, because it tells you which app fits the problem you actually have.
TripsTogether vs Wanderlog vs TripIt: feature comparison
| TripIt | Wanderlog | Trips Together | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core job | Organise existing bookings | Build an itinerary | Coordinate a group |
| Itinerary | From email imports | Strong, map-based | Shared and live |
| Group decisions / voting | Not built in | Limited | Built in |
| Expense splitting | Not built in | Budget tool with cost splitting | Built in, alongside voting |
| AI planning help | Limited | Free tier capped per trip | Included |
| Best for | Solo / business travel | Solo or couple planners | Groups |
| Pricing (early 2026) | Free tier; Pro is annual | Free tier; extras on annual plan | Free to start |
The TripIt and Wanderlog columns reflect their published pricing pages and our own testing as of early 2026, so check each app's own pricing and feature pages before committing, because plans and limits change. The shape of the table has been stable for a while, though.
Group planning depth, side by side
This is where the three genuinely separate.
TripIt isn't trying to do group planning. It assumes the decisions are made and the bookings exist. Forward your flight confirmation and it slots it in. Useful, but it's the end of the process, not the messy middle where a group is trying to agree.
Wanderlog does planning beautifully, but in our experience it centres on one person crafting a plan that others mostly view. There's collaboration, but the centre of gravity is the solo planner. For a group that needs to actually decide things together, that feels like a structural limitation rather than a missing button.
Trips Together puts the deciding first. The group proposes destinations and activities and votes, so you get to an answer with everyone bought in, and the plan everyone helped shape is the plan everyone follows. For the specific job of getting a group from "we should go somewhere" to a booked, agreed trip, that's the difference.
Expense handling
TripIt doesn't do expense splitting at the time of writing. It's a booking organiser, and money simply isn't its job. Use it for a group trip and you're adding a second app, usually Splitwise, for the costs, with its own quirks like the limits on its free tier.
Wanderlog, credit where it's due, includes a budget tool that tracks expenses and can split costs between tripmates, so the money can live alongside the itinerary there too.
Where Trips Together differs is how the money connects to the group. Expense splitting sits next to the plan the group actually voted on, so the person who suggested the restaurant, the people who agreed to it, and the one who paid for it are all looking at the same trip. If you've ever spent the flight home reconstructing who paid for what, that's the part that matters. I unpacked the money side in TripsTogether vs Splitwise.
AI features
All three have leaned into AI, with different results. Wanderlog's assistant is capable but, on the free tier as of early 2026, has been limited to a small number of messages per trip, which runs out quickly. TripIt's smarts are mostly about parsing and alerting on your bookings rather than helping you plan from scratch. Trips Together includes AI planning help as part of the group flow rather than as a metered add-on. Treat this as the fastest-moving area of all three and check current limits before you rely on it.
Who each app is best for
Use TripIt if you're a frequent solo or business traveller who books a lot and just wants it all in one tidy itinerary with flight alerts. It's quietly excellent at that.
Use Wanderlog if you (or one obsessive friend) love researching and building a detailed day-by-day plan, and the rest of the group is happy to follow that one planner's lead. There's a deeper head-to-head in TripsTogether vs Wanderlog.
Use Trips Together if you're planning with a group, the hard part is getting everyone to agree, and you want the expenses handled in the same place. That's the trip it was built for.
A fourth name worth knowing: Stippl
These three get grouped together out of habit, but if you're shopping around it's worth adding Stippl to your list. It's a free all-in-one in the same visual, itinerary-led mould as Wanderlog, with built-in budgeting and expense splitting and a social layer for discovering other travellers' trips. In other words it sits in the same planning-plus-expenses territory as Wanderlog and Trips Together.
The line between them is group decisions. As of 2026, reviewers note Stippl doesn't have group polls or voting and tends to suit solo travellers documenting trips. Trips Together's defining feature is the opposite: structured group voting. So among the all-in-ones, Stippl is the solo-leaning, social one and Trips Together is the group-decision one. Check both if planning-plus-expenses in a single free app is your priority.
The pick
For its specific niche, each of these is a reasonable choice, and I'd happily point a solo business traveller at TripIt. But "group travel app showdown" has a clear answer in our view, because TripIt and Wanderlog weren't built group-first. If there's more than a couple of you and the decisions are the friction, Trips Together is the one built for the job.
See the full field in the best group trip planning apps for 2026, or start a group trip free and see the difference yourself.
Frequently asked questions
Can TripIt or Wanderlog split group expenses?
Wanderlog can: it includes a budget tool that tracks expenses and splits costs between tripmates. TripIt doesn't have built-in expense splitting at the time of writing, so TripIt users usually pair it with a separate expense app. Trips Together includes expense splitting alongside the group voting and the shared plan.
Is TripIt good for group trips?
It's excellent at what it does, which is organising bookings you've already made, and that's useful on any trip. But it doesn't help a group decide where to go or what to do, which is usually the hard part.
What's the difference between Wanderlog and TripIt?
Wanderlog is for planning before you book: researching places and building a day-by-day route on a map. TripIt is for after you book: forward your confirmation emails and it assembles a master itinerary.
Which app should a group of friends use?
We're the team behind Trips Together, so take this as our opinion, but if your group needs to agree on plans together and split costs without a second app, that's the exact problem we built it to solve.