The group trip planner that ends the group chat

Everyone sees the same plan, as it changes

Invite the people you are travelling with and they get the same map and the same timeline you do. When someone moves a booking, adds an activity or corrects a time, it lands on everyone else’s screen as it happens — not when they next pull to refresh.

That matters most in the week before you go, when four people are editing the same three days and the version in the group chat is already two changes behind. There is only one plan, so there is nothing to reconcile.

• Splitting the costs
• Put it in your calendar

Vote on it instead of arguing about it

Any activity can be put to the group. Everyone votes on the item itself, so the decision lives next to the thing being decided — the date, the time, the place, the cost — rather than forty messages up a chat thread that nobody can find again.

This is the part other planners leave out. Most of them will let you add an activity and let you comment on it; deciding between three options on the Tuesday is the bit that still happens somewhere else. Here the vote and the itinerary entry are the same object, so when the vote resolves the plan is already updated.

• Trips with several stops

Split costs, in whatever currency you paid

Attach a cost to the thing it belongs to — the flight, the apartment, the boat trip — and mark whether it is per person or for the whole group. The trip totals by category as you go, so you know what it comes to before you commit rather than after.

Currencies do not have to match. Someone pays for the hotel in euros, someone else covers the car in pounds and a third person buys the tickets in yen; the settle-up resolves all of it and tells you the smallest set of transfers that clears the debts.

• How the split works

Invite people at the right level

Not everyone on a trip should be able to rewrite it. Collaborators can be invited to edit or just to view, so the people organising can plan without a well-meaning cousin dragging the wrong flight to the wrong day.

Viewers still see everything as it changes. The distinction is about who can move things, not about who is kept informed.

Send the plan to people who will not install anything

Some of the people who need the itinerary are not on the trip: a parent who wants the flight numbers, a friend joining for two days, whoever is feeding the cat. Publish a read-only page and send them a link.

It opens in any browser with no app and no account, and it unfurls with a preview card when you paste it into a message. You can hide the costs on the shared version if the numbers are nobody else’s business.

• Works without signal
• Forward a booking email

Group planning is free

Shared trips, real-time collaboration, voting, the cost planner and settle-up are all on the free tier, and collaborators never need their own subscription to take part.

Pro exists, and it gates three things: full offline access, forwarding booking emails and PDFs into a trip, and optimising the order of a day. Charging per collaborator for the ability to plan together is a tax on the exact behaviour a group trip planner is for.

• What Pro costs

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