Looking for a TripIt alternative?
TripIt is a reservation organiser: forward confirmations and it files them into a tidy trip. Map My Itinerary is a planner — the same imported bookings, plus a map, a day-by-day timeline you edit, group voting, multi-currency settle-up and offline access. If you want somewhere to keep bookings, TripIt is good at that.
Written by the team behind Map My Itinerary, so we are not a neutral party. Everything below about TripIt comes from their own public materials and is dated; where we have not been able to confirm something, the table says so rather than guessing in our own favour.
Every comparative claim below was checked on 20 August 2026. Anything we cannot re-verify gets removed rather than left to rot.
| Map My Itinerary | TripIt | |
|---|---|---|
| Forward a booking email | Yes, per-trip address (Pro) | Yes — its best-known feature |
| PDF and photo import | Yes, both (Pro) | Not verified |
| Map of the whole trip | Yes, map and timeline together | Not verified |
| Edit the plan day by day | Yes, that is the product | Not verified |
| Group voting on activities | Yes, free | Not verified |
| Cost splitting | Yes, free, multi-currency settle-up | Not verified |
| Calendar subscription feed | Yes, free, revocable link | Not verified |
| Offline access | Yes (Pro) | Not verified |
| Platforms | iOS and Android | iOS, Android and web |
What TripIt does better
It has been filing reservations since 2007 and the parser has seen more confirmation formats than anything we will build this decade. That is not a small thing: import accuracy is the most common complaint about every product in this category, and years of format coverage is a real moat.
It also has a proper web app, corporate travel integration through its parent company, and an install base that means airlines and hotels format their emails with it in mind. If what you want is a reliable filing cabinet for bookings, and you do not want to plan anything, TripIt is a good answer and switching would cost you something.
What people actually search for before switching
The questions that autocomplete alongside "does TripIt…" are consistent: whether it works offline, whether it has a map, and whether it has a calendar view. That is a fair sketch of where a reservation organiser and a trip planner diverge.
Those three are the reason this page exists. All three are things Map My Itinerary does, and they are the difference between somewhere bookings are stored and somewhere a trip is planned.
A filing cabinet and a planning surface are different products
A reservation organiser answers "what have I booked?". That is genuinely useful and it is most of what you need for a work trip: three flights, two hotels, done.
A planner answers "what are we doing on Thursday?" — which involves things nobody sent you a confirmation for. The walk you want to do, the restaurant you have not booked, the two hours between checkout and the train. Those are the majority of a holiday and none of them arrive by email.
Map My Itinerary imports the confirmations and then expects you to keep going: add the unbooked things, put them in an order, see them on a map, and decide as a group what stays.
If you are travelling with other people
This is the sharpest difference. Planning a trip with four people is mostly deciding, and deciding happens in a group chat that immediately becomes unsearchable.
Shared itineraries, voting on activities and splitting costs across currencies are all here and all free — collaborators never need a subscription. Charging per person to plan together taxes the exact thing the product is for.
Moving your trips across
There is no importer, and pretending otherwise would waste your time. For a trip that has already happened there is no reason to move it; for one that has not, the fastest path is to forward the original confirmation emails to your new trip’s address and let them be read in.
You almost certainly still have those emails. That is usually a five-minute job for a two-week trip, and it produces better entries than a migration would.
Questions people ask
Is there a free TripIt alternative?
Map My Itinerary is free to plan with: unlimited trips and items, the map and timeline, group collaboration, voting and cost splitting. Pro covers offline access, forwarding booking emails and PDFs, and optimising the order of a day.
Can I forward booking emails like I do with TripIt?
Yes. Each trip has its own private forwarding address, and email bodies, PDF attachments and photos of printed vouchers are all read into typed entries. It is a Pro feature.
Does it show my trip on a map?
Yes — a map of the whole trip and a day-by-day timeline of the same plan, side by side. That is the core of the product rather than an extra view.
Can I import my existing TripIt trips?
No. There is no importer. For upcoming trips, forwarding the original confirmation emails to your new trip address is quick and produces better entries than a migration would.
Which should I choose?
If you want somewhere reliable to file business-trip reservations, TripIt does that well and has done for years. If you are planning a holiday — especially with other people, with things that never generated a confirmation email — a planner will suit you better.
Try it on your next trip
Forward the confirmations you already have, then add the half of the holiday that never came with a booking reference.
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