The Best TripIt Alternatives in 2026

TripIt made its name doing one thing well: forward your confirmation emails, get a clean trip record back. It's still a reasonable choice if that's genuinely all you need. But travel planning in 2026 usually asks for more — figuring out what to do with unplanned time, splitting costs with a group, actually booking the things an app suggests instead of just naming them. Here's how the main alternatives stack up.

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What to Actually Look For

Before comparing specific apps, it's worth being clear about what "better than TripIt" actually means, since it's not the same for everyone:

• If your main frustration is data entry — you want automatic parsing that goes further than TripIt's, or handles more file types
• If your main frustration is "now what?" — you want AI suggestions for downtime, not just a static record
• If your main frustration is group costs — you want expense splitting built in, not a second app
• If your main frustration is the app itself feeling dated — you want a mobile-first, card-based experience

Different alternatives solve different pieces of this. Here's where each one actually lands.

Wanderlog

Wanderlog is a strong choice if collaborative map-based planning is your priority — it's built around adding places, arranging them by day, and visualizing the route. Its AI features handle route optimization well. The limitation: every booking has to be added manually, there's no email parsing, and its suggestions are location-based rather than aware of your specific schedule or group.

Layla (formerly Trip Planner AI)

Layla is a genuinely engaging conversational planner for the inspiration phase — describe your trip, get an itinerary back through back-and-forth chat. Where it falls short: once you've made real bookings, Layla doesn't know about them, so its planning stays disconnected from what you've actually reserved.

Splitwise

Splitwise solves exactly one piece of the puzzle — splitting shared costs — and does it well for that narrow job. It has no itinerary, no bookings, no trip structure at all. Most groups end up running Splitwise alongside a separate itinerary app, which is two apps and two places to check instead of one.

SimplyVoy

SimplyVoy is built to cover the gaps the others leave open individually, in one app:

• Email parsing that builds the itinerary automatically — forward a booking confirmation and the item appears with dates, times, and confirmation numbers already filled in, no manual entry
• Multi-city support by default — a cruise or a multi-stop trip gets a city (and weather) per day, not one city for the whole trip
• Voy AI, which suggests what to do with actual free time based on your real itinerary — and when it's an activity suggestion, checks real Viator inventory for a bookable match with a real price and rating attached
• Group expenses with even or custom percentage splits, settled in one calculation across currencies
• A free tier and a mobile-first, card-based design that doesn't feel like a website ported onto a phone

For a family trip needing an actual activity booked, not just an idea, Viator's real tour inventory is the same search SimplyVoy's Voy assistant uses to find matches — worth browsing directly if you're planning ahead of the trip rather than waiting for an in-app suggestion.

Disclosure: SimplyVoy is a Viator affiliate partner — bookings made through the link above may earn us a small commission at no extra cost to you.

Which One Should You Actually Use

If all you want is a confirmation-email tracker, TripIt still does that. If you want map-based collaborative planning, Wanderlog. If you're purely splitting costs with no itinerary need, Splitwise. If you want the itinerary, the AI suggestions, the group expenses, and real bookable activities in one place, that's the gap SimplyVoy was built to fill.

Sign up free at simplyvoy.com and try it on your next trip — forward one booking confirmation and see what builds itself.