The best group trip planning apps, compared honestly

First, work out which problem you actually have

Group travel tools are not really one category, which is why most comparison lists are unhelpful. They cluster into four jobs, and nearly every tool does one of them well and the others adequately. Picking well means knowing which job is yours before you look at feature lists.

• Deciding: agreeing dates, destination and accommodation as a group. This is where most trips stall.
• Itinerary building: laying out days, places and routes once the decisions are made.
• Money: tracking who paid for what and settling up at the end.
• Storing: keeping booking references and documents somewhere the whole group can find them.

The short version, in a table

Features change often and every one of these tools is actively developed, so treat this as a snapshot taken in September 2026 rather than a permanent ranking. Check anything that would be a dealbreaker for your group before you commit to it.

Wanderlog

The strongest itinerary builder in the category and the most mature product of the group. Maps, routes, collaborative day-by-day planning, and it handles the sheer volume of a long multi-city trip better than anything else here. If you are planning three weeks across five countries, this is the tool that will not buckle.

It is less focused on the deciding phase, and it does not split expenses, so groups that use it commonly run Splitwise alongside. If your group already knows where and when it is going and wants to plan the days properly, this is probably the best answer on this page.

If your group cannot agree on dates yet, an itinerary builder is not the tool you need. You will end up with a beautifully structured plan for a trip nobody has committed to.

Splitwise

Does one job and does it better than any general-purpose travel tool. If money is your only real problem, use Splitwise and stop reading. It is well established, most people already have an account, and the settle-up maths is reliable and well tested.

It is not a planning tool and has never pretended to be. There is no voting, no dates, no itinerary. Many groups end up running it alongside something else, which is a perfectly reasonable outcome and not a failure of either tool.

The one thing to watch: because it is a general expense splitter rather than a travel tool, it has no concept of the trip ending. Groups often leave balances open for months because nothing prompts them to settle.

Troupe

Troupe is strongest at the earliest stage, when nothing is decided. It runs polls on destinations and dates so a group can converge without a two-hundred-message chat thread, and that is genuinely the hardest part of a group trip.

It does not split money, so like Wanderlog it tends to be paired with Splitwise once the spending starts. If your group's entire problem is the opening argument about where and when, it addresses that directly.

WePlanify, AvoSquado and the group-decision cluster

This group targets the same problem we do: getting a group to actually agree on something. They typically combine polls, a shared itinerary and some budget tracking, and several are free with no paywall, which is a real advantage over anything subscription-based.

They differ mostly in emphasis. Some lead with voting, some with the itinerary, some with joining by code so people can look before committing to an account. WePlanify, for instance, leans on unlimited polls with live results.

If group decision-making is your bottleneck, these are the direct alternatives worth comparing feature by feature against your group's specific sticking point, rather than against a generic feature list.

TripIt

Built for a different user entirely: the individual traveller who wants confirmation emails parsed out of their inbox into one clean itinerary. It is excellent at that, and still useful on a group trip for keeping your own bookings straight.

It is not a collaborative decision tool and will not help your group agree on anything. Think of it as a personal layer that can sit underneath whatever the group uses.

The all-in-ones: Stippl, TripProf and similar

The clearest recent shift in this category is tools folding planning and money into one place rather than expecting you to run two apps. Stippl and TripProf are the most visible examples, and the logic is sound: fewer apps means one place the group actually looks.

The trade-off is the usual one for all-in-ones. A tool doing four jobs is rarely the best at any single one, so if your group has one dominant problem, a focused tool will probably serve you better. If your group's problem is genuinely spread across deciding, planning and money, the reduction in app-switching is worth real money.

Wralli

Ours, so weigh this accordingly. It is built around the deciding phase first, on the view that this is where group trips actually break: availability marked on a shared calendar, a date proposal everyone has to agree to before it locks, and voting on the destination and where to stay.

What has changed since this page first went up is what happens after those decisions. A trip can be a route rather than a single destination — a run of stops, each with its own dates, its own place to stay and the travel leg that gets you to the next one. Around that sit everyone's flights against their own home airport, a shared wallet for booking references and documents, a ledger that records each expense in the currency it was actually paid in, and a calendar file for your phone. There is also a jet-lag plan built from your outbound flight and the destination's timezone, which nothing else on this page does. And for the trips that are not really trips — a night out, a weekend where the only questions are when and where — there is a lighter mode that skips the route and the voting entirely.

The design decision we would defend hardest is that guests join by link with a name and no account. That sounds minor and it is not — it is usually the difference between a group tool being used and being ignored, because the least engaged person in your group will not create an account to answer one question about dates.

Where it is honestly weaker: there are no maps, and a route of stops is not the same thing as Wanderlog's day-by-day planner. If your group has already decided and wants to lay out each day properly, Wanderlog is the better answer and this page would be worth nothing if it said otherwise. It is also young, and free with no paid tier to point at as evidence it will be maintained forever — a fair thing to hold against any new product.

And by the test in the next section, it fails one of its own criteria: Wralli sends nothing. No emails, no push notifications, no reminders. What it does instead is show the group who it is still waiting on, and give whoever is looking a single tap to nudge them in the group chat everyone already reads. Whether that is enough is a fair thing to decide before you commit.

The test that matters more than any feature

Whatever you choose, the constraint that decides the outcome is not the feature list. It is whether the least engaged person in your group will actually open it.

A tool that half the group ignores is worse than a group chat, because now the plan lives in two places and neither is complete. Before you commit, ask the honest question: will the friend who never replies to anything log in to this? If the answer is no, the features do not matter.

• Can someone contribute without creating an account?
• Does it work properly in a phone browser, or does it push people to an app store?
• How many taps from the shared link to answering the actual question?
• Does it email or notify people who have gone quiet, or does chasing them stay somebody's job?

Is it reasonable to use two tools?

Yes, and most groups do. The common pairing is a planning tool plus Splitwise, because until recently almost nothing did both properly. There is nothing wrong with that combination if both halves get used.

The cost of two tools is not the subscription, it is the split attention: decisions in one place, money in another, and neither showing the whole picture. That is the specific problem the all-in-ones are trying to solve, and it is why we built the ledger into Wralli rather than linking out to something else.

Common mistakes when choosing

Most groups pick badly for the same handful of reasons, and all of them are avoidable.

• Choosing on features rather than on adoption. The best tool your group will not open is worthless.
• Picking an itinerary builder while the group is still arguing about dates. Wrong stage, wrong tool.
• Waiting for consensus on which app to use. Someone should just pick one and share the link.
• Assuming everyone will install an app. On most group trips, at least one person never will.
• Leaving money until the end. A ledger nobody updated during the trip is a spreadsheet you now have to reconstruct from memory.

The honest summary

If your group cannot agree, use a decision-first tool. If your group has agreed and wants to plan the days in detail, use Wanderlog. If the only problem is money, use Splitwise. If you are tired of running two apps, look at the all-in-ones — ours included, which now carries the deciding, the route and the money in one place.

And if you take one thing from this page, make it the adoption test above rather than any row in the table. Every tool here can hold a trip. Only some of them will get opened by the person you most need to hear from.