TripIt built its name by turning a pile of confirmation emails into one clean itinerary. But most trips do not need email parsing, just a clear picture of where you are going, when, and how much each stop costs against what you actually want to spend. We built Trip Trail, a free trip planner that runs right here in your browser. Add a stop, set its dates and budget, and the timeline and budget chart redraw instantly. No install, no signup.
Use Trip Trail now
It opens with a working three-stop example already loaded. Edit any name, date, or budget and everything below updates live.
How to use it
Set your overall trip budget with the top slider, then add stops with the “Add stop” button. Each stop gets a name, a start date, an end date, and a budget amount you can drag or tap up and down. The timeline redraws in date order every time you change a date, with a dashed line marking today so you can see how far off each stop is at a glance. The bar chart below tracks each stop’s planned spend, and the progress bar compares your running total against the cap you set, with a status pill that reads “On track,” “Close to cap,” or “Over budget.”
A countdown badge above the timeline always points at your nearest stop, counting down the days until it starts or marking it as in progress. Everything is saved on your device only, so closing the tab and coming back later brings your trip back exactly as you left it, and nothing you type is ever sent anywhere.
How it compares to TripIt
Trip Trail keeps the part of trip planning that actually helps at a glance: a chronological timeline of stops and a live view of budget versus your cap. Both update the moment you change an input, with no save button anywhere in sight.
TripIt is a much bigger tool. It forwards your confirmation emails and auto-builds a master itinerary with flight status alerts, seat maps, terminal and gate info, points and loyalty tracking, and a shareable trip plan your travel companions can follow along with. None of that lives here. We deliberately left out email forwarding, real-time flight data, and any kind of account or sync, because those need real infrastructure behind them, not a browser tab.
Use Trip Trail when you are sketching a trip on a whim, roughing out how a multi-city itinerary splits your budget, or showing someone else the shape of a plan before you book anything. Once you have actual flights, hotels, and confirmation numbers to track, TripIt’s automatic itinerary building is the tool built for that job.
Get the full app
TripIt: Travel Planner is free on Android and iOS, and it turns forwarded booking confirmations into one itinerary automatically, with a paid Pro tier for real-time flight alerts and points tracking.
Frequently asked questions
Can I plan a trip like TripIt in a browser?
TripIt itself requires the app or its web dashboard tied to an account, since it works by parsing forwarded confirmation emails. Trip Trail, the tool on this page, is our own original itinerary and budget planner that runs in any modern browser with no account at all. It covers the timeline-and-budget part of the job; TripIt covers the email-parsing part.
Is this the real TripIt?
No. Trip Trail is an original tool we built, inspired by the itinerary-planning problem apps like TripIt solve. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to TripIt or its parent company in any way. The download links above point to the official app.
Does my trip data save, and is it private?
Yes, on your device only. Every stop, date, and budget amount is stored in your browser’s local storage and restored automatically when you reopen the page. Nothing is uploaded to a server, and clearing your browser data or switching devices will not bring your trip with you, since there is no account behind it.
Is it free?
Completely. No ads, no purchases, no account, and no limit on how many trips you plan over time, though only your most recent one stays saved in the browser.
Does it work offline?
Once the page has loaded, it makes no further network requests, so it keeps working through a dropped connection. For real-time flight status and gate changes while traveling, you need TripIt itself, which depends on a live connection to track that data.
