how it works
How to plan a group trip with AI
TripBuddy is an AI trip planner for group travel: it turns one sentence about where you are going into a day-by-day itinerary, and lets the whole crew swap stops, shift days and comment on the same plan.
Describe the trip in one sentence
Type or say where you are going, roughly when, and who is coming — "five days in Bali in August, four of us, one hates hiking". Buddy asks the questions a friend who knows the city would ask: are you morning people, is anyone vegetarian, what have you already booked.
Get a day-by-day itinerary
TripBuddy writes the whole trip: every day in order, with times, the travel between each stop, and opening hours checked against real map data. Multi-city routes are planned city by city, so a week split between Hamburg and Copenhagen is two plans that fit together.
Send your crew one link
Everyone opens the same living plan — no account needed to look. Swap a stop, shift a day, say what you think. Changes are there for everyone immediately, so nobody is reading last week's version.
Book from the plan and go
Where a place takes bookings, the link is on its page — stays, tables, tickets. Then the plan follows you: the next stop on your lock screen, the day read out in a minute of audio, a phrasebook and a currency converter when you need them.
The plan does not stop at the airport
Most planners are done the moment the itinerary exists. The half of TripBuddy that people end up talking about is the half that runs while you are actually travelling.
Your next stop, on the lock screen
A Live Activity and widgets show what is done, what is now, and what is next — with directions one tap away.
The day in one minute of audio
Every day has a spoken summary, and every stop has the two minutes a good guide would give you, read aloud while you walk.
Phrasebook and currency
The words you need where you are, and what that price is in your own money.
A passport that fills up
Stamps for the places you have actually been, collected as you travel.
Against a group chat and a spreadsheet
| Group chat + spreadsheet | TripBuddy | |
|---|---|---|
| Who writes the plan | One person, for hours | Written for you in about a minute |
| Opening hours and travel time | Checked by hand, if at all | Checked against map data as it plans |
| Everyone's preferences | Whoever argues loudest | Asked once, blended into the days |
| Keeping it current | Screenshots of an old version | One link, always the current plan |
| On the trip itself | Scrolling back through messages | Next stop on the lock screen, day read aloud |
Questions people ask
How do you plan a trip with friends without endless group chat messages?
Describe the trip once in TripBuddy and share the plan instead of the argument. Everyone sees the same day-by-day itinerary, can swap a stop or shift a day, and the plan updates for everyone at once — so the decision lives in one place rather than in four hundred messages.
What is the best app for planning a group trip?
The useful test is whether the app plans the days or only stores them. Most travel apps are lists you fill in yourself; TripBuddy writes the itinerary — order, times, travel between stops, opening hours — and then lets the whole group edit that plan together.
Does everyone need to install the app?
No. The person planning can use the iPhone app or the web app, and the crew can open the shared plan in any browser without installing anything and without an account.
How long does it take to get an itinerary?
About a minute for a full trip. TripBuddy writes the days while you wait, and you can change anything afterwards by asking for it in the chat.
Is TripBuddy free?
Yes. Planning is free, for every trip and any crew size. When a plan sends you to a booking site, that site may pay TripBuddy a commission — it costs you nothing extra.
Plan your next trip in a sentence.
Last updated 5 September 2026.