TripIt taught a generation of travellers to forward confirmation emails and get an itinerary back. Tripstic keeps that idea and changes what happens after: the people you travel with can edit the trip, viewers see a clean version, the calendar feed covers every trip you're on, and the original emails and tickets stay attached. Here is where the two differ, including where TripIt is still ahead.
| Tripstic | TripIt | |
|---|---|---|
| Forward booking emails to build a trip | Yes | Yes |
| Free to use | Yes | Free tier; the useful parts are TripIt Pro |
| Works without a corporate travel system | Yes | Owned by SAP Concur; increasingly built around it |
| Travellers can all add and edit plans | Yes | Sharing is view-oriented |
| Viewers see a clean itinerary without prices or confirmation numbers | Yes | No |
| Share a trip by link; recipients keep access | Yes | Per-trip sharing |
| Calendar feed of every trip you're on, including friends' trips you travel on | Yes | Your own trips |
| Original email, PDFs and tickets kept with the trip forever | Yes | Plans, not the original documents |
| Hotels, cars, trains, ferries, cruises, tours, restaurant and event tickets | Yes | Yes |
| Merge, split and move plans between trips | Yes | Move plans |
| Real-time flight alerts, gate changes, seat tracking | No | Yes (Pro) |
| Native iOS / Android apps, offline access | Web app; works on phones | Yes |
| Airport maps, points tracking, fare refund alerts | No | Yes (Pro) |
| Your data: export, delete, leave any trip | Yes | Yes |
TripIt is a product of SAP Concur. Feature descriptions reflect their public product pages as of September 2026; check tripit.com for current details.
The core loop. Forward a confirmation email from an airline, hotel, car rental, train, ferry, cruise, tour or ticket seller, and it becomes a plan on the right trip: dates and times in local time, the confirmation number, the address, the flight number. Both apps stitch plans into trips by date and let you fix mistakes by hand.
A trip has travellers and viewers. Travellers see everything and can add their own bookings, edit any plan, move plans between trips and merge trips that were really one. Set default travellers once and every new trip starts shared with them.
Parents, a house-sitter, the friend meeting you for two days: they see where and when, flights, hotels and a map link, never prices, confirmation numbers, documents or who else is travelling. Share by link; anyone who opens it signs in with Google once and keeps access even after you change the link.
Subscribe once in Google Calendar. Trips you created, trips friends added you to, and trips you only view all show up, with hotel stays as all-day spans and flights at the right local times.
Each plan links to the email it came from, a PDF snapshot of it, and any attached tickets. The QR code you need at the gate is one tap from the itinerary, years later, even if the airline's links have expired.
Tripstic is a small independent service. Sign in with Google, forward an email, done. It's free while we're getting it right; if we ever charge, it will be for high volume, not for the basics.
Honestly: real-time flight monitoring. TripIt Pro watches your flights for delays, gate changes and better seats, tracks loyalty points, and has native mobile apps with offline itineraries and airport maps. Tripstic is a web app that works well on a phone, but it doesn't alert you when your gate moves. If that's the feature you rely on, TripIt Pro earns its subscription.
Paste your TripIt calendar feed into Settings and every trip, past and future, is imported with its flights, hotels and cars in a few seconds. Step-by-step guide. Or don't move anything: forward the confirmation emails for your next trip and Tripstic builds it from those.
Try it with one email. Sign in with Google, forward a booking confirmation to your Tripstic address, and watch it become a trip.
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