AI trip planner with a travel passport

Most travel apps do one of two jobs. Planners help you before and during the trip: where to go, in what order, how long it takes. Country trackers help you afterwards: which countries you have seen, where you want to go back. If you want both, you usually end up with two apps, a spreadsheet or a scratch map on the wall – and you enter every trip twice.

This page answers a narrow question: which travel planner gives you AI itineraries and a travel passport in the same app, and what should such a passport actually do? We built YesTrip around exactly that combination, so we describe what it does – and what it does not.

The short answer

YesTrip combines an AI day planner with a travel passport. You describe the trip, the AI suggests a plan day by day, and once the trip is over it moves into your passport automatically: a stamp for the country, a place on your globe, and a star rating you give yourself. Those stars then feed back into planning: when you ask for new destinations, YesTrip suggests places that are similar to the ones you rated highest. YesTrip is free, with 40 AI credits per month and no subscription.

If you are comparing planners in general – email import, community guides, group features – see our comparison of seven AI trip planner apps. This page is only about the planner-plus-passport combination.

Why plan and passport belong in one app

A passport that is fed by your planner has three advantages over a separate tracker:

• No double entry. You already entered the destination and dates when you planned. The passport can reuse them instead of asking again.
• Better suggestions. A planner that knows you gave Portugal five stars and France three can suggest a next trip that fits you rather than a generic top-ten list.
• A recap for free. When trips, places and dates are already in the app, a year in review is simply a count – no extra work after you get home.

The disadvantage: if you only want to tick off countries on a map and never plan anything, a dedicated country tracker or a scratch map is simpler.

Step 1: the AI itinerary

Planning starts with one sentence: where, when, for how long and what you enjoy – museums, beaches, good food. The AI suggests a plan day by day, with times, the short walks between stops and a map. You move, remove and add stops until it fits. If the trip is postponed, you tap the dates and the plan moves along. Every AI suggestion is labelled as such.

The plan in the screenshot shows what a finished day looks like: the flight from Frankfurt arriving in Lisbon, then Castelo de São Jorge in the afternoon and the Miradouro de Santa Luzia for sunset, with "6 min walk, 450 m" in between. A note on top flags a public holiday on which many shops and offices are closed – the kind of detail that is easy to miss when you plan by hand.

The AI chat (the Ask tab) is the other way in. Starter cards with photos help with the first sentence – for example "Plan a trip to Kyoto with my saved places" or "What should I not miss in Rome?". At the top, the chat shows what YesTrip already knows about you: your profile, the countries in your passport, your saved places and your trips. Follow-up questions in which the AI only asks back or explains something cost no credits.

Two honest limits: the AI makes suggestions, not guarantees. Opening hours, prices and connections can be wrong or out of date, so check anything important with the provider before you book. And YesTrip does not book anything itself – flights, hotels and tours are booked directly with the provider. Once the plan stands, you can compare tickets and tours for Athens^* on Tiqets, for example.

Step 2: the trip happens

During the trip, the Today view shows the next stop, the way there and the day's tickets, plus the weather and a reminder when it is time to go. A tick marks a stop as done. This is the bridge between plan and passport: the places you actually visit are already in the app.

Step 3: the travel passport

After the trip, your passport collects it. Past trips are added automatically. For every country you get a stamp, and you give countries, cities and flights 1 to 5 stars. The stars become your own ranking, "Your favourite countries", and there are badges and a globe as well.

What a good travel passport should do, and how YesTrip handles it:

The example passport in the screenshot holds six countries. On a map, a year like that looks like this:

Base map: Natural Earth

What counts as a country?

Any country list needs a rule. Common ones are "at least one night", "left the airport" or "set foot on the ground". The usual reference is the 193 member states of the United Nations, often plus the two observer states, Vatican City and Palestine – 195 in total. We go through the rules in more detail in our guide to travel journals and trip memories.

Step 4: the passport plans the next trip

This is where the combination pays off. If you do not have a destination yet, tap "Where to next?", say when, for how long and what you are in the mood for. The AI suggests places that fit your travel profile, your wishlist and the stars in your passport. New destinations get a forecast such as "Your match ★ 4.5 – like Portugal", together with the best season, travel time and price level. One tap creates the trip – and the cycle starts again.

Step 5: your travel year

At the end of the year, Your travel year adds it all up: days away from home, trips, countries, cities and flights, kilometres in the air, and highlights such as the longest trip and new countries. It is counted from your trips and passport on the device; upcoming trips are not included. You can play it as a story and share it.

What YesTrip is not

• Not a journal for long texts. For pages of notes, a notebook or a notes app is the better tool.
• Not a travel agency. YesTrip shows the way to the provider but never books for you. It earns a small commission when you book through a partner link; your price stays the same.
• No email import of bookings. If you mainly want your confirmations collected automatically, other planners are ahead here – see the app comparison.

Your data: trips, tickets, photos and chat are stored on your device. With a free account (sign-in with an email code, no password), trips, travel profile and passport are saved so you can use them on several devices. You can try everything, including the passport, in the demo without an account.

For a first trip to try it with, our ready-made Athens plan is a good start:

Athens trip planDay by day, with map and tips

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