Wanderlog alternatives: 5 apps, by what you need

There's rarely one reason to leave Wanderlog. The app does a lot well: itinerary, map, budget, collaboration. If you're looking for an alternative, you usually have a specific problem, like offline access being a Pro feature, or route optimisation sitting behind the subscription. So this page sorts the alternatives by reason rather than ranking them. For a broad overview of AI planners see our comparison of the best AI trip planner apps; we keep the overlap small here.

On fairness: YesTrip is our own app, and we say below where Wanderlog is stronger. All details come from the providers' websites, app store pages and help centres, accessed on 4 November 2026. We leave out prices, which change and vary by country.

What Wanderlog does, and what Pro costs you

According to its website and App Store listing, Wanderlog offers drag-and-drop itineraries, a map with lines connecting stops in visiting order, live collaboration, budgets and cost splitting, packing lists, guides and adding reservations by forwarding an email. For road trips the App Store listing mentions unlimited stops.

The "Pro features" section of Wanderlog's help centre lists saving a trip plan offline, reading guides offline and optimising a route, plus the Gmail connection. The App Store listing also names exporting to Google Maps as a Pro feature.

The alternatives by your reason

YesTrip: free planning, offline and with costs

YesTrip is a free AI planner with 40 AI credits a month. Without AI, one tap puts a day's stops into a shorter order, the offline package saves the map, photos and routes of a trip, and shared expenses are included. There's currently no paid subscription; the app earns through partner links. Bookings come in by forwarding, pasting or PDF and only join the trip after you confirm.

Limits: AI uses credits, with a whole trip plan costing 5 or 8 and a chat answer 1. If you regenerate a lot, you'll reach the 40. There's no inbox connection and no community guides like Wanderlog's.

Stippl: strong on costs and groups

Stippl describes its free app as "free forever" and says you can take it all offline, without giving details of what works without signal. According to the comparison on its site, both Free and Pro include unlimited trips, destinations, activities and co-planners, unlimited expenses with settling up, packing lists and a travel journal. Pro alone has AI trip and day plans, AI route optimisation, email reservations and PDF export. If AI and email import are exactly why you were looking, you're back at a subscription.

TripIt: when the bookings are already made

The App Store page describes the core idea: forward confirmations to plans@tripit.com and an itinerary appears. Details are available offline. Pro adds flight alerts and interactive airport maps. TripIt only partly replaces Wanderlog though, since it organises rather than plans. Daily planning with sights and walks isn't its focus. More on importing emails is in Itinerary, tickets and maps in one app.

Roadtrippers: long drives, but in tiers

Roadtrippers sets different limits by tier. The site says:

According to its support pages, trip collaboration is a Pro and Premium feature. The site also lists offline maps, navigation and RV GPS, though the tier for each isn't clear on the page. If you're planning an RV trip across North America it's worth a look; for short city breaks in Europe, less so. For planning legs in general see How to plan a road trip.

Polarsteps: recording rather than planning

Polarsteps comes at it from elsewhere. The app records your route automatically, even without signal, typically using less than 4% battery a day according to the provider. Friends and family can follow along, and a trip turns into a printed book at the push of a button. You can plan as well, but that isn't its focus. The free version includes planning, tracking and following with up to 5 travel buddies, and Plus adds 3D maps and more map styles. So Polarsteps is more of a complement than a replacement for Wanderlog.

What about Google My Maps?

If you mainly want the map and don't mind sorting yourself, you may not need a travel app at all. The limits are in Plan a trip with Google Maps: 10 layers per map and editing on a computer. Offline, only driving directions work. You can add your own table with our travel itinerary template.

Where Wanderlog is stronger

To be honest, on several points that decide it for many people:

• Guides and inspiration: you add places from guides and other users' lists with one click. YesTrip has no community guides.
• Live collaboration: Wanderlog describes joint editing with live syncing.
• Inbox: with Pro you can link a Gmail account and confirmations arrive by themselves. YesTrip has no inbox connection.
• Place information: the App Store listing names descriptions, photos, ratings, opening hours and contacts for places.

If you use these and can live with the subscription, there's little reason to switch.

If you do switch

Don't plan a move. Finish your current trip in the old app and start the next one in the new. With YesTrip, a destination is enough to get a first plan; ready-made plans exist for many cities.

For your first trip outside your home network, a travel eSIM^* fits well, and tours and tickets are available, for example, from Tiqets for Lisbon^*. YesTrip never books anything itself; you always book with the provider.

* Ad – Partner link: if you book there, we earn a commission. Your price stays the same.