Four apps, four jobs
TripIt is a filing cabinet. Forward your confirmation emails and it lines them up into one itinerary, with flight alerts if you pay for Pro. It does not plan anything, book anything, or know anyone. It is very good at the one thing it does.
Polarsteps is a diary. It tracks your route by GPS as you go, hangs your photos on the map, and prints the result as a hardback book. It added a planner and a subscription this year, but the heart of it is the record of a trip you are already on.
Wanderlog is a shared notebook. You and your friends drop places into a list, it puts them on a map and a timeline, and the Pro tier adds offline access, route optimization and Gmail scanning. Bookings link out to other sites.
Adónde is the trip. It builds the day-by-day plan from the real catalogue of tours and places for your dates, books the hotel, flights and tours inside the app, files the confirmations, tracks the budget, opens every city with a guide, turns the trip into a story, and shows you the travelers who are already there. It pins every stop with directions from where you sleep, exports the itinerary to your calendar, works offline, watches your flights, and carries the safety layer nobody else bothers with: local emergency numbers, live travel advisories, entry and visa requirements, and location sharing with the people who worry about you. The plan, the bookings, the map and the people are one object.
The full comparison
AdóndeMember hotel rates averaged 9% below the cheapest public price across five sites in our own check. Every number, every site, and the three hotels we left out. Competitor details come from each app's public pages in September 2026 and can change. If we got something wrong, tell us at support@getadonde.com.
What the price buys
All four have a free plan, and the difference is what the paid tier is for. TripIt Pro exists to sell you flight alerts. Polarsteps Plus sells 3D maps and stats on top of a diary that was already free. Wanderlog Pro sells offline access and Gmail scanning. Adónde's free plan is the whole travel app: booking at member rates, every guide, the globe, the community, the stories, the safety layer, and one AI-built trip to see what it does. Traveler+ is for the parts that cost us money every time you use them.
Free
- One AI-built trip and one AI rebuild, then build the rest by hand with the day planner
- Hotels at member rates, flights and tours booked in the app
- Every city guide, the globe, groups, events, posts and chat
- Trip stories with narration and music
- Pins, directions, budget, currency, calendar export, documents
- Safety: emergency numbers, advisories, entry and visa rules, and live location with one person
- Weather and what to wear for every stop, and Stay Active runs, trails and gyms when you arrive
- Trips and documents offline, starter phrasebook
Traveler+
- Unlimited AI trip builds and rebuilds
- The AI scheduling assistant
- Live AI interpreter, camera translation and 150 offline phrases
- Offline maps
- Flight status tracking
- Live location with up to five people
- No Adónde logo on your story videos
The one number that matters most is the hotel rate, and it is on the free side. Adónde members get closed user group prices that Booking.com, Expedia and the rest are not allowed to publish, often for the same room. Other services sell that as a $20 a month membership. Here it comes with the free account.
When to use which
- You already booked everything and want it in one list. TripIt, and Adónde does this too: forward the emails and they file themselves.
- You want a beautiful record of a trip you are on. Polarsteps makes a lovely book. Adónde makes the story a video and posts it where other travelers can copy the trip.
- Six friends are arguing over a list of restaurants. Wanderlog's shared list is quick. Adónde gives each companion their own blocks and budget, and turns the argument into proposed changes the trip accepts or not.
- You have dates and cities and nothing else. Adónde. That is the whole point of it.
Read next: Building a trip in Adónde, start to finish.