Trip Planner & Guide - Tripsy

I am a Tripsy Pro subscriber via Setapp. I wouldn’t pay for the app directly because it just suffers from too many bugs. I tolerate it, but it’s getting harder and harder after multiple occasions of losing data, having appointments randomly move from one trip to another, and having multiple entries that don’t sync from one device to another. All these problems have plagued the app for multiple versions, and even the latest grand rewrite hasn’t fixed them. If the developers are any good, they’re going to reply to this review, but they’re going to advise contacting support. I don’t have time to contact support for all the buggy apps out there. Please just make the app work in the first place. It’s really too bad, because I like the basic concept of the app, but it’s just too flaky to rely on.

Good app for comprehensive travel itinerary yet there are alternatives that could be a better replacement either for free or a lower price.

Tripsy was my favorite travel app for several years. I loved everything about it, especially the ease of use and navigation. The recent updates make it nothing but frustrating. When you try to add an activity, there is no “save” button, so you have no idea if it’s saved. And sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn’t. I’m cancelling my subscription.

Lots of small things that would make it more useful seem to have been left out. Seems like the developers haven’t actually used this to plan a trip. It doesn’t show arrival time of flights on itinerary. No integration with air bnb and once you’ve manually added your own lodging it isn’t suggested as a location in other parts of the app. Just lots of small things hard to describe it all…

Wasted a half hour trying to set up a cruise out of Fort Lauderdale. Entered the flight information fine. When I tried to enter information for my cruise, the App was useless. Deleted the App immediately and canceled my trial subscription.

I’d love to mark a trip as canceled without deleting it.

Very hard to use, not user friendly. When I tried planning a trip there’s nowhere to add destinations and save, it’s very difficult to navigate inside the app.

I wish I had more time to travel so I could use it more. Makes organizing your trip a breeze and then having the option to share it with my partner means she can be totally filled in on everything we have planned. Also forwarding emails into the application works so well and makes adding hotels and flights and dinner reservations so easy. I barely ever have to add extra info. It just works! Can’t recommend enough! Two suggestions though! I wish I could have some kind of summary blurb for each day in my itinerary, that way while I’m still planning I could have a place I can put “probably a train to x city” or something like that before any plans got put in place. Also would love to have US state flags or some kind or symbol for states where the countries go. I love when I am visiting a few cities in Europe to have the different icons. I wish my great American road trips could have something similar.

Tripsy is pretty nice, and it certainly looks the best on apple devices. So far basic functionality seems to be there, you can add places mainly sourced from apple maps, sharing works well from google maps and it will automatically add address information and website info if it's there. But it's lacking a lot of categorization, like for example there's no "spa" specific category, there's no "cultural site" category, there's only a single shopping classification. Wanderlog hasa deeper google map integration, so you can even see the opening and closing times listed on google. I could enter it myself in tripsy, it's just more manual. Weirdly you cant rearrange your itinerary once added either without specifying a specific time, which I don't want to do when I only have a vague idea of when each activity will be completed. Routing information isn't automatic, you need to enter things in manually from what I can tell, especially subway/train/bus information when apple maps can't source it. But tripsy has some nice native integrations, siri seems to detect my lodging when entered into tripsy as well as the flight info. Overall, if you enjoy planning things, tripsy is a nice app with a native ios/ipados/macos feel. Just be prepared to enter a lot of things manually.

Even the free version is pretty good but I do believe the premium it’s worth especially for a month long trip. I’m an excel sheet guy but this works better for my partner and I to share / visualize.