Quick verdict
Choose TripIt if you travel often, book through many different sites and want your itinerary built automatically from confirmation emails — and especially if you'd value TripIt Pro's real-time flight alerts, gate reminders and alternate-flight help. RoamerPlanner offers none of that.
Choose RoamerPlanner if you want to plan the holiday day by day: attractions, restaurants, shopping stops, notes and packing lists alongside your flights and hotel, in a visual timeline you can share with your travel companions — for free.
Feature comparison: RoamerPlanner vs TripIt
| Feature | RoamerPlanner | TripIt |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free; there is no paid tier | Free; TripIt Pro $49/year (free 30-day trial offered) |
| Main job | Planning the days of a trip: sights, food, bookings, notes and checklists | Organising reservations into an itinerary automatically |
| Adding bookings | Manual, with detailed fields for flights, hotels and car rentals | Forward emails to plans@tripit.com, or Inbox Sync with Gmail, Yahoo or Microsoft accounts; manual entry also possible |
| Planning activities by day | Attractions, restaurants, shopping, notes and checklists on a drag-and-drop day timeline | You can add plans without a confirmation email, with notes or photos |
| Real-time flight alerts | No | TripIt Pro: real-time flight alerts, terminal and gate reminders, alternate flights, seat tracker |
| Calendar sync | No | Yes, on the free plan |
| Documents | PDFs and images on each activity, with in-app PDF preview | 3 documents per trip free; 25 per trip with Pro |
| Sharing | Invite link: people who join can view the whole trip and tick their own checklist items; only the trip owner edits the plan | Private invitations with view or edit permissions, a public link (web), and Inner Circle automatic sharing with Pro |
| Apps and offline | Web app you can add to your home screen; no native app and no offline mode | iOS (including Apple Watch) and Android apps; TripIt says you can access your itinerary offline |
| Checklists | Packing, shopping and to-do lists; each traveller ticks their own items | Not listed on the pages we checked |
| Travel history | Travel Map of the countries and places from your trips | Travel stats |
TripIt details as listed on its own website. Last checked: October 2026. Features and prices change, so confirm on the official site before you decide.
Adding bookings: automatic import vs manual detail
TripIt's headline feature is genuinely useful: forward a confirmation email to plans@tripit.com, or connect your inbox, and the flight, hotel, car or train appears in the right trip. RoamerPlanner can't import bookings — you type them in.
What you get in return is a detailed card: airline and flight number, departure and arrival airports, terminal, gate, seat, booking reference and an automatically calculated flight duration; for hotels, check-in and check-out times, room type, the confirmation number and the address in the local language to show a taxi driver. Attach the e-ticket or voucher to the card and it's there at the gate.
Planning the days in between
Bookings are only part of a trip. RoamerPlanner is built for everything around them: the temple you want to see first thing, the market for lunch, the dress code for the rooftop bar, the packing list. Every item sits on a colour-coded day timeline you can rearrange with drag and drop — and you can start before your dates or flights are fixed.
Use both: let TripIt collect your confirmations and watch your flights, and use RoamerPlanner to plan what you'll actually do each day.
Sharing with travel companions
TripIt lets you invite people with view or edit permissions, and Pro's Inner Circle shares every trip automatically with chosen people. In RoamerPlanner, the trip owner shares an invite link; people who join can see the full itinerary and tick off their own checklist items, while editing stays with the owner.
What we checked
Every TripIt feature and price on this page comes from these pages, reviewed in October 2026. RoamerPlanner features are described as they work in the app today.
- TripIt pricing: free vs Pro
- TripIt Pro features
- TripIt Help: Adding travel plans
- TripIt Help: Trip sharing
Last checked: October 2026
Frequently asked questions
- Does RoamerPlanner send flight delay alerts like TripIt Pro?
- No. RoamerPlanner stores your flight details but doesn't track flight status. Use your airline's app or TripIt Pro for real-time alerts.
- Can RoamerPlanner read my confirmation emails?
- No — bookings are added manually. If automatic import is a must, TripIt (or another organizer) is the better choice.
- Is TripIt free?
- Yes, TripIt has a free version that organises your plans, syncs with your calendar and lets you share trips. TripIt Pro, listed at $49 per year when we checked, adds alerts and extra travel tools.
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