Kintinery vs. TripIt
If you're a solo or business traveler who lives by flight alerts, TripIt is hard to beat. But if you're taking a trip with family or friends, and you want everyone sharing photos, packing together, and following one private page, that's what Kintinery is for.
Side by side
Where each app is stronger, including the places TripIt wins.
Details on both apps verified July 2026. Prices in USD and can vary by region or promotion.
Where Kintinery pulls ahead
The whole group travels, not just the organizer
TripIt was built to organize one traveler's plans. When you share a trip, you're handing someone view or edit access to the itinerary, and that's the whole feature. There's no group chat, no shared photo feed, no packing list, and no trip journal. A 2026 review of its collaboration features put it plainly: "no mentions of photo sharing, chat functions, or packing lists."
Kintinery is built around the group instead of the itinerary:
- ›Photos per day. Everyone drops photos onto the day they happened. When your sister lands and adds twenty shots to Day 3, the whole trip sees them.
- ›A shared packing list. Claim an item ("I've got the sunscreen") so nobody double-packs. AI can build a starter list to get you going.
- ›Group chat. One thread for the whole trip, instead of a group text where the reservation always gets buried.
- ›A live trip map. Members can share location during the trip, so a big group can actually find each other.
- ›A shared journal. Write up the day together, with optional AI help that drafts from the day's photos and stops.
On a Pro trip, everyone you invite is included. The group features aren't a separate add-on.
Grandma opens the whole trip, not a stripped-down printout
Both apps can share a trip with someone who doesn't use them, but what that person sees is different. TripIt's read-only share, in the words of its own help center, "will not display confirmation numbers, total cost, frequent traveler information and documents," and you can only create the public link on the desktop website. Whoever opens it gets a partial itinerary.
Kintinery's link opens the full trip in any browser, on any device, with no download and no sign-up. That's the day-by-day itinerary, everyone's photos, and the shared journal. It's the same page the group uses, just read-only. This is what we mean by family media: your parents, your grandparents, the friend who won't download anything, all of them can follow along by tapping one link.
It stays private, too. A trip is visible only to the people you send the link to, with no public feed, no followers, and nothing to discover. TripIt is private by default as well. The difference is that Kintinery never bolts a social layer on top.
AI for everyone, and a price that fits one trip
Both apps turn booking emails into an itinerary. Forward a confirmation to Kintinery and AI lays it out day by day. You can also upload a PDF or a document and it will read that too. TripIt's email forwarding has been solid for years, but its newer AI capture ("Image to Plan," 2026) only runs on TripIt Pro, and only on the newest Apple hardware: an iPhone 15 Pro or later, on iOS 26. Kintinery's AI works for every user, on both iPhone and the web.
Then there's price. TripIt Pro is $49 a year. Kintinery is free to start, and Pro is either a one-time $4.99 for a single trip, which stays Pro for good, or $19.99 a year for every trip you own. If you take one big trip a year, you're weighing $4.99 once against $49 every year.
When TripIt is the better choice
Plenty of the time, honestly. TripIt has done one job very well for close to twenty years, and it has around twenty million travelers to show for it. Pick it over Kintinery if any of these sound like you:
You fly often and want disruption tools
TripIt Pro's real-time flight alerts, gate and delay notifications, seat tracker, fare-refund monitoring, alternate-flight finder, and airport maps are excellent, and Kintinery doesn't do any of it. If you fly a lot, that alone can be worth the subscription.
You need an Android app today
TripIt has native iPhone and Android apps plus a full web app. Kintinery is on iPhone and the web today, with Android on the way. If your group is on Android right now, TripIt fits and we don't yet. We'd rather tell you that up front.
You travel for work on SAP Concur
TripIt connects to SAP Concur, and a lot of companies hand employees TripIt Pro for free. If your travel already runs through Concur, TripIt is the easy choice.
You mostly travel solo and just want a tidy timeline
TripIt has been turning bookings into one clean itinerary, with calendar sync, for a very long time, and its 4.8-star rating reflects that. If that's all you need, it does the job well, and Kintinery's group features would just be weight you're not using.
Kintinery makes the most sense when a trip is a group thing: more than one person, photos worth sharing, and people who won't download an app.
Common questions
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Bring the whole trip into one place
Forward your bookings, share photos as you go, and hand everyone one private link. Free to start, no credit card.