Kintinery vs. Wanderlog
Wanderlog is a genuinely good trip planner, with maps, route tools, and a big library of guides for figuring out where to go. Kintinery is built for the other half of the trip: privately sharing it with your people and keeping the photos and memories in one place, with no public feed and no app required to open it.
Side by side
Where each app is stronger. Wanderlog wins on planning; Kintinery wins on sharing.
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Where Kintinery pulls ahead
A trip for your people, not an audience
Wanderlog has a social side. There's an Explore tab full of user-made guides, public profiles, followers, and likes, and every trip carries a visibility setting: Public, Friends (meaning your Wanderlog followers), or Private. That's useful if you want to publish a guide or browse other people's. It also means sharing a trip and publishing one live right next to each other.
Kintinery has none of that, on purpose. No feed, no followers, no profiles, nothing to discover. A trip is visible only to the people you send the private link to, and that link is the only way in. This is what we mean by family media, not social media: the trip is for the people on it. You can absolutely keep a Wanderlog trip private too. The difference is that Kintinery has no public mode to remember to turn off.
The part Wanderlog doesn't cover: living the trip together
Wanderlog is built around planning: the map, the route, the list of places. That's its strength, and it's very good at it. But a plan is only the first half of a trip. Kintinery is built for the during and after:
- ›Photos per day. Everyone adds photos to the day they happened, so the trip fills in as it goes. Wanderlog has a trip journal for photos, but it grows out of your itinerary stops, not a shared day-by-day feed.
- ›Group chat. One thread for the whole trip. Wanderlog has no group chat; people coordinate in notes and comments on places.
- ›A live trip map. Members share location during the trip, so a big group can actually find each other. Wanderlog's map plots places to visit, not where people are.
- ›A shared journal. Write up the day together, with optional AI help drafting from the day's photos and stops.
None of this replaces planning. It's the part that starts once the planning is done.
Grandma opens the whole trip, and you didn't build it by hand
Both apps can share a trip with someone who doesn't use them. Anyone with the link opens it in a browser, no app and no account. The difference is what lands on their screen. Wanderlog's shared link is the plan: the itinerary and the map, view-only. Kintinery's link is the full living trip, with the day-by-day itinerary, everyone's photos, and the shared journal. It's the same page your group uses, just read-only.
There's also less building to do. Wanderlog is mostly hands-on: you search for places and drag them onto days, which is exactly what its fans love about it. Kintinery leans on your bookings instead. Forward a confirmation email or upload a PDF, and AI lays the trip out day by day. Wanderlog imports flight, hotel, and car emails too, but it doesn't read uploaded documents, and it's designed for people who enjoy planning by hand.
When Wanderlog is the better choice
Often, genuinely. Wanderlog is one of the best trip planners out there, and for a lot of trips it's the right pick. Choose it over Kintinery if any of these fit:
You're still figuring out where to go
Wanderlog's map-first planning, its database of places with hours and ratings, and its Explore library of user-made guides are excellent for building an itinerary from scratch. Kintinery assumes you mostly know your plans already and want to share them.
You're planning a road trip
Wanderlog Pro optimizes each day's driving to save time and gas, and it suggests stops along the way. Kintinery has a trip map, but it doesn't plan or optimize routes. For a road trip, Wanderlog is the better tool.
You want everything free for a big group
Wanderlog's free tier covers unlimited trips and unlimited collaborators. If keeping cost at zero for a large planning group is the deciding factor, that's hard to beat. Kintinery's free tier includes up to three contributors per trip.
You split expenses on the trip
Wanderlog tracks who paid for what and settles up at the end, for free. Kintinery doesn't do expense splitting at all, so if that matters, you'd pair it with a dedicated app or use Wanderlog.
You plan on a laptop, or you're on Android
Wanderlog has a full web planner, a Chrome extension, and native iPhone and Android apps. Kintinery is on iPhone and the web today, with Android coming. If you plan at a desktop or your group is on Android, Wanderlog fits now.
Kintinery is the better fit once the planning is done: when you want to share the trip privately, bring everyone's photos together, and keep it as something the whole group can look back on.
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Share the trip, not just the plan
Bring your bookings, photos, and people into one private place, and hand everyone a single link. Free to start, no credit card.