Recently I wrote about the art of consolidating guidebooks, travel docs and maps using apps; and boy-oh-boy, does this next app make the iPhone indispensable! Forget the multi-page travel folders with hotel, flight, train and car rental confirmations, now there's an app that combines and gathers all your travel plans into one nicely packaged "app-tinerary." TripIt organizes your trips and saves trees. How green!
This helpful app follows in the footsteps of TripIt.com, a travel itinerary generating site launched in 2007. And here's a bit of travel trivia for you, guess who is one of the company's executives: Hotwire co-founder Gregg Brockway. Hum, this guy seems to know a thing or two about spotting great business ideas.
I'm using the TripIt app for my upcoming trips to Eastern Canada and Cali (and hopefully Australia) and I couldn't be happier with the result. After I took 1-minute to set up my account, all I did was forward my flight, hotel and car confirmation emails to plans@tripit.com and voila, customized travel itinerary all in one place, with included maps. Genius. How did I travel without it?
TripIt App Details
- free
- works with iPhone, iTouch and iPad
- see all the details of your TripIt itineraries, whether you’re online or offline
- link to airlines, hotels, restaurants and more, directly from your itinerary
- get maps and directions straight from your itinerary
- dial phone numbers on your iPhone straight from your TripIt itinerary
TripIt Pro If you're a hard-core traveler, check out TripIt Pro ($69/yr) which includes flight alerts, alternate flight options, point tracker and more.
Other Travel iPhone Apps we’ve Reviewed
- Trip Advisor
- StayHIP
- Trip Journal
- Bug Spray
- CameraBag
- Convert Everything
- GateGuru
- Kindle for iPhone
- Packing Pro
- Skype
- World Fact Book
- AAA/CAA Savings
- Royal Caribbean
- Medical Concierge
- Tourism British Columbia :: Near Me BC
- Postman Postcard
- 2010 Guide
- Nat’l Geo World Atlas
- hostelworld.com
- kayak first class
- flight control (game)