Travel Planner Guide: Tripsy Reviews

by T.Khan.

Don’t waste your time downloading. Just to be able to share your trip you have to pay $35 or the monthly $5. Even Tripit allows you to share and collaborate a trip for free but to have to PAY for this feature is ridiculous. If you’re going with friends or family only one person can view the trip on their phone or add to it??? Come on guys. Be better. That’s just low. Sad thing is that I actually liked TravelPlannerGuide ... :/

by Tbdal1

I have been using Tripsy Pro paid subscription for over a year now. I love that all my information can be stored in one place. But getting it there us another story. TravelPlannerGuide simply doesn’t work properly. When entering data TravelPlannerGuide hangs up constantly. Upon finally getting all the info in for an entry and clicking “save”, it can take up to 4 minutes for it to save. Most entries take me on average of 10 minutes per entry to get it into TravelPlannerGuide . When I try to scroll through the entries it looks up and won’t move through the entries. When I tap the itinerary box or a entry box or even the gray “x” box in the top right corner, TravelPlannerGuide just sits there and doesn’t move for a while. It takes me 4 or 5 times as long to get the entry in as it does for me to do the typing. I have contacted Rafael many times about these issues but nothing gets better. Matter of fact, I have been pitting in a new trip the last couple of days and TravelPlannerGuide is WORSE than it has been in the past year. In 2 days I have spent close to 10 hours putting in data and have only gotten 10 days worth entered. I have on average about 5-6 entries per trip day. This is VERY annoying and frustrating to have to spend this much time just because TravelPlannerGuide won’t move through the process. I continue to use Tripsy because I have so much time invested, close to 200 hours over the past year. If you use TravelPlannerGuide, be prepared for frustration and ling hours.

by 2001kraft

The developers created an excellent UI. It looks great and is fairly intuitive.
However, the manual activity addition system is quite labor-intensive even for short trips. I was planning my business trip to Sunnyvale, and to enter just a few items took a really long time. TravelPlannerGuide features no auto-complete for anything, so all names and addresses must be entered by hand. As such, it’s really no better than just compiling Google Maps links in a Google Doc.

by --**

Doesn’t even find a major well-known resort when I add manually. Not worth the fight

They reached out and and offered help, that was nice.

The tip may work, it’s a workaround.

Just know that if you never want to leave TravelPlannerGuide and do all of your itinerary within TravelPlannerGuide more than likely you’ll have to pay.

I just want to use it for 1 trip, it probably is very good if you travel all the time?

I travel about 1/year and was hoping this would be better than me printing stuff out and making notes in iOS…

by Val 321

I love the idea of this. After downloading I went to enter a trip. It would not let me enter time of flight and kept going back to the time it was currently even though the date was correct for the flight. It also didn’t make things easy to enter a connecting flight. I didn’t go any further in TravelPlannerGuide .

by LamBSake

It’s a good app to plan a trip and itinerary with someone else however there are a lot of searches that don’t show up so you can’t add as a location. Not sure if that’s just searches in Japan but found it frustrating that locations didn’t show up when searching for them, even common places. Would be nice to have pins that you could drop wherever you want to and add a note

by Meleternal

Good setup, but not worth money to pay and input your trip. Would be better with photos and info for cost on trips. I tested to try and see if I could put another trip in and you only get one. I don’t waste time on apps that do this. Not wasting my money for a limited app.

by OregonRider

First off, as others said, it requires all manual input. There is no way to connect it to your email and have it look for trip info, nor can you email reservations to a tripsy address and have it auto populate. Even if there was just a web interface that you could type into that would be better.

If an activity is multi-day, like a hotel stay, the dates list only shows the start date. Subsequent days appear not to have no hotel stays.

Wish I’d paid more attention before I plunked down $$.

by Kermetajb

Directions don’t work (it literally just shows you a picture of a map instead of starting turn by turn directions). You can’t use google maps for directions. You can’t get notifications for different items on your agenda. Images for itinerary wallpaper take ages to load. It just doesn’t fit my needs. Seems like more attention was paid to interface design than robust functionality.

When you’re traveling in a big city what do you want out of a travel app? I for one don’t want to be opening TravelPlannerGuide every hour. It would be nice if TravelPlannerGuide notified me about upcoming itinerary items and just surfaced them on my lock screen at a set time, or when I was near the location.

by Wendolynaragon

TravelPlannerGuide has a beautiful interface and importing your lodging and flights are easy with the premium account. But having to add your entire itinerary manually is an absolute deal breaker for me. Other itinerary apps like Sygic Travel and Wanderlog use interactive map interfaces that allow you to click on a location and add it to your itinerary with ease. And with other itinerary apps you get important information on restaurants, museums, markets, etc. such as business hours, a description blurb, how long people usually spend there. They also give you optimized routes and travel times.

I signed up for the premium special of $2.99/month for the first three months, just to try it out. But if TravelPlannerGuide doesn’t change to be more traveler friendly, I’m likely going to cancel before the price jumps to the regular $4.99.

by E B E B

The UI is nice and easy to use. However while trying to use TravelPlannerGuide extensively for a Japan trip, it really is poor at understanding time zones. The only way to correct is to set specific times for each and every item I saved. Huge pain. And with time zones incorrect, my whole trip plan isn’t of much use.

TravelPlannerGuide should know that if I enter a hotel stay in Japan, the timer zone should be Japan.

by Annoyed 92

Looked like a great app. I personally hate subscriptions. There’s no way I can justify 40 a year or a one time purchase for $150 for what seems to be features that other apps include for free and for stuff that is just a matter of convenience. The real problem no one is addressing is Apple taking 30%. If Apple dropped that to 10-15%. Developers wouldn’t charge as much and I might actually subscribe to some of these apps. Maybe one day

by Bigmeg33

I am a huge planner, and I love being organized. Trips he allows you to not only plan out your travel, but keep all of your information in one place. The only thing needed to make this five stars for me is the addition of an option to add receipts and photo albums. I would love to be able to use this as a travel journal along with a travel planner and go back and look at my trips after I’ve taken them. I feel like it would be pretty easy to add that in as another option.

by ChrisSDreiling

TravelPlannerGuide is so beautifully designed, it looks like Apple could have made it! It’s a delight to use and all the features are clever and well implemented. My only regret is that I don’t travel often enough to use it regularly!

by Naughty-pAnda

Easy to use and helps stay organized

by 1717!3$:!388:&/

The email forwarding works as well as an other trip app. Where it shines is the UI. The home tab is elephant and intuitive. Manuals adding an itinerary is easy and is importing pictures of confirmation or QR code’s. Plus all the map and guide elements if you need those. It’s the best so far and I e used them all, over a lot of miles.

Safe travels

by Contain.yourself

It has everything you could possibly need to organize a trip. I have been using it to plan my trip to Montana and it’s WONDERFUL. It looks like an app that Apple built itself. No complaints.

by Ruebixcube

TravelPlannerGuide does exactly what it says it does with a very thoughtfully designed UX. Great for planning a trip with a friend or SO or for collecting recommendations from friends and family. Highly recommend!

by Nope272628272

Making last minute travel plan I really easy. No dumb pop up ads or purchases. Enjoying TravelPlannerGuide!! Thank you

by Qjonny74

One of the best apps to keep your trip organized all in one place. UI is beautiful and works flawlessly.

One suggestion: ability to customize categories would be great!

by Hannibal87

On launch they didn’t support multi-leg flights (?!?!?!?!), and now that that’s fixed, it’s showing horribly wrong leg options. Not even close. Triple checked, two other apps have no issues.

The constant flight issues show TravelPlannerGuide is not thought out or tested, and if a trip app can’t get flights right, it’s worthless.

by Sumocomputers2

So much manual work, and sometimes flight search won’t add the flight to the itinerary.

TravelPlannerGuide is basic compared to even TripIt basic (free).

And $4.99 a month for syncing? I’ll look again in another year.

by T.J.E.S

Nice idea, though there is a lot of manual entry. I’ve got a trip coming up to AZ with my wife. Wish I could share this trip and collaborate with her. That functionality would be useful.

by Monie F Babe

Trying to find an alternative to Travefy. TravelPlannerGuide seems promising! Only negative so far is there’s no web client interface that i saw—I like being able to plan my trip on my computer first. Updated review to come soon.

by Nivkidk

Some of the flights will fly multiple times in a day, it may go from NYC to Boston, and go back to NYC, and go back to Boston in one day. But when I entered the flight number, it only let me choose the first flight. This is very annoying

by V.Zheng

Love the interface. Very easy to use and intuitive.

Love to see a few enhancements:
- Show all my destinations in a single trip on Apple Maps, something TripIt does
- Automatically captured photos of a destination user enter
- Export to pdf and share with friends. Not all the people has TravelPlannerGuide and are willing to subscribe in the first place

by JT Mast

The title basically says it all: Tripsy is a really easy to use app that makes it super simple to have all of your trip details in one place. On top of it all, their customer support is amazing, and will work quickly to resolve any issues you have (at least in my experience they did). I definitely recommend this to anyone planning a trip anytime soon!