Comparison
Trip planners, compared
Highlights next to the planners people weigh it against. Each page says where the other app is the better pick.
Highlights is our app. Every line about the others comes from each app's own pages, opened on November 9, 2026 and listed under Sources. Where another app does a job better, we say so. No scores and no affiliate links.
Which trip planner should I use?
It depends on the job you want done, because no planner here does all of them. Start from what you want, and open the page for the app that does it.
| What you want | The planner for it |
|---|---|
| A plan your group builds together, with costs and reservations in one place | Wanderlog |
| A finished day-by-day plan from one sentence | Highlights (ours) |
| A trip that someone books for you | Layla |
| An assistant that plans, books and watches prices | Mindtrip |
| A driving route and the stops along it | Roadtrippers |
| A custom map with your own pins | Google My Maps |
Read from each app's own pages on November 9, 2026.
What Highlights does, and where it stops
Highlights is for someone who wants a trip written for them from one sentence, and it isn't for a group that wants to edit, budget or book together. These are the limits the product enforces today.
- Your own trips
- Free to make, edit and share.
- Plans without an account
- Up to 3 a day.
- Plans with a free account
- Up to 20 a day.
- Longest trip
- 21 days.
- What you can type
- One sentence, or your own notes and lists, up to 2,000 characters.
- Time to a full plan
- Half of the plans built in the 30 days to November 10, 2026 were ready within 40 seconds, and nine in ten within 90.
- Questions Sally asks first
- Two at most.
- Changing a plan
- Ask Sally in plain words, up to 50 messages per trip per day, or move stops yourself.
- Where it runs
- iPhone, iPad, Android and the web.
- Offline
- Trips you own or joined, in the iPhone and Android apps.
- What your friends need
- Only the link. They answer Going, Maybe or Can't go with no app and no sign-up.
- What it doesn't do
- Book anything, let friends edit the plan with you, track a budget or split costs, or read confirmation emails.
The comparisons
How these pages are written
- Every fact about another app is from that app's own site, help centre or store listing, opened on November 9, 2026. Each page lists the pages it used.
- A price is printed only if the app's own page showed it that day. If it didn't, the page says so.
- "Where the other app is better" comes before "where Highlights is better".
- No star ratings, scores or winners, and no paid placements.
- If something is wrong or has changed, email support@winding.ai and we'll fix it.