Trip Plans vs Timeshifter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Trip Plans
Access your detailed travel itinerary offline, presented beautifully and clearly. View daily event summaries, get quick access to contact and navigation info for locations, and chat directly with your travel advisor without needing an internet connection.
- Offline itinerary access
- Daily event summaries
- Location contact and navigation
- Direct chat with travel advisor
- Beautiful and easy-to-understand format
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The Trip Plans app lets you view your detailed itinerary from your travel advisor on your iPhone. No data or internet connection? No problem! All your trip details will still be there presented in a beautiful and easy to understand format. - See a summary of your trip with how many events you have on each day. - On each day, view detailed information for each event. - Quickly pull up phone numbers and navigation for the places on your trip. - Chat with your travel advisor directly in the app. No more messy email chains! Your travel advisor will send you an email with a link to open your specific trip. Bon Voyage!
Timeshifter
This app provides personalized plans to combat jet lag based on circadian science. It offers practical advice for light exposure and avoidance to help you adjust to new time zones quickly and reduce symptoms like insomnia and sleepiness.
- Personalized jet lag plans
- Circadian Time™ advice
- Practicality Filter™
- Pre-travel adjustment advice
- Push notifications for advice
- Automatic detection of short trips
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Reduce jet lag with personalized plans based on the latest sleep and circadian science. Timeshifter creates a plan for every flight and time zone, tailored to your chronotype, sleep pattern, itinerary and personal preferences. Used by NASA astronauts, F1 teams, NBA players, Olympic athletes and frequent travelers - and rated "as good as it's going to get" by The New York Times. - The Wall Street Journal: "Indispensable" - Condé Nast Traveler: "Say goodbye to jet lag" - WIRED: "Will help reset your [circadian] clock" - Travel + Leisure: "Game-changer" WHAT YOU GET Jet lag plans that show exactly when to seek light, when to avoid it, when to sleep and when to nap, and how to use melatonin (optional) and caffeine correctly (optional) - hour by hour. PROVEN RESULTS Based on ~130,000 post-flight surveys: - 96.4% of travelers who followed their plan avoided severe jet lag entirely. - Travelers who ignored the advice were 6.2x more likely to experience severe jet lag - and 14.1x more likely to experience very severe jet lag. YOUR FIRST PLAN IS FREE Your first jet lag plan is free, with no commitment. After your free plan, you can buy plans as you go for US$9.99 per plan, or subscribe for unlimited plans at US$24.99. KEY FEATURES - Circadian Time™: advice timed to your circadian clock - Practicality Filter™: adjusts advice to the "real world" - Quick Turnaround®: automatically detects short trips - Pre-travel advice: start adjusting before departure - Push notifications: view advice without opening the app JET LAG MYTHS VS. CIRCADIAN SCIENCE Jet lag cannot be fixed with generic sleep advice, exercise, hydration, dietary supplements, special diets or fasting. None of these reset your circadian clock quickly to a new time zone. Light is the key time cue that resets your circadian clock. Individually-timed light exposure and light avoidance - based on your chronotype, your normal sleep pattern and your itinerary - is the only way to adjust to a new time zone quickly. Get the timing wrong and jet lag gets worse. Getting that timing right is complex and unintuitive, which is why generic advice fails. Timeshifter works as your jet lag calculator and planner, doing that timing for you. WHY WE MADE TIMESHIFTER We built Timeshifter to make circadian science accessible and help you apply it to reduce jet lag. It targets the underlying cause of jet lag - the disruption of your circadian clock - and reduces the symptoms that come with it, including insomnia, daytime sleepiness, fatigue and digestive discomfort. Timeshifter was developed with Dr. Steven W. Lockley, a Harvard Medical School faculty member for over 20 years and former neuroscientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is an international authority on circadian rhythms and sleep, with more than 30 years of clinical research experience in humans, and works with NASA astronauts and mission controllers, F1 teams, NBA players, national soccer teams and Olympic athletes. Whether you are crossing one time zone or ten, on a long-haul flight or a quick turnaround, Timeshifter gives you a jet lag plan built for that trip. Download Timeshifter and make jet lag history on your next flight. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Timeshifter is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease, and is intended for healthy adults 18 years of age or older. Timeshifter is not intended for pilots and flight crew on duty. Terms of Use: www.timeshifter.com/legal/terms-of-use Privacy Policy: www.timeshifter.com/legal/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Trip Plans at none against Timeshifter's 3. Trip Plans also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Timeshifter's advantage is review sentiment (92% vs 75%) and update cadence (every 9 days vs monthly). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Timeshifter sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $24.99 per year. Trip Plans asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Trip Plans against 4.7 for Timeshifter. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.2K and 2.6K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Trip Plans's written reviews are positive against 92% of Timeshifter's.
Trip Plans ships an update monthly, Timeshifter every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Trip Plans | Timeshifter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.2K ratings) | 4.7 (2.6K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 91.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.2K | 2.6K — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #31 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Travefy, Inc. | Timeshifter Inc. |
Customer experience
Trip Plans
Timeshifter
User reviews
Trip Plans
From 1.2K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 📚 Comprehensive trip information
- 🗓️ Organized daily itinerary
- 💬 Convenient communication with travel agent
- 🌐 Offline access to trip details
- 🗺️ Helpful maps and navigation
Room to improve
- 🔗 Issues with links and navigation
- 📝 Limited ability to add/edit trip details
- 🤖 Inconsistent data updates from travel providers
- 🗣️ Chat feature needs improvements (timestamps, scrolling)
- 🔄 Difficulty continuing trips with new travel agents
Timeshifter
From 2.6K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 Effective at reducing jet lag
- 💡 Personalized recommendations
- ⏱️ Helpful notifications
- 🔍 Explains the science behind the recommendations
Room to improve
- 🕰️ Difficult to follow recommendations during travel
- 🤒 Melatonin not always readily available
- 💰 Expensive subscription model
Bugs and requests
Trip Plans
Reported bugs
3 issues- Itinerary not always accurately reflecting trip details
- Occasional app crashes or login issues
- Unreliable offline access to trip information
Requested features
5 requests- Calendar integration for trip events
- Ability for travelers to add their own bookings
- Customizable notification settings
- Improved print/download options for itineraries
- Enhanced data synchronization across providers
Timeshifter
Reported bugs
2 issues- App crashing or getting stuck on a white screen
- Issues with account login and data loss
Requested features
3 requests- Ability to adjust plan for unexpected schedule changes
- Integration with fitness trackers or sleep apps
- Recommendations for meal timing and nutrition
In-app purchases
Trip Plans
No in-app purchases
Timeshifter
- Timeshifter$24.991 Year
- discounted jet lag plan$4.99
- jet lag plan$9.99
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