Plotline vs Travel Planner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Plotline
Turn your saved travel posts into an interactive map. Organize places you want to visit, add personal notes, and plan your trips with detailed itineraries. Discover the story behind each location, not just a pin on a map.
- Save places from any app
- Import details from Google Maps
- Map view of saved locations
- Add personal notes
- Plan day-by-day itineraries
- Track visited and future spots
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What if your scrolling wasn't wasted time? Every spot that stopped your scroll -- the hidden garden cafe, the speakeasy tucked behind a bookshop -- that was research. Now do something with it. Plotline turns your feed into a map you can actually use. Curate your spots, plan your trips, and watch your taste come to life. SAVE FROM ANYWHERE Share a travel post, a restaurant review, a Google Maps link -- Plotline grabs the location, photos, and details automatically. Works with TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Google Maps, travel blogs, and more! Other apps give you a pin. Plotline gives you the story -- the original creator's recommendation, what to order, why it matters, and the source video linked so you can rewatch it before you go. PLAN YOUR TRIP WITH YOUR FRIENDS (AUTO-MAGICALLY) Turn your saved spots into a real itinerary. Have us instantly build day-by-day plans with YOUR saved places or manually create itineraries your way. Invite your travel crew to plan trips together! Everyone can add and edit places, live. Drag and drop your places into the order that makes sense, and see your whole trip laid out before you leave. Your pins become your plan. ASK PLOTLINE: SEARCH BY VIBE You saved that cafe for the vibe, not the name. Now find it the same way. Ask in your own words -- "a cozy cafe to work from," "an aesthetic photo spot," "cheap eats open now" -- and Plotline pins the best matches from your saves and the community on your map, each with a quick note on why it made the cut. Included with Plotline Premiere. TRENDING HOT SPOTS See what others are saving wherever you're going. Whether it's Anthony Bourdain's favorite döner spot, or the historic bookshop overlooking the castle -- see what's actually worth the hype with highlighted places in every city and 'tips from the community' to show you exactly what to order, how much it costs, or any other tips that you need to know. SIDEQUESTS Don't have a trip planned? Plotline builds one for you. Pick a city, swipe through spots -- your saves or places matched to your vibe -- and Plotline turns your favorites into a route for a day trip or an evening out. Spontaneous adventure without the decision fatigue. YOUR MAP, YOUR TASTE Browse your saved spots by city. Filter by eat, brew, sip, vibe, explore, or go. See everything across collections, saved cities, and references in one place. Track where you've been and what's still waiting. MAKE IT YOURS Add personal notes to any spot. Organize into collections by trip, city, or theme. Share collections with friends who are tired of asking "where should we eat?" WHO IS PLOTLINE FOR? You save more travel posts than you'll ever scroll back to find. You don't just want to know where -- you want to remember what to order, why it's special, and how to get there. You travel on taste, not templates. A 5-star rating is not enough. You need to know the vibe. If your saved folder is a graveyard of forgotten recommendations, Plotline turns it into your next trip. Your feed was never just content. It was the first chapter. Plotline helps you write the rest. Privacy Policy: https://getplotline.app/privacy Terms of Service: https://getplotline.app/terms
Travel Planner
Organize travel plans collaboratively by pinning locations to a live map. Consolidate flights, hotels, and notes, and share updates in real-time with friends. Premium features offer smart imports and automatic itinerary generation.
- Live interactive map for planning
- Consolidate flights, hotels, and documents
- Real-time group syncing
- Social media and PDF import
- Built-in calendar view
- Activity log for group changes
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Maple is the ultimate collaborative travel planner. It takes your messy group chats, confirmation emails, and random notes, and organizes them all onto a live, interactive map that syncs in real-time with your friends. PLANNING, AS IT SHOULD BE Stop planning in lists. Every hotel, restaurant, and sightseeing spot becomes a pin on your map, making it instantly obvious what’s close together and what’s way across town. Tap a pin for details, or swipe up for your day-by-day itinerary. EVERYTHING, ALL IN ONE PLACE Keep your flights, hotels, tickets, and documents organized. Add them manually, or use the share extension from other apps. You can also write rich-text notes for packing lists and view everything on a built-in calendar so you never accidentally double-book an afternoon. GO, AS A GROUP Invite your friends and plan together. The map updates live for everyone—add a restaurant while you're boarding your flight, and it’s on your friend's phone by the time they land. There are no accounts to create, it syncs securely over iCloud, and an activity log shows exactly who added what. LEVEL UP YOUR PLANNING WITH PREMIUM The free version includes unlimited trips, mapping, notes, calendars, and sharing. Maple Premium adds the smart features that do the heavy lifting for you: - Social Imports: Drop in a link from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, or Google Maps, and Maple automatically pulls the locations straight onto your map. - Smart Tickets: Scan booking PDFs to instantly generate rich itinerary cards complete with dates and confirmation numbers. - Email Forwarding: Send confirmation emails to a private trip address, and they’ll auto-populate in the app. - Public Transit: Compare public transport times right alongside walking and driving estimates. - Multiplayer Perks: If one person unlocks Premium for a trip, every collaborator gets the premium features for free. Premium is available as a monthly or annual subscription, or you can just buy a one-time unlock for a single holiday. Built exclusively for iPhone. Maple uses your existing iCloud account and never sells your data. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Plotline at free against Travel Planner's freemium. Plotline also leads on ratings volume (727 vs 1) and chart position (#55 vs unranked). Travel Planner's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs weekly) and review sentiment (100% vs 90%). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Plotline sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Travel Planner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Plotline against 5.0 for Travel Planner. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Plotline has 727 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 90% of Plotline's written reviews are positive against 100% of Travel Planner's.
Plotline ships an update weekly, Travel Planner every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Plotline | Travel Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (727 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 727 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | #55 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Plotline Travel, Inc. | Dylan Kroft |
Customer experience
Plotline
Travel Planner
In-app purchases
Plotline
- Plotline Premiere$9.991 Month
- Plotline Premiere$49.991 Year
- Plotline Premiere7 Days trial$49.991 Year
Travel Planner
- Premium - Monthly$2.991 Month
- Premium - Annual$29.991 Year
- Single Trip$4.99









