TripsCircle vs Travel Planner Map
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TripsCircle
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Plan together. Travel better. Remember it all. TripsCircle is the all-in-one group travel app for friends and crews. Build itineraries, coordinate plans, manage shared expenses, chat, pack, and save every memory—all in one place. No more scattered group chats, spreadsheets, notes, and travel apps. From the first idea to the final photo, TripsCircle keeps your entire crew connected. PLAN EVERY TRIP TOGETHER • Create trips with destinations, dates, and flexible privacy controls • Build day-by-day itineraries with mapped stops and routes • Start faster with templates for road trips, beach getaways, city breaks, and more • Invite friends through TripsCircle or by email KEEP EVERYONE IN SYNC • Chat directly inside each trip • Coordinate personal and shared packing lists • Share live locations when your crew is on the move • Check your Trip Health Score to see what’s ready and what still needs attention MAKE SHARED COSTS SIMPLE • Track group expenses by category • Set a trip budget and follow spending progress • See who paid for what and make settling up easier • Keep money details organized without another spreadsheet TURN IDEAS INTO ITINERARIES WITH AI Use the AI travel assistant to brainstorm destinations, explore trip ideas, and shape itineraries—without starting from a blank page. RELIVE EVERY ADVENTURE • Save photos and memories in shared trip albums • Share updates with friends and explore public or trending trips • Build your travel map and bucket list • Unlock achievements and revisit your year in travel Whether you’re planning a weekend escape, group road trip, beach getaway, or multi-city adventure, TripsCircle keeps the decisions, details, and memories in one shared place. Spend less time organizing the trip—and more time enjoying it together. Download TripsCircle free and start planning your next adventure. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Travel Planner Map
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Travel Planner Map is a cross-platform app (macOS and iPad) that lets you save and organize locations on an interactive map. Each location can be assigned to a customizable category (like Restaurant, Campground, or Mountain Biking), tagged with hashtags, annotated with rich-text notes, and optionally accompanied by a photo. Locations are displayed as color-coded pins on a map, and you can search, filter by category visibility, plan driving routes between saved places. Data syncs across all your devices. You can use the Mac version to import and export collections of locations to share with your friends. The app also features a weather station system — you can add named locations (cities/towns) and view weather overlay data on the map for different time periods, making it useful for planning trips around seasonal conditions. On macOS, locations open in dedicated editor windows with a full toolbar, while on iPad/iPhone the UI adapts with sheets and a slide-up location list. The app seeds sensible defaults on first launch (preset categories and a set of U.S. weather stations). The weather data shown in the app comes from weather records from the last 5 years only to give a better estimate of what the upcoming years weather. I created this app, initially, for my own use for planning camping trips with my family with our trailer. I wanted to track the places we might want to go all over the US and the times of the year that we might want to go there. I wanted to know what times of the year are too hot, too cold, or too rainy. Not many people have used this app yet, so I am hoping to get feedback. Post reviews on the App Store with feedback and request new features.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Travel Planner Map at none against TripsCircle's 1. TripsCircle's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads and device support 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. TripsCircle sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Travel Planner Map asks for nothing beyond the download.
TripsCircle ships an update every 2 days, Travel Planner Map every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TripsCircle | Travel Planner Map |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TripsCircle LLC | Phil Marshall |
In-app purchases
TripsCircle
- TripsCircle Premium7 Days trial$4.991 Month
Travel Planner Map
No in-app purchases







