Comparison

Avenly vs Trip Dashboard

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Avenly

Create detailed day-by-day travel itineraries, organize places and notes, and visualize your entire trip on a map. Export your plans for easy sharing and collaboration. No account or ads are required.

Highlights
  • Day-by-day itinerary builder
  • Place and note organization
  • Interactive trip map
  • Schedule overlap highlighting
  • Travel time hints
  • Exportable plans
  • iCloud sharing
Features
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Avenly is a calm, private trip planner for iPhone and iPad — built to catch the problems that ruin a trip before you leave. Catch tight connections and clashes — Avenly flags overlapping plans and thin travel time between stops as you build each day, so a too-tight transfer never surprises you on the ground. Works offline, even on the plane — Your whole itinerary, the map of your stops, and your saved documents stay on your device and work with no signal. One calm place for the whole trip — A day-by-day itinerary with times, locations, lodging, transport, and notes. Keep unscheduled places as "ideas" until you're ready to slot them in. See every stop on a map. Your plans stay yours — No account, no ads, no tracking. Trips are documents you own, synced privately over your own iCloud, and shareable with the people you travel with. Hand your plan to your AI — Export any trip as clean Markdown for a second opinion from your favorite AI assistant. Free to download and free to view, always. Try full planning free for 7 days — then unlock once, forever. No subscription, ever.

About

Trip Dashboard

Features
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Turn your saved places into real trips. Trip Dashboard is the planner + travel companion for people who collect places — import your restaurant lists, sights and cafés, then build day-by-day itineraries and let the app guide you while you travel. Everything lives on your device and works offline. PLACES LIBRARY • Import Excel, CSV, Word or JSON lists — thousands of places, organised into layers • Smart emoji icons, search, filters, favourites and visited marks • Clustered map of your entire library, with distance from you on every card TRIP PLANS • Day-by-day builder with drag-to-reorder stops, times and durations • Travel-time estimates between stops and one-tap Google Maps routing • Flights & hotel reservations with costs — see your whole trip budget • Weather forecast on every day card, offline day maps, PDF sharing TRAVEL-DAY COMPANION • A "Today" card with your next stop, route button, weather and prayer times • Trip reminders: flight check-in, hotel checkout, tomorrow's plan • Nearby alerts when you walk past a saved place DOCUMENTS & PACKING • Attach tickets, bookings and passports to the trip — offline, in your backups • Packing checklists per family member, with a one-tap starter list FAMILY EXPENSES • Split trip costs between family members with fewest-transfers settlement • Live currency conversion, trip cost comparison between destinations Private by design: no account, no tracking, nothing uploaded. Your data stays on your iPhone and in your own backups.

Screenshots

Avenly4 screens
Trip Dashboard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Trip Dashboard at none against Avenly's 1. Trip Dashboard also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Avenly sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Trip Dashboard asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Avenly ships an update every 5 days, Trip Dashboard every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Avenly versus Trip Dashboard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAvenlyTrip Dashboard
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSofia Rinconabdulla almehrzi

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Avenly

One-time1
  • Unlock Avenly — Pay Once$3.99
None

Trip Dashboard

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Avenly free?
Avenly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Trip Dashboard free?
Trip Dashboard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Avenly or Trip Dashboard have ads?
Neither Avenly nor Trip Dashboard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Avenly or Trip Dashboard?
Avenly ships an update every 5 days, and Trip Dashboard every 2 days. Most recently, Avenly was updated on October 31, 2026 and Trip Dashboard on October 29, 2026.

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