SmarTravel vs Tabii
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SmarTravel
This app helps you plan and manage your entire trip, from building itineraries and packing lists to receiving safety alerts and creating travel vlogs. It simplifies travel by consolidating notes, maps, and currency conversion into one platform.
- Build detailed itineraries
- Group trip planning with chat
- Disaster and safety alerts
- Convert screenshots to itineraries
- Automatic itinerary from booking emails
- Smart route planning
- Travel budget tracking
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From planning your trip to the moments on the road — all in SmarTravel. Build your itinerary, pack, convert currency, stay on top of safety alerts and turn your memories into a vlog, all in one place. No more juggling notes, map pins and calculator apps. [Trip chat with your travel buddies] - Invite friends with one link and edit the itinerary together - Share photos and messages as things happen - Long-press a place to add it to your plan, or share your location in one tap [Disaster & safety alerts for your destination] - We watch for earthquakes, storms and floods and alert you if one hits your destination - No need to register regions — your itinerary is your alert area - Instant alerts while you travel, quiet daytime alerts before you leave - Local emergency numbers (police, ambulance) for every country - Destination weather with 7-day and hourly forecasts [Turn a screenshot into an itinerary] - Snap a schedule you made in a spreadsheet, Notion or another app and upload it - We read the plan in the image and sort it by day for you [Forward a booking email, get an itinerary] - Forward or paste flight and hotel confirmation emails and your itinerary fills itself in - Upload e-tickets and hotel confirmations as PDFs or photos too - Arrival card fields like Visit Japan Web and ESTA are pre-filled from your bookings [Coming to Korea] - Korea e-Arrival Card and K-ETA guides, with your flight and hotel details ready to copy - A Korea guide in English: T-money, taxis, apps, etiquette and the 1330 travel hotline - Live subway arrivals, last-train alerts and crowd levels in Seoul and Jeju [Time-based itinerary] - Day-by-day plans down to the minute (transport, stays, food, sights) - Add and edit outbound and return flights, including each leg of a connection - Multi-country trips (e.g. Tokyo, Bangkok and Da Nang in one trip) [Smart route planning] - No dates yet? Save the places you want to visit and we'll split them into days by distance - Reorder saved places to cut travel distance - See travel time to the next stop between cards, and tap for directions - Switch each leg between walking, transit and driving [Trip map] - Places in your plan appear as pins by day - Color-coded pins for stays, food and sights - Mark a place done, leave a one-line review and add photos right on the spot [When you can't speak the language] - Show taxi drivers your destination in the local language, in big letters - Make an allergy and diet card in the local language to show at restaurants - Copy addresses and booking numbers in one tap, and translate with voice playback [Reusable packing checklist] - Your list carries over to your next trip (90+ templates: passport, wallet, adapter and more) - See how ready you are at a glance [Travel budget] - Log expenses in the local currency and see totals in your currency of choice - Daily groups, category stats and bill splitting with your group - Snap a receipt and the expense is logged instantly [Footprint map] - Places you visit light up on your map after every trip - Fill them with your travel photos to make a map that's yours - From the world map down to regions, with country maps for Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Taiwan, the US and more - Rebuild past trips just by picking photos — we use their dates and locations - Photos are read on your device. Only the photos you choose are uploaded [Memories in 3-second clips, made into a vlog] - Capture 3-second clips and photos for each plan, then auto-create a reel-style video - Add many photos from your gallery after the trip and they're sorted by place and time [Top spots] - Recommended spots by city with photos — add them to your plan in one tap - Not ads: we show how many real travelers saved each place [Browse other travelers' trips] - Explore places and routes from public itineraries and copy the ones you like - Photos, exact dates and notes are never shown publicly - Report and block tools, reviewed by our team within 24 hours
Tabii
Effortlessly track travel expenses by typing them naturally, like a note. This app automatically parses amounts, currencies, and categories, converting everything to your home currency with live exchange rates. It's designed for travelers who want to budget comfortably without the hassle of manual data entry.
- Radically simple one-line input
- Smart automatic categorization
- Live currency conversion
- Offline expense logging
- Trip budgeting and tracking
- Clear statistics and dashboards
- Widgets and Dynamic Island support
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Jot it down like a note, and Tabii gets it. The easiest smart travel expense tracker there is. Ever lost the moment on a trip because a budgeting app made you pick a category, type the amount, and do the currency math? Just write "Lawson 600 yen cash" — one rough line is enough. Tabii works out the amount, currency, payment method, and category for you. No forms, no dropdowns. Type it, then get back to your trip. Japan, Europe, Thailand — wherever you go, set the destination and Tabii applies the local currency and live exchange rate, converting everything to your home currency. [Made for] - Anyone tired of filling in forms while traveling - Anyone looking for a must-have app for Japan or any trip abroad - Anyone still doing currency math by hand - Anyone whose spending lives in scattered notes - Anyone who wants to travel comfortably within a set budget - Anyone who wants the real total of a trip, flights and hotels included [Key features] - Radically simple one-line input Write it the way you'd say it: "Lawson 600 yen", "Suica 1000 cash", "yakiniku 10000". Hit enter and the amount and merchant are parsed and logged instantly. Add a date — "yesterday lunch 3000", "7/12 souvenirs 2000" — and it's filed on that day. Works in English, Japanese, Chinese (Traditional), and Korean. - Smart categories, sorted for you Based on what you typed, expenses are automatically categorized as Food, Transport, Shopping, Lodging, Sightseeing, Flight, or Other. Payment methods (cash, card, mobile pay) are recognized too. Skip the sorting and focus on the trip. - Live conversion, no calculator needed From JPY, USD, and EUR to Swiss Franc, Czech Koruna, and Turkish Lira, Tabii supports a wide range of currencies. Live rates convert your total into your home currency at a glance, and rates update automatically. - Before-trip expenses, all in one place (NEW) Log flights, hotels, and tour bookings you paid before departure in the "Before trip" tab. Set the payment currency and exchange rate, or enter the amount your card was actually charged, so your total trip cost stays accurate. Before-trip costs stay out of your during-trip budget, so on-the-ground budgeting stays clean. - Works offline No data abroad? Logging and categorizing still work instantly. Everything runs on your device; only exchange rates refresh when you're online. - Trip budgets Set a budget per trip and see how much you've used and what's left. Tabii tracks the remainder in real time and reads your spending pace to warn you before you overspend. - Clear stats and dashboards How much went to food this trip? What did today cost? See it by day and by category in clean charts and dashboards — handy for planning the next trip, too. - Widgets & Dynamic Island, without opening the app Home and Lock Screen widgets show total spending, remaining budget, and the live rate of any currency you pick. On iPhone, the Dynamic Island and Live Activity keep your trip spending in view in real time. - Separate trips Japan, Europe, the US — create each trip separately, with its own emoji and color. - Export to Excel, CSV, or PDF (Premium) Save and share a trip's expenses as Excel, CSV, or PDF, including the before/during split, payment currency, converted amount, and the rate applied. Handy for settling up and keeping records. No heavy finance app, no receipt scanning — just the lightest way to keep track without losing the excitement of travel. Start traveling light and smart with Tabii. [Tabii Premium] The core features are free. Want unlimited trips, export, and no ads? Choose Premium — Lifetime or Monthly. [Contact & feedback] - Email: contact@hood.am * No sign-up needed. Everything you log stays on your phone and is never sent to a server. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://hood.am/legal/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SmarTravel at none against Tabii's 2. SmarTravel also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Tabii sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. SmarTravel asks for nothing beyond the download.
SmarTravel ships an update every 2 days, Tabii every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SmarTravel | Tabii |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 90.9% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | jeonghyun kim | Hood Company |
Customer experience
SmarTravel
Tabii
In-app purchases
SmarTravel
No in-app purchases
Tabii
- tabii 타비 프리미엄$3.991 Month
- Tabii 평생 프리미엄$9.99









