Comparison

Getaways vs SmarTrip

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

Head to head
About

Getaways

This app generates spontaneous micro-trip plans based on your mood and available time. It provides detailed itineraries, maps, and packing lists, with offline functionality. Save, share, and integrate plans with your calendar.

Highlights
  • Generate plan options quickly
  • Detailed timeline and map
  • Customizable packing lists
  • Save and share favorite plans
  • Offline functionality
  • Calendar integration
Features
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Your weekend, planned together and narrated on the way there. Because getting there is the getaway. ONE SCREEN Every getaway lives on a single feed and wears whatever state it's in — an invite waiting on your answer, a vote in progress, a guide being written, a drive ready to go, a weekend you already had. Below yours: ready-made drives near you, for when you want to leave in an hour. One button starts the next — paste a stay, pick an idea, join with a code, or just drive. DRIVES THAT START AT YOUR DOORSTEP Tap Near me and the answers begin where you're standing. An evening in Dublin offers Livermore wine country up the road, Niles Canyon through the trees, and Mount Diablo an hour out — three cards at three real distances, with drive times measured from you, not the nearest big city. PLAN IT TOGETHER Paste the link to the stay you booked — Airbnb, Vrbo, a hotel — and Getaways builds the trip around it: a real name, a real map, days sketched with places worth leaving the cabin for. Can't agree? It proposes getaways nearby and the group votes. Friends join from one link and vote from the web — no account, no install. ONE SCHEDULE EVERYONE SEES Every trip keeps a shared schedule, grouped by day. Add dinner, a show, a hike — or attach a narrated drive to the morning you'll take it — and it lands on everyone's phone. A PLANNER THAT LISTENS Type the weekend the way you'd text it. "Friday: Omnia at 11. Saturday brunch at Bacchanal. Sphere show Sunday at 7." The planner hands back a proposal — every change its own row, with the reason it thought so. Keep it all, drop a row, or answer its one question. Nothing reaches the group until you say yes, and your note is read on your phone, not a server. THE CONCIERGE Press start and someone is there. "This is Livermore Wine Country — 14 stories along the way." If the road begins across town, it promises to come get you: "we'll start about ten minutes north of here; I'll pick you up there." The moment you reach it: "Here we are — first story coming up in half a mile." A soft chime rings before each story. THEN IT TALKS ON THE WAY THERE Every trip writes its own narrated drive for the route you're taking. As you approach a waterfall, an overlook, a bridge with a story, a voice speaks up — "coming up on your left…" — all grounded in real facts. Music dips under it and comes right back. It's all prepared before you leave, so it works past the last bar of signal. STORY, OR ROUTE The player has two places and a door between them. Story: full-screen artwork that changes with every telling, a scrubber, skip forward and back, an up-next queue, the transcript when you'd rather read. Route: the living map — your car, the road filling in behind you, the stories ahead as markers you can tap to hear now. SEARCH THAT NEVER DEAD-ENDS One field over curated drives, getaway ideas, and everywhere else. Type a mood, a town, a park. If we haven't written your road yet, the last row still offers it — anywhere you can drive becomes a getaway. EVERY CAR HEARS IT The guide belongs to the trip, not the phone that made it. Anyone on the trip opens it on their own phone, and each car triggers stories off its own GPS. Two cars, one narrator. DRIVES WORTH TAKING You don't need a trip to take a drive. Download a ready-made one — Yosemite, Big Sur, Lake Tahoe, Malibu, Joshua Tree, Mount Rainier, the Columbia Gorge, Livermore, Niles Canyon, Mount Diablo. Each gets a page of its own first: how long, how far, how many stories, the road on a map, what to know before you leave. Then one button. THE DETAILS • Sign in once with Apple, Google, email, or your phone number. No passwords, ever. • A Live Activity keeps the next story on your Lock Screen, phone face down. • Open any stop in Apple Maps; drop the big moments into your calendar. • Parking and arrival tips for the stops that need them, from official sources. The next free weekend is closer than the group chat makes it feel. Step into more.

About

SmarTrip

Features
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SmarTrip is your AI travel planner that turns a few simple preferences into a complete, ready-to-book trip in minutes. Tell us your destination, dates, budget, and travel style — and SmarTrip's AI instantly builds a full day-by-day itinerary with handpicked activities, real hotels, and flight options that fit your budget. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Generate complete day-by-day itineraries for single or multi-city trips - Discover real activities, restaurants, and attractions with photos and maps - Get hotel and flight options matched to your budget - Stay on budget with a live, transparent cost breakdown - Swap any hotel, activity, or transport — the plan rebalances automatically - Book your way, with your details pre-filled - Travel in English or Hebrew (full right-to-left support) Whether it's a weekend city break or a multi-country adventure, SmarTrip does the research and planning so you can focus on the trip. Start planning today.

Screenshots

Getaways4 screens
SmarTrip4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Getaways at fortnightly against SmarTrip's every 5 weeks. SmarTrip's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.1). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Getaways ships an update fortnightly, SmarTrip every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Getaways versus SmarTrip: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGetawaysSmarTrip
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size229 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCervoo IncDor Riger

In-app purchases

None

Getaways

No in-app purchases

None

SmarTrip

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Getaways free?
Getaways is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SmarTrip free?
SmarTrip is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Getaways or SmarTrip have ads?
Neither Getaways nor SmarTrip shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Getaways or SmarTrip?
Getaways ships an update fortnightly, and SmarTrip every 5 weeks. Most recently, Getaways was updated on October 4, 2026 and SmarTrip on October 14, 2026.

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