TripTov vs AwardWallet: two different questions about the same trip
AwardWallet answers what your points are worth and where they live. TripTov answers what your trip is covered for. Many travelers genuinely want both.
We make TripTov. These two get compared because both can read travel emails, but they are built around different questions, and the fair answer is a job description rather than a winner. AwardWallet claims are as of August 2026.
AwardWallet’s question: where are my points, and when do they die?
AwardWallet has spent well over a decade tracking loyalty balances — airline miles, hotel points, card currencies, across essentially every program — with expiration warnings, family accounts, and a paid Plus tier for the deeper features. It also organizes trips from your connected inbox and pushes delay alerts. If your traveling life runs on points across many programs, a dedicated balance tracker is not optional, and this is the established one. The points-and-miles community has recommended it for years, with reason.
TripTov’s question: is this trip actually covered?
TripTov starts from the same forwarded email but reads it against everything else you hold: which card paid the fare and what that card’s benefits require to activate; whether an award ticket on airline miles quietly voided part of that cover; whether the people on this trip — not just the account holder — have emergency medical cover; which bookings are refundable and until exactly when; whose passport fails the destination’s six-month rule. Points appear where they touch that story: an award booking’s value is tracked, and paying with the wrong currency changing your coverage is precisely the kind of thing it flags. What it does not do is track forty program balances — that is AwardWallet’s job, and TripTov does not pretend to it.
Running both is not a cop-out
Balance tracking and trip auditing barely overlap. A points-heavy traveler reasonably keeps AwardWallet answering “what am I holding and what expires” while TripTov answers “what does this specific trip need before it starts”. Both have free tiers, so the experiment costs nothing but a test trip. If you only want one app and your trips are mostly cash bookings with a family in tow, TripTov covers more of your actual risks; if you are deep in the points game across many programs, start with AwardWallet and add TripTov when a trip makes the coverage question real.
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