TripTov vs Wanderlog: planning a trip and auditing one
Wanderlog is built for deciding where to go. TripTov is built for what happens once it is booked. They meet at the confirmation email and then go opposite ways.
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These are not really the same kind of app
Wanderlog is a planning tool. It is built for the part before anything is booked: finding places, dropping them on a map, ordering them into days, optimising a driving route, and doing all of that live with the people you’re travelling with. It is genuinely good at this, and its free tier is generous.
TripTov starts where that ends. It is built for the part after the booking exists: filing the confirmation, tracking the deadlines, and answering what the trip is actually covered for. It has no place discovery, no route optimiser and no map of things to do, and it isn’t trying to have them.
Where they overlap: the confirmation email
Both can turn a booking confirmation into an itinerary entry. The difference as of August 2026 is which side of the paywall that sits on. Wanderlog’s automatic inbox scanning is listed under Pro Annual, at $39.99 a year; its free tier offers a manual import of flights, hotels and cars. TripTov’s email filing is free, and it reads the attachments as well as the message body, which matters because a surprising number of e-tickets carry every real detail in a PDF the email barely summarises.
What TripTov does that Wanderlog doesn’t
One thing, mostly, and everything else follows from it: TripTov reads the benefit guides for the credit cards you hold and reports what each trip is protected against. Which card paid which fare, whether that card’s cancellation, delay and baggage cover actually activated, and the traps that switch it off quietly, like paying with airline miles or splitting a fare across two cards. It checks your insurance policies and health plans against the people actually travelling, tracks cancellation deadlines as real dates with reminders, and checks passport expiry against the rules of the country you’re entering. As of August 2026, none of that appears at any published Wanderlog tier.
Where Wanderlog is clearly ahead
Everything about deciding where to go. Place search, saved lists, maps, route optimisation for a road trip, collaborative editing with friends, and offline maps on the phone. If your problem is “we have nine days and forty ideas”, Wanderlog is the better tool and TripTov is no help at all. Its paid tier also adds attachments and a Google Maps export that TripTov has no answer to.
The honest answer: many people should use both
They meet at the booking and then go opposite ways. Plan the trip in Wanderlog, book it, then let TripTov file the confirmations and tell you what you’re covered for and what expires when. Neither replaces the other, and a comparison that told you otherwise would be selling rather than explaining.
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