TripIt alternative

A simpler, modern alternative to TripIt

You booked the trip. Petrel organizes it. Forward an email, upload a PDF, or drop a whole folder of screenshots and get one organized trip in under a minute.

Your first trip is completely free. No feature limits. No credit card.

If you have used TripIt to keep flights and hotels in one place, Petrel will feel familiar, then quickly better. It takes more kinds of input, keeps everyone in your group in sync for free, works on the plane, and remembers your trip after you land. It is also a genuinely free TripIt alternative: your entire first trip is unlocked with every feature, so you can compare them on a real trip before paying. Here is how the two stack up.

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How to switch from TripIt to Petrel

Switching takes about a minute, and there is nothing to migrate or export first.

1. 1

   Paste your TripIt calendar link

   In TripIt open Settings → Calendar Sync, turn on Enable Calendar Feed, and copy the feed URL. In Petrel press Calendar link on the import card and paste it. Petrel reads your upcoming trip straight out of TripIt and lays it out, with nothing to export or download first. TripIt has no native export and its public API is closed to new integrations, so the calendar feed is the practical route out.

   Prefer files? A calendar (.ics), PDF, or spreadsheet export works too. Or start fresh: forward the same confirmation emails you would send TripIt to plans@petrelvoyage.com, or upload the PDFs and screenshots you already have. A whole folder at once is fine.

2. 2

   Petrel builds the itinerary

   In under a minute it reads every flight, hotel, and reservation and lays them out in order, day by day, with travel times between stops.

3. 3

   Share it, edit it, travel

   Invite anyone you travel with to view and edit for free, sync it to your calendar, and open it offline at the gate. About a week after you get home, a mapped recap lands in your inbox.

Why travelers switch to Petrel

• 📥

  Anything in, one itinerary out

  Forward an email, upload a PDF, photograph a paper voucher, or drop a folder of 14 screenshots. Petrel reads them all and lays your trip out in order, day by day.

• 👥

  Everyone you travel with, free

  Invite a partner, family, or coworker to view and edit the trip. They never need to pay, and it works on any device.

• ✈️

  It works when you land with no signal

  Your itinerary is available offline, so there is no paywall surprise at the gate or in a foreign airport.

• 🧾

  Built for business travel too

  Keep work trips separate, attach receipts as you go, and export a clean expense report with vendors and totals for reimbursement.

• 🔒

  We do not connect to your inbox

  Some trip apps ask to read your whole mailbox. Petrel does not. You forward the confirmations you want organized, or upload them, and that is all Petrel ever sees. It does not sell your data or train AI on your bookings. An itinerary is a detailed map of where you will be and when, which is worth being careful with.

• 🛡️

  Passports and documents behind Face ID

  Keep passport scans, visas and insurance details in an encrypted vault that opens with Face ID or Touch ID. Encrypted on your device, so the documents you would least like to lose are not sitting in a chat thread or a camera roll.

• 🚄

  Trains, buses and ferries, not just flights

  Most trip apps are built around flights and treat everything else as a note. Petrel reads rail, coach and ferry confirmations as real journeys, with times and stations, which matters if your trip is mostly on the ground.

• 💷

  Who owes who, settled

  Add shared costs as you go and Petrel nets them down to a single figure per person, so the end of a group trip is one number rather than a spreadsheet.

• 🧳

  A packing note before you go

  Shortly before the trip, Petrel mails you what the weather is actually doing where you are going, so the packing decision is made on a forecast rather than a guess.

• 🛂

  A passport that fills itself in

  Every country you reach earns a stamp, with fifty travel achievements and a map of everywhere you have been. It builds itself from the trips you were already keeping, with nothing extra to log.

• 🗺️

  A mapped recap, about a week after you land

  About a week after your trip, Petrel mails you a recap: every city, stay, and reservation, mapped into a story worth keeping.

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