Compared, September 2026
Solo vs Google Travel
A search box, or the whole trip as an app.
Google Trips, the app that organized your reservations into an offline itinerary, was shut down in August 2019. What remains at google.com/travel is Explore, Flights, Hotels and Vacation rentals: excellent for finding and pricing a trip, not for carrying one. Solo picks up where the booking ends.
Free to build and preview. No subscription. Travel companions never pay.
A search product. Google earns from ads and bookings, not from you.
Feature by feature
| Feature | Solo | Google Travel |
|---|---|---|
| Builds your trip from your bookings | ✓ Email or upload PDFs, screenshots, or forwarded confirmations. Solo reads them. | ✕ The Trips app that did this closed in 2019. Gmail reservations surface in Calendar and Maps, not as an itinerary. |
| Zero manual entry | ✓ Every flight, hotel, tour, ticket and dinner extracted and ordered by day. | ✕ There is no itinerary to enter into. |
| One dedicated app per trip | ✓ Its own icon on your home screen, named after the trip. No App Store. | ✕ Web only. No app. |
| Useful before, during and after | ✓ Countdown before, day-by-day during, photo wall after. | – Before the trip only: research, prices, booking. |
| Live flight tracking and alerts | ✓ Included in the $9.99. | – Price tracking before you buy. Flight status lives in Google Search, not in a trip. |
| Works offline | ✓ The whole trip stays on the phone. Airplane mode is fine. | ✕ A website. Needs a connection. |
| Photo wall with comments and likes | ✓ Everyone on the trip drops photos into one shared wall. | ✕ Not part of the product. |
| Share with travel companions | ✓ One link or QR code. Companions never pay or sign up. | ✕ Nothing to share beyond a search result. |
| Built-in AI assistant | ✓ Knows every booking in the trip. Ask what is near tonight’s hotel or how to reach a tour. | – AI for finding flight deals, not for the trip you booked. |
| Live two-way voice translation | ✓ Talk to anyone in their language, in your own cloned voice. Opens from the trip with the local language already set.Solo uses  | – Google Translate is a separate app you switch to, with no trip around it. |
| Works with any booking source | ✓ Any airline, hotel, tour, restaurant, cruise. | – Searches airlines and hotels. Tours and restaurants are not in it. |
| Price | ✓ $9.99 per trip, once. No subscription. Companions free. | ✓ Free. |
Google Travel facts from google.com/travel and Google’s 2019 shutdown announcement for Google Trips; google.com/travel/trips redirected to Flights when checked in September 2026. Solo facts as shipped at solo.roteiroai.com. If something here is out of date, email hello@roteiroai.com and we will fix it.
Where Google Travel is the better choice
- Finding and pricing flights. Google Flights is still the best fare search there is.
- Comparing hotels and vacation rentals on a map with real prices.
- Tracking a fare before you buy.
Where Solo is the better choice
- Everything after the booking: the days, the tickets, the map, the flight alerts, on the phone, offline.
- You want one app for the trip instead of a search tab, a calendar entry and a folder of PDFs.
- You travel with family or friends and want everyone on the same app without accounts.
- You want the photos from the trip in one place when you get home.
Questions
- Is Google Trips still available?
- No. Google shut down the Google Trips app in August 2019. google.com/travel today is flights, hotels and vacation rental search; its /trips address redirects to Flights.
- Can I use Google Flights and Solo together?
- Yes, and that is the natural pairing. Find and book the flight on Google, then send Solo the confirmation. Solo builds the trip app around it.
- Does Solo read reservations from Gmail like Google did?
- Solo reads the confirmations you forward or upload: emails, PDFs, screenshots. It does not scan your inbox.
- Does Solo cost anything to try?
- No. Building and previewing are free. You pay $9.99 once when you publish the trip to your phone.
- Do my travel companions need an account?
- No. Share one link or QR code and the whole trip opens for them. They never pay.
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