Compared, September 2026
Solo vs TripIt
A list of your bookings, or the whole trip as an app.
TripIt has organized travel confirmations for 20 years: forward the email, get a timeline. Solo takes the same confirmations and builds a trip app with the days, the tickets, the map, the photos and the flight alerts inside, for one payment instead of a subscription.
Solo
$9.99 per trip, once
Free to build and preview. No subscription. Travel companions never pay.
TripIt
Free basic. TripIt Pro is $49 a year.
Flight alerts, seat and fare tracking, and documents are Pro features.
Feature by feature
| Feature | Solo | TripIt |
|---|---|---|
| Builds your trip from your bookings | ✓ Email or upload PDFs, screenshots, or forwarded confirmations. Solo reads them. | ✓ Forward confirmation emails. Photos and PDFs need Pro plus an iPhone with Apple Intelligence. |
| Zero manual entry | ✓ Every flight, hotel, tour, ticket and dinner extracted and ordered by day. | – Forwarded emails parse well. Anything else is typed in. |
| One dedicated app per trip | ✓ Its own icon on your home screen, named after the trip. No App Store. | – One TripIt app for all trips, downloaded from the App Store, with an account. |
| Useful before, during and after | ✓ Countdown before, day-by-day during, photo wall after. | – Built for the days you are traveling. |
| Live flight tracking and alerts | ✓ Included in the $9.99. | – Pro feature, $49 a year. Marked "PRO FEATURE" on their own App Store screenshot. |
| Works offline | ✓ The whole trip stays on the phone. Airplane mode is fine. | ✓ Saved plans open offline. |
| Photo wall with comments and likes | ✓ Everyone on the trip drops photos into one shared wall. | ✕ No shared photo gallery. |
| Share with travel companions | ✓ One link or QR code. Companions never pay or sign up. | – Share a trip with a TripIt user. Inner Circle sharing is Pro. |
| Built-in AI assistant | ✓ Knows every booking in the trip. Ask what is near tonight’s hotel or how to reach a tour. | ✕ No chat assistant. Some Apple Intelligence features on iPhone with Pro. |
| 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  | ✕ No translation of any kind. |
| Works with any booking source | ✓ Any airline, hotel, tour, restaurant, cruise. | ✓ Wide support for forwarded confirmations. |
| Price | ✓ $9.99 per trip, once. No subscription. Companions free. | – Free basic. $49 a year for Pro. |
TripIt facts from tripit.com/web/pro and the TripIt App Store listing, 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 TripIt is the better choice
- You fly for work 20 times a year and want seat tracking, fare-drop alerts and loyalty point tracking in one place.
- You want every trip you ever took in one account with calendar sync.
- You need it to exist for another 20 years. TripIt is owned by SAP Concur and built for corporate travel.
Where Solo is the better choice
- You take one to three real trips a year and do not want a subscription for them.
- You want the trip to look like a trip: the Colosseum at the top, the day laid out, the tickets in hand, not a text list.
- You travel with family or friends and want everyone on the same app without accounts.
- You want flight alerts, offline access and an AI assistant included, not gated behind Pro.
Questions
- Is Solo cheaper than TripIt Pro?
- Yes. TripIt Pro is $49 a year. Solo is $9.99 per trip, paid once when you publish. Two trips a year on Solo cost $19.98 and nothing renews.
- Can Solo read the same confirmation emails TripIt reads?
- Yes. Forward them to Solo Turbo, or upload the PDFs and screenshots directly. Solo builds the day-by-day itinerary from them.
- Does Solo send flight alerts?
- Yes, included in the $9.99. Solo tracks your flights and sends updates to the same app your trip lives in.
- Do I have to download Solo from the App Store?
- No. Your trip installs as its own icon on your home screen and opens like any other app.
- Do my travel companions need TripIt or Solo accounts?
- With Solo, no. Share one link or QR code and the whole trip opens for them. They never pay.
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