Why Choose GoTrip?

We are a small team of passionate travel enthusiasts who understand the challenges of modern trip planning. Like many of you, we've experienced the frustration of juggling multiple apps, the disappointment of feature-rich but expensive solutions, and the concern over privacy when signing up for travel services. These experiences led us to create GoTrip – an all-in-one app designed to solve these common problems and make trip planning a joyful, worry-free experience.

GoTrip is more than just another travel app. It's a comprehensive solution that combines all the functionalities you need for successful trip planning into one intuitive package. Whether you're a budget-conscious traveler, a privacy-minded individual, or someone who simply wants a hassle-free planning experience, GoTrip is designed with you in mind. Let's explore why GoTrip is the ultimate choice for your travel planning needs.

Truly Offline Functionality

Problem: Many travel apps require constant data connectivity, making them unreliable when you're in areas with poor internet access – often when you need them most.

Solution: GoTrip operates completely offline for most functions. All your trip planning, documents, and images are stored locally on your device.

With GoTrip, you have full access to your travel plans anytime, anywhere. Your itineraries, important documents, and travel images are always at your fingertips, even without an internet connection. This means you can review your plans, access crucial information, or make last-minute changes whether you're on a plane, in a remote location, or simply trying to save on data usage.

The only times GoTrip requires an internet connection are for obtaining directions or searching for new places to add to your itinerary. For everything else – your existing plans, documents, and saved information – you have complete offline access. This feature ensures that GoTrip is not just a planning tool, but a reliable travel companion throughout your journey.

Comprehensive Yet Simple

Problem: Travel planning often requires multiple apps for different aspects of the trip, making the process complicated and time-consuming.

Solution: GoTrip combines itinerary planning, budgeting, document storage, split expense management, trip sharing, checklists, and collaboration in one intuitive app.

We understand that planning a trip is already a complex task. That's why we've designed GoTrip to be your one-stop solution for all travel planning needs. No more switching between multiple apps or trying to remember which app does what. With GoTrip, you have everything you need in one place:

  • Create detailed itineraries
  • Manage your travel budget
  • Store important travel documents
  • Split expenses with travel companions
  • Share your trip plans
  • Create and manage travel checklists
  • Collaborate with fellow travelers

Despite this wide range of features, we've maintained a user-friendly interface that doesn't overwhelm. Our design philosophy focuses on simplicity and ease of use, ensuring that you can access all these powerful features without feeling lost or confused. With GoTrip, comprehensive doesn't mean complicated – it means having everything you need, right where you need it.

Focus on Travel, Not Social Media

Problem: Some travel apps try to be social networks, diluting their core functionality and potentially compromising user privacy.

Solution: GoTrip focuses solely on making your travel planning and experience better, without the distractions of social media features.

At GoTrip, we believe that a travel planning app should do just that – help you plan and enjoy your travels. Unlike apps that attempt to create a social network around travel, we keep our focus clear and simple: providing you with the best tools to plan, organize, and enjoy your trips.

This focused approach means:

With GoTrip, you can concentrate on what really matters – planning and enjoying your travels, without the distractions and potential privacy concerns that come with social media integration.

Flexible Schedule Management

Problem: Most itinerary planning apps don't offer a smooth experience when you need to change dates for your entire trip, whether it's postponed, shortened, or extended.

Solution: GoTrip provides intuitive features to easily adjust your entire trip schedule, offering multiple options to ensure your itinerary fits your changing needs.

Life is unpredictable, and travel plans often need to change. With GoTrip, adapting your itinerary to new circumstances is seamless and stress-free. Our flexible schedule management feature allows you to:

  • Postpone your entire trip while maintaining the planned sequence of activities
  • Shorten or extend your trip duration, with smart suggestions for adjusting your itinerary
  • Automatically adjust bookings and reservations tied to your itinerary (where possible)

GoTrip understands that your trip is uniquely yours, and our tools are designed to give you complete control over your dates and schedule. Whether you're dealing with unexpected work commitments, travel restrictions, or simply a change of plans, GoTrip ensures that modifying your itinerary is as easy and intuitive as creating it in the first place.

With GoTrip's flexible schedule management, you can:

  • Save time by avoiding the need to recreate your entire itinerary from scratch
  • Reduce stress when unexpected changes occur
  • Maintain the integrity of your carefully planned trip, even when dates shift
  • Easily communicate changes to travel companions

Remember: Your Trip - Your Dates - Your Choice. GoTrip gives you the freedom to adapt your travel plans to your life, not the other way around.

Document Storage

Problem: Many apps limit document storage or require subscriptions for additional space, even for offline use.

Solution: GoTrip offers unlimited document storage on your device, with a generous 35MB limit per trip for sharing and collaboration.

We understand the importance of having all your travel documents readily available. With GoTrip, you can store an unlimited number of documents on your device without any additional charges. This means you can keep all your booking confirmations, tickets, passports, visas, and any other important documents in one secure place.

For sharing and collaboration purposes, we provide a generous 35MB limit per trip. This allows you to share essential documents with travel companions or keep them accessible across devices without overwhelming storage or data transfer limits.

Key benefits of our document storage feature:

With GoTrip, you can travel with peace of mind, knowing all your important documents are securely stored and easily accessible whenever you need them.

Easy Trip Sharing with Global Currency Conversion and Secure Management

Problem: Sharing detailed trip plans with friends, family, or followers can be cumbersome, often requires the recipient to have an account, may not display costs in the viewer's preferred currency, and can raise concerns about unauthorized modifications.

Solution: GoTrip allows you to generate a simple, view-only link for your trip and share it effortlessly, with no account required for viewing, includes on-the-fly currency conversion for global accessibility, and provides easy management of shared links.

Sharing your travel plans has never been easier, more globally accessible, or more secure than with GoTrip. Whether you're keeping your family informed, or showcasing your itinerary to followers around the world, our trip sharing feature makes it simple, hassle-free, universally understandable, and completely under your control.

Here's how it works:

  1. Create your trip itinerary in GoTrip, using either your local currency or the destination's currency
  2. Generate a unique sharing link with a single tap
  3. Send this link to anyone you want – via email, messaging apps, or social media
  4. Recipients can view your entire itinerary by just installing the app, no account creation required
  5. Viewers get an option to convert all costs to their preferred currency right on the same screen

Key features of our sharing system:

  • Immutable Links: Once created, shared links cannot be modified by either the creator or the viewer. This ensures the integrity of your shared itineraries.
  • Easy Deletion: While links can't be edited, they can be easily deleted. Shared link details are stored within the app, allowing you to manage and delete them at any time.
  • View-Only Access: Shared trips are view-only, ensuring that your carefully crafted plans remain exactly as you designed them.
  • Global Currency Conversion: Viewers can instantly convert all costs to their preferred currency, making your trips accessible to a global audience.

This feature is particularly valuable for:

  • Travel influencers sharing detailed itineraries with a global audience
  • Tour and travel businesses showcasing sample itineraries to international clients
  • Group travelers coordinating plans with friends from different countries
  • Individuals keeping family and friends updated about their travel plans, regardless of where they're located

What makes GoTrip's sharing feature truly unique is its combination of security, flexibility, and global accessibility:

  • When creating a trip, you choose your preferred currency (local or destination)
  • When someone views your shared trip, they can instantly convert all costs to their preferred currency
  • Viewers have the flexibility to switch between the original currency and their chosen currency
  • This feature supports a wide range of currencies, making your trips accessible to a global audience
  • You retain full control over your shared content, with the ability to delete links at any time

With GoTrip's secure and flexible trip sharing, global currency conversion, and easy link management, you can effortlessly keep others in the loop or inspire fellow travelers with your itineraries. Whether your audience is local or global, they'll be able to understand and appreciate your travel plans in a currency that makes sense to them, while you maintain control over your shared content. This feature ensures that your shared trips are not just viewable, but truly accessible, meaningful, and secure for anyone, anywhere in the world.

Budget Management

Problem: Keeping track of expenses during a trip can be challenging, often leading to overspending or financial stress.

Solution: GoTrip offers a built-in budget management feature that allows you to track daily budgets, categorize spending, and visualize your expenses.

Financial management is a crucial part of travel planning and execution. GoTrip's comprehensive budget management feature ensures that you stay on top of your expenses throughout your journey. Here's what you can do:

  • Track daily budgets for your entire trip
  • Categorize your spending for better oversight (e.g., accommodation, food, transportation, activities)
  • View your expenses on a day-by-day basis or for the entire trip
  • Analyze your spending patterns through intuitive graphs and pie charts

This feature not only helps you stick to your budget during the trip but also provides valuable insights for future travel planning. You can easily identify where you tend to overspend or where you might have room to splurge a little more.

The visual representations of your spending make it easy to get a quick overview of your financial situation at any point during your trip. This can help you make informed decisions about your remaining budget and adjust your plans if necessary.

With GoTrip's budget management feature, you can enjoy your travels without the constant worry of overspending, allowing you to focus on creating memorable experiences.

Split Expense with Integrated Currency Conversion

Problem: Group travel often leads to complicated expense splitting and potential conflicts over who owes what, especially on international trips with multiple currencies involved.

Solution: GoTrip includes a comprehensive Split Expense feature that easily tracks shared costs, individual payments, and settles debts within the group, with the added benefit of on-screen currency conversion.

Traveling with friends or family should be about creating shared memories, not stressing over shared expenses. GoTrip's Split Expense feature takes the hassle out of group finances:

  • Easily record shared expenses as they occur
  • Specify who paid for what and how it should be split
  • Track individual contributions and outstanding balances
  • Calculate the most efficient way to settle debts within the group
  • Keep a clear record of all financial transactions throughout the trip
  • Quickly convert currencies to your trip's primary currency on the same screen

This feature is perfect for any group travel scenario:

  • Friends splitting costs on an international weekend getaway
  • Families sharing expenses on a long vacation across multiple countries
  • Colleagues managing shared costs on a global business trip

By maintaining a clear and fair record of shared expenses, GoTrip helps prevent misunderstandings and ensures everyone knows exactly where they stand financially. The integrated currency conversion feature is a game-changer for international trips, supporting major currencies along with 150+ others. This means you can easily split expenses in local currencies while seeing the equivalent in your trip's primary currency, all on the same screen.

This transparency and ease of use can significantly reduce the potential for conflicts over money and currency confusion, allowing everyone to focus on enjoying the trip. Whether you're dealing with euros, yen, dollars, or any other currency, GoTrip makes it simple to keep track of who owes what.

At the end of the trip, GoTrip can even suggest the most efficient way to settle any outstanding balances, taking into account the different currencies used. This makes the often awkward process of squaring up much smoother and easier, even for complex international trips.

Share from Google Maps

Problem: Switching between Google Maps and travel planning apps to add locations to an itinerary can be time-consuming and frustrating.

Solution: GoTrip allows you to directly share places from Google Maps to your itinerary, streamlining the planning process.

We understand that Google Maps is an essential tool for travelers. It's where you search for places, read reviews, and decide on the spots you want to visit. That's why we've made it incredibly easy to add places from Google Maps directly to your GoTrip itinerary. Here's how it works:

  1. Find a place you like on Google Maps
  2. Use the share function in Google Maps
  3. Select GoTrip from the list of apps
  4. Choose the trip and day you want to add the place to
  5. Add any additional details like costs or booking information
  6. The place is now part of your GoTrip itinerary!

This seamless integration saves you time and reduces the risk of errors that can occur when manually typing in place names and addresses. It allows you to leverage the vast database and user reviews of Google Maps while keeping all your travel plans organized in GoTrip.

Whether you're planning a detailed city tour or just want to remember that interesting cafe you stumbled upon, GoTrip's Google Maps integration makes it easy to build a comprehensive and accurate itinerary.

Collaboration

Problem: Coordinating travel plans with a group can be chaotic, with changes and updates often getting lost in communication.

Solution: GoTrip's Collaboration feature allows multiple users to view and edit a trip plan, with changes syncing seamlessly even when offline.

Planning a trip with friends, family, or colleagues? GoTrip's Collaboration feature makes group planning a breeze. Here's what you can do:

  • Add collaborators to your trip plan
  • Set permissions for each collaborator (editor or viewer)
  • Make changes to the plan, even when offline
  • Sync all changes when you're back online

One unique aspect of our collaboration feature is its offline functionality. You can modify plans while offline, and when you regain internet connection, GoTrip will seamlessly sync all changes. This ensures that you can continue planning regardless of your connectivity status.

This feature is perfect for:

  • Family vacations where different family members are responsible for planning different aspects of the trip
  • Friend groups coordinating a getaway
  • Business trips where multiple team members need access to the itinerary

With GoTrip's Collaboration feature, everyone stays on the same page, reducing miscommunication and ensuring a smoother, more enjoyable trip for all involved.

Home Screen Widget

Problem: Constantly opening a travel app to check or modify plans can be time-consuming and disrupt the flow of your trip.

Solution: GoTrip offers a home screen widget that provides quick access to your ongoing trip timeline and allows for fast modifications.

We understand that while traveling, you want to spend more time experiencing and less time managing your phone. That's why we've developed a convenient home screen widget for GoTrip (available on compatible Android versions). Here's what it offers:

  • Quick view of your ongoing trip timeline right from your home screen
  • Ability to get a snapshot of your day's plans at a glance
  • Option to quickly modify or add plans without fully opening the app
  • Instant access to key information like reservations or scheduled activities

This feature is designed to minimize the time you spend interacting with the app while maximizing your access to important information. It's perfect for:

  • Quickly checking your next activity without interrupting your current experience
  • Making last-minute changes to your plans on the go
  • Keeping track of time-sensitive information like tour start times or restaurant reservations

With GoTrip's home screen widget, you can stay organized and on schedule without constantly diving into the app, allowing you to remain present and engaged in your travel experiences.

Earn While You Travel

Problem: Travel influencers and bloggers often struggle to monetize their travel experiences effectively.

Solution: GoTrip allows travel content creators to easily share detailed itineraries with their audience while incorporating affiliate links for potential earnings.

Attention travel influencers, bloggers, and vloggers! We know you pour your heart into creating amazing content for your audience. GoTrip offers a unique opportunity to monetize your travel expertise while providing valuable, detailed information to your followers.

Here's how it works:

  1. Create your detailed itinerary using GoTrip
  2. Add your affiliate links for activities, accommodations, or other services within the itinerary
  3. Share the entire trip plan with your audience using a single link
  4. Your audience gets a comprehensive overview of your trip, complete with your personal recommendations
  5. If they book through your affiliate links, you earn a commission

This feature offers several benefits:

  • Provides your audience with more value through detailed, actionable trip plans
  • Allows you to monetize your travel expertise beyond traditional content creation
  • Offers a new way to showcase your travel recommendations
  • Helps fund your future travels through affiliate earnings

It's a win-win situation: your audience gets insider knowledge and detailed trip plans, while you get to earn from your travel expertise. With GoTrip, you're not just sharing experiences – you're creating a roadmap for others to follow, quite literally!

Unparalleled Privacy

Problem: Many travel apps collect extensive personal data, raising privacy concerns among users.

Solution: GoTrip prioritizes user privacy by storing most data locally on the device and minimizing data collection and sharing.

At GoTrip, we believe that your travel plans should be yours alone. Unlike many travel apps that harvest your data for various purposes, we've designed our app with privacy as a core principle:

  • Most of your data, including trip plans and documents, is stored locally on your device
  • We don't collect or share your personal data for advertising or marketing purposes
  • Your travel plans remain private unless you explicitly choose to share them
  • We use minimal server-side storage, only when absolutely necessary for features like collaboration or backup

While we do use some ad networks to display ads (which helps us keep the app accessible), these ads are shown based on the ad network's data and algorithms, not on your personal information or travel plans stored in GoTrip.

This privacy-first approach means:

  • You have full control over your data
  • Your travel plans and personal information are not being used to profile you
  • You can use GoTrip with peace of mind, knowing your privacy is respected

With GoTrip, you can focus on planning and enjoying your travels, without worrying about who might be accessing or using your personal information.

Additional Features for Hassle-Free Travel Planning

Problem: Traditional travel planning often involves juggling multiple tools and apps, making the process cumbersome and time-consuming.

Solution: GoTrip offers a suite of integrated features designed to streamline your travel planning process, all within one app.

GoTrip goes beyond basic trip planning to offer a comprehensive set of tools that address various aspects of travel preparation and management. Here's how these features make your travel planning hassle-free:

Checklists

Never forget essential items again. Create customized checklists for your packing or any travel needs. Whether it's a business trip or a beach vacation, stay organized with easy-to-use, task-specific lists.


Quick Location

Spontaneous discoveries are part of the joy of travel, but they can be hard to track. With Quick Location:

  • Instantly add your current location to your trip itinerary with a single tap.
  • Ideal for impromptu expenses or discoveries you want to remember.
  • Perfect for keeping track of costs for personal budgeting or expense splitting.

Currency Conversion

Say goodbye to mental math and separate currency apps. GoTrip's built-in currency converter offers:

  • Support for major currencies plus over 150 additional currencies.
  • Quick conversion of any cost to your preferred currency.
  • Seamless addition of converted costs to your trip itinerary.

Visa Document Helper

Simplify the often-stressful visa application process with two handy tools:

  • Cover Letter Generator: Create a professional cover letter for your visa application.
  • Itinerary Details Generator: Quickly produce a detailed itinerary suitable for visa documentation purposes.

These tools are designed to make your visa documentation process smoother and more efficient, potentially saving you hours of preparation time.

With these additional features, GoTrip becomes more than just a trip planner – it's your comprehensive travel companion, addressing multiple aspects of your journey from pre-planning to on-the-ground logistics.

Our Business Model: Transparency and User-Centric Approach

Problem: Many apps use intrusive advertising, sell user data, or require expensive subscriptions to access full features.

Solution: GoTrip uses a transparent, user-friendly business model that keeps the app accessible while respecting user privacy and experience.

We believe in being upfront about how we operate and earn revenue. Here's our approach:

  • We've included carefully selected affiliate links for travel services (accommodations, transportation, visa services, activities, forex). These links are designed to offer you valuable options without being pushy.
  • We display a limited number of full-screen ads, but we've implemented them in a way that minimizes disruption to your planning process. You won't be bombarded with constant pop-ups.
  • We don't sell your private data or use it to push personalized recommendations. Your travel choices remain truly your own.

This balanced approach allows us to:

  • Keep GoTrip accessible to all users without requiring expensive subscriptions
  • Continuously improve and maintain the app to ensure a smooth user experience
  • Respect your privacy and the integrity of your travel planning process
  • Offer a comprehensive set of features without hidden costs or paywalls

We've built GoTrip with user satisfaction as our primary goal. While we need to generate revenue like any business, we've chosen a model that aligns with our values of transparency, privacy, and user-centric design. With GoTrip, you get a powerful travel planning tool that respects your time, your privacy, and your wallet.