Visby vs Wanderlog
Visby vs Wanderlog: which trip planner should you use?
Pick Visby when a group has to decide together: friends join from one link, rank stays, food and activities, share their tastes, and Ask Visby drafts the days around everyone.
Pick Wanderlog when one organizer wants to build a detailed itinerary by hand, import flight and hotel confirmations from Gmail, or use native iOS and Android apps offline.
Side by side
| Visby | Wanderlog | |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Planning a trip with friends or family where everyone gets a say | A detailed, map-heavy itinerary you build yourself |
| Works on | Web (any browser), nothing to download | Web, iOS, Android |
| Planning with friends | Invite by link, everyone edits, ranked votes, taste profiles, shared costs | Friends co-edit in real time from an email or link invite; shared budget and expense splitting |
| AI | Ask Visby drafts a day-by-day plan from real places, fitted to the group | “Auto-fill your days” suggestions and an AI assistant |
| Booking | Partner stays and tours booked in Visby; everything else links out | Compares hotel prices across sites and imports confirmations; no tour booking |
| Pricing | Free; paid plans from $6.99/month | Free; Wanderlog Pro is a paid upgrade (US App Store annual plans from $31.99/year) |
Where Wanderlog is strong
Wanderlog is the strongest free collaborative itinerary: map, day planner, routes, reservation import and expense splitting on web, iOS and Android, with very high app store ratings.
It is a shared itinerary rather than a decision tool: we found no voting or polls in its help pages, so groups still settle choices in the group chat. Offline use, route optimization and Gmail import are on Pro.
Where Visby is different
- Everyone plans, not just the organizer. Friends join from one link in their browser, add ideas and rank stays, food and activities.
- The plan fits the group. Each person shares their tastes, pace and budget, and Ask Visby drafts the day-by-day itinerary around all of them.
- One board for the whole trip. The map of every day, travel time between cities, shared costs and a recap to share afterwards live in the same place.
Try it: start a free trip board, no account needed.
Sources
Wanderlog facts are from Wanderlog’s own pages, checked when this guide was updated:
Questions travelers ask
Straight answers. Anything else: hello@visbytravel.com.
Is Visby a good alternative to Wanderlog?
Yes, especially for group trips. Visby, the trip planner, is free to start and built for planning with friends: one link to join, nothing to download, ranked votes on stays, food and activities, and an AI day-by-day plan that fits the whole group. Wanderlog is the better fit when one organizer wants to build a detailed itinerary by hand, import flight and hotel confirmations from Gmail, or use native iOS and Android apps offline.
What is the difference between Visby and Wanderlog?
Wanderlog is a free, map-based itinerary planner that friends can edit together, with places, routes, imported reservations and a shared budget. Visby is a free trip planner for solo and group trips where friends join from a link, vote, and get an AI itinerary built around everyone’s tastes.
Is Visby free?
Yes. The trip board, invites, votes and a couple of AI drafts a month are free. Voyager ($6.99/month) adds live AI drafts, voice planning and place details on the board.
How much does Wanderlog cost?
Free; Wanderlog Pro is a paid upgrade (US App Store annual plans from $31.99/year)
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Get the crew on one board
Free to start. Friends join with one link. Nothing to download.