Your entire trip, one place

What We're Building

A trip isn't just planning, or booking, or sharing photos. It's all of these things, connected across months of activity. But no tool exists to manage this - you're left juggling separate apps and services for each piece, none of which know about each other.

Trip Tools is one place for your entire trip lifecycle: research and planning, comparing options, managing bookings and itineraries, capturing memories, writing and sharing your travel journal.

We're building this open source because travel tools should work for travelers. Read the full story.

Available Now

Our vision is ambitious, so we are taking an incremental approach. Here are the tools we have built which are available and already useful.

Journal & Travelog

We started with post-trip journaling - because that's where your memories live. Write rich travel journals, add photos, then publish beautiful travelogs to share.

Rich text editor with drag-and-drop images

Auto-save with conflict detection

Flexible publishing - private, protected, or public

6 color themes for your travelog

Version history with restore capability

Image management with EXIF metadata

Browser Extension

Trips are all about locations. Google My Maps is great for visually seeing these locations, but is a closed system. Our Chrome extension enhances GMM with trip planning features while keeping your location data synced to Trip Tools.

Category-based adding - locations auto-styled and organized by layer

Bidirectional sync - locations flow between GMM and Trip Tools

Rich attributes - desirability, booking status, and more

Multi-trip support - manage multiple trips and maps simultaneously

Flexible linking - connect existing maps to trips or create new ones

Available for Chrome - install from the Chrome Web Store

Where We're Headed

We're building toward complete trip management:

• Planning - Compare options for lodging, transportation, activities
• Locations - From more sources, referencing in journals
• Itineraries - Day-by-day schedules linked to locations and bookings
• Bookings - Track reservations, expenses, and shared costs
• Reviews - Capture thoughts on places you visit

Early Access & Contributing

Trip Tools is in early development. We're invite-only while building core features and ensuring stability for early users.

This is an open source project. We welcome contributors - whether you write code, improve design, or share feedback on what would make this useful for your trips.