Wanderlog is one of the best-known trip planners, and for good reason: it's built for planning with friends, it has a generous free plan, and it's full of guides from other travellers. RPlan sets out to do some of the same things in a different way. This is an honest comparison, so you can pick the one that fits how you travel.
Wanderlog's details here come from its app store listing and recent independent reviews, checked in November 2026. Prices change, so check before you buy.
The short version
| RPlan | Wanderlog | |
|---|---|---|
| How you pay | Per trip, once | Free plan, or a yearly Pro subscription |
| Price | First trip free, then £5 a trip | Pro is around $40 a year in the US, and varies by country |
| Planning together | Yes, with permissions per person | Yes, live collaboration on the free plan |
| Bookings | Paste a confirmation email | Import reservations; Pro can scan Gmail |
| AI | Included on every trip, and reads the trip first | Limited on the free plan, unlimited on Pro |
| Offline | Export the trip as a PDF | Offline access is a Pro feature |
| Best at | Planning the days in detail | Discovery, and free collaborative planning |
Paying for it
Wanderlog has a free plan that covers a lot: unlimited places, live collaboration, imported reservations and a combined map and itinerary. Wanderlog Pro is a yearly subscription, around $40 in the US, and adds offline access, route optimisation, export to Google Maps, Gmail scanning for bookings and unlimited AI help.
RPlan doesn't have a subscription. Your first trip is free with everything switched on. After that, each trip is unlocked with a Pass: £5, paid once, with every feature included. If you take two trips a year, that's £10 a year, and in a year you don't travel, it's nothing.
So if Wanderlog's free plan does everything you need, it's hard to beat on price. If you'd otherwise pay for Pro and take a few trips a year, paying per trip usually works out cheaper.
Planning together
Both apps let everyone going work on the same trip, live. RPlan adds two things that matter in a group:
- Permissions for each person. You choose whether each of them can change plans and days, see the bookings and see the packing. A friend can see the plan without seeing what you paid for the hotel.
- A lock while someone's editing. A plan someone else is editing shows their name and is locked until they're done, so two people don't overwrite each other.
More in planning a trip with friends.
Planning the days
Wanderlog is very good at collecting places: you save what looks interesting, see it on a map, and arrange it into days. Pro's route optimisation then puts each day's stops in a sensible order.
RPlan is built around the day itself. Each plan has a time, in the local time of the place, and RPlan works out the travel time from the plan before and shows the free time left between them. Bookings sit on the same timeline as locked plans: the flight, the check-in, the train. You see whether a day actually works, not just what's in it.
You can also plan a day before you know its date, and drop it onto the trip once the flights are booked. More in how to plan the days of a trip.
The assistant
Both apps have an AI assistant. RPlan's is included on every trip, and it starts from the trip rather than a blank chat. Suggest a day reads the dates, where you're staying, the days either side and anything already on the day, then plans an empty day with real places close together, in an order that works, with time to get between them. Nothing reaches your trip until you tick it and add it.
Where Wanderlog is the better choice
- You want a free plan and don't mind its limits.
- You need offline maps on your phone. RPlan doesn't do offline maps; you can export the whole trip as a PDF to keep with you.
- You like discovering ideas from other travellers' guides. RPlan has no social side, and no guides from other users.
Where RPlan is the better choice
- You take a few trips a year and would rather pay £5 a trip than a yearly subscription.
- You want to plan the days properly, with times, travel between plans, and bookings on the same timeline.
- You're planning with other people and want to choose what each person can see and change.
- You want packing too. RPlan has a reusable packing library with the weight of each bag. More in the packing list you only write once.
For a wider look, including TripIt and Roadtrippers, see RPlan compared. Or try it: your first trip in RPlan is free, with everything switched on.
