Plan · Track · Settle
Plan the trip. Record what really happened.
Settle up without the argument.
Every other setup makes you pick three tools: one for the itinerary, one for the photos, and a spreadsheet for the money. TripToday keeps the plan and the reality side by side — and turns the difference into the story worth sharing.
No card required. Add friends who have not installed anything.
The trip was great. Working out the money was not.
- The group chat ledger
- "I paid for petrol, Sara got lunch, someone owes Ali for the hotel." Four days later nobody can reconstruct it.
- The spreadsheet nobody opens
- One person maintains it, on a laptop, at night. Everyone else finds out what they owe at the end and has to take their word for it.
- The itinerary that stopped being true
- The plan was written before you left. By day two it is fiction, and there is no record of where the days actually went.
How it works
Three steps, and one of them is optional.
Start the trip
Name it, pick the currency, add everyone coming — including the people with no account yet. Plan the stops first, or just start.
Record as you go
Expenses, photos and journal entries as they happen, from the phone. The map fills in behind you and everyone on the trip sees the same picture.
Settle and publish
One tap turns the whole ledger into the shortest list of payments. Then publish the trip as a page, if you want to.
The part everyone dreads
Eleven debts become two payments.
TripToday nets every balance across the whole group, then solves for the smallest set of transfers that clears the trip. Nobody pays three people and gets paid by two others. You get a short list, and it is the same list on everyone's screen.
- Exact integer money — no rounding drift, ever
- Remainders are shown while you split, not discovered later
- Settled expenses are locked; corrections are posted, not edited away
Raw balances
- Ali owesPKR 4,200
- Sara is owedPKR 7,600
- Hina owesPKR 3,400
- Bilal is owedPKR 1,900
- Zain owesPKR 1,900
- Ali → SaraPKR 4,200
- Hina → SaraPKR 3,400
- Zain → BilalPKR 1,900
Five balances, three payments. Illustrative figures.
Features
Built for the way a group actually travels.
- Four split modes
- Equal, exact amounts, shares, or percentages — per expense, not per trip. The remainder is shown as you type, so the numbers always add up to the bill.
- More than one payer
- Two people covering one dinner is a single expense with two payments, not a fiction where one person paid and the other is owed.
- Settle in the fewest payments
- Balances are netted across everyone, then reduced to the smallest set of transfers that clears the trip. Usually two or three, not eleven.
- The plan, and what really happened
- Freeze the itinerary at departure and the app tracks reality against it — stops reached, skipped, and the ones you improvised, which it treats as a feature of travelling.
- See where everyone is
- On the phone, share your live position with the trip — so a convoy that split at a junction can find itself again. Seeing the map never requires sharing your own.
- A shared kitty
- Pool money up front and spend from the pot. Contributions and pot spending sit in the same ledger as everything else, so one number still answers "where are we".
- A trip page worth sharing
- Publish the route, the stops, the photos and the cost — with per-section control over what a stranger sees, down to hiding the money entirely.
On the phone
Nobody gets left at the junction.
Two cars, one wrong turn, and no phone signal at the front. Switch on live location and everyone on the trip can see where everyone else is — who is ahead, who stopped, and when each position was last updated.
- Off until you turn it on. Per trip, and never on by default.
- Seeing is not trading. You can watch the map without sharing your own position — somebody on 4% battery needs it most.
- Off means gone. Switching it off deletes your position rather than freezing it on the map.
- Only while the app is open. No background tracking. When you close it, sharing stops.
- An old fix says so. Anything over five minutes goes grey and shows its age, so a stale point is never mistaken for a live one.
Where everyone is
Updated as people move, not on a timer.
- Youlive · ±12 m
- Alileadinglive · ±30 m
- Saralive · ±18 m
- Hina24 min ago
- Bilalnot sharing
FAQ
Questions people actually ask.
Can I add someone who does not have the app?
Yes. Add them by name and they become a full participant in the money straight away — every split and every balance includes them. An email invitation is optional, and they can claim the account later without anything being recalculated.
How does TripToday decide who pays whom?
It nets everything down first, then solves for the smallest number of transfers that clears every balance. Instead of eleven separate paybacks you usually get two or three, and nobody has to work out the chain by hand.
Do I have to plan the trip before I can use it?
No. The plan layer is entirely optional. You can start recording the moment you leave and never add an itinerary — a spontaneous trip is a complete trip in TripToday, not a half-filled one.
Can one expense have more than one payer?
Yes. A dinner where three people put money in is recorded as one expense with three payments, so the balances stay exact rather than being approximated as a single payer who then gets paid back.
Does location sharing track me?
Only when you switch it on, only for the trip you switched it on for, and only while the app is open — there is no background tracking. Switching it off deletes your position rather than leaving a last-known point on the map. You can always see where everyone else is without sharing your own, and any position older than five minutes is shown greyed out with its age so it is never mistaken for a live one.
What happens to the trip after it ends?
You get a recap of the route, the stops, the photos and what it actually cost — and you can publish it as a page anyone can open, choosing exactly how much of the money detail is shown, including none of it.
Is TripToday free?
Creating an account, planning trips, splitting expenses and settling up are all available now while the product is in active development. Sign up and you will keep access to everything you have recorded.
Your next trip is going to cost something.
Start it here and you will know exactly what, and who owes whom, before you are home.