Wanderlog is one of the most popular trip-planning apps, and it earns that spot. The map-based interface, route help, and live collaboration make hands-on planning pleasant.
Then 2026 happened. The Pro plan now bundles an AI assistant alongside offline access and booking tools, so the old gripe — am I just paying for export? — needs a fresh answer. Here's what's free, what's behind the paywall, and where a free generator like MonkeyEatingMango does things Wanderlog doesn't.
Last updated June 4, 2026, against Wanderlog's published rates and feature list at wanderlog.com/pro. Pricing varies by region and promotion.
Disclosure: MonkeyEatingMango is our own product, so treat this entry with appropriate skepticism. Wanderlog's features and pricing here come from its public pricing page; verify the current rates on the live page.
TL;DR: Wanderlog pricing at a glance
- Free: unlimited places, live collaboration, smart recommendations, flight/hotel/car import, itinerary and map in one view
- Pro: $39.99/year, sold as an annual plan with a free trial
- Pro adds: offline access, an AI assistant, route optimization, booking deals, unlimited attachments, Google Maps export, auto Gmail scanning, dark mode
- What it still skips: a full itinerary generated from your inputs, budget-aware planning, automatic currency conversion, weather-aware scheduling, and no-account access
- Free options that fill those gaps: MonkeyEatingMango (AI generates the full plan, free PDF/Excel/Sheets export, no account) and Ellipsis Travel (manual planning with collaboration)
- Rather fill in a plan yourself: free itinerary templates for Google Sheets, Excel, Word, Google Docs, PDF, and Notion
Wanderlog pricing overview
Wanderlog has two tiers.
| Free | Pro ($39.99/year) | |
|---|---|---|
| Unlimited places | ✅ | ✅ |
| Live collaboration | ✅ | ✅ |
| Smart recommendations | ✅ | ✅ |
| Flight, hotel & car import | ✅ | ✅ |
| Itinerary + map in one view | ✅ | ✅ |
| Offline access | ❌ | ✅ |
| AI assistant | ❌ | ✅ |
| Route optimization | ❌ | ✅ |
| Booking deals (flights, cars) | ❌ | ✅ |
| Unlimited attachments | ❌ | ✅ |
| Export to Google Maps | ❌ | ✅ |
| Auto Gmail scanning | ❌ | ✅ |
| Dark mode | ❌ | ✅ |
Pro is sold as an annual plan at $39.99, with a free trial. Prices can shift by region and promotion.
What you get with Wanderlog free
The free tier handles the core of manual planning:
- Add unlimited places and pin them on a map
- Live collaboration: invite travel companions to edit the same trip in real time
- Smart recommendations for places to eat, stay, and visit
- Flight, hotel, and car import, so your bookings sit alongside your plans
- Itinerary and map in one view, so you see the day and the route together
For a lot of travelers, that's the whole job. If you build trips by hand and never lose signal, the free tier is the workflow — nothing on the Pro list will change your week.
What Wanderlog Pro adds ($39.99/year)
Pro builds on the free tier with eight upgrades:
- Offline access: maps, notes, and your itinerary work in airplane mode or weak signal
- AI assistant: a chat that suggests places and answers trip questions; tap to add its picks to your itinerary and map
- Route optimization: reorders stops to cut driving time
- Booking deals: flight and car rental offers inside the app
- Auto Gmail scanning: pulls confirmations from your inbox into the trip automatically
- Unlimited attachments: store tickets, passes, and documents on each plan
- Export to Google Maps: send your places to Maps for navigation
- Dark mode
The headline change for 2026 is the AI assistant. What it does is narrower than the label suggests.
How Wanderlog's AI assistant works
Wanderlog's assistant is conversational. You ask for ideas (three days in Lisbon with kids), it suggests places, and you tap to drop them onto your map and into a day. It speeds up manual planning, but you still assemble the trip yourself.
That's a different model from generating a finished plan. MonkeyEatingMango takes eight answers (destination, dates, budget, pace, who's traveling) and returns a complete day-by-day itinerary with costs, food, transit, and a map in about a minute. One assists your planning. The other does the planning. Which you want depends on how hands-on you like to be.
Is Wanderlog Pro worth it in 2026?
It comes down to how often you travel and how much you want to do by hand.
Pro is worth it if:
- You travel often (four or more trips a year): at $39.99, offline access and the AI assistant cost about $10 a trip
- You plan in a group and need offline backup: detailed shared itineraries that hold up with no signal
- You already live in Wanderlog: past trips saved, daily driver for planning
Pro probably isn't worth it if:
- You take one or two trips a year: $39.99 for features you'll touch twice is steep when free options like MonkeyEatingMango plan the whole trip at no cost, and a free Google Sheets trip-planner template covers the occasional DIY trip
- You mostly take short trips close to home: a weekend getaway with a verified drive time and an honest cost needs no subscription at all
- You mostly browse for inspiration: if you plan elsewhere, Pro adds little
- You want a finished plan, not a planning assistant: Wanderlog's AI suggests as you build. For a generated day-by-day itinerary, see our comparison of free AI travel planners
Is there a Wanderlog Pro discount or free trial?
Pro comes with a free trial, and the trial is the reliable way to test it: start it on the trip you're planning now and cancel before renewal if the offline maps and AI assistant didn't earn their keep. Wanderlog lists Pro as an annual plan only, with no monthly option, and no standing discount code is published on its pricing page. Rates do vary by region and promotion, which is why searchers see different figures at different times; the canonical rate at wanderlog.com/pro is $39.99/year.
If the goal is simply to avoid the fee, two routes stay free forever:
- Stay on Wanderlog's free tier: unlimited places, live collaboration, and booking import are all included
- Skip the subscription question entirely: generate a complete day-by-day itinerary free, then export it to PDF, Excel, or Sheets with no account
Wanderlog Pro vs other paid travel apps
How Wanderlog Pro compares to other paid planners by annual cost (approximate, mid-2026):
| App | Annual price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Wanderlog Pro | $39.99 | AI assistant, offline access, route optimization, booking deals, Gmail scanning |
| TripIt Pro | ~$49 | Auto-import bookings, real-time flight alerts, fare tracking |
| Tripsy | $59 | Apple-only trip organizer with offline access |
| Roadtrippers Pro | ~$49 | Road-trip planning, RV-friendly routes |
| MonkeyEatingMango | Free, for now | AI generates the full itinerary; free PDF, Excel, and Sheets export |
Wanderlog Pro sits at the lower end of paid planners, and the 2026 AI assistant makes it more competitive than a pure export upgrade would be. If you'd rather not pay a subscription at all, a free AI generator covers planning without one.
Where Wanderlog and MonkeyEatingMango differ
Both are good tools, built on opposite instincts. Wanderlog hands you a canvas and an AI helper to fill it; MonkeyEatingMango hands you a finished draft you then fine-tune.
Wanderlog does some things MEM doesn't:
- Live collaboration: edit the same trip with companions in real time
- Manual control: drag-and-drop reordering of every stop
- Booking import and Gmail scanning: confirmations land in the trip automatically
MEM does some things Wanderlog doesn't, at any tier:
- Generates a complete itinerary from a few answers, no building required
- Plans around your budget and converts costs to your home currency
- Schedules with the weather and season in mind
- Exports to PDF, Excel, and Google Sheets, free and with no account
Neither wins outright. It comes down to one thing: do you want to build the trip, or start from a draft and tweak?
How free alternatives compare
If you're weighing Pro against free tools, here's the side by side:
| Feature | Wanderlog Free | Wanderlog Pro ($39.99/yr) | MonkeyEatingMango (Free, for now) | Ellipsis Travel (Free) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full AI itinerary generation | No | Assistant only | Yes | Limited |
| AI assistant | No | Yes | Generates instead | No |
| Export options | No | Google Maps | PDF, Excel, Sheets | |
| Live collaboration | Yes | Yes | View-only sharing | Yes |
| Offline access | No | Yes | Via export | Limited |
| Budget-aware planning | Manual | Manual | Automatic, multi-currency | Manual |
| Route optimization | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Booking import | Yes | Yes (auto Gmail) | No | No |
| Account required | Yes | Yes | No | No |
If you want a finished plan and free export: MonkeyEatingMango builds a full day-by-day itinerary from your destination, dates, budget, and travel style in about a minute, then exports to PDF, Excel, or Google Sheets. No account. The trade-off: no live collaboration and no manual drag-and-drop.
If you want collaborative manual planning for free: Ellipsis Travel is the closest free match to Wanderlog's workflow.
For more options, see this comparison of 11 Wanderlog alternatives and 7 free AI travel planners side by side. Prefer a document you fill in yourself? Start from a free Excel travel itinerary template.
See what MonkeyEatingMango generates
Where Wanderlog gives you a canvas and an assistant, MonkeyEatingMango hands you a finished draft. Answer eight questions and it builds a day-by-day plan in about a minute. No account.
The plan includes activities with cost estimates, places to eat, transit notes, weather-aware timing, and an interactive map. Export to PDF, Excel, or Google Sheets. Free, for now, with no signup.
The trade-off against Wanderlog: no drag-and-drop reordering and no real-time co-editing. If you plan trips with a partner, Wanderlog's collaboration is better. If you want a complete plan to start from and skip the subscription, MEM is built for that.
To see a finished plan before trying it: 5-day Amsterdam itinerary or 3-day Kyoto itinerary.
Plan a trip in about a minute → · Browse curated itineraries · See MEM pricing · Multi-city trip planning
Related reading
- 11 best Wanderlog alternatives: manual and AI planners compared
- Wanderlog review (2026): features, pricing, and free alternatives: manual planner vs AI generator
- Best free AI travel planners (2026): 7 tools side by side
The bottom line
Wanderlog's free tier is one of the better manual planners going: unlimited places, live collaboration, smart recommendations, booking import, all free. Pro at $39.99/year now adds an AI assistant on top of offline access and booking tools, which makes it a fairer deal in 2026 than it was as an export-only upgrade.
So which planner are you? If you like building the trip yourself with an assistant nearby, Wanderlog Pro earns its $39.99. If you'd rather start from a finished, budget-aware plan and export it for free, MonkeyEatingMango does that with no account, and Ellipsis Travel covers free collaborative manual planning.
Pick the model that matches how you plan, not the longest feature list.
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Shobhit ShrivastavaPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, used under Creative Commons licenses