Wanderlog is free to use, and Wanderlog Pro costs $39.99 a year on wanderlog.com/pro, with a free trial. The free tier covers manual planning with live collaboration; Pro adds offline access, an AI assistant, and booking tools. On either tier, the map-based interface and route help make hands-on planning pleasant.
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$0.99 once, not $39.99 a year
Wanderlog Pro costs $39.99 a year. Planning a trip is free, for now, and needs no account. Its first two days are free to read. A one-time $0.99 Trip Pass unlocks the rest of the days and every export for that trip. No subscription.
Plan a trip free →Then 2026 happened. The Pro plan now bundles an AI assistant alongside offline access and booking tools, so the old gripe needs a fresh answer: am I just paying for export? Here's what's free, what's behind the paywall, and where a free generator like MonkeyEatingMango does things Wanderlog doesn't.
Last updated October 9, 2026: rates re-checked against wanderlog.com/pro and Wanderlog's App Store listing. 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 on wanderlog.com, sold as an annual plan with a free trial; the App Store also lists monthly plans
- 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; first two days free, $0.99 per trip for the rest plus PDF/Excel/Sheets export) 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 | ❌ | ✅ |
On wanderlog.com, Pro is sold as an annual plan at $39.99, with a free trial. The App Store lists other price points, covered in the monthly-plan section below.
Is Wanderlog free?
Yes. Wanderlog's free tier covers 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 MonkeyEatingMango plans the whole trip for a one-time $0.99, 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 Best AI travel planners (2026)
Is there a Wanderlog Pro monthly plan?
Wanderlog's website sells no monthly plan: as of October 9, 2026, wanderlog.com/pro offers one paid option, Pro Annual at $39.99 a year. The iOS App Store listing lists more prices. Its in-app purchases include a Monthly Plan at $5.99 and another at $16.99, plus annual plans at $31.99, $49.99, and $59.99.
Those are in-app products, not the single plan you will be offered, and they can include regional and promotional prices. The plan you see depends on your country and when you subscribe. Check the price on the confirm screen in the app; on the web, the answer is $39.99 a year.
Is there a Wanderlog Pro discount or free trial?
Wanderlog publishes no promo code or discount code on its pricing page as of October 9, 2026. The free trial is the reliable way in: 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. The App Store listing does carry a product named "20% discount", priced at $39.99, which points to in-app offers rather than a code you can enter.
If the goal is simply to avoid the fee, two routes stay free:
- 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 unlock the full trip and export it to PDF, Excel, or Sheets for a one-time $0.99
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 to generate; $0.99 per trip | AI generates the full itinerary; first 2 days free, $0.99 per trip for the rest + 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
Neither wins outright. The choice is simpler than the feature list: 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 to generate; $0.99 per trip) | 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 ($0.99 per trip, with the full trip) | |
| 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 with export: MonkeyEatingMango builds a full day-by-day itinerary from your destination, dates, budget, and travel style in about a minute. The first two days are free; a one-time $0.99 per trip unlocks the rest and exports to PDF, Excel, or Google Sheets. 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 Best AI travel planners (2026) 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.
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, 3-day Osaka itinerary, or 7-day Italy 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): what it does well, and where it doesn't
- Wanderlog vs MonkeyEatingMango: manual planner vs AI generator
- Best AI travel planners (2026): 10 tools ranked 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, MonkeyEatingMango does that, and Ellipsis Travel covers free collaborative manual planning.
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Written by Shobhit Shrivastava · Founder
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