Wanderlust

Wanderlust is a trip planner that uses real city, cost, and safety data to draft day-by-day itineraries. It is built around three linked parts: planning, live use on the ground, and sharing trips afterward.

The planning side includes a grounded AI travel assistant that can turn a sentence such as a destination, duration, interests, and budget into a draft itinerary. The description of its planning workflow says it can include travel times, reservations that should be made, and mornings left unplanned. Wanderlust also offers Journeys with a map view, reordering, and an Optimize Day function that reroutes a single day’s stops for the least time in transit while keeping hotel, flight, and timed reservations anchored. Other named features include a bucket list for saving cities, restaurants, and hidden gems, collaboration tools for inviting friends, voting on activities, and splitting the running total, a browser extension that clips articles, Instagram posts, and hotel pages into a trip with context, price, and link, and editor-curated guides and itineraries that can be reshaped around dates, group, and budget.

Trip Mode is the on-the-ground part of the service. It runs on a phone, works offline, and shows where the traveler is in the day and what is next. In destination timezone, it highlights the current stop, shows a live countdown for the next one, gives a one-line weather read, and opens native directions in Apple or Google Maps. Sharing is built around an /explore feed of shared journeys and bookable trips, and any trip can be cloned into an editable version. The site also says the service covers 1,300+ cities in 190+ countries and is free forever with no credit card needed.