Features
The best travel agents are the people who've been there.
Tripbuds is built around how people actually plan travel — scrolling through trips friends have already done, saving the good ones, and shaping them into your own. Here's what's in the app at launch.
Search real trips
A search engine of trips that actually happened.
Search itineraries, stops and tips from buds who've been there. Filter by destination, length, and the kind of trip you want. Every result was planned or taken by a real traveller — no AI-spun guides, no paid placements, no SEO blog spam.
Save this trip
One tap, and it's yours to shape.
Find a trip you'd actually take, save this trip, and it lands in your My trips as your own editable copy. Pick your dates, swap stops, add your buds. The original stays intact for whoever planned it — their tips and videos come with you.
Plan together
One trip, every bud, in-app chat.
Invite your buds and you're all on the same trip — same itinerary, same edits, in-trip chat per trip and per stop. Polls for the "where do we eat tonight" decisions. No more group-chat scroll-back to find which version of the plan is current.
Split pay built in
Track the budget, settle up at the end.
Set a trip budget, log expenses as you go, and see who paid for what — in any currency. Settle Up does the maths and shows who owes who. No spreadsheets, no "can someone Venmo me?", no awkward dinners on the last night.
Smart day reshape
AI that edits a day, not invents your trip.
Tell Tripbuds "make day three rainier-friendly", "more food, less walking", or "earlier starts" and it rebuilds just that day around your constraint. Your stays, bookings and locked-in stops stay put. The AI helps you reshape — the trip is still yours.
Public profiles
Follow the buds whose taste matches yours.
Every traveller has a public profile — their trips, the countries they've covered, the tips they've left, a map of where they've been. Follow the buds whose travel taste matches yours and you'll see their next trip first.
Also in the app
The little things that make a trip a trip.
Short videos on every stop so you can see the place before you go. Tips that travel with the trip whenever someone saves it. Verified-by-Booking badges on stays a bud has actually completed. A shareable web page at tripbuds.com for every public trip — light mode, dark mode, mobile-friendly, no app install needed for whoever you send it to.
In development
Launching late 2026, iOS and Android together.
Join the waitlist
Be one of the first buds.
One email when Tripbuds opens to the public in late 2026. No spam, ever.