ezTrips vs. Wanderlog

ezTrips vs. Wanderlog, honestly.

Wanderlog is a genuinely good trip organiser, and free for as many trips as you like. If you are weighing it up as an alternative, here is a straight account of what each one does — including where Wanderlog is the better choice.

How we wrote this

Sources last checked August 2026

What Wanderlog gets right

The map-and-itinerary-in-one-view idea is the right idea, and Wanderlog executes it well: you see the day and the geography together, and a one-click route optimiser reorders stops so you are not criss-crossing a city. For road trips especially, that is the feature that matters most.

It is also properly collaborative on the free tier, not as a trial. Live editing with friends, unlimited trips, unlimited people — their help centre commits to that in writing. Add strong mobile apps, expense splitting, packing checklists, and user-written guides you can pull places from, and it is a lot of tool for nothing.

If your planning problem is "we know roughly what we want to do, we need somewhere to organise it together", Wanderlog is a sound answer and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise.

Side by side.

  • How the plan gets built

    Wanderlog

    You add the places you want and arrange them. Wanderlog can also auto-fill days with top user-reviewed suggestions, ranked using Tripadvisor and Google reviews, and an AI assistant answers questions and suggests activities.5

    ezTrips

    Describe the trip in your own words — where, when, who is coming — and a complete day-by-day plan comes back, sequenced to keep each day close together and built around the plans you have already made.

  • Opening hours and closures

    Wanderlog

    Attraction pages show ratings, opening hours and links to official websites, gathered from across the web. Wanderlog makes no stated claim about verifying that those hours are current.1

    ezTrips

    Real places, checked for opening hours and closures. We flag places that have closed, and when something cannot be verified the plan says so.

  • Tours and live events

    Wanderlog

    Suggestions are drawn from top user-reviewed attractions and restaurants, ranked using Tripadvisor and Google reviews, alongside places pulled from user-written travel guides.5

    ezTrips

    Real tours and events happening on your dates — exhibitions and performances that only run in your travel window, woven into the day alongside bookable tours — plus the judgement of when a tour beats going alone and when it does not.

  • Changing your mind

    Wanderlog

    You rearrange the itinerary yourself — schedule times, move stops between days — and can re-run route optimisation to reorder a day.1

    ezTrips

    Add, swap, pin, move or delete anything by saying so, and the rest of the day re-settles: clusters stay tight, hours are still checked, transit recalculated.

  • Bookings

    Wanderlog

    Compares results from booking sites in-app and imports confirmations by email forwarding or Gmail scanning. Wanderlog states it earns a small percentage from bookings made through the app, and ranks hotels by price and rating rather than by what they pay.6

    ezTrips

    Booking links are surfaced where the plan needs them, and confirmations you forward by email are organised alongside the trip with spend tracked from them. Checkout happens on the provider’s own site — ezTrips is never the merchant of record. Some links earn us a referral fee, which never affects what the plan recommends.

  • While you travel

    Wanderlog

    Tracks live flight status with delay and gate updates, and Pro downloads trips for offline access.3

    ezTrips

    ezGo runs the day: Now / Next / Later, a nudge when it is time to leave, the transit line to catch, one tap to navigate in Google Maps, and a re-plan when weather or running late throws the day off. Your plan stays readable offline. ezGo add-on, $4/day, capped at $28.

  • What it costs

    Wanderlog

    Free tier with unlimited trips and live collaboration; Wanderlog Pro is listed at $39.99/year and adds offline access, Gmail scanning, route optimisation and unlimited AI assistance.3

    ezTrips

    Two ways to pay, neither of them monthly: ezPass is one-time for a single trip — $5/day, capped at $50 for 10-14 day trips, and it does not auto-renew — or ezPro at $99/year if you travel often.

When Wanderlog is the better pick

  • You want to plan together for free. Live collaboration sits in Wanderlog’s free column, with no cap on trips or collaborators — on ezTrips, the trip owner needs ezPass or ezPro (companions you invite join free).3
  • You already know your stops and mainly need them arranged and mapped. Adding places yourself and optimising the route is exactly what Wanderlog is built for.1
  • You want hotel and flight metasearch inside the planner: Wanderlog compares results from Airbnb, Expedia, Booking.com, Hotels.com and others in the app, and watches for price drops after you book.4
  • Cost matters more than automation. Wanderlog Pro is $39.99/year and the free tier covers a great deal; ezPass is $5/day, capped at $50 for 10-14 day trips.3

Judge it on a real trip.

A complete itinerary you can read end to end — every stop, every transit leg, every booking — rather than a feature list asking to be believed.

See a real itinerary

Ready after that? ezPass is $5 a day for one trip, capped at $50.

Honest answers

Is ezTrips a good Wanderlog alternative?
It depends which half of the job you want done. Wanderlog is an organiser: you bring the places, it arranges and maps them, and collaboration is free. ezTrips is a planner: you describe the trip and it does the research — real places checked for opening hours and closures, days sequenced to cut backtracking — then carries the trip through bookings, spend and live guidance while you travel. If you enjoy choosing every stop, Wanderlog may suit you better.
Wanderlog has a free tier. Does ezTrips?
Not for planning your own trips — that is on ezPass or ezPro: ezPass is $5/day for a single trip, capped at $50 for 10-14 day trips, and ezPro is $99/year. Companions you invite join with a free account. Wanderlog is free for unlimited trips with live collaboration, and Wanderlog Pro is $39.99/year. If price is the deciding factor, that is a real difference and we are not going to argue you out of it.
Does Wanderlog not already generate itineraries with AI?
It does — Wanderlog can auto-fill your days with top user-reviewed suggestions ranked from Tripadvisor and Google reviews, and has an AI assistant for questions and ideas. The difference is what happens around the generated day: ezTrips checks each venue for opening hours and closures, sequences stops to keep the day geographically tight, builds around bookings you have already made, and re-settles the rest of the plan when you change one thing.
Can I move a trip I have already started in Wanderlog?
Partly. You can paste the plan you have built into ezTrips as a detailed brief and it plans around the places and bookings you name, and confirmations you forward are matched to your trip — when ezTrips cannot tell which trip, it asks you to pick. There is no direct Wanderlog integration.

Where these facts come from

  1. 1.wanderlog.com/ — checked August 2026
  2. 2.help.wanderlog.com/hc/en-us/articles/13302997563547-Is-Wanderlog-free — checked August 2026
  3. 3.wanderlog.com/pro — checked August 2026
  4. 4.wanderlog.com/hotels — checked August 2026
  5. 5.wanderlog.com/trip-planner-ai — checked August 2026
  6. 6.help.wanderlog.com/hc/en-us/articles/13303034352667-How-does-Wanderlog-make-money — checked August 2026

Wanderlog is a trademark of its owner, and ezTrips is not affiliated with it. Products change; if something here is out of date or wrong, tell us and we will fix it.

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