Free Online Trip Planner
Plan any trip in minutes — set your destination, budget, and travelers. Track expenses as you go, split costs fairly, and export a PDF report. All offline, no account needed.
Start Planning for Free ✈️What does a trip planner do?
A trip planner helps you organize the essentials before and during travel: your destination, dates, group of travelers, total budget, and the individual expenses you rack up along the way. A good one also handles the money side — tracking how much you've spent vs. your budget, and making it easy to split costs between everyone in the group.
Budget Rover focuses on the budget and expense tracking side of trip planning. It's not for booking flights or hotels — it's for making sure you don't overspend once you're there, and that everyone pays their fair share. Learn how to build a realistic vacation budget →
How to use Budget Rover as your trip planner
Three steps, under two minutes to get started.
Create your trip
Enter your destination, total budget, travel dates, and the names of everyone joining. Takes under a minute.
Log expenses as you go
Add each expense as it happens — record who paid and which travelers it's split between. Works fully offline.
Track spending and settle up
View pie charts, daily trends, and per-person breakdowns. The Expense Splitter calculates who owes whom with the fewest transfers. Export a PDF for the group.
Sample trip budgets to inspire your planning
Not sure where to start? Browse these ready-made trip budgets for popular destinations — each one shows realistic expense breakdowns you can use as a baseline.
Paris Honeymoon
Paris, France
Tokyo Group Trip
Tokyo, Japan
Bali Backpacker
Bali, Indonesia
Cancun Family
Cancun, Mexico
Barcelona Couple
Barcelona, Spain
Prague Stag Do
Prague, Czech Republic
Browse all trip templates → or start fresh with your own numbers.
Looking for budget-focused planning? See our vacation planner guide → for a deep dive into estimating costs, staying within budget, and analyzing spending after the trip.
Trip Planner FAQ
What does a trip planner do?
A trip planner helps you organize all the key details of a trip before and during travel: your destination, dates, group of travelers, total budget, and individual expenses. Budget Rover's trip planner also tracks spending in real time, splits costs between travelers, and generates PDF reports.
Is Budget Rover's trip planner really free?
Yes, completely free. There is no paid tier, no subscription, and no account required. You can create unlimited trips, add unlimited expenses, and use every feature — expense splitting, charts, PDF export, QR sharing — at no cost.
Can I use this trip planner without internet?
Yes. Budget Rover is a Progressive Web App. After your first visit, the entire app is cached to your device by a Service Worker. You can add expenses, view charts, and check balances with no internet connection — on a plane, in a remote location, or anywhere offline.
Does this trip planner work for group trips?
Yes. Add all travelers to your trip, log each shared expense with who paid and who it's split between, and Budget Rover automatically calculates the minimum number of payments needed to settle everyone's balance.
How is Budget Rover different from other online trip planners?
Budget Rover is privacy-first: your data stays on your device and is never sent to a server. It works fully offline, requires no account, and is 100% free with no ads on the planning pages. The focus is on budget tracking and expense splitting, not booking flights or hotels.
Ready to plan your trip?
Free, offline, no account needed. Create a trip in under two minutes.
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