Brunchie vs Wanderlog

Wanderlog is a collaborative trip planner: a shared map, a day-by-day itinerary you build together like a Google Doc, reservation imports from Gmail, and bill-splitting for the travelers on the trip.¹ It's strongest at the route — discovering places, ordering stops, and optimizing the drive, with offline maps when you lose signal. Brunchie runs a group trip as an event: it starts from the guest list — invites and RSVPs from a spreadsheet — then gives the group multiple multi-day itineraries on a pinned map, live spreadsheets and room/seating charts you edit together, shared checklists and packing lists, expenses with settle-up, a shared trip album, and day-of check-in, all in one room, free. The two tools overlap on the itinerary and the map; they diverge on everything around the people.

Quick comparison

Why groups choose Brunchie

1. It starts from the guest list. A group trip is a list of people before it's a list of stops. Drop in a spreadsheet, PDF, or screenshot and Brunchie reads the rows; everyone gets a no-download RSVP link. See Importing Data.
2. Itineraries on a pinned map — more than one. Run a shared "Day 1 / Day 2" schedule for the group, a host-only runbook, and a vendor view, all in the same trip, each multi-day and drag-to-reorder. Every stop with an address drops a numbered pin on the trip map next to your home base, colored per schedule. Import a plan from a CSV, Excel, PDF, Word doc, or a photo of a printed timeline. See Itinerary.
3. A plan the whole group edits at once. Live spreadsheets where typing syncs cell-by-cell with presence avatars (a budget tracker, a who's-bringing-what); drag-drop seating and room charts for sorting people into tables, cabins, or rooms; and shared checklists for packing lists and assignable to-dos. This is the "edit together in real time" half — beyond just the itinerary.
4. Expenses that settle up — next to everything else. Split the Airbnb, the gas, the group dinner, and track who owes whom, in the same room as the RSVPs and the itinerary — not a separate tab. See expense splitting.
5. A shared trip album, not a solo trip journal. Everyone on the trip drops photos, video, and voice memos into one group album with no caps — the remember half of the trip, built in.
6. Day-of actually happens. QR self-check-in, host-only itinerary notes, and polls for the "where are we eating tonight" decisions that come up on the road.
7. Free, with no Pro wall. The whole coordination layer — guest list, RSVPs, multi-itineraries, map pins, live spreadsheets, seating/room charts, expenses, trip album, day-of — is free; Wanderlog gates offline access, route optimization, and its AI behind a $39.99/yr Pro tier.³

The honest reason to switch

Brunchie and Wanderlog overlap more than they used to: both give you a collaborative, multi-day itinerary on a map you build with the group. Where Wanderlog stays ahead is the route — it optimizes the driving order, works offline when you lose signal, auto-scans your Gmail for flight and hotel confirmations, and layers an AI assistant on top (all on its $39.99/yr Pro tier).³ Brunchie maps your stops but won't reorder them for the shortest drive, and isn't an offline maps tool. Groups move to Brunchie when the trip is also an event: a long list of people to invite and RSVP, live spreadsheets and room/car assignments the group sorts out together, shared money to settle, an album everyone adds to, and a day-of plan — free. Many groups run both: a maps app for the drive, Brunchie for the people. The line is simple: Wanderlog optimizes the route; Brunchie runs the group.