AI Trip Planner App | Plan Smarter Trips with Maya AI

What is Maya AI?

Maya is Sorom's built-in AI trip planner — an AI travel advisor powered by OpenAI GPT-5 with 37 integrated tools. Instead of handing you a generic list to copy and paste elsewhere, Maya turns a plain-English request like "plan a relaxed 3-day trip to Barcelona with food tours and architecture" into a real, editable itinerary inside your trip.

She learns your style as you go. Maya tracks what you confirm and what you skip to understand your favorite activity types, your preferred pace, and your budget patterns — so her next suggestion fits you better than the last. And because she lives inside a full travel app, everything she plans connects to your flights, your saved places, your packing lists, and your travel companions.

Every change Maya proposes arrives as a preview card. You review it and confirm before anything touches your itinerary, so you're always in control of your own plan.

Not just a chatbot

A general AI chatbot can write you a paragraph about Lisbon. Maya adds Lisbon to your itinerary, flags when a day pushes past your budget, pulls the transit route to your hotel, and checks the weather for the afternoon you planned to be outside — all without leaving the chat.

How it works

How the AI trip planner works

From a single sentence to a confirmed, day-by-day plan in four steps.

Tell Maya what you want

Type or speak naturally — your destination, dates, vibe, and who's coming. You can even snap a photo of a menu, ticket, or landmark and Maya will read it and factor it into your plan.

Maya researches in real time

She searches places, restaurants, transit routes, and currency rates, and runs a live web search for events, festivals, visa rules, and travel advisories at your destination — then drafts a day-by-day itinerary that fits your style.

Review and confirm

Each suggestion appears as an action preview card. Add it, modify it, or skip it — nothing is saved to your trip until you say so, and Maya keeps an eye on your budget with green, yellow, and red indicators as the plan fills up.

Travel with it in your pocket

Your confirmed itinerary is available offline at your destination. Ask Maya to adjust on the fly, export or share the plan, or hand off to your group so everyone stays in sync.

Capabilities

What Maya can do

One chat, 37 integrated tools — here are the ones you'll reach for most.

Natural-language planning

Just tell Maya what you want. She searches places, builds itineraries, and suggests restaurants in your style — no forms, no menus.

Action preview cards

Maya proposes a change; you review and confirm before anything is added to your trip. You're always in control of the final plan.

Local knowledge & awareness

Maya knows your location, weather, transit options, currency rates, nearby services, and emergency info — like a local guide in your pocket.

Photo & voice input

Snap a photo of a menu, ticket, or landmark and Maya analyzes it and adds the details to your trip. Or speak naturally for hands-free planning.

Web search & live info

Maya searches the web for real-time events, festivals, visa requirements, and travel advisories at your destination, so plans reflect what's happening now.

Budget awareness

Track spending with green, yellow, and red budget indicators as you plan. Maya flags when a day is approaching your limit before you commit to it.

37 integrated tools

Search places, manage itineraries, suggest stays via Price Check, find restaurants, get transit routes, check exchange rates, and more — all from one chat.

Learns your preferences

Maya tracks what you confirm and skip to learn your activity types, timing preferences, and budget patterns — and proposes changes based on your trip phase.

AI Trip Builder

Build whole trips with the AI Trip Builder

Maya's chat is for shaping a trip as you go. The AI Trip Builder creates the whole thing in one pass: pick a mood board that matches the trip you're imagining, add your must-visit places, and get a complete day-by-day itinerary you can adjust in conversation. Every account includes 1 free generation, so you can build a real trip before you ever subscribe.

Start from a mood board

Choose the images that feel like your trip, name your must-visit places, and the Trip Builder turns them into a full day-by-day plan in minutes.

Multi-city trips

Plan several cities in one trip with per-city night counts. The Trip Builder inserts the inter-city transfers automatically, so travel days plan themselves.

Companions with compatibility scores

Invite fellow travelers from a companion picker that shows personality compatibility scores, so the group dynamic is part of the plan from day one.

Grounded in community-verified places

Generated items are checked against Sorom's community place database, with real coordinates and "Verified, N travelers have been here" chips on places the community already knows.

Refine in conversation

Tell Maya what to change and she proposes precise edits: you confirm each one before it touches your draft, so the plan is never rewritten behind your back.

AI planning, with safety built in

A great plan is only half of a great trip. Because Maya lives inside a full travel app rather than a standalone chatbot, the same trip you plan with AI is protected by Sorom's safety toolkit: GPS check-ins that alert your emergency contacts if you miss them, a panic button, a duress PIN, and a meetup PIN for verifying a fellow traveler in person.

That matters most when you're planning to explore somewhere new on your own. If you travel solo, see how Sorom pairs AI planning with real peace of mind on our solo travel safety app page.

And when you'd rather not go it alone, Maya's plans slot right into Sorom's community — you can find travel companions matched to your personality and travel style, then plan the trip together.

One app, the whole journey

Plan with Maya, track your flights, keep everyone in your group in sync, and stay protected by check-ins and verification — without stitching together five different apps. That's the difference between an AI trip planner and a travel app that happens to have one.

Weighing your options? See our roundup of the best trip planning apps in 2026, or the head-to-heads — Sorom vs TripIt and Sorom vs Wanderlog.

Plans & pricing

Where Maya AI fits in

The app is free to download, and every account gets a taste of Maya: a 10-message trial plus 1 free AI trip generation. Paid plans unlock daily messages. Here's how the tiers compare.

Free

Maya AI trial: 10 messages

Itineraries, all safety features, journals, Interesting Places, personality-based ConneXions matching, a Maya trial, and 1 free AI trip generation — a full travel app before you ever pay.

Monthly

$19.99 /mo

Maya AI · 20 messages / day

Everything in Free, plus Maya AI, flight tracking, offline itinerary access, Price Check reservations, Email Import, and Live map boost.

Annual

$89.99 /yr

Maya AI · 60 messages / day

Everything in Monthly, plus more Maya messages, SMS safety alerts, Medallion ID verification, and a verified-only ConneXions filter.

See full pricing

FAQ

AI trip planner: common questions

Is the AI trip planner free?

The Sorom app is free to download, and the Free tier includes itineraries, safety tools, ConneXions matching, a 10-message Maya AI trial, and 1 free AI Trip Builder generation with conversational refine on that draft. Paid plans unlock daily Maya messages: Monthly ($19.99/mo) gives you 20 Maya messages per day, and Annual ($89.99/yr) gives you 60 per day.

What can Maya AI do?

Maya is an AI travel advisor powered by OpenAI GPT-5 with 37 integrated tools. She builds day-by-day itineraries, suggests places and restaurants in your style, tracks your budget, checks transit routes and currency rates, pulls live weather and events with web search, analyzes photos of menus or tickets, and proposes every change as a preview card you confirm before anything is added to your trip.

Does the AI trip planner work offline?

Maya needs an internet connection to plan, search, and pull live information. Once she has built your itinerary, though, you can view it offline — offline itinerary access is included on the Monthly and Annual plans, so your day-by-day plan is available even without signal at your destination.

How is Maya different from ChatGPT for travel?

Maya is built into your trip. She knows your location, dates, budget, saved places, and travel style, and every suggestion becomes a real itinerary item you add with one tap. A general chatbot can hand you a text list, but it can't add to your plan, track your spending against a budget, verify travel companions, or run the flight tracking and safety tools that live in the same app.

How many messages do I get with Maya AI?

Monthly subscribers get 20 Maya messages per day, and Annual subscribers get 60 per day. The Free tier includes a 10-message lifetime Maya trial and 1 free AI Trip Builder generation, alongside itineraries, safety features, and personality-based traveler matching.

Is there a free AI trip planner in Sorom?

Yes. Every account gets 1 free AI Trip Builder generation plus a 10-message Maya trial, so you can plan a real trip before paying anything. Paid plans unlock unlimited generations and daily Maya messages: 20 per day on Monthly and 60 per day on Annual.

The AI trip planner that plans the whole journey