Yes. Sorom is free to download, with day-by-day itineraries, safety tools, and ConneXions matching on the Free tier. Maya AI, live flight tracking, email import, and offline access are included on the paid plans — Monthly ($19.99/mo) and Annual ($89.99/yr). TripIt also has a free tier, with its advanced real-time alerts and trackers on TripIt Pro.

Sorom vs TripIt: The All-in-One Trip Planner (2026)

Q: Sorom vs TripIt: which is better for groups?

Sorom is built for groups. It has real-time collaborative trips with voting, so everyone edits and agrees on the same plan, plus shared budgets and expense splitting and personality-based companion matching if you are still looking for travel partners. TripIt is designed primarily around a single traveler's master itinerary, so shared, live group planning is where Sorom clearly leads.

The short version

TripIt earned its reputation on one brilliant idea: forward your booking confirmations and it stitches them into a single master itinerary, with flight status alerts — many of the real-time ones gated behind TripIt Pro — keeping you posted on gate changes and delays. For a lot of frequent flyers, that alone has made it a travel staple.

Sorom does both of those too. Email import auto-parses your forwarded confirmations into a day-by-day plan, and live flight tracking pushes gate and delay alerts. Then it keeps going: an agentic AI trip planner that builds and edits your itinerary, real-time group collaboration, budgets and expense splitting, place discovery, and a full safety and social layer. For most travelers, Sorom is effectively an all-in-one superset of what TripIt does.

Pick TripIt if…

You want the most battle-tested email-parsing engine and TripIt Pro extras like loyalty-point tracking, a seat tracker, and fare-refund monitoring for heavy, loyalty-driven business travel.

Pick Sorom if…

You want the master-itinerary and flight-alert basics plus an AI planner, live group collaboration, budgets, place discovery, and built-in safety — all in one app.

Side by Side

Sorom vs TripIt, feature by feature

Sorom vs TripIt (2026). "—" means not offered or not a core focus. "Pro" means available on TripIt's paid tier.
Feature	Sorom	TripIt
Master itinerary from forwarded emails	Yes	Yes
Auto email import & parsing	Yes	Yes
Day-by-day itinerary (8 item types)	Yes	Yes
Live flight tracking + gate/delay alerts	Yes	Yes (Pro for real-time)
Agentic AI trip planner (Maya)	Yes	—
Real-time collaborative trips + voting	Yes	—
Budget tracking + expense splitting	Yes	—
Place discovery (Google Places + hidden gems)	Yes	—
Packing lists	Yes	—
Shareable web itinerary + PDF/iCal export	Yes	Yes
Travel journal, memories & travel stamps	Yes	—
Loyalty-points tracking	—	Pro
Seat tracker	—	Pro
Fare-refund monitor	—	Pro
Safety suite (GPS check-ins, panic button, meetup PIN)	Yes	—
Personality-based companion matching	Yes	—
Free tier	Yes	Yes

Based on publicly available information as of 2026. Verify current details on each provider's listing.

Where TripIt still shines

We'd rather be honest than oversell, so here's where TripIt genuinely leads. Its confirmation-email parser has had well over a decade of refinement across thousands of airlines, hotels, and booking sites. If the single thing you care about is forwarding a confirmation and trusting it to land correctly every time, TripIt has a long head start, and its parsing remains among the most reliable in the category.

TripIt Pro also offers a handful of things Sorom does not do today: loyalty-point tracking across your frequent-flyer and hotel programs, a seat tracker that watches for better seats to open up, and a fare-refund monitor. Sorom has none of those, and we'd rather say so plainly than pretend otherwise. If your travel revolves around mile-maximizing and loyalty status, TripIt Pro earns its place.

Honest trade-offs

Sorom doesn't do automatic route optimization, in-app turn-by-turn navigation (it opens your external maps app), a continuous background GPS route trail, or TripIt Pro's loyalty and seat trackers. What it does instead is fold planning, budgets, discovery, collaboration, and safety into one place — so you're not stitching five apps together.

The verdict

Who should pick which

Choose TripIt (or TripIt Pro)

If you're a frequent solo business flyer who lives inside loyalty programs, wants the most battle-tested email parser, and leans on the seat tracker, point tracker, and fare-refund monitor, TripIt Pro is purpose-built for you. It does that narrow, loyalty-heavy job extremely well.

Choose Sorom

If you're planning an actual trip — a weekend away, a multi-city adventure, or a group getaway — Sorom gives you TripIt's master itinerary and flight alerts plus the planning, budgeting, discovery, collaboration, and safety that TripIt leaves to other apps. Maya, the agentic AI planner with 37 tools, builds and edits the plan for you; see exactly how on our AI trip planner page.

Because Sorom is a full travel app, the trip you plan is also protected by GPS check-ins, a panic button, and a meetup PIN — a real advantage if you travel solo and want a safety app. And when you'd rather not go alone, you can find travel companions matched to your personality, then plan the trip together in real time.

The bottom line

For most travelers, Sorom is the more complete choice — it covers what TripIt is famous for and does far more around it. TripIt remains excellent for a narrower, loyalty-driven use case. Still weighing options? See our roundup of the best trip planning apps of 2026.

FAQ

Sorom vs TripIt: common questions

Is Sorom a good TripIt alternative?

Yes. Sorom covers TripIt's two signature strengths — a master itinerary built from forwarded booking emails and live flight tracking with gate and delay alerts — then adds an AI trip planner, budgets and expense splitting, real-time group planning, place discovery, and safety tools. The main things Sorom doesn't replace are TripIt Pro's loyalty-point tracking, seat tracker, and fare-refund monitor.

Does Sorom import booking emails like TripIt?

Yes. Forward your flight, hotel, and reservation confirmations and Sorom's email import auto-parses them into your day-by-day itinerary — the same forward-and-forget workflow TripIt made popular. TripIt's parser has more years of refinement behind it, but in Sorom that imported plan feeds straight into Maya, budgets, and group collaboration.

Does Sorom track flights like TripIt?

Yes. Sorom includes live flight tracking with push alerts for gate changes and delays. TripIt offers similar flight status alerts, with the real-time versions gated behind TripIt Pro. Sorom's flight tracking is part of its paid plans and lives in the same app as your itinerary, budget, and safety tools.

Sorom vs TripIt: which is better for groups?

Sorom. It has real-time collaborative trips with voting, so everyone edits and agrees on the same plan, plus shared budgets, expense splitting, and personality-based companion matching. TripIt is designed primarily around a single traveler's master itinerary, so live group planning is where Sorom clearly leads.

Is Sorom free?

Yes. Sorom is free to download, with day-by-day itineraries, safety tools, and ConneXions matching on the Free tier. Maya AI, live flight tracking, email import, and offline access are on the paid plans — Monthly ($19.99/mo) and Annual ($89.99/yr). TripIt also has a free tier, with its advanced alerts and trackers on TripIt Pro.

Sorom vs TripIt