The group trip planner that splits the expenses too.
Plan group trips without being the travel agent. GroupCation replaces Splitwise, TripIt, and the group-chat chaos with one shared board — the itinerary, the people, and the money. Built for the friend who always ends up doing all the work.
If this is you, we built this for you.
Group trips don't fall apart because people don't want to go. They fall apart because one person is doing five people's jobs.
You're the one paying for everything
Front the Airbnb, front the ferry, front the dinner. Then chase everyone for weeks.
Nobody knows the plan
Group chat has 400 unread messages. The itinerary is in your head. You get asked "what time tomorrow?" fifteen times.
Splitwise, TripIt, Notion, group chat
Four apps, still doing it manually. And good luck getting your parents or kids onto any of them.
Everything a group trip actually needs.
Native iPhone, built for how real groups plan — not a spreadsheet with a logo.
A shared itinerary everyone can see
Flights, hotels, reservations, activities — grouped by day with confirmation numbers attached. One source of truth for the whole group, no more screenshot relay.
Expense splits that actually work
Equal, exact, percentage, shares, weighted — and household mode where kids count as half. Penny-exact, validated at entry. The full story: a trip planner with expense splitting built in.
Settle up and actually get paid
One tap collapses a week of IOUs into the fewest transfers. Each becomes a payment request with a due date and your Venmo, PayPal, Cash App, or Zelle link.
Import from anywhere
Forward a confirmation email to your trip's private address. Paste a booking link. Share from Safari. Even paste your Splitwise CSV and your ledger comes with you.
Guest links — no app needed
Parents, sitters, and Android friends follow the live plan through a read-only web link. They see the itinerary, never the money.
Take it with you
Export the whole trip to Apple, Google, or Outlook calendar. A home-screen countdown widget, iMessage trip cards, and share cards keep the group chat hyped.
One board. The whole trip.
Plans, people, and money — glanceable, shared, and settled.
How it works
Under 90 seconds from "hey we should plan a trip" to "everyone knows what's happening."
Create the trip
Name, dates, destinations, currency. Pick who's organizer.
Invite the crew
One link in the group chat. Roles decide who can edit, who can see, who gets nudged. Everyone joins free.
Import & split
Forward confirmations, paste booking links, log expenses as they happen. Settlement math is automatic.
Go on the trip
The board keeps everyone in sync — and guest links cover anyone not on iPhone. Settle up in one tap at the end.
Guides for the person planning the trip
Real answers to the questions every organizer googles — the fair split math, the polite way to collect, and how to keep ten people on one plan.
Browse all guides → · Free trip cost calculator · Free planning template
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Coming soon to the App StoreFrequently asked questions
What is the best app to plan a group trip and split expenses in one place?
Most groups stitch together a planning app plus Splitwise. GroupCation puts the shared day-by-day itinerary, the traveler roster, and a full expense ledger with settle-up on one trip board, so the plans and the money live together — and everyone you invite joins free. Learn more →
What is the best way to collect money for a group trip?
Log expenses as they happen, let the app compute the fewest transfers that square everyone up, then send each person a payment request with a due date and your Venmo, PayPal, Cash App, or Zelle link attached — the app does the asking. Learn more →
Can I import my Splitwise expenses into another app?
Yes — export your Splitwise group as a spreadsheet, paste the CSV into GroupCation, and it matches names to travelers and reconstructs each expense's payer and exact per-person shares, with a preview of anything skipped before it commits. Learn more →
How do I share a trip itinerary with someone who doesn't have the app?
Send a guest link: a read-only web page with the dates, stays, and day-by-day schedule that opens in any browser — no download, no account. Expenses and payment requests are deliberately excluded, so guests see the plan, never the money. Learn more →
Does GroupCation work if some of my group is on Android?
Planning happens on iPhone today, but every trip can be shared as a guest web link that Android friends and family open in a browser to follow the full itinerary — the whole group never needs the app for the plan to reach them. Learn more →
What is the fairest way to split an Airbnb with a group?
It depends on rooms, nights, and who brought kids — which is why GroupCation supports equal, exact-amount, percentage, share-based, and household-weighted splits (adults 1, kids 0.5), always penny-exact against the bill. Learn more →
Is there a TripIt alternative that works for group trips?
GroupCation keeps the forward-an-email habit — every trip gets a private forwarding address that parses major hotel and airline confirmations into the itinerary — and adds what TripIt lacks: one shared plan for the whole group, with roles, invites, and the money handled. Learn more →
How do you keep track of who paid for what on a group vacation?
Log each expense with a payer and participants the moment it happens; the trip shows every person's paid, owed, and net position in real time, and one tap produces the minimal settle-up plan — no end-of-trip spreadsheet session. Learn more →
How do you split vacation costs fairly when families bring kids?
Group travelers into households and use the household-weighted split: adults count as 1, children as 0.5, so a couple with two kids isn't billed like four adults. Exact and percentage splits are there when a different arrangement is fairer. Learn more →
How do I get friends to pay their share after a trip?
Make the request come from the ledger, not from you: the settle-up plan becomes payment requests with due dates and attached payment links, backed by a shared ledger everyone watched all trip — so the number is never a surprise. Learn more →
Is GroupCation free?
Your first trip is free — unlimited travelers, uncapped expense logging, settle-up math, and guest links included, and everyone you invite always joins free. Power features come with Pro at $39.99/yr or a one-time $9.99 Trip Pass for a single trip. Learn more →
How far in advance should you plan a group trip?
For groups of five or more, start six to twelve months out: lock dates first, then lodging, then the day-by-day plan. Flights and group lodging price best early, and big groups need runway to agree on dates. Learn more →