What's free, what you pay for
Building a trip costs nothing. Paying is what makes it last, and shareable.
There is no free tier and no trial. Those are different things, and the
difference matters. A trial is a countdown. This is simpler: you can build a whole trip —
every stop, every leg, the real map — without an account, a card, or an email address.
What you're paying for is an address that stays put for years and links you can hand to people.
Before you pay anything
- Build as much as you like. Unlimited stops, unlimited legs, as many crews
and as many versions of the same trip as you feel like sketching. Set dates, chain the legs,
watch the route draw along real roads. It all keeps while you work.
- No account to build one, no card, no email. Not asked for, not optional-but-nagged. Not collected.
- Ask can start it for you. Type “drive from Denver to Moab on the 4th” and it builds the legs — two turns per draft before you buy.
- Open the demo and click around a finished trip, no strings.
One limit, and it is about WHERE the trip lives rather than how much you can build:
until you buy, the draft is in this browser only. Open it on a second phone and you start again;
clear your data and it is gone. We hold no copy, because we never asked who you are. Buying moves
it somewhere it survives — and everything you already built comes with it.
What paying adds
| Before you pay |
After you pay |
| The draft lives in this browser. |
The trip gets its own address — thistripbtw.us/xvsbe4r — that nobody can guess. |
| Yours alone, on this device. |
Two word-phrase links: one that lets people edit, one that only lets them look. Anyone you send them to needs no account. |
| Yours to build on for as long as this browser keeps it. |
A life span you chose — one year on $2.50, five on $5, ten on $10. Roughly a dollar a year, paid once. |
| Stops, notes and the map — as many as you like. |
Photos pinned to the map, on $5. Video too, on $10. |
| Ask does two turns per draft, and won't look up flights. |
Ask keeps going with no per-trip limit, and can look up a real flight's scheduled times from its number. |
Flight lookups are the one genuinely scarce thing here — they're a metered service we
pay for per call, which is why they sit behind the purchase rather than in front of it.
What happens at the end
Fourteen days before a trip reaches its end date, the address that bought it gets the whole
thing by email as a zip — the itinerary as a page that opens with no internet, the data
behind it, and the map files. The full download with your photos stays available until the
last day. One payment from that email extends the trip at the same address; nothing else
changes.
And if this service ever shuts down, every live trip is sent to its buyer the same
way, first, before anything is switched off. That's a script we keep ready, not a
sentiment — a trip you paid for shouldn't depend on us still being here.
Why the free part is free
Because a planner you can't try is a planner nobody tries. Asking for a card before you
know whether the thing works is how you end up with a signup funnel instead of a product.
And because there's nothing to harvest. A free tier normally has to earn its keep some
other way — ads, data, an upsell that follows you around. We take a few dollars once,
so the free part can just be free.
The account is made for you, and it comes after
Buying never sends you through a signup form — you never fill in one to buy
something. Afterwards, we make you an account from the email Stripe already has for your
receipt, so your trips are findable later. Setting a password is optional: without one,
we'll email you a link to set one whenever you need it. Your trip links keep working either
way — they never needed an account.
An account holds three things: your email, your password scrambled one way so nobody can read it back, and the list
of your trips. That's it — no name, no profile, nothing about what you did.
Worth knowing either way: opening a trip still asks for its phrase, and
we only ever stored a one-way hash of that. So an account remembers which trips are
yours, not how to get into them. Keep the edit link somewhere you'll find it.
The people you share a trip with don't need an account at all. The link is the key.