What replaced Google Trips, and who does its jobs now

Nothing replaced it as one app. Google closed Google Trips on August 5, 2019, and moved its parts into Search and Maps. Today TripIt or KAYAK Trips collect your bookings, Wanderlog lets you build the days by hand, and Highlights, our app, writes them for you.

Seven years on, people are still looking for it

In the US, "google trips app" still gets about 1,600 searches a month, more than seven years after the app closed. Plain "google trips" gets 9,900. Those are Google Ads figures, pulled through DataForSEO on November 10, 2026.

We doubt that's nostalgia. We think most of those people have a trip coming up and remember opening an app to find it already assembled. That was the clever part. Google had your confirmation emails, so you never set anything up, and no company outside Google starts with that advantage.

Our own app, Highlights, does the planning half of what Google Trips did. It writes day plans, turns a pasted Google Maps list of saved places into days, and keeps the whole trip on your phone for when there's no signal. It doesn't do the Gmail half. It doesn't read confirmation emails, you can't forward them to it, and it won't warn you about a gate change, so your flight and hotel numbers stay in your inbox or in one of the apps below.

What happened to it, in order

Google launched Trips, a phone app that gathered your bookings and planned your days, for Android and iOS on September 19, 2016, and shut it down on August 5, 2019, as Engadget reported that day. Its help page from the time, saved by the Internet Archive, sent people to Search and Maps.

There's a second chapter that's easy to miss. The page at google.com/travel that collected your reservations didn't last either. Google ended it on May 1, 2023. "This year, we said bon voyage to the trip summary feature on google.com/travel," the company told Skift, adding that reservations in Gmail would keep appearing on Google Calendar.

On November 10, 2026, we opened google.com/travel/trips signed out and landed on Google Flights, with no Trips in the menu. We can't see what a signed-in account gets.

Collecting your bookings from Gmail

This was the app's best trick. Google promised at launch that "all your travel reservations are automatically gathered from Gmail and organized for you into individual trips."

Google still does some of this, in pieces. Signed in at google.com, searching "my flights" or "my reservations" brings them up from Gmail. Google Maps can show upcoming flights and reservations if personalization is on, and Google Calendar adds flights and hotels. We couldn't find one Google page that puts a whole trip together. "Saved trips" in the Maps app won't help, because those are your frequent routes, with arrival times and traffic.

Among outside apps, TripIt comes closest. You forward confirmations to plans@tripit.com, or connect Gmail with Inbox Sync and they arrive by themselves within about a day. Inbox Sync isn't among the features TripIt lists under Pro, the $49-a-year plan with real-time flight alerts. Connecting an inbox lets TripIt scan it for travel emails, and if that bothers you, forwarding gets the same itinerary.

KAYAK Trips is free, and you forward bookings to trips@kayak.com. KAYAK's help page says that as of September 2026 forwarding is the only way to automate it, so older advice to connect Gmail no longer applies, though its App Store listing still mentions syncing an inbox. Wanderlog takes forwarded confirmations on its free plan and scans Gmail on Pro, from $39.99 a year. Tripsy, for Apple devices, puts forwarding in Pro, at $59 a year or $299 once.

Building the days and keeping your places

Google's day plans were a different idea. For the top 200 cities it "automatically assembled the most popular sights, attractions, and local gems into a full day's tour", based on where earlier visitors had gone. You could also pin something you'd heard about, like the Sagrada Familia, and build around it.

Inside Google, the nearest thing now is Canvas in AI Mode, which can "make a trip itinerary" for people in the US, in English. The places you used to save can go in Google Maps lists or a custom map in My Maps, but a map of forty pins won't tell you what comes after lunch on day three.

If you liked the pinning, try Wanderlog. You add places to days on a map, drag them into order and plan with friends in real time, all free.

This is the job Highlights is for. Write one sentence, "three days in Barcelona in May, Sagrada Familia first", or paste a Google Maps list, and Sally, the balloon guide inside the app, builds each day from real places with opening hours, in an order that doesn't cross town twice, with the walk between stops on a map. Google's plans showed where other visitors went. Sally's are written for your dates and the people coming. Planning is free. If you'd rather place every pin yourself, use Wanderlog.

Opening it with no signal

Google Trips put a Download button under each trip, and the company said "the entire app is available offline." Google Maps can still download an area, except in some countries, but that gives you the streets and not your plan.

TripIt's App Store listing says you can find your details "even when you're offline". KAYAK's says bookings loaded into Trips are there with or without Wi-Fi. Highlights saves every trip you own or join to your phone, photos included, in its iPhone and Android apps.

Wanderlog is the odd one. Its Pro page lists offline access as paid, while its App Store listing says plans are stored offline automatically. We went through that disagreement on our page about Wanderlog's free plan.

Which app does which job

App	Bookings from email	Day plans	With no signal	Price
Google (Search, Maps, Calendar)	Reads Gmail, shown in pieces	Canvas in AI Mode, US only	Map areas you download	No charge shown
TripIt	Forward, or connect Gmail	No	Yes	Free; Pro $49 a year
KAYAK Trips	Forward only	You add activities by hand	Yes	Free
Wanderlog	Forward free; Gmail scanning in Pro	You build them on a map	Its own pages disagree	Free; Pro from $39.99 a year
Tripsy (Apple devices)	Forwarding in Pro	You add activities	Yes	Free; Pro $59 a year or $299 once
Highlights ours	No	Written for you, on a map	Yes, in the apps	Free; Pro $4.99 a month

What people still ask about it

Does the Google Trips app still work?

No. Google shut it down on August 5, 2019. Of the 75 apps Google lists on Apple's App Store today, none is called Trips or Travel.

Does the Google Travel app still exist?

Google Travel is a website. We found no app by that name from Google on the App Store or in a Google Play search.

How do I see Google Trips?

Google ended the one-page view in 2023. Sign in at google.com and search "my flights" or "my reservations", or look for Reservations under the You tab in the Google Maps app.

Does Google have a trip planning app?

Not a dedicated one. Canvas in AI Mode can make a trip itinerary in the US, and Google's Gemini site calls Gemini an AI trip planner.

Don't wait for Google

If you want one app and you'll pay for it, we'd choose Wanderlog Pro, the only app here that scans Gmail and also lays your days out on a map. If you'd rather pay nothing and don't mind forwarding each confirmation, Wanderlog's free plan does both jobs. We'd only run two apps if you want the days written for you, with TripIt or KAYAK Trips holding the bookings and Highlights doing the writing. That last suggestion is where our bias shows.

Whichever you choose, we wouldn't hold out for Google. It has had seven years, and the last time it had one page holding your whole trip, it took the page down.

Write your trip in one sentence

We read Google's help pages and each app's own site or US App Store listing on November 10, 2026, without signing in, and none of the other apps paid to be here. Highlights can earn a commission when someone books through a link inside its app. Our main comparison covers nine travel planning apps, if none of these fits.