The Triptych ✓Three Panel : Group Travel
Real-time group travel collaboration without the upsells.
Propose activities, stays, transport options: vote in or out, visualise your trip in the shared calendar, and split real costs at the end. Your trip, your decisions, and only your own costs.
Planning a trip with friends today
- A 200-message thread where every decision scrolls away.
- A spreadsheet one person maintains and nobody else opens.
- "Are you coming to the boat thing?" asked six separate times.
- Someone paying for things they never went to.
Planning it with Triptych
- Every idea is a proposal you can be in or out of.
- The calendar shows what's on, what's still an idea, and what clashes.
- Who's in for each item decides who pays for it.
- Four people paying in three currencies, and still one settle-up.
Joining and paying are parts of the same loop
Poll apps stop at the decision and expense apps start after the money's gone. The Triptych connects them, making sure those who participate also pay for the privilege.
Boat trip, Ha Long Bay
Thu 12th · 09:00–17:00 · £48 pp
Cooking class
Thu 12th · 18:00 · unconfirmed
1. Propose, and say who's in
Anyone can put an idea up with dates, a place and an expected cost. No majority rules — if you want in, you're in, and you can change your mind while voting is open.
Solid = confirmed · dashed = someone's idea · red = it clashes with what you're already in for
2. See the trip take shape
A shared calendar and personal timeline show what's confirmed, what's still someone's idea, and where a new plan would clash — before anyone commits.
Any currency in, one trip currency out — charged only to the people who were in.
3. Settle real costs, in any currency
Record what you actually paid in the currency you actually paid in — euros, krone, anything — and it's converted to the trip currency at the day's rate. Recorded costs and ad hoc Occasional Spends roll into one debt engine, so there's no separate expense app and the settle-up is a short list of who pays whom.
How it works
Three panels. One trip. The whole group.
Set up a Trip
Anyone can start planning a trip. Give it a name, decide on the dates, and start to invite friends. They get an email invite and can join your trip.
Propose & Discuss
Anyone in the group puts ideas up — dates, places, expected costs, extra details, voting window options. Discuss each idea in a dedicated thread.
Vote & Record Costs
Decide if you're 'in' or 'out' for each idea. No majority rules — you want 'in', you're in. If it's not your thing just opt out. Always visible to the group — no backroom decisions, no surprises. At the end of the trip you pay for what you join in with, not the group average.
Timeline & Calendar views
See a calendar for the whole group and a timeline for what you're involved in — plus what others are doing without you. If you want to join them later, no problem. Just opt in at any time until the event ends. Decided against it after all? No problem, just back out any time before the event starts.
You pay once per trip, so we've nothing to sell you
Everyone on a trip spends one credit for a trip of up to two weeks — from £1 a head. No subscription, no commission, no booking markup, and no partner inventory being nudged at your group. Free travel planners are free because the upsell is the full product. With Triptych each trip credit accesses the full product, whenever you use it.
Starter — 3 credits
£4.50
3 credits · £1.50 each
Excludes tax — about £5.40 with 20% UK VAT.
Pack — 5 credits
£6.25
5 credits · £1.25 each
Excludes tax — about £7.50 with 20% UK VAT.
Group — 12 credits
£12
12 credits · £1 each
Excludes tax — about £14.40 with 20% UK VAT.
14 days to change your mind on an unused purchase, and any credit still unused after 12 months is refunded automatically at what you paid for it.
The questions people actually ask
What does a credit actually buy?
One person's seat on one trip. A trip of up to 14 days costs one credit per member; longer trips cost a little more. Credits aren't tied to a date — spend them when the trip is real.
What if the trip falls through?
Leave before the roster locks and your credit comes back. Purchases are refundable for 14 days while unused, and unused credits are auto-refunded at 12 months.
What happens to my data?
Your group's trip data is yours. We don't sell it and we don't broker it to travel partners.
Do you take a cut of what we book?
No. There's no affiliate revenue, no commission and no markup anywhere in the app. Credits are the only thing we're paid for.
More detail in Trust & Security and the Privacy Policy.
Also handled
The boring-but-essential bits, so you don't have to think about them.
Roster lock
Membership freezes when the trip starts, so the splits can't shift underneath you.
ICE essentials
Flights, insurance and emergency contacts where the group can find them.
Progressive Web App
Add it to your home screen, no downloads, seamless updates, and offline access.
Lifecycle archiving
Finished trips move to the archive, with a summary export you can keep.
One person sets it up. Everyone else just taps a link.
So do we all need to download another app? …
No. With Triptych downloading is optional, no set up, no need to learn a workflow.
Just opt to sponsor one-off credits for each friend on the trip. The micro debt rolls into the individual trip debt settlement and costs about half a cup of coffee. Easy.
You start the trip
Name it, set the dates, and you're done with setup. That's the whole organiser job.
They tap your invite
An invite link drops your group straight into the trip. They just confirm who they are and get involved … nothing to configure.
They plan the next one
Anyone who's been on a trip already knows how it works, so the next organiser doesn't have to be you.
Been invited to a trip? Open the link you were sent — you don't need to buy anything to join.
Before you decide
Honest write-ups, including the parts other tools do better.
Group travel apps compared
Itinerary planners, expense splitters, polls and spreadsheets — what each is good at, and the seam between them.
Read more →Planning a group trip
A six-step method for organising a trip without becoming the group's unpaid administrator.
Read more →Splitting the costs fairly
Why even splits fail, how to split per activity, and what to do about foreign currency spends.
Read more →Plan your next trip together.
Try it in a sandbox trip first — no card needed.