The Triptych ✓Three Panel : Group Travel
- Real-time group travel plan and collaboration.
- Group trips, your decisions, just your own costs.
- One person sets up, everyone else taps a link.
- Always the full product, whenever you use it.
- Try the app live in our pre-populated Sandbox.
- No subscriptions. No commissions. No 'pro' feature paywalls.
- Pay when you use. Low price trip credits. Unused credits refunded.
Free account · No app store download · No credit card required
Relief! The group has finally fixed the 'when are we all free' bit. Next comes the 'how shall we spend this time' bit … always more difficult and rarely unanimous.
Group trips involve different personalities with different ideas. Which is a great thing, but often an issue.
The Triptych is designed specifically to help manage this process as smoothly and as fairly as possible, with features geared to overcome one of the main obstacles every group faces — different people, different ideas, different choices and different costs.
What's in a Triptych trip?
- Every idea: a Proposal you can be 'In' or 'Out' of.
- Participation means payment: opting 'In' automatically allocates the proposal costs.
- Accommodation part-stays managed: only pay the nights you stay.
- Occasional spends: ad hoc split payments, so you pay for what you consume, not the group average.
- A shared Calendar: what's on, who's going, what clashes, and what's still an idea.
- Interactive Trip Map: visualise the whole trip, pinpoint proposals, who's in, shift locations where needed.
- Easy settle up: 12 people, paid in 4 currencies, one Trip Summary PDF, everything you need.
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.
Pre-Trip
Plan, propose, discuss, and manage
With everyone now on the same page, members key in a few details and a proposal takes shape.
Check the group Calendar to see when your idea could slot in. Submit dates, places, expected costs, helpful extra details, voting window options, and a few reasons to do it.
Automatic pre-submission flags for who's busy elsewhere so you know who's available.
Members get notified of new proposals and each one is visible on the Ledger, Calendar and Trip Map.
Discuss in the dedicated proposal thread — if you want in, you're in. Change your mind anytime while the voting is open.
Transparent voting, no majority rule forcing payment from non-attendees. Always visible to the group, so no backroom decisions or surprises.
At the end of the trip you pay for what you join in with, not the group average.
Vote and visualise your trip on the Timeline, Calendar, and Trip Map
A shared Calendar and Timeline shows the group what's confirmed, what's still just an idea, and where a new plan would clash. See your trip evolve in real time.
And the Trip Map shows where you've been, where you're going next and how to get there. Add, update, manage proposals and plans in-trip.
Update locations and flag them on the move, so everyone knows if that 'relaxed and friendly restaurant' isn't quite what it seemed.
In-Trip
Joining and paying are parts of the same loop
The problem laid bare: poll apps stop at the decision and expense apps start after the money's gone.
The Triptych overcomes this problem by connecting the two and making sure those who participate also pay for the privilege.
So your vote is always your share and only your share.
Two-way flexibility built in for real-world trips
Split accommodation spends
Lets you vote 'part-in' for the times that work best.
A group villa rental for 7 nights but you can only stay some nights? No problem — your stay, your choice.
Part stay = part pay.
Group members can choose their own check-in and check-out dates. The cost divides by real guest-nights, so nobody subsidises nights they weren't there for.
You only stay 3 nights, so you only pay for 3 nights
Villa Sunflower · Marcus · 3 nights · £180 · Sarah · 7 nights · £420
Split occasional spends
The ad hoc running tab for taxis, coffees, sun loungers and food stops that never needed a proposal. You pay based on what you use or consume — not the share average.
Everything available in multi-currency
Pay in the local currency, with automatic conversion to the trip base currency at the day's exchange rate.
The Triptych genuinely keeps participation synced to payments and debts.
Confirm the costs and manage the money
The expected costs from the proposal land automatically in the Debts Ledger based on your vote. All you need to do is confirm what you actually paid in the currency you paid in. It's converted to the trip currency at the day's rate.
Recorded costs and ad hoc Spends both roll into the single trip debt engine, so there's no need for a separate expenses app and the settle-up is a short list of who pays whom.
Post-Trip
Finalise the Debts and look back on the memories
Trip Summary — a one-click downloaded PDF generated anytime. The up-to-the-minute trip snapshot containing the full group itinerary, maps, itemised spends and a final simplified trip debts ledger.
Serves as a handy 'on trip back up', a nice memory of how stress-free trip planning can be, and a clear and concise 'settle-up' of who owes whom at the end of the trip.
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.
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.
Organisers can sponsor one-off credits for friends — the micro debt rolls into the individual trip debt settlement and costs about half a cup of coffee. Easy.
Been invited to a trip? Open the link you were sent — you don't need to buy anything to join if the trip owner Sponsors or Gifts your joining.
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.
With The Triptych each trip credit accesses the full product, whenever you use it.
Free travel planners are free because the upsell is either the 'full product' or sales commissions.
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.
Also handles the other 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.
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.
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 with The Triptych.
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