Alternative to TripIt = TripWaffle

tripwaffle said:
Certainly open to this concept, and its been pinned for follow-up. I thought it would be interesting to see the two side by side for the same trip, as a point of reference...

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Solid suggestion: let me research further.
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Looking at those side by side, I wonder whether moving the dep/arr times to the left sidebar like TripIt would enable you to move flight numbers up and generally make that view a little more compact. 🤷🏻‍♂️
 
Nowhere near a “frequent flier” nowadays as many on here, and Tripit does mostly what I what, but curiosity got the better of me and downloaded.

1. Feels very intuitive
2. Itineraries seem to load blindingly fast
3. Nice look and clean presentation, new colour scheme a lot better than browns
4. Agree with others format takes up way more real-estate than ideal even for simplest itinerary.
 
I have never used something like this before. Normally just keep it all in my head and refer to the email or airline MMB. As it was free and everyone here is raving about it I thought I would give it a go.

I am very impressed. I even added the bus ticket from my tiny little town and it populated with a picture of the main St.
 
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So I've been playing with TripWaffle for a few days now and so far it's great. Really good to see a decent alternative to TripIt.
I do have a couple of feature suggestions:
  • The cost of individual items is collected from the booking emails and listed, it'd be great if there was a "Total Trip Cost" displayed somewhere as well. I do know this might present currency conversion difficulties for international trips that have different bookings in different currencies.
  • The Android app (and I'm assuming iOS as well) doesn't work when offline. If I put my phone into Airplane Mode I'm unable to launch the app. I know internet access is pretty ubiquitous these days, but not every flight I'm on has free WiFi available, so the ability to use the app to check info while offline (even if it's read only) would be great.
  • Having widgets for the mobile apps, to display details of upcoming events and a countdown to them would be great as well. The TripIt ones are OK, but something like the widgets that byAir has would be great. I do know widgets on both Android and iOS can be somewhat difficult though.
 
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Got my first 'pre-trip brief' e-mail, for my next (short, domestic) trip in a few days. Transport, meal and activity suggestions (taking into things like arrival times, hotel locations). Usual AI type stuff but handy. Weather forecast, baggage rules, offer to print itinerary (just takes me to log-in page, and then to dashboard - would be good it it took me to the actual trip and the print button.

Good stuff.
 
SeaWolf said:
So I've been playing with TripWaffle for a few days now and so far it's great. Really good to see a decent alternative to TripIt.
I do have a couple of feature suggestions:
  • The cost of individual items is collected from the booking emails and listed, it'd be great if there was a "Total Trip Cost" displayed somewhere as well. I do know this might present currency conversion difficulties for international trips that have different bookings in different currencies.
  • The Android app (and I'm assuming iOS as well) doesn't work when offline. If I put my phone into Airplane Mode I'm unable to launch the app. I know internet access is pretty ubiquitous these days, but not every flight I'm on has free WiFi available, so the ability to use the app to check info while offline (even if it's read only) would be great.
  • Having widgets for the mobile apps, to display details of upcoming events and a countdown to them would be great as well. The TripIt ones are OK, but something like the widgets that byAir has would be great. I do know widgets on both Android and iOS can be somewhat difficult though.
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Hadn't notice the offline one, but that would be a big deal for me. Really need to be able to exist cached trips when offline.
 
SeaWolf said:
but not every flight I'm on has free WiFi available, so the ability to use the app to check info while offline (even if it's read only)
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Absolutely.
My TripIt app is go to when filling out customs forms and such.
Probably only needs to cache any current trip, not future/ past trips.
 
SeaWolf said:
The cost of individual items is collected from the booking emails and listed, it'd be great if there was a "Total Trip Cost" displayed somewhere as well. I do know this might present currency conversion difficulties for international trips that have different bookings in different currencies.
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Neat idea thanks. We can do the currency conversion pretty easily, as we we have that functionality for the exchange rate calculator widget already.
Looking at all the future trips we have stored:
  • 63% have some pricing data
  • of which 41% have pricing coverage for all their events
  • avg coverage: 66%
Which poses the risk of tripwaffle displaying an incomplete total price.
Any gaps in the price data is likely a result of the source emails not including it.
So separately, we may want to allow users to manually add/edit event prices?
All thoughts appreciated.

SeaWolf said:
The Android app (and I'm assuming iOS as well) doesn't work when offline. If I put my phone into Airplane Mode I'm unable to launch the app. I know internet access is pretty ubiquitous these days, but not every flight I'm on has free WiFi available, so the ability to use the app to check info while offline (even if it's read only) would be great.
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iOS currently has partial offline support. Next play store release should bring partial to Android also. Full offline support is a much larger project.

SeaWolf said:
Having widgets for the mobile apps, to display details of upcoming events and a countdown to them would be great as well. The TripIt ones are OK, but something like the widgets that byAir has would be great. I do know widgets on both Android and iOS can be somewhat difficult though.
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Thinking to display details for the next event in your itinerary?
 
RooFlyer said:
offer to print itinerary (just takes me to log-in page, and then to dashboard - would be good it it took me to the actual trip and the print button.
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Good catch thank you- ordinarily it does take users directly to the print page, however not being logged in throws a spanner in the works.
We'll implement a redirect-after-login logic tonight.
 
Hi all,

If you've got 5 minutes to spare, we sure would appreciate your opinion on what information the perfect trip itinerary should contain.
This will help inform our next design iteration via a bit more of an objective approach to the information hierarchy.
If there's interest, only too happy to share the results.

👉 TripWaffle Trip Timeline Priorities Survey

This will work on mobile, but probably a little more comfortable on desktop.

Really appreciate any/all input, thank you.

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I gave up on trip organisers a very, very long time ago. I probably should have known that only a matter of time would have honed the respective features to be more proficient, but I was content organising it all by myself, and not having to pay for a service to do so (especially if I had to go back in and heavily edit what had been autofilled).

I might actually give this system a go. Worth a try when it is free and (apparently) ad free.
 
anat0l said:
I gave up on trip organisers a very, very long time ago. I probably should have known that only a matter of time would have honed the respective features to be more proficient, but I was content organising it all by myself, and not having to pay for a service to do so (especially if I had to go back in and heavily edit what had been autofilled).

I might actually give this system a go. Worth a try when it is free and (apparently) ad free.
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Will trade: free trip organiser for honest feedback 😉
 
tripwaffle said:
Hi all,

If you've got 5 minutes to spare, we sure would appreciate your opinion on what information the perfect trip itinerary should contain.
This will help inform our next design iteration via a bit more of an objective approach to the information hierarchy.
If there's interest, only too happy to share the results.

👉 TripWaffle Trip Timeline Priorities Survey

This will work on mobile, but probably a little more comfortable on desktop.

Really appreciate any/all input, thank you.

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The link just takes me to the homepage and not the survey?
 
tripwaffle said:
Apologies- you need to be signed in on the website. I'll add a auto-redirect.
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That would be it, I have never used the website and won't be logging in (currently on work PC so while I can browse forums and the like, don't want to log in with personal details). Will likely take a look on my phone in due course
 
It's great to see the community offering feedback, but even greater that @tripwaffle is listening to us! not many software developers that we can say that about!

I see a common theme that the layout is not as condensed as it could be, so here's my suggestion, for each trip why not use the space in that first line? and only wrap if the user reduces screen width:

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Or perhaps even an option to select which elements are displayed from this list?
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