The Triptych ✓Three Panel : Group Travel
Real-time group travel collaboration without the upsells.
Your trip, your decisions, and just your own costs.
One person sets it up. Everyone else just taps a link.
Always the full product whenever you use it. No paywalls for 'extra features'.
If planning a trip with friends today means —
- 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 times.
- Someone paying for things they never went to.
- No clear route to settle various spends in trip.
Start co-planning with them in The Triptych ...
- Every idea - a Proposal you can be 'in' or 'out' of.
- A shared Calendar - what's on, who's going, what clashes, and what's still an idea.
- Interactive Map - visualise the whole trip and pinpoint proposal locations.
- Participation means payment - opting 'in' automatically allocates the proposal costs.
- 12 people, paid in 4 currencies - one settle up with a Trip Summary PDF.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
See it in action
Short, silent clips recorded in the sandbox trip. Nothing loads until you press play.
Put an idea up, pin included
A new proposal with dates, an expected cost and a map pin for where it actually is.
Voting is cost allocation
Opting in allocates that cost to you. Opting out means you never see it on your bill.
Occasional spends
The running tab for the coffees and taxis that never needed a proposal.
Ledger to calendar
Jump from an entry in the ledger straight to where it sits in the shared calendar.
Vote, switch, timeline
Change your mind while voting is open and watch your personal timeline update.
Sandbox identity switching
Try the sandbox as each member in turn to see exactly what everyone else sees.
Multi-currency conversion
Enter a cost in the currency you actually paid in; it converts at the day's rate.
Trip dossier download
One PDF with the itinerary, maps, costs and who owes whom at the end of the trip.
The sandbox tour
A one-minute run through the whole sandbox trip, end to end.
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.
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 if the trip owner Sponsors or Gifts your joining.
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.