What is the best app to plan a trip with friends?

Junto is designed for how friends actually plan trips together. Most apps handle one piece (bookings, splitting costs, or solo itineraries), so the rest ends up scattered across WhatsApp, spreadsheets, and Splitwise. Junto puts AI itinerary generation, group voting, real-time editing, and expense splitting in one place.

Why use Junto instead of starting from scratch every trip?

Because trips don't really end when you fly home. Junto is built to be your travel hub over time, not a one-off planner you abandon after the trip. Every trip you plan, past, current, and upcoming, lives in one home, with its itinerary, bookings, expenses, and group decisions intact. That means you can look back at what you did in Lisbon two years ago when a friend asks for tips, see who still owes you from the ski trip, or reuse the structure of a trip that worked well as a starting point for the next one. The more you use it, the more useful it gets: your travel history, your favorite spots, the people you travel with, all in one place instead of scattered across chats, screenshots, and folders.

How does Junto use AI?

Junto's AI shows up across the trip, not just at the planning stage. You describe the trip in plain language, like 'four friends, Tokyo, late June, mid-range, foodie focus,' and Junto generates a full itinerary: days, activities, restaurants, accommodation, paced reasonably and grounded in real places. The real magic is everything after that. Snap a photo of a restaurant receipt and the AI reads the total, currency, date and line items, then splits it across the group. Forward a hotel confirmation email or screenshot a flight ticket and the AI pulls out the dates, locations and confirmation numbers and adds them to the trip automatically. It also surfaces visa and entry requirements per traveler, and adapts as plans change. Your group still drives the decisions; the AI handles the busywork so everyone stays on the same page without anyone playing trip secretary.

Why not just use ChatGPT to plan a trip?

ChatGPT is great for brainstorming, but it stops at a wall of text. Junto picks up where the suggestions end. Once you have an idea of what you want, Junto turns it into a structured trip your group can vote on, edit together in real time, and come back to as plans change. It also handles the parts a chat can't: splitting expenses from a photo of a receipt, parsing booking confirmations from a screenshot, and tracking entry requirements like visas. ChatGPT helps you brainstorm; Junto helps you actually run the trip together.

Can Junto split travel expenses?

Yes — and you don't have to type anything. Snap a photo of the receipt and Junto's AI reads the total, currency, date and line items, then splits it across the group. Add expenses as the trip happens, split by person or share, handle multiple currencies, and see who owes whom at any time. It lives next to the itinerary, so you're not switching between Junto, your camera roll and Splitwise.

Does Junto work for solo travelers too?

Yes, though Junto is built for groups first. Solo travelers use it for AI itinerary planning, saving bookings, and tracking entry requirements like visas and vaccinations. If you're planning alone with no chance of inviting anyone, Mindtrip or Wanderlog might be a closer fit. Junto's edge shows up the moment there's even one other person involved.

How is Junto different from TripIt, Wanderlog, or Splitwise?

Each of those does one piece well. TripIt organizes booking confirmations. Wanderlog focuses on solo itinerary building. Splitwise only handles cost splitting. Junto is built for the part those tools leave out: planning together. AI generates the trip, the group votes and edits in real time, expenses split alongside the plan, and bookings live in one place. It's the workspace, not the spreadsheet.

Is Junto a mobile app or a website?

Both. Native iOS and Android apps are coming soon. For now, Junto runs in any browser and installs to your home screen on phone or desktop, with every change syncing across devices in real time.

Barcelona

5 days · May–June

CityFoodCulture

Best time

May–June

Currency

EUR

Language

Spanish

Time zone

GMT+2 · Central European Time

Gaudí's curves against Mediterranean blue. Tapas crawls in the Gothic Quarter, late dinners by the sea, and the kind of city that makes you stay one more day.

What's waiting for you in Barcelona

Junto AI builds your full itinerary around your dates, your group and the way you like to travel.

Gaudí's Barcelona

Sagrada Familia, Park Güell and Casa Batlló, buildings that feel grown, not built.

Gothic Quarter Wandering

Narrow medieval streets, hidden plazas and the best vermouth bars in Spain.

Tapas & Pintxos

Standing-room-only bars, jamón ibérico and chefs slicing fresh anchovies in front of you.

Beach & Barceloneta

City-beach swims, paella by the water and sunset cocktails on the boardwalk.

Markets & Local Life

La Boqueria at opening time, neighborhood markets and the city's best slow lunches.

Nightlife in El Born

Cocktail dens, terrace bars and clubs that don't get going until well after midnight.

About this Barcelona trip

Barcelona sits between the Collserola hills and the Mediterranean, and you feel both within an hour of landing. The light is sharp, the pavement smells faintly of orange peel and tobacco, and the city's grid (Cerdà's nineteenth-century Eixample) makes it walkable in a way most European capitals aren't. Five days is the right length: enough to see the Gaudí landmarks, eat your way through three or four neighborhoods, and still take a slow Sunday in the Gothic Quarter without rushing.

Spend the first two days in the center. Start early at Sagrada Família, then drift down Passeig de Gràcia toward El Born for lunch at Bar del Pla or a long sit at Cal Pep's counter. The Picasso Museum and the Santa Maria del Mar basilica are five minutes apart. Reserve an evening for Palau de la Música Catalana, whose mosaic ceiling alone justifies the ticket. Day three belongs to Gràcia: smaller plazas, vermouth at Bodega Marín, and the climb up to Park Güell and the Bunkers del Carmel for sunset.

Save a day for the water. La Barceloneta still grills sardines on beachfront spits at Can Solé and El Vaso de Oro, and the Ciutadella park nearby is good for an afternoon off your feet. Day five, push into El Raval for MACBA, natural wine at Bar Salvatge, and dinner at Suculent before a late night around Plaça Reial.

Mid-range hotels in Eixample or El Born run 180 to 280 euros. Dinner starts at 9:30, clubs after 1. Avoid August (locals leave, heat is punishing); May, June, and late September are ideal. The metro is fast, but most of what you'll want is walkable.

One tool for the whole trip

From the first idea to settling up at the end, Junto handles the planning so you don't have to be the group's travel agent.

Junto AI trip builder on laptop showing a day-by-day itinerary with map and budget

A day-by-day plan, built around your group

Junto AI maps every day to your pace, dates and the people you're with, with venues, timings and a real route you can actually follow.

Junto trip dashboard showing trip overview, members, expenses and flight

Your whole trip on one screen

Dates, crew, flights, expenses and entry requirements all in one dashboard, so nothing falls through the cracks.

Junto expenses screen showing group balances

Settle up effortlessly

Track every shared expense and let Junto figure out who owes what. No spreadsheets, no awkward Venmos.

Junto group activity screen showing threaded comments and reactions on itinerary items

Decide together, in real time

Comments, reactions and decisions sit on the actual itinerary item: venue, day, address. No parallel group chat that drifts away from the plan.

And a whole lot more under the hood

Everything you need to plan, book and remember the trip, in one place.

Ideas board

Group polls

Bookings & docs

Receipt scanning

Map & route

Item comments

Entry requirements

Invite & share

Push reminders

Calendar export