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.

5 Days in Singapore — Itinerary & Trip Plan

Best time

February–April

Currency

SGD

Language

English

Time zone

GMT+8 · Singapore Time

Five days in Singapore means hawker centers humming under fluorescent lights, the wet-leaf smell of rain on Supertree Grove, and laksa eaten before 10am. The city runs on humidity and precision in equal measure.

What's waiting for you in Singapore

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

Maxwell and Tiong Bahru Hawker Centers

Queue for Tian Tian chicken rice, then cross town for chwee kueh and kaya toast at Tiong Bahru Market.

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Gardens by the Bay and MacRitchie Reservoir

Pair the Cloud Forest dome with a morning walk on the MacRitchie TreeTop boardwalk to spot long-tailed macaques.

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Kampong Glam and Little India

Wander Haji Lane's textile shops and eat banana leaf thali on Race Course Road before sunset prayers at Sultan Mosque.

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Peranakan Katong

Photograph the pastel shophouses on Koon Seng Road and order katong laksa with a short spoon, no chopsticks.

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Marina Bay and the Civic District

Cross the Helix Bridge at dusk, then catch the Spectra light show from the ArtScience Museum waterfront.

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Singapore Botanic Gardens and Dempsey Hill

Spend a slow morning in the National Orchid Garden, then lunch at the converted army barracks of Dempsey.

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About this Singapore trip

Singapore is small enough to cross in an hour and dense enough to keep you busy for a week. Five days hits the sweet spot: time to eat your way through three or four hawker centers, see the headline architecture, and still find a quiet morning under rain trees in the Botanic Gardens. The city rewards a balanced pace because the heat does not. Locals plan around it, ducking into air-conditioned MRT stations and shaded five-foot-ways between bursts of outdoor walking.

Start in the colonial core around Marina Bay, where the Merlion, the National Gallery, and the louvered facade of the ArtScience Museum sit within a 20-minute walk. From there the city splinters into distinct neighborhoods worth a half-day each. Chinatown for bak kut teh and the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple. Kampong Glam for Malay-Arab heritage, perfume oils on Arab Street, and Sultan Mosque's golden dome. Little India for Tekka Centre's wet market upstairs and dosa downstairs. Katong and Joo Chiat, further east, hold the Peranakan shophouses and the original katong laksa rivalry between 328 and Marine Parade Laksa.

Nature is closer than visitors expect. The Botanic Gardens sit a short MRT ride from Orchard Road, and MacRitchie Reservoir's TreeTop Walk delivers a genuine rainforest canopy in 90 minutes. Pulau Ubin, reached by bumboat from Changi Point, gives you an afternoon of village Singapore with hornbills and old kampong houses.

Stay in Tanjong Pagar or Tiong Bahru for mid-range comfort and walkable food. Budget around SGD 200-300 a night for a solid hotel. Visit February through April for the driest stretch; pack an umbrella regardless. The MRT and EZ-Link card cover almost everything, and Grab fills the gaps after midnight.