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.

Tokyo

10 days · March–May

CityFoodCulture

Best time

March–May

Currency

JPY

Language

Japanese

Time zone

GMT+9 · Japan Standard Time

A city of paradoxes, neon-soaked crossings and quiet shrines, vending-machine ramen and three-Michelin-star sushi. Ten days here is barely enough.

What's waiting for you in Tokyo

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

Neon Nights in Shibuya

The world's busiest crossing, izakayas tucked into back-alleys and karaoke until sunrise.

Shrines & Quiet Gardens

Meiji Jingu, Senso-ji and the small neighborhood shrines that hide between skyscrapers.

The Best Food on Earth

Counter sushi, hand-pulled ramen, conveyor-belt curiosities and convenience-store classics.

Harajuku & Style

Vintage boutiques, cult sneaker drops and the most-photographed street fashion in the world.

Day Trip to Hakone

Onsen, ryokan stays and a clear-day glimpse of Mt. Fuji from the lakeside.

TeamLab & Modern Art

Immersive digital worlds, contemporary galleries and the Mori at the top of Roppongi Hills.

About this Tokyo trip

Tokyo at ten days lets you stop sprinting. You can spend a morning watching octogenarian sushi chefs at Tsukiji's outer stalls, take the afternoon off in a Daikanyama bookstore, and still have time for an hour-long ramen queue in Shinjuku that night. The city rewards repetition: returning to the same neighborhood at a different hour reveals an entirely different place. Shibuya at 8 a.m. is salarymen and convenience-store coffee. Shibuya at 11 p.m. is the Scramble in full chaos and standing bars filling up along Nonbei Yokocho.

Build the trip in halves. Spend the first five days inside the JR Yamanote loop: Senso-ji and the knife shops on Kappabashi-dori, Meiji Jingu's gravel paths, the teamLab Planets installation in Toyosu, izakaya crawls through Ebisu Yokocho. Anchor one evening in Golden Gai, where each tiny bar has its own rules and regulars. Use the second half for slower districts. Yanaka and Nezu hold the prewar wooden Tokyo most travelers miss. Shimokitazawa runs on vintage shops and live houses. A day trip to Kamakura's Great Buddha or an afternoon at the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka breaks up the density.

Eat widely. Tonkatsu in Tonki, hand-pulled soba in Kanda, monjayaki in Tsukishima, conveyor sushi in any neighborhood you happen to be tired in. Department-store basements (depachika) at Isetan and Takashimaya solve lunch on travel days.

Mid-range lodging works best in Shinjuku, Ginza, or Asakusa, where business hotels run 15,000–25,000 yen a night with tiny but flawless rooms. Get a Suica card on arrival. Aim for late March cherry blossoms or early November ginkgo gold; avoid August humidity if you can.

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