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.

Tulum

5 days · November–April

BeachWellnessPhoto

Best time

November–April

Currency

MXN

Language

Spanish

Time zone

GMT-6 · Central Time

Where ancient Mayan ruins meet the Caribbean. Days dissolve between cenotes and powder-white sand; nights find you at candlelit beach clubs under a tangle of stars.

What's waiting for you in Tulum

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

Cenotes & Crystal Pools

Dive into freshwater cenotes hidden in jungle limestone, cool and impossibly clear.

Ancient Mayan Ruins

Walk the cliffside ruins of Tulum at sunrise before the heat and the crowds arrive.

Boho Beach Clubs

Macramé hammocks, mezcal cocktails and DJ sets that drift into golden hour.

Yucatán Cuisine

Tacos al pastor, fresh ceviche and slow-cooked cochinita pibil from open-air kitchens.

Wellness & Yoga

Sunrise yoga on the sand, temazcal ceremonies and beachfront massages.

Cycling the Coast

Pedal the long ribbon of road between jungle and sea, the best way to see Tulum.

About this Tulum trip

Tulum sits on a thin strip of jungle pinned between the Caribbean and a network of flooded limestone caves. The town itself is dusty and walkable, full of taquerías and bike rental shops, while the beach road runs ten kilometers south past thatched hotels, sargassum-flecked sand, and the occasional crumbling Mayan watchtower. Five days is the right amount of time to do this place at the pace it actually wants: late breakfasts, long swims, an early dinner, repeat.

Mornings belong to the cenotes. Gran Cenote and Cenote Calavera sit just outside town and stay relatively quiet before ten. Drive forty minutes inland and you can swim through the cathedral-sized chamber at Cenote Zacil-Ha or follow guides into the cave systems at Dos Ojos. The Tulum Ruins themselves deserve an early start, ideally before eight, when the light is soft and the iguanas have the place to themselves. For a deeper nature day, head south to Sian Ka'an, where boat captains in Punta Allen run lagoon tours through mangrove tunnels and turtle grass flats.

Afternoons are for the beach and the spa. Playa Paraíso remains the public stretch with the cleanest sand. Hotel beach clubs like Mi Amor, Nomade, and Ziggy let day visitors buy in for a lounger and lunch. Wellness is a serious industry here: temazcal ceremonies at Yäan, sound baths at Sanará, and dawn yoga classes that end with fresh coconut water.

Stay in Aldea Zama for mid-range comfort and easy taxis, or book a boutique on the beach road if you want to wake up to surf. Eat tacos in town (Antojitos La Chiapaneca, El Camello Jr.) and save one big night for Hartwood or Arca. November through April is dry and warm; sargassum is least likely in winter. Rent a bike or scooter, carry pesos, and bring reef-safe sunscreen.

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