Review: TripIt — Manage Flights, Hotels, and Other Travel on Your iPhone and iPad
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The other day I was talking to a group of attoneys about some of the most useful apps on my iPhone and I mentioned TripIt. Soon thereafter, I realized that I’ve never posted a review of TripIt on iPhone J.D. This review is long overdue because TripIt has long been one of my favorite apps on my iPhone. The TripIt app is free (as noted below there is also a $0.99 version) but to use it you need to sign up for an account. The TripIt website offers both a free account and a $49/year TripIt Pro account. I use the free account, and the free account is all that you need to use almost all of the features in the iPhone app. The Pro account offers flight status alerts — and as noted below, I have another recommendation for that — and other tools and services such as finding alternate flights.
Once you create a TripIt account on the website, TripIt knows your email address. This is critical because whenever you make travel plans with an airline, hotel, car rental service, etc. and the vendor sends you an email with your travel details and confirmation number, you simply forward that email to plans@tripit.com. TripIt knows how to understand all of those emails and automatically puts together a travel itinerary. (TripIt understands emails from over 200 airlines, over 200 hotels, over 60 rental car companies — just about every service you are likely to use.) It also understands that when travel occurs at the same time that it should organize trips. Thus, if you forward an email with plane travel on the 1st and the 4th, a hotel during those same dates, and a car rental during those same dates, TripIt automatically puts it all together into one trip.
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