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Group trip planner

Plan a group trip on one shared itinerary

Treader is a free group trip planner that puts every stop on one live map and checks the plan against sunset and public holidays on your dates. Made in Canada.

The group chat is where trips go to die. Put the plan on one map instead: make a first draft, invite an editor to shape it with you, and let everyone else follow along.

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Four friends with backpacks gathered around a phone, planning together in the mountains

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Two people, one trip, edited live

You make the trip and send one link set to Can edit. Sam joins with a free account and adds Two Jack Lake to day 2 while you move lunch; each change shows on the other screen in about a second. Comments sit on the stop they are about, so “is this the good place?” is next to the place, and a catch-up strip shows either of you what changed since you last looked.

MSMayaSamSky BistroTuesday · 11:00 · 1hComments · 2MMayaSunset table or inside?SSamBooked the window for 7.Comment on this stopSince you leftSam added Two Jack LakeMaya moved lunch to 12:30

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Editing seats and viewers

The host’s plan sets how many people can edit each trip they own. Viewers do not use an editing seat, so the rest of the group can follow along on any plan, and once the editing seats are full new people join through the link as viewers. Nobody needs a paid plan to join someone else’s trip.

  • Free: 1 invited editor per trip, trips up to 7 days
  • Pro, $4.99 CAD a month: 3 invited editors per trip, trips up to 30 days
  • Discovery, $9.99 CAD a month: 10 invited editors per trip, trips up to 60 days

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Split costs, started on Pro

Starting a trip budget or the cost split takes Pro or Discovery, for whoever on the trip starts it; the host’s plan does not decide it. Once a trip has one, costs sit on stops, receipts attach to the trip, and everyone with edit rights can add to it, whatever their own plan. Treader keeps the running split between people with a settle-up that says who pays whom.

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Pick the dates before anyone books

Nobody replies with a date. A date poll asks once: you propose a few date ranges and send one link, each person ticks what works with only a name, and you make the trip on the dates that win. The friends who voted can open that trip from the same link.

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Start from a trip, then invite

An organiser gets further with a draft the group can react to. Open a ready-made trip, copy it into your account, set your dates, then invite one editor to change it with you. Every plan also gets the shared album, a calendar feed that follows the plan, and Trip check, one list of what could still go wrong.

From a chat to a map

Already have a plan from a chat? Paste it.

Paste the day-by-day answer and every stop lands on a real map, on the right day, at the time the chat gave it, with the driving time between stops. Treader then checks what the chat could not: whether you can reach each stop in time, where a day runs past sunset, and which days are public holidays where you are going. Free, no card.

Nothing to paste yet?

Free, no card. Your account and that trip are made together.

Your AI chat

Plan 3 days in Banff for a summer trip. Easy hikes, good food.

Here's a 3-day Banff itinerary for a summer trip.

Day 1: Banff

Morning: Banff Gondola (ride up Sulphur Mountain early, before the crowds)

Lunch: Wildflour Bakery

Afternoon: Bow Falls

An easy walk along the Bow River from town

Dinner: Park Distillery

Day 2: Lake Louise

Early morning: Moraine Lake (take the Parks Canada shuttle, private cars cannot park there)

Late morning: Lake Louise

Hike up to the Lake Agnes Tea House, about 3.5 km each way, then rent a canoe if the water is calm

Late afternoon: Morant's Curve (the classic photo of a train on the Bow River bend)

Dinner: Lake Louise Railway Station Restaurant

Day 3: Icefields Parkway

1.Bow Lake

2.Peyto Lake viewpoint

3.Mistaya Canyon

4.Columbia Icefield Discovery Centre

Want me to add places to stay or restaurant reservations?

Treader · 3 days in Banff 12 stops · 2h 37m driving · 131 km

  1. drive 10 min · 4.7 km
  2. drive 5 min · 1.6 km
  3. drive 5 min · 1.8 km

Trip check

Day 1 fits

Every stop is reachable in time.

No stays logged yet. Every night is open. Add the hotel or camp as a stop so each day ends somewhere.

Or paste your own

Yours next: make a free account, then paste the whole answer.

Free · No card

Ready-made

Start from a trip that already exists

All itineraries

Every stop on a map, day by day. Open one to read it in full, then copy it into your own account and change what you like.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

What people ask before they plan a first trip. The docs go further.

Read the docs
01 Do my friends need accounts or paid plans?

They need a free account to edit, and never a paid plan. Anyone with the invite link can see the plan and join. The host’s plan sets how many can edit: 1 on Free, 3 on Pro, 10 on Discovery. Everyone else joins as a viewer, which does not use an editing seat.

02 What happens when two people edit at once?

Everyone works on the same live trip, edits appear for the whole group as they are made, and a change log records who added or moved each stop. A catch-up strip summarizes what you missed since your last visit, so nobody has to re-read the whole plan.

03 Can we split costs?

Yes. Someone on the trip with Pro or Discovery starts the split; after that every editor can add costs and receipts, whatever their own plan, and the split stays current as the plan changes.

04 How is this better than a shared doc?

A doc holds text about places; Treader holds the places. Stops sit on a real map with the travel time between them, Trip check flags a day that runs past dark, and the plan you built is the plan you open on the trip itself.

Create your trip, then invite one editor.

Make a first draft, send one link set to Can edit, and let everyone else follow along. Free, and joining is free for everyone.

Create our trip and invite one editor Still deciding? Open a finished trip