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Plan Every Day, Not Just the Destination

Trip Budget's itinerary builder lets you map out each day of your trip with locations, dates, and costs so you always know exactly what's coming next.

Trip Budget itinerary builder interface

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Stop planning in spreadsheets

Most travelers open a blank spreadsheet, dump city names and nightly rates into cells, and call it a budget. It works until you add a day, shift a hotel, or realize the whole thing breaks on your phone at the airport. Trip Budget replaces that friction with a purpose-built itinerary grid where every row is a day and every column is a cost category.

One row per day, everything in one place

Each row in the itinerary captures a full picture of a single day. The date is set on the first row and subsequent rows cascade forward automatically so your timeline never falls out of sync. The location field has live city search powered by the Photon geocoding API, so you just start typing and pick from real results. Lodging, food, transport, and entertainment each have their own detail modal where you can add line items, booking URLs, and individual currencies.

Dates that stay in sync automatically

Insert a row mid-trip and every row after it shifts forward by one day. Remove a day and everything collapses cleanly. The grid handles all the date arithmetic so you can stay focused on the actual planning instead of fixing formulas.

Drag to reorder, not to copy and paste

Changed your mind about the order of cities? Grab any row by its handle and drag it to the right position. Dates are automatically reassigned from your trip's first day downward, keeping the full sequence coherent without any manual work on your part.

Why it matters

A daily breakdown forces you to ask the right questions before you leave home. Is the overnight train on day four covered? Did you budget for the extra night when the ferry was cancelled? With Trip Budget, those answers are already in your plan and not scattered across browser tabs and email threads.

Plan Every Day, Not Just the Destination