One three-day trip, planned in Treader
Take three days in Banff. In Treader each day’s stops go on the map and the driving or walking time between them fills in. Trip check flags a day that runs past sunset. You invite 1 editor on the free plan and the rest of the group follows along as viewers. Comments sit on the stop they are about, and a catch-up strip shows what changed since you last looked. The finished version is public: open it, read every stop, and copy it into your account to change.
What Treader is built around
Treader is built for the group deciding and for the plan still working on the day. These are on the free plan:
- Comments on each stop, so the debate sits next to the place it is about
- Thumbs on every idea, and a poll with a deadline when the group has to pick one
- A change log and a catch-up strip that show what happened since you last looked
- A live calendar feed that follows every change, or a one-time .ics file
- Trip check: one list of what could still go wrong, from a day that runs past dark to a night with no bed
- Ferries, trains and buses as legs of the trip with their own times, the same as flights
- Move the trip’s dates and every day moves with them
- Metric or imperial, your choice, everywhere
An AI that shows its work
Scout answers with sources and proposes changes as Apply and Undo chips. It never edits the trip without your tap, and it checks suggestions against your days and distances. Free includes 15 messages a month, Pro 100, and Discovery is unlimited within fair use.
Built for the day of the trip
Treader installs to your phone from the browser and has a Today view with what is now and what is next. Pro adds a one-tap reshuffle of the day around rain, the last-train-home check, and an offline map that still draws with no signal.
Where Wanderlog is ahead
Wanderlog has native iOS and Android apps, and it publishes travel guides; in our own reading they cover far more destinations than Treader’s guides and ready-made trips do today. Its help centre says it does not limit how many people you plan with, while Treader’s free plan seats 1 invited editor per trip. Its expense tracking and splitting is free, where Treader’s budget and cost split are Pro. If native apps, guide coverage or a free split matter most to you, Wanderlog is the better pick today.
What it costs
Treader’s free plan holds up to 50 trips of up to 7 days each, with 1 invited editor per trip and 15 Scout messages a month. Pro is $4.99 CAD a month or $49.99 a year: trips to 30 days, 3 editors per trip, 100 Scout messages a month, the budget and cost split, full place detail, the last-train check and the offline map. Discovery is $9.99 CAD a month: unlimited Scout within fair use, 10 editors per trip and trips to 60 days. Joining someone else’s Treader trip is free on every plan. We do not quote Wanderlog’s price because we could not confirm it from Wanderlog itself; Wanderlog’s own site has the current figure.
Start from a ready-made trip
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.
Long weekendGrand Teton in 3 days
Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
3 days · 16 stops
Start from this trip: Grand Teton in 3 days
Long weekendCabot Trail loop in 4 days
Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Nova Scotia
4 days · 14 stops
Start from this trip: Cabot Trail loop in 4 days
A weekTokyo and Kyoto in 7 days
Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan
7 days · 44 stops
Start from this trip: Tokyo and Kyoto in 7 days
Long weekendYellowstone in 4 days
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
4 days · 17 stops
Start from this trip: Yellowstone in 4 days
A weekIceland Ring Road in 7 days
Iceland
7 days · 46 stops
Start from this trip: Iceland Ring Road in 7 days
A weekRome, Florence and Venice in 7 days
Rome, Florence and Venice, Italy
7 days · 50 stops
Start from this trip: Rome, Florence and Venice in 7 days
Feature by feature
Wanderlog’s column comes from its help centre and site, checked on 2 October 2026. Features we could not check on Wanderlog’s side are left out rather than marked No.
| Feature | Treader | Wanderlog |
|---|---|---|
| Live group editing | Yes, free | Yes, free |
| People who can edit a trip | 1 invited editor free, 3 on Pro, 10 on Discovery; viewers do not use a seat | Not limited, per its help centre |
| Expense tracking and splitting | Pro: budget, receipts and settle-up | Free |
| Route optimization for a day | Pro | Pro |
| Offline access | Offline map on Pro | Pro, in its iOS and Android apps |
| Booking import | Discovery: paste, share or forward the confirmation | Forward the email free; Gmail inbox scanning on Pro |
| AI assistant | 15 messages a month free, 100 on Pro, unlimited on Discovery within fair use | Yes |
| Native app store apps | Installable web app | iOS and Android |
Checked 2 October 2026. Wanderlog may have changed since; its help centre and site pages are below.
Frequently asked questions
Can I import my Wanderlog trips into Treader?
There is no automatic Wanderlog importer. You can copy the places from a Wanderlog trip into Paste anything and tick them onto days. Scout reads that paste, which uses one Scout message; a plan written as Day 1, Day 2 headings with a bullet per stop is read on your device instead. Places saved in Google Maps can come in from a Google Takeout file, and GPX or KML routes import directly.
Is Treader free?
Yes. The free plan holds up to 50 trips of up to 7 days each, 1 invited editor per trip, and 15 Scout messages a month. Joining a trip someone else made is free on every plan.
Does Treader have a mobile app?
Treader installs to your home screen straight from the browser as a web app, on iOS and Android, with no app store in between. Pro saves the trip map and a read-only copy of the plan on the phone for the days you have no signal. Wanderlog has native apps in both stores.
Can I pay only for the months I travel?
Yes. Pro is $4.99 CAD a month and you can cancel it from your account whenever you like, so a once-a-year traveller can take it for the weeks around a trip and sit on the free plan the rest of the year. The offline map, the last-train check and full place details work for as long as the plan is live. A long trip you already built keeps every one of its days when you drop back to free, and stays editable: what you lose is the ability to add days past 7, not the trip.
How does Treader’s AI work?
Scout grounds its answers and shows where they came from, and every change it proposes lands as an Apply chip you can undo. It never rewrites your trip on its own, and it checks its own suggestions against your dates and distances.