How Tabi compares, what it costs, and how the library gets built.

WanderLog is a shared trip planner: strong at pinning places on a map and splitting bills, weak at telling you what to actually do. You still start from a blank canvas and paste in ideas from ten browser tabs. Tabi starts the other way around: describe your trip in a sentence and Tabi drafts a full day-by-day itinerary from a curated library, with real opening hours, walk times, and booking links already stitched in. You can still edit and share like WanderLog, but you're editing a plan rather than building one from scratch. Think of WanderLog as the spreadsheet and Tabi as the friend who already made the reservation.

Wonderplan and Layla are chat-first: you volley messages with an AI and hope the itinerary sticks. Curiosio optimises road-trip routes and Kayak AI bolts a chatbot onto flight search. All four hand you a draft, then leave you to book across five other sites. Tabi treats the itinerary as a living document you keep, not a chat log you lose: every activity carries a photo, opening hours, a map link, and a way to book it attached at the right moment. Plan once, book from the same page, keep the trip forever.

You can, and the first draft looks great. Then you notice the museum it recommended closed in 2019, the restaurant address is wrong, and the 'ten minute walk' is actually forty. General LLMs hallucinate specifics because they weren't built for travel and have no live data. Tabi uses the same class of model, but checks each place against an authoritative places source for photos, opening hours and location, matches long-distance legs against real transport data, and runs a separate review pass before anything reaches you. When Tabi doesn't know, it says so, instead of inventing a plausible-sounding lie.

The free tier is genuinely free, no credit card needed. You get up to 5 trips a day (100 a month), saving and sharing, and full read access to the curated library. If you go over the daily allowance, it resets the next day. Pro (USD 4.80/month or 58/year) lifts the cap and adds features like calendar sync and group expense splitting. No tokens to count, no ads, and we don't train on your trip data.

A Google search sends you into a Kayak or Booking.com results page where you re-enter your dates and destination. Tabi's booking links are pre-filled: click the Ubud yoga class in your itinerary and GetYourGuide opens on that exact operator, click the Kyoto hotel and Booking.com opens on that property for your dates. We use each partner's official link, so the price you see is the same as going to them directly. You do not pay a Tabi markup; the partner shares a small commission with us when you book, which is how the free tier stays free.

No. Tabi is paid for by subscriptions and by a small commission when a partner takes a booking, so selling your trips or profiling you for advertisers has no place in the business. Saved trips sit in your own account on infrastructure we run ourselves, and access is scoped per account, so one traveller's plans are not reachable from another's. We do not hand trip data to advertisers or ad networks, and the site carries no advertising trackers. Product analytics are aggregated. You can export your data or delete your account from Settings whenever you like, and deletion is permanent once it completes.

It happens, less than you'd think, but it happens. Every activity Tabi surfaces has a thumbs-up / thumbs-down button; a thumbs-down sends the place into a review queue and takes it out of future itineraries. We also check landmarks against an authoritative places source while the plan is being built, so a spot that does not resolve to a real, currently-open business does not reach your itinerary. Compared to ChatGPT (where a wrong museum stays wrong forever) or WanderLog (where you have to fact-check yourself), Tabi's plan gets more accurate the more travellers use it.

Yes, on the mobile app. Once a trip is saved, the itinerary, maps, photos, and booking confirmations cache locally so you can open the day's plan on a rural train or a Balinese beach with no signal. Offline mode also stashes your PDF ticket, the address in local script, and a walking-directions snapshot for each activity. What you cannot do offline is regenerate the itinerary or search for new places, since both need a connection. Web browsers get a lighter version: recently viewed trips stay in cache but a hard refresh needs network.