Stardrift plans trips in chat and surfaces real-time flight and hotel pricing inside the plan itself rather than vague estimates. Learns your preferences, imports bookings from email, exports PDFs. Free, on web and iOS.
Stardrift fixes the complaint everyone has about AI trip planners: lovely itinerary, imaginary prices. Here the plan itself carries real-time flight and hotel pricing rather than estimates. You chat your way through research, pin what you like to a day-by-day plan on an interactive map, and the costs update with it, with the final fare confirmed on the partner site when you book.
It also remembers who you are. A preference profile stores your airlines, hotel styles and interests, so the tenth conversation starts smarter than the first. Bookings you've already made import by email and the plan builds around them, a touch usually reserved for the organizer apps. When the plan's done, it exports to PDF, and pre-built guides cover the popular destinations for the days you'd rather browse than chat.
The testimonials span a wide spread of destinations, Japan, Peru, Yellowstone, New Zealand, with at least one multi-city itinerary among them, which matches where the product is strongest: trips where the flights are the puzzle. Web and iOS both work, and the App Store listing shows it free with no in-app purchases.
It's a smaller name than Mindtrip or Layla, with a shorter track record, and booking still finishes on partner sites rather than in-app. Android users are out of luck on mobile. And with no published paid tier, the business presumably runs on those booking handoffs, which is worth knowing when a hotel gets suggested warmly.
The planner to pick when prices decide your trip. Watching real fares move inside the itinerary beats planning a fantasy and meeting reality at checkout.
