AI trip planners get it wrong
Most tools invent restaurants and activities instead of using places your group actually wants to visit.
Group trip planner
Plan group trips from real recommendations—not AI guesses
Collect places your friends love, turn saved links and screenshots into a day-by-day itinerary, and share a travel plan your crew can refine together.
Ableten is a collaborative trip planner built for group vacations, friend trips, and multi-party travel—starting from the restaurants, maps links, and recs you already have in chats and inboxes.
Group trip planning is broken
Spreadsheets, group chats, and generic AI tools weren't built for coordinating real recommendations across multiple people.
Recommendations live everywhere
Maps links, screenshots, and “you have to go here” texts are scattered across WhatsApp, email, and DMs—hard to compare or prioritize.
Logistics are hard to coordinate
Timing, distance, and who is free when rarely make it into a plan everyone can trust.
Shared itineraries aren't easy to edit
Static docs and PDFs don't let the group comment, adjust, or join for only part of the trip.
Ableten's trip planner flow
Start from evidence—saved recs from your trusted network—and compose a shareable itinerary your group can shape together.
Collect recs from your crew
Send a Collect Recs link so friends map the places they love. Submissions land in your trip collection with links, notes, and source context.
Build from what you saved
Forward screenshots and Maps links by email, highlight articles, or save while browsing. Ableten organizes everything into a trip collection automatically.
Compose a real itinerary
Generate a day-by-day board from your saved sources—not hallucinated suggestions—with morning, afternoon, and evening slots you can drag and reorder.
Share a draft everyone can see
Publish a share link so travel mates can view your itinerary draft, see citations back to original recs, and connect on Ableten.
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Comment and adjust together
Friends can suggest changes on the shared plan—swap meals, move activities, or flag conflicts—so the itinerary reflects the whole group.
Coming soon
Plan with time, distance & partial trips
Respect opening hours and travel time between stops. Let people join for part of the trip without rebuilding the whole schedule.
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Collect Recs from friends
One link for your group to submit restaurants, bars, and places—with search and Maps links included.
Save screenshots & map links by email
Forward group-chat screenshots to Ableten. We extract Google Maps links and notes so nothing gets lost in the camera roll.
Auto-organize into trip collections
AI suggests the right collection for each save—so “SF food recs” and “Day 2 hikes” stay grouped without manual filing.
Itinerary board from saved sources
Turn your collection into a drag-and-drop day plan with morning, afternoon, and evening slots—each card linked back to the original rec.
Shareable social itinerary link
Publish your draft to a link friends can open—see the plan, connect with you on Ableten, and stay aligned before you go.
What group travelers are saying
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"We had fifteen Google Maps links in a group chat and no plan. Ableten turned our friends' recs into an itinerary we could actually use."
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"Generic AI trip planners kept suggesting places none of us wanted. This starts from what we actually saved."
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"My friends added their spots without another app install—just a link. Everything landed in one trip collection."
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Group trip planner FAQ
How is Ableten different from Wanderlog or other trip planner apps?
Wanderlog excels at building itineraries from scratch inside a travel app. Ableten starts upstream: collecting messy recs from friends (links, screenshots, chats), organizing them into collections, then composing a plan grounded in those sources. It's research → itinerary, not blank-slate → itinerary.
Can friends add restaurant and place recommendations to my trip?
Yes. Use Collect Recs to send a link where friends submit places they love. Each submission saves with links and context into your trip collection, ready for the itinerary board.
Can we share and edit a group travel itinerary together?
You can share an itinerary draft via link today. Collaborative commenting, logistics constraints (time and distance), and join-for-part-of-trip planning are in development—email us for early access.
Can I save Google Maps links and screenshots from group chats?
Yes. Forward images and links to Ableten's email capture, or save places while browsing with the Chrome extension. Map links and notes are extracted and organized automatically.
Does Ableten work for partial trips—when not everyone joins the whole time?
That's on the roadmap: mark who joins which days and keep a single shared itinerary. Join the early access list to help shape it.
Is Ableten free for trip planning?
Ableten offers a free Chrome extension and web app. Sign up at app.ableten.xyz to build trip collections and generate itinerary drafts. Questions? Visit our support center.
Plan your next group trip from real recs
Start a trip collection, invite friends to add places, and turn saved recommendations into a shareable itinerary.
Also explore the full Source Library for research capture and citations.