Trips is here to tame all your unruly travel plans

BY GreenBot Staff

Published 19 Sep 2016

Any trip creates a web of details that can be difficult to sort through. , whose main purpose is making sense of disparate bits of information, wants to bring its organizational talents to your next vacation.

The company released Trips for Android iOS on Monday. The app takes details from your Gmail puts them into an easy-to-view package so you can easily find your itinerary, hotel reservation, get recommendations about what to do.

has dabbled in this space before, offering trip summaries in Now organizing such details in the Inbox mail app. This is a more direct approach that puts these features more front center with a dedicated app on both platforms. 

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Get your plans in an easy-to-glance format with Trips.

One of the best features is that you can save a trip offline, which is especially hy for international travel. There’s also a Maps feature that offers things to do near your location even medical monetary information that could be nice to have when visiting a foreign country.

The impact on you: If you’ve used the travel powers of Now, you’ll find this feels like an upgrade to that service. Of course if you don’t use Gmail, then there’s a lot less reason for you to explore this. services work best when you’re all-in, which means that you have to decide where you fall with hing the company that much information.