Navly vs TREK

Navly is an AI-assisted trip-planning app for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision. Users can plan trips in chat and build day-by-day itineraries, then view routes and plans together on a map. Look Around previews are available where imagery exists, and users can continue to directions in Apple Maps. The app also supports collaborative planning, calendar export, and nine languages. Users can request itinerary changes, though approval is required for some changes.

Navly is free with in-app purchases. The Free plan includes an AI travel planning assistant, map and location context, and itinerary building. Day Pass costs $2.99, paid once for 24 hours; Week Pass costs $7.99, paid once for seven days. These passes do not renew automatically. Explorer Pro costs $12.99 a month or $129.99 a year; Explorer Max costs $39.99 a month or $399.99 a year. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled through App Store settings. iPhone requires iOS 18.6 or later. The listing says linked data may include purchases, location, contact information, content, identifiers, usage, and diagnostics, and that Apple has not verified the developer's privacy practices.

TREK is a self-hosted travel planner for organizing trips collaboratively in real time. Users can arrange places by day, optimize routes by distance, and send a day to Google Maps for turn-by-turn directions. Collaborators can edit itineraries together, see live presence, chat, run polls, track attendance, and share read-only public links. Reservation records hold confirmation numbers, files, and statuses for flights, stays, and restaurants. Budgets support multiple currencies and per-person or per-day totals; packing lists include templates and item assignments. OpenStreetMap is the default place search, Google Places is optional, and 16-day forecasts use Open-Meteo without API keys. Optional addons include travel statistics, vacation planning, journaling, and MCP integration. TREK runs on operator-controlled hardware, stores trip data in a SQLite file, and supports scheduled snapshots with retention policies. It can be installed as a PWA and has deployment documentation for Docker, Kubernetes, Unraid, Proxmox, Raspberry Pi, and Apple Silicon, with AMD64 and ARM64 images. It is open source under AGPL-3.0 and free for personal and internal company use.