TREK vs Yanvara

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.

Yanvara turns a travel prompt into a day-by-day itinerary with route flow, estimated costs, weather context, packing suggestions and shareable view-only links. Travelers can describe plans in plain language or use guided setup for destination, dates, travellers, budget, pace and interests. Generated plans can include accommodation suggestions, transport, activities, restaurants, walking distance and estimated daily costs. The free plan allows one saved trip and one AI generation per month, plus a simple packing checklist, PDF export and view-only sharing; that trip can be refined as often as desired. Every new account gets seven days of Pro without a credit card. Pro adds unlimited trips and generations, AI chat refinements, advanced packing, collaborator invites and a Near-you concierge. Yanvara links booking suggestions to partner sites but does not book hotels or flights directly or store booking payment details. Native iOS and Android apps offer offline trip access, push reminders and the concierge; the service also works as a progressive web app. Prices are listed in US dollars: Pro costs $5 a month or $39 a year, billed annually.