It started as a group chat
500 unread messages, and still no decision on where to go.
If you have ever scrolled up 400 messages to find one hotel address, or typed "so what's decided?" into the group, this app was built for you. By three people exactly like you.
Every group trip has the same four people
The planner. Runs the chat, owns the spreadsheet, books at 2 am.
The follower. Wakes up to 300 messages and asks "what's decided?"
The dreamer. At message 480, pitches a different continent.
The parent. Not in the group. Wants every booking forwarded anyway.
We have been all four. Tripmojo is built for each of them.
Twelve years of travelling together, in five lines
- 2014
Three of us meet at university. Same dorm, same weekend plans. We graduate together.
- 2016-17
Twenty days backpacking across Europe. Hostels and night trains.
- 2020-22
Two of us move continents. All three of us marry within a year of each other. Hostels become resorts, three become six, one group chat becomes two.
- 2024-25
500 messages before breakfast. One person on flights, one on stays. A spreadsheet pinned to the chat, one tab for flights and one for stays, the only place the plan actually lived.
- Today
We built the app we wished that pinned spreadsheet had been. From three countries, in each other's nights.
Every big life event happened together: graduation, first jobs, weddings. Then came 10,000 miles and three time zones. The one habit that never moved was the trip.
About 20 countries together so far, and counting
- Thailand
- Singapore
- Malaysia
- Indonesia
- Philippines
- United Arab Emirates
- United States
- Mexico
- Colombiamost recent
- United Kingdom
- France
- Italy
- Spain
- Portugal
- Switzerland
- Netherlands
- Germany
- Austria
- Czechia
- Greece
Every one of them planned the hard way, which is how we learned what the app had to do.
The night before every flight, the same message
"Send me all the bookings."
So one of us would open the inbox and forward emails one by one. Then the PDFs. Then the hotel number, again. It took years to understand that she never wanted the PDFs. She wanted to know where we were, and that we were fine.
Now every trip has a follow link. She opens it and sees the city we are in today, what comes next, and the number to call if something goes wrong. No app, no account. She does not text "did you land?" anymore. Some days we miss it.
Three things twelve years of group trips taught us
Decide the dates before the destination. The "where" debate never ends. A calendar does.
One person owns flights, one owns stays. Nobody owns everything, or that person stops enjoying the trip.
The plan cannot live in the chat. It is buried by message 50. Put it where everyone can see it without scrolling.
Tripmojo is the third rule, built into an app.
What we believe
Booking was solved in 2010. Everything after the payment page is still a mess.
A trip has two audiences: the people on it and the people at home. Most travel apps only build for the first.
AI should do the heavy lifting, not the deciding. One of us planned Japan with a chatbot; it sent him to places that were clearly not for him. So the machine reads your bookings and tracks your flights, and we are building towards a real human who knows the place being part of your plan.
Where we are, honestly
First version built in about a month. Live on iOS, Android and web. Free.
We shipped too much. The next release removes what nobody used, so the app does one thing well.
Our own next trip is in November. It runs on Tripmojo. If it fails us, you will read about it here.
Travellers who shaped the roadmap
A remote worker who spends 20 days of every two months on the road
Knew every trip app in the market. Chose Tripmojo for the follow link and for sharing a trip like a spreadsheet, with editors and viewers. Then asked one question: why is there nothing for my laptop? Our Chrome extension exists because of him.
Travel agents, unexpectedly
Thousands of client documents sorted trip by trip, shared with one link instead of ten PDFs in a chat. We did not plan for them. They found us.
Three friends, one tech lead, no headquarters
One of us has built a consumer app used by millions of people before this. All of us have been the friend who runs the group chat. We work across three time zones, so someone is always awake, and our users travel from every continent, so the data never sleeps either.
We are three people and a tech lead, not a company with a support desk. When you write to us, one of us reads it, usually on a phone, usually in someone's night.
Building Tripmojo is also how we stay close. It doubled our overlap hours as friends. We like that.