Quick Comparison: Holicay vs. Stippl at a Glance
Stippl is useful when your main goal is to organize your trip clearly.
Holicay becomes more useful when your trip involves coordination, changes, and multiple moving parts.
At a glance, Stippl is a well-designed visual travel planner. Holicay collaborative trip management platform that connects planning, bookings, and coordination in one workspace.
What is Holicay?
Holicay is the #1 travel planning app built to manage your entire trip — from planning to real-time coordination. It combines your itinerary, bookings, live updates (flights, weather, transport), and expenses into one place, so your trip stays organized even while it's happening.
What is Stippl?
Stippl is a travel planning app focused on helping users organize their trips in a way that is clear and easy to understand. The core experience is built around creating a day-by-day itinerary and seeing it visually alongside a map.
You can add places, rearrange them, and quickly get a sense of how your trip is structured. Stippl works best when your trip is relatively straightforward and your main goal is to organize what you want to do in a clean and visual way.
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Trip itinerary organization
Stippl follows a linear planning flow. You build your trip day by day from the start, adding places into Day 1, Day 2, and so on. This works well when you already have a clear idea of what each day should look like.
Holicay structures trip planning around its Canvas, which behaves more like a workspace. You can drop in restaurants or attractions without assigning them to a specific time yet. As your trip becomes clearer, you organize these into specific days. It's easier to handle uncertainty early on, and changes later.
Collaborative trip planning
Stippl assumes a structured starting point. Collaboration typically happens within the itinerary itself, where users add and edit items inside specific days. This works well when the group already agrees on the plan.
Holicay is designed for situations where planning is happening at the same time across multiple people. One person adds restaurants, another books the hotel, someone drops "maybe" places. All inputs exist in the Canvas without forcing immediate structure, allowing the group to move from messy inputs to a structured plan in one place.
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AI chat planning
Stippl's AI is focused on helping you get started. You can ask it to generate a trip itinerary based on a destination, but once generated, the workflow becomes manual.
Holicay's AI is designed to be used throughout the planning process. As you build your trip, you can ask it to add places into a specific day, reorganize a day based on location, or suggest alternatives when something changes. The AI interacts directly with your trip.
Planning around real conditions (weather)
Stippl does not include weather as part of the planning workflow. Users typically check weather in a separate app and manually adjust their plans.
Holicay brings weather directly into the planning process. When building your itinerary, you can see what the weather looks like for each day. If the forecast changes significantly closer to the trip, Holicay sends a notification so you can adjust plans before the day actually happens.
Booking sync (Gmail, auto-sync, and email forwarding)
Stippl allows users to organize booking details, but the process is more manual. Information is typically added and structured by the user.
Holicay is designed so bookings don't have to be manually moved. When a user books a flight or hotel, Holicay detects that booking and surfaces it directly inside the trip. A hotel shows up across its stay dates, and a flight is attached to the relevant travel day automatically.
Maps, public transport and route optimization
Stippl focuses more on map visibility. You can view all your saved places on a map and understand how locations are distributed, but turning that into an efficient route is manual.
Holicay treats routing as part of building the day. As you build your itinerary, Holicay helps you understand how the day flows. You can reorder stops to reduce backtracking, and public transport is factored in with realistic travel durations.
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Budget tracking and expense splitting
Stippl approaches budgeting as a separate layer alongside the itinerary. You can log expenses and split costs, but they are recorded independently from the plan itself.
Holicay integrates budgeting into the structure of the trip. A hotel booking is attached to its stay dates, and a dinner expense sits within a specific day. Expense splitting (Splitwise-level) happens within the same flow, updating dynamically as the itinerary changes.
Shared notes, tickets, and trip details
Stippl allows you to store notes and booking details, but the process is more manual and not always tied directly to specific items in your itinerary.
Holicay brings notes, tickets, and trip details directly into the itinerary and ties them to where they are actually needed. A restaurant reservation attaches to that specific restaurant in your plan. You simply open the relevant day or activity and the information is already there.
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PDF export and shareable trip plans
Stippl supports sharing itineraries primarily within the app itself. Users can collaborate and view the trip, which works well when everyone is comfortable using the platform.
Holicay allows you to export your itinerary as a PDF that reflects your day-by-day flow, along with activities, bookings, and notes. At the same time, the trip can still exist as a live, collaborative version inside Holicay.
Flight tracker and live travel awareness
Stippl allows users to store flight details, but these details are generally static. If something shifts, users typically need to check the airline and manually update the details.
Holicay keeps flight information connected to the trip and updated as travel plans progress. If there are delays or timing changes, those updates are visible within the trip itself, making it easier to adjust downstream plans like airport pickups or check-ins.
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Who Stippl is best suited for
Stippl is especially useful for travelers who prioritize simplicity and clarity in their planning process. This typically includes solo travelers, couples, shorter trips, and users who want a visual-first planning experience.
Where Stippl works well
But when your trip has moving parts...
Multiple people, changing plans, scattered bookings — you need more than an itinerary builder.
When your trip has moving parts, Holicay takes over
Most tools help you organize. Holicay helps you plan and run your trip.
Built for trips that get messy — not just places to visit.
Stippl helps you organize. Holicay helps you manage your trip.
Choose the tool that matches how you actually travel.
Stippl
A clean, visual trip planner.
- Visual itinerary builder
- Map-based planning
- Day-by-day organization
- Basic collaboration
Best for: Solo trips & simple itineraries
Holicay
A complete workspace for complex trips.
- Full trip workspace (Kanban + Map)
- Real-time group collaboration
- Splitwise-level expense splitting
- AI that acts on your plan
- Auto-sync bookings from Gmail
- Public transport routes & flight tracking
Best for: Group trips, multi-city, complex itineraries
Frequently Asked Questions
Quick answers about Holicay vs Stippl.
Stippl is a design-focused travel planner that helps you visually organize your itinerary and map out your trip. Holicay goes further by helping you manage your entire trip — including bookings, real-time updates, expense tracking, and group coordination. Stippl focuses on planning, while Holicay supports both planning and execution.
