Travelers: TripIt replacement app My Trips lands on Windows Phone 8

By Daniel Rubino
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While Windows Phone does have an official TripIt app (www.tripit.com), the popular travel organizer service yields some harsh reviews from users. Indeed, the app has always been “meh” in our opinion meaning when it worked, it was just an okay experience.

But we’re champions of the indie dev here at Windows Phone Central and My Trips has always filled the TripIt-gap on our platform. The app runs for $1.99 (with a free trial) but if you use TripIt and travel more than twice a year, then it’s a no-brainer to purchase.

Version 5.0 just landed on the Store and it’s been updated for Windows Phone 8. As far as we can tell, that means the code has been updated to take advantage of the new kernel, making the app more responsive and faster to use. From our experience, that seems to be the case.

Unfortunately, things like a doublewide tile, Lockscreen notifications or wallpaper support have not yet been added. But we imagine with the app being re-coded, such obvious features will come in future updates. For now, you can use the recently updated Flight Factory for extra info you may need.

Regardless, My Trips does support pinning of individual trips to your Start screen for quick access, push notifications, Live Tile support and it’s all laid out in a very Modern UI kind of way.

Being able to see your flight, hotel and car rental status and booking in all one place is hugely advantageous to reducing your stress levels while on the go. If you haven’t tried TripIt yet, you should and once you do so, pic up My Trips for Windows Phone 8. The developer has also regularly updated the app, which keeps us happy.

My Trips, with a free trial, can be found here in the Windows Phone Store. (v5.0 for Windows Phone 8; v4.9 for Windows Phone 7.x). Highly Recommended.

Daniel Rubino
Daniel Rubino
Editor-in-chief

Daniel Rubino is the Editor-in-chief of Windows Central, head reviewer, podcast co-host, and analyst. He has been covering Microsoft since 2007 when this site was called WMExperts (and later Windows Phone Central). His interests include Windows, laptops, next-gen computing, and for some reason, watches. Before all this tech stuff, he worked on a Ph.D. in linguistics, watched people sleep (for medical purposes!), and ran the projectors at movie theaters because it was fun.

8 Comments
  • This looks like a great app for everyone to use for summer vacations.
  • Love this app. Perfect alternative to Tripit on Android (when I used it)
  • I wait for "Nokia Flight"
  • It's a great app. Note that the previous version already worked great on Windows Phone 8, so "landed on WP8" is a bit misleading (though a great pun obviously).
    This app saved me before because I had some time zone confusion and suddenly noticed when I woke up that my flight was one hour earlier than I thought (thanks to the Live tile information). Never crossed Sofia, Bulgaria, faster than that morning, and the taxi driver got a nice tip. Another time it saved me by informing me (again through the live tile) that my planned flight was delayed and I would miss my connection in Wash DC. This allowed me to call the airline before everyone else, and to book myself another flight. Fantastic service of Tripit Pro, and fantastic UX of MyTrips :)
  • Sweet, bought it for my WP7. Downloading it now for my WP8!!!
  • Tripit and Concur are a bunch of assholes.  They have been asked repeatedly to provide an app update and a Concur expense app and they refuse.
  • Been using MyTrips for a while now... even before the update it used to work great. Nothing really has changed before that and v5 but its great to hear its getting some developer love!
  • I have one word for you: KAYAK.