Wendways vs Wanderlog

In short, Wanderlog is a trip planner with destination guides. Wendways is a lifetime record you plan from: a map of flights, trains, ferries, road trips, and cruises, plus wishlist and booking capture. Member is free. Silver, at US$4.99 a month or US$49.99 a year, adds trip expense tracking and splitting: log what everyone paid and see who owes whom.

Last updated October 14, 2026.

Wanderlog is built around planning a trip and browsing places. Wendways is built around a record you keep for years, then plan from.

Other product details checked October 11, 2026, from each product's public homepage. Details change. Wendways is not affiliated with the other product.

Where it starts

Wendways. Your own record: import history, then plan the next trip from the wishlist and the map.

Wanderlog. A trip plan, plus a large public library of destination guides.

The map

Wendways. A lifetime map of your flights, trains, ferries, road trips, and cruises.

Wanderlog. An itinerary map for the trip you are planning, from the homepage's own description.

Money and memory

Wendways. Trip expense tracking and splitting on Silver (log what everyone paid and see who owes whom), and a record that stays after the trip, with export.

Wanderlog. The homepage we reviewed emphasizes planning, reviews, and destinations.

What Wanderlog's site emphasizes

On October 11, 2026, Wanderlog's homepage headline was "One app for all your travel planning needs." The actions were to start planning or get the app. The page ran from itinerary and map, to reviews, features, press, and destinations. Wanderlog also publishes a very large set of destination and hotel guides.

What Wendways is built to keep

Wendways does not publish a destination guide library. The planning tools it does have are the wishlist, the day-by-day itinerary, booking capture, companions, and a calendar feed. The part Wanderlog's homepage does not lead with, and Wendways does, is the lifetime map of trips you have already taken, including an OpenFlights or TripIt import, plus trip expense tracking and splitting: log what everyone paid and see who owes whom.

A plain way to choose

Use Wanderlog if you want a planning workspace with a deep catalog of places to browse. Use Wendways if the valuable object is your own history, and the next trip should start from that history instead of from a blank itinerary.

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