aitrips.io vs Layla
A conversational AI planner, locked to one AI
Free to start, with paid tiers at $9.99/month or $49/year
Free for one active trip. Pro is $6/mo or $39/yr — see full pricing.
Layla's pricing and features checked against their site on 28 August 2026.
What Layla does well
- Genuinely fast conversational planning — describe a trip and get a structured draft back in the chat.
- Collaboration features let a group react to what the AI proposed.
- The chat drives everything — describe a change and the whole itinerary (map, day tabs, hotel/flight cards) updates without a settings panel to learn.
Where aitrips.io is different
- Bring your own AI — Claude, ChatGPT, any MCP client. Layla's model is closed, with no way to swap it out.
- A map that draws the actual route between stops. Layla shows a real map with pins per activity, but never draws a line between them — the only route it draws is the flight between cities.
- Full manual control whenever you want it, alongside the AI, not instead of it.
- Transport routing between every stop and automated gap detection — Layla has neither. It does show weather, but as a single temperature reading per day, not a forecast woven into each activity.
Feature by feature
Map-first interface
Transport routing across multiple modes
Weather forecast on every activity
Automatic gap detection
Bring your own AI (MCP)
Real-time collaboration
Presence and a full activity log
Desktop-class planning UX
Import from email confirmations
Native iOS / Android apps
Offline access
File and document attachments
Data export, no ads or affiliate links
Self-hostable
Trip check-ins and emergency contact alerts
Offline nearest embassy/hospital lookup
Animated trip retrospective / recap
| aitrips.io | Layla | |
|---|---|---|
| Map-first interface | Yes | Pins on an interactive map, no drawn route |
| Transport routing across multiple modes | 11 modes, routed and drawn | No |
| Weather forecast on every activity | Yes | One temperature reading per day |
| Automatic gap detection | Yes | No |
| Bring your own AI (MCP) | Claude, ChatGPT, any MCP client | No |
| Real-time collaboration | Yes | Basic |
| Presence and a full activity log | Yes | No |
| Desktop-class planning UX | Yes | AI-generated dashboard, limited manual editing |
| Import from email confirmations | Via a connected AI assistant, not email | No |
| Native iOS / Android apps | No | Yes |
| Offline access | Today tab caches; not the whole trip | PDF export only, no offline app mode |
| File and document attachments | No | Chat-scoped upload (screenshot/PDF), not per-item |
| Data export, no ads or affiliate links | Yes | No |
| Self-hostable | No | No |
| Trip check-ins and emergency contact alerts | Yes | No |
| Offline nearest embassy/hospital lookup | Yes | No |
| Animated trip retrospective / recap | Catch-up recap replay, mid-trip or after | No |
Pick Layla if
If you want a trip proposed to you in a single conversation and you're happy with Layla's own AI doing the deciding, it's a fast way to get from nothing to a draft.
Pick aitrips.io if
Pick aitrips.io if you want to keep the AI you already use. Connect Claude or ChatGPT over MCP and the same conversation that would have produced a Layla chat log instead builds a real plan on a map, with routes, weather, and manual control whenever you want to take over.
See the map before you sign up
A real, published itinerary with routed transport between every stop. No account needed to look.
Open the Tokyo itineraryPlan your next trip on a map
Free to start, no credit card required. Takes about a minute to add your first trip.