Anyone who's searched "Wanderlog vs Splitwise" or "Splitwise vs TUlon" has probably noticed something confusing: these apps aren't really competing with each other. Each one does a different job.
Wanderlog is built around an interactive map: pin places, organize them by day, drag the order around. It's excellent for visual, collaborative trip planning. It has no budget management or expense splitting at all.
Splitwise is the standard for splitting shared costs — not just on trips, also roommates and any shared expense. Simple interface, accurate math. It has no trip-planning tools whatsoever.
TUlon does both a day-by-day itinerary (like Wanderlog) and expense management with automatic splitting (like Splitwise), in the same app. It's not a "third competitor" fighting the other two — it's the app that saves you from running both of them at once.
If you only need to visually coordinate where everyone's going, Wanderlog is enough. If you only need to settle up at the end with no planning involved, Splitwise is enough. But if you want both without jumping between two apps and copying numbers by hand, TUlon is the one that saves you that — and it's free. See our group trip planner page for the full feature breakdown. And if Splitwise itself isn't quite the right fit, we've also rounded up a few Splitwise alternatives for travel worth knowing about.
Plenty of groups do try combining Wanderlog and Splitwise — but that means maintaining two separate sources of truth. Add an activity in Wanderlog and its cost doesn't show up in Splitwise automatically, and vice versa. In TUlon, an expense and its context (which day, which activity) live in the same place.
Not really — they solve completely different problems. Wanderlog is an itinerary-planning tool, Splitwise is an expense-splitting tool. You can use both together, but that means keeping two separate sources of information in sync.
Yes. TUlon combines a day-by-day itinerary (like Wanderlog) with expense management and automatic splitting (like Splitwise) in the same app, so expenses are linked directly to the trip's days and activities.
Anyone who already has a separate planning tool (or doesn't need itinerary planning at all) and just wants to settle shared costs — not only for trips.
Anyone not managing shared trip expenses — a solo traveler, for instance, or a group where everyone pays for themselves separately.
No. TUlon is completely free.