What is Global Gladiators?

Global Gladiators brings trips, hotels, itinerary items, media, and subscriptions together, helping travelers plan, manage, and explore journeys on 10 pages.

Can I use it for solo trips, or is it only for groups?

Both. It works just as well for one traveler or a group — family reunions, group cruise trips, school trips, business trips and more.

How does trip sharing work?

From any unlocked trip, hit Share to generate a secure link. Email it or text it to your travelers — anyone with the link sees a clean, read-only view of the itinerary, map, accommodations, transport, story, and board. No account needed for them.

I'm on Free and want to share just one trip. Do I need a subscription?

No. A one-time $5 "Single Trip" unlock lets you share that specific trip with unlimited travelers — including the message board and comments — with no subscription at all.

What is the group message board?

Every shared trip includes a built-in message board: the planner posts announcements (pinned ones stay on top), and travelers reply in threads — so the whole group's conversation lives with the trip, not scattered across group texts.

Category guide

The best travel planner for groups

Planning for a group is not solo planning with extra names attached. One person builds the plan, everyone else has to be able to read it without downloading anything, the budget has to be in the same place as the itinerary, and the “what time are we leaving?” question needs somewhere to land other than a group text.

Start free. Share one trip for $5 once, or 12 trips for $25 a year — no per-traveler seats.

What we judged them on

Can the travelers who never install anything read the plan, without creating an account?
Is the budget in the same place as the itinerary, so the plan and the money agree?
Does the group conversation live with the trip, or drift into a text thread?
What does sharing actually cost — per traveler, per trip, or per year?

The options, side by side

Option	Best for	What it costs	Watch out for
Global Gladiators	One planner runs the trip and everyone else just follows the link.	Free to plan · $5 once per shared trip · $25/yr for 12 trips	No offline maps, and the Free plan can't share.
Wanderlog	Map-first discovery and borrowing structure from other travelers' itineraries.	Free core · Pro around $40–50/yr	Collaboration assumes the group has accounts.
TripIt	Solo and business travelers who want a timeline assembled from booking emails.	Free tier · Pro around $49/yr	Reservation timeline rather than a day-by-day group plan; no group board.
Splitwise (plus a shared doc)	Splitting costs between travelers after the fact.	Free tier · paid Pro	The money sits away from the itinerary — nobody sees where the trip actually is.
Google Sheets + a group text	Total control and zero cost, if you enjoy maintaining it.	Free	Version drift, phone-hostile, and the plan and conversation drift apart.

Competitor features and prices change often — this reflects their sites as of October 2026.

Our verdict

If the group has to follow one plan: Global Gladiators, because travelers read it from a link with no account and no app.
If you mostly want to discover places on a map: Wanderlog is a fair choice — see the direct comparison.
If you fly constantly on your own: TripIt's email-to-timeline shortcut is hard to beat — see how the two differ.
If the spreadsheet already works for your group: keep it — but know what it costs you.

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