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.

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.

What's included with a Free membership?

Up to 1 active trip, the full itinerary builder (times, locations, photos, notes), budget tracking with charts, hotels and transportation trackers, Trip Story, maps, weather, and the AI trip planner.

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.

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.

Comparison

Global Gladiators vs the spreadsheet-plus-group-text routine

Most group trips start in a spreadsheet and a group chat. It works — until three versions of the plan exist, the budget tab breaks, and the itinerary scrolls out of the thread a week before departure.

You do not need a subscription to fix that. Here is what the routine costs you compared with one shared plan.

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

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Reviewed October 2026

Side by side

What matters	Global Gladiators	Spreadsheet + group text
One current version of the plan	One live trip. Everyone opening the link sees the same plan, updated the moment you change it.	Whichever tab someone last edited, plus the copy pasted into the thread and the screenshot in the chat.
Travelers who won't sign in	One read-only link, no account needed to read the plan.	Sheet permissions and access requests, or an export that goes stale immediately.
Budget totals by category, day or traveler	Automatic, with estimated vs. actual and charts that follow your itinerary edits.	Yours to build and keep working — and to fix when a row is inserted.
The plan and the conversation in one place	Message board inside the trip: pinned announcements, threaded replies, email alerts on changes.	Group text, which scrolls away from the plan and mixes in everything else in your life.
The day you actually arrive	A day view built for a phone: times, addresses, confirmations and photos in order.	Pinch, zoom and scroll sideways through columns on a phone.
Price	Free to plan. $5 once per shared trip, or $25 a year for up to 12 trips.	Free — if your time and the version confusion are.

No competitor pricing applies here — this page compares the routine most groups already use against one shared plan.

Where the spreadsheet is still the better fit

Total flexibility: any column, any formula, any layout you want, with nothing to learn.
Works offline, in a basement, on a plane, with no account.
You already maintain it happily and the group actually opens it. Then keep it — nothing here beats a tool people use.