Sortie vs Tripomatic: Which Itinerary Planner Fits the Way You Travel?

Choose Tripomatic if you want a map-first planner with deep transport routing, offline maps, collaboration, exports, cost estimation, tours and an AI assistant. Choose Sortie if you want a more focused, manual-first planning workspace whose strongest idea is keeping a longer or multi-city itinerary structurally coherent while you build it yourself.

Tripomatic was rebuilt as Tripomatic 26 in February 2026, and current comparisons need to treat it as a modern planning product rather than the older Sygic Travel app many articles still describe. The new generation uses one experience across web, iOS and Android and adds a shortlist, more transport modes, smarter cost tracking, updated maps, AI assistance and trip-based offline maps.

Its day-by-day planner is strong. You can drag places between days, keep undecided activities in a shortlist, add custom places and hotels, set notes and times, and see realistic travel times while arranging the route.

That puts it very close to Sortie's manual planning philosophy at first glance. The differences appear in what each product builds around that core.

Routing is the clearest win. Tripomatic's current route planner covers walking, cycling, driving, taxi, scooter, public transport and flights, with other transport modes available when needed. It can show schedule-based public transport, step-by-step directions, elevation for walking and cycling, traffic-aware driving times and premium routing options.

It also offers trip-based offline maps, PDF/GPX/KML export, real-time collaboration, tours and tickets through GetYourGuide, hotel search through Booking.com, cost estimation and activity cost tracking. Tripomatic's Premium AI assistant can build a full trip, plan a single day, find places, reorganise stops and answer travel questions.

If you want one planner to lean heavily into mapping, navigation and AI-assisted logistics, Tripomatic is the stronger product today.

• Deeper multi-mode routing
• Schedule-based public transport where available
• Trip-based offline maps
• PDF, GPX and KML export
• Real-time collaboration
• AI planning assistant
• Cost estimation
• Tours and hotel discovery integrations

Sortie's differentiation is deliberately narrower. It is designed for travellers who want to remain the planner and need the trip to hold together while they edit it repeatedly. The core model treats destinations, segments, hotels, travel rows, Collections and itinerary days as connected pieces.

That is most visible on multi-city journeys. Sortie keeps the handoff between cities inside the structure of the itinerary rather than treating a trip primarily as a map of places and routes. A hotel change or train day is part of the architecture, not just another pin.

The product also resists making AI the centre of its identity. Assistance exists, but the default remains manual planning. For travellers who enjoy researching, rearranging and deciding for themselves, that restraint can be an advantage rather than a missing feature.

• Explicit segment-based multi-city architecture
• Hotel and travel handoffs kept visible
• Collections before commitment
• Manual-first product philosophy
• Simpler focus on planning rather than a broad travel-services stack

This is one area where the products now share a very similar idea. Tripomatic 26 introduced a shortlist for places you are considering but have not assigned to a day. Sortie uses Collections for the same broad planning behaviour: save first, decide later.

That pattern matters because real travel research is uncertain. A place should not need a date the moment you save it. The difference is less about the existence of a holding area and more about the surrounding product: Tripomatic connects it tightly to its map and routing ecosystem; Sortie connects it to broader trip structure and Collections that can outlive a specific itinerary decision.

Both can handle multiple destinations. Tripomatic's offline-map system explicitly supports trips spanning several cities or countries, and its routing can connect different modes between stops. Sortie, however, makes multi-city structure one of its defining Pro use cases.

If your biggest concern is routing between and within destinations, Tripomatic is extremely capable. If your biggest concern is keeping the sequence of cities, hotels, travel days and daily plans readable as one evolving itinerary, Sortie's explicit segment model is the stronger fit.

Tripomatic. Its Premium AI assistant is designed to create complete trips, alter days, discover places, reorganise existing plans, estimate costs and answer destination questions.

Sortie intentionally keeps AI subordinate to the manual planning workspace. That is better for travellers who do not want generation to become the default, but it is not a win if the thing you want is for the software to do more of the initial planning.

Tripomatic has the stronger offline mapping story. Tripomatic 26 downloads maps for the destinations inside a trip, including trips spanning multiple cities or countries. Those maps expire automatically after the trip to free storage.

Sortie provides offline trip snapshots so the itinerary remains accessible when connectivity is poor. That is useful for travel-day resilience, but it is not the same thing as Tripomatic's dedicated offline-map functionality.

Tripomatic 26 is an excellent planner and the competitor Sortie should take most seriously at the itinerary level. It combines manual day planning with a shortlist, custom places, serious routing, offline maps, collaboration, exports, cost tools and AI.

Sortie should not pretend to beat that feature list. Its case is more specific: a quieter manual-first product for travellers who care deeply about the architecture of a longer or multi-city trip and want to keep control of the planning process.

Choose Tripomatic when routing, maps, collaboration or AI are decisive. Choose Sortie when structure, manual control and multi-city coherence are the reason you need a planner in the first place.