Travel Apps That Shut Down: Dates, Data and Replacements

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At least ten travel apps that organized trips or itineraries have shut down since 2017, including TripCase (April 1, 2025), App in the Air (October 2024), Google Trips (August 5, 2019) and Inbox by Gmail (April 2, 2019). Most deleted user data within months, and only some offered an export. The table lists dates, export options and sources.

Last checked: November 12, 2026. Tineo publishes this page, and Tineo is itself a trip organizer, so read the last section with that in mind. Every date below comes from the company’s own notice, an archived copy of it, or press coverage that we read on the date shown under Sources. Where we could not confirm something, the page says so. Found an error or a shutdown we missed? Email [email protected] with a link to a source and we will correct the page.

The tracker: travel apps that shut down

Newest first. “Not stated” means the source we read does not say. It does not mean nothing happened.

Three apps that people often ask about are not on this list because they have not shut down: TripIt, KAYAK Trips and Roadtrippers. Sygic Travel was renamed, not closed. See changed, not closed.

Shutdowns, one by one

TripCase

Sabre’s notice said registered users would lose access to the TripCase app from April 1, 2025, that the app had already been removed from Google Play, and that all traveler and trip data would be permanently deleted. Users could log in to TripCase.com to download trip information from April 1 to June 30, 2025, and deletion started July 1, 2025. Asked which app it recommended, Sabre answered that it had no preferred migration partner. Users were quoting Sabre’s email on forums by February 11, 2025. We could not confirm the exact day it was sent.

Our full guide covers the options for former users: what happened to TripCase and the best replacements.

Foursquare City Guide

Foursquare retired its City Guide app on December 15, 2024 at 11:59 PM ET, and the web version followed on April 28, 2025. Foursquare pointed users to Swarm, its check-in app, and kept a data download request available in account settings, with the file sent by email within seven days. Engadget reported the announcement on October 21, 2024. City Guide was a place guide with saved lists, not an itinerary organizer, but many travelers kept their trip lists there.

App in the Air

App in the Air told users in September 2024 that it was closing. According to heise online’s report of September 30, 2024, data export and support ended on October 19, 2024, the servers were due to go offline before the end of October, exports arrived as a text file by email, and the company recommended TripIt. Refunds were not automatic. User posts about the closure date from around September 18, 2024, so the exact announcement day is not confirmed.

Our full guide covers what each replacement accepts from the old export file: App in the Air alternatives.

Tripnotes

Tripnotes was one of the first trip planners built on ChatGPT. Skift reported on January 2, 2024 that its founders shut the website in mid-December 2023, several months after selling the product to Dorsia, a restaurant reservation company. The report does not describe advance notice to users, an export, or a recommended replacement.

Hipmunk

SAP Concur, which bought Hipmunk in 2016, announced on January 14, 2020 that it was retiring both the consumer product and Concur Hipmunk, and stopped supporting the brand on January 23, 2020. That is nine days of notice, the shortest on this list. Its statement named Concur TripLink with TripIt Pro as the preferred option for business customers. Hipmunk was a flight and hotel search site more than an itinerary organizer. The PhocusWire report we read does not say what happened to account data.

Google Trips

Google ended support for the Google Trips app on August 5, 2019. The closure became public in early June 2019 through an update to Google’s help pages. Engadget reported on the closing day that notes, saved places and reservations would still exist in Google Search for signed-in users, with things to do and saved places in Google Maps. Google pointed people to its travel pages at google.com/travel. The sources we read do not describe an export file.

Our full guide compares the apps that fill the gap: Google Trips shutdown: the best alternatives.

Utrip

Utrip, a Seattle company that built personalized itineraries for travelers and licensed the software to hotels, cruise lines and airlines, told clients it was ceasing operations after an acquisition fell through. GeekWire reported the email on May 7, 2019 and said services would stay online until June 7, 2019, when the servers would come down. The report does not mention user data or a replacement.

Inbox by Gmail

Google announced on September 12, 2018 that it would say goodbye to Inbox by Gmail at the end of March 2019 and told users their conversations were already waiting in Gmail. The app closed on April 2, 2019. Inbox mattered to travelers because it grouped flight, hotel and other confirmation emails into trip bundles automatically. No email was lost, but the bundles did not move: Droid Life noted on June 4, 2019 that trip bundles had still not arrived in Gmail.

Wanderlust Society

Wanderlust Society, a Seattle startup for collecting trip ideas from friends, emailed members on November 12, 2018 to say it would discontinue service effective December 31, 2018. GeekWire published the letter in full. It gives a contact address but no export or replacement.

WorldMate

WorldMate was one of the earliest itinerary apps and claimed 10 million users. Skift reported on January 26, 2017 that its owner, Carlson Wagonlit Travel, would remove it from app stores on March 31, 2017 and stop supporting many of its functions by September 2017. It is the oldest entry here. Skift named TripCase and TripIt as the rivals left to compete for its users, and one of those two has since closed as well.

Changed, not closed

Sygic Travel

Sygic Travel was not shut down. It went back to its original name, Tripomatic. Slovak tech site TOUCHIT reported on November 15, 2024 that the Sygic Travel name ended in mid-November 2024 and that users had to migrate their account by December 15, 2024, after which signing in with a Sygic account might stop working. Saved trips and premium memberships moved with the account. We did not find an English notice from the company, so treat the deadline as reported, not confirmed. Related: Sygic Travel alternatives.

Roadtrippers

Roadtrippers is running. Its support article, dated May 4, 2026, lists the free plan at one trip with three stops per trip, and says saved trips that exceed a plan’s limits are locked until the user upgrades or deletes trips. The trips are kept, but they cannot be opened on a lower plan. We could not confirm when the free limits last changed. Related: Roadtrippers alternatives.

TripIt and KAYAK Trips

Both were live when we checked on November 12, 2026, and we found no notice that either is closing or dropping its itinerary feature. If you want a second copy of trips held in either one, see how to import TripIt trips to Tineo and how to import KAYAK trips to Tineo.

What the shutdowns have in common

• Notice is short. From announcement to closure: Hipmunk nine days, Utrip one month, Wanderlust Society about seven weeks, Google Trips about two months, Inbox by Gmail about six and a half months. TripCase users had about seven weeks before the app stopped.
• Export is not guaranteed. Of the ten closures, three described a way to get data out: TripCase (website download for three months), App in the Air (a text file on request) and Foursquare City Guide (a download request). Google kept Trips data and Inbox email inside the Google account. For the other five, the sources mention no export.
• An export file is only useful if something reads it. App in the Air’s export was a plain text file, and it was up to other apps to decide whether to accept it.
• Big owners close apps too. Sabre, Google, SAP Concur, Foursquare and CWT are all on the list. Company size did not protect the product.

How to avoid losing your trips next time

This applies whichever app you use, including ours.

1. Keep the confirmation emails. Airlines, hotels and rental companies send the original record to your inbox, and every itinerary app builds trips from those emails. Do not delete them after a trip. A label or folder for travel confirmations is enough.
2. Forward confirmations to a second place. Set a mail rule that copies travel confirmations to a second mailbox, or to a second itinerary app. If one service closes, the other still has the trip.
3. Check for an export before you depend on an app. Look for a calendar file (.ics), a PDF, or a data download in the settings. If there is none, your only copy is the emails.
4. Know the difference between a calendar subscription and a calendar file. A subscribed calendar link stops updating, and can empty, when the service behind it goes away. A one-time .ics import is a snapshot that stays in your calendar. For trip history, take the snapshot.
5. Save the documents yourself. Tickets, vouchers and booking PDFs belong in your own files or cloud storage, not only inside an app.
6. Act on the day of the announcement. Export windows on this list closed in as little as a few weeks. Request the export first and choose a replacement second.

Where Tineo fits

Tineo turns booking confirmation emails into organized trips on web, iOS and Android. The free plan covers trip planning, itinerary organization and email-to-itinerary import, and Tineo Ultra costs $4.99 per month or $39.99 per year (pricing). Because Tineo rebuilds trips from the emails you already have, it does not need an export file from a closed app, which is why it suits people arriving from TripCase, Google Trips or App in the Air. Tineo also offers a calendar subscription link under Settings, then Calendar Sync.

Tineo is a small independent company, and nothing on this page should be read as a promise that any app, ours included, will exist forever. The steps above work the same way if you use Tineo. If another app fits you better, the per-app guides linked in each section compare the options.

Common questions

Which travel apps have shut down? Trip planner and itinerary apps that have closed since 2017 include TripCase (April 1, 2025), Foursquare City Guide (December 15, 2024), App in the Air (October 2024), Tripnotes (December 2023), Hipmunk (January 23, 2020), Google Trips (August 5, 2019), Utrip (June 7, 2019), Inbox by Gmail (April 2, 2019), Wanderlust Society (December 31, 2018) and WorldMate (2017).

Do travel apps delete your trips when they shut down? Often, yes. Sabre said all TripCase traveler and trip data would be permanently deleted and stopped downloads after June 30, 2025. App in the Air ended its data export on October 19, 2024. Google Trips was different: notes, saved places and reservations stayed in the user’s Google account.

How much notice do travel apps give before shutting down? In the cases tracked here, notice ran from nine days to about six and a half months. Hipmunk gave nine days, Utrip one month, Wanderlust Society about seven weeks, Google Trips about two months, and Inbox by Gmail about six and a half months. TripCase users had about seven weeks before the app stopped, then three months to download trips.

How do I keep my trip history if my travel app shuts down? Keep the original booking confirmation emails, because every itinerary app builds trips from them. Forward them to a second place, use any export the app offers while it still works, save a one-time calendar file rather than relying only on a live calendar subscription, and act as soon as a shutdown is announced.

Have TripIt, KAYAK Trips or Roadtrippers shut down? No. When we checked on November 12, 2026, TripIt and KAYAK Trips were both live products and we found no shutdown notice for either. Roadtrippers is also running, but its support pages say the free plan holds one trip with three stops and that trips beyond a plan’s limits are locked.

What we could not confirm

• The exact day Sabre announced the TripCase closure. Users were quoting the email by February 11, 2025.
• The exact day App in the Air announced its closure and the exact day its servers went offline.
• The exact day Google first published the Google Trips closure, and whether Google offered a dedicated export for Trips data.
• What happened to Hipmunk, Utrip, Tripnotes, Wanderlust Society and WorldMate account data.
• Triposo. Some pages say it closed on March 1, 2023, but we found no notice from the company or its owner, so it is not in the table.
• Lola.com closed its business travel service in 2021. We did not read a primary notice and it was not a consumer itinerary app, so it is not in the table.

Sources

All read on November 12, 2026.

• TripCase: Sabre, “TripCase is sunsetting” (Internet Archive copy of April 26, 2025; the live page has been removed) and the TripCase.com login page (Internet Archive copy of April 22, 2025). Announcement timing: Australian Frequent Flyer forum thread, post of February 12, 2025.
• Foursquare City Guide: Foursquare, “City Guide Sunset” and Engadget, October 21, 2024.
• App in the Air: heise online, September 30, 2024, and TripIt’s page for App in the Air users.
• Tripnotes: Skift, January 2, 2024.
• Hipmunk: PhocusWire, January 14, 2020.
• Google Trips: Engadget, August 5, 2019; 9to5Google, updated August 6, 2019; Droid Life, June 4, 2019.
• Utrip: GeekWire, May 7, 2019.
• Inbox by Gmail: Google, The Keyword, September 12, 2018; Android Police, March 19, 2019; Droid Life, as above.
• Wanderlust Society: GeekWire, November 12, 2018.
• WorldMate: Skift, January 26, 2017.
• Sygic Travel: TOUCHIT (in Slovak), November 15, 2024.
• Roadtrippers: Roadtrippers Support, article dated May 4, 2026.
• KAYAK Trips: kayak.com/trips.
• Tineo: pricing.