If you plan group trips in a Google Sheet, you're not doing it wrong, you're organised, and nothing better existed. Venture takes that exact instinct and gives it structure: itinerary, costs, documents and the whole group, built for a phone and the moment you actually need it.
No rebuilding required, forward a booking email and the itinerary builds itself.
| What you need | A trip spreadsheet | Venture |
|---|---|---|
| Flexible and free to start | Yes | Free to use |
| Reusable structure (no rebuild each trip) | Rebuilt every time | Trip templates by activity |
| Booking emails become an itinerary | Manual copy-paste | Forward and it parses |
| Expense splitting that adds up correctly | Until a formula breaks | Live balances, settle once |
| Document storage (passports, certs, insurance) | No | Per person, encrypted |
| Works on a phone, mid-trip | Painful on mobile | Mobile-first |
| Everyone sees the same version | Wrong-tab chaos | One shared plan |
| Works offline | No | Fully offline |
Nobody builds a trip spreadsheet by accident. You made one because you're the person who keeps the trip on track, and a blank grid was the most flexible tool you had. That instinct is right. The grid just isn't built for what you're asking it to do.
It can't read your booking confirmations. It can't hold everyone's passport. It falls apart the moment you open it on your phone at the airport. And in a group, it quietly becomes five versions, one of which someone edited in the wrong tab.
Venture is what that spreadsheet was reaching for. Forward a booking email and the itinerary builds itself. No copy-paste. Costs split with live balances that don't break when someone fat-fingers a formula. Documents live in a per-person vault, offline-ready. And the whole group sees one shared plan, on their phones, wherever they are.
"Having to use lots of different sources and platforms to manage different things including budget and capturing ideas." (Venture survey respondent)
There's no painful import. Start a trip, forward your first confirmation, and it begins building. Add costs and documents as they land. The sheet retires quietly, and you stop rebuilding it from scratch for the next trip.
Itinerary, expenses, documents and your whole group, structured, mobile, offline-ready. Start free.
Get early accessSpreadsheets are flexible but break in practice, they have no booking parsing or document storage, fall apart on mobile mid-trip, hit version-control chaos in groups, and carry no visa or offline intelligence. Venture keeps the structure and fixes those gaps.
You usually don't need to rebuild anything. Forward your booking emails and Venture builds the itinerary for you, then you add costs and documents as they come in.
Venture trades a blank grid for a structure made for trips (itinerary, expenses, documents and group coordination) so you get the flexibility that matters without rebuilding the same sheet for every trip.
Venture is free and live on Android now, with iOS coming soon. Get it on Google Play, or join the waitlist to be first in on iPhone.