Today we're launching AI Trip Tracker — a travel app that uses artificial intelligence to organize your trips automatically. Forward a booking confirmation email, and the AI extracts your flights, hotels, car rentals, and activities into a clean, trackable itinerary. No manual data entry. No spreadsheets. No juggling five different apps.
We built this because we were tired of the way trip planning works. Or rather, doesn't work.
The Problem We Set Out to Solve
Here's what organizing a trip looks like for most people: you book a flight on one site, a hotel on another, maybe a car rental on a third. Each sends you a confirmation email that you star, flag, or forward to yourself with a note like "TRIP STUFF." Then when the trip approaches, you hunt through your inbox trying to piece together the timeline. What time does the flight land? Which terminal? What's the hotel address? Did you book that airport transfer or just think about it?
Existing travel apps try to solve this, but they either require you to manually enter every detail (defeating the purpose) or they only work with specific booking platforms. We wanted something that works with any email, from any airline, hotel, or booking service, in any format.
What AI Trip Tracker Does
The core experience is built around three ways to add trips:
- Email forwarding — forward any booking confirmation to [email protected]. Our AI reads it and extracts the structured data automatically. Works with airlines, hotels, car rentals, Airbnb, activity bookings, and more
- Text paste — copy and paste booking text directly into the app. Same AI parsing, different input method. Great for confirmations you see on a website or in a messaging app
- Booking code lookup — enter a PNR/confirmation code and last name. We pull the flight details directly from airline reservation systems
Once your trip is in the system, AI Trip Tracker takes over:
- Live flight tracking — real-time status updates from aviation data sources, including delays, gate changes, terminal info, and landing times
- Push notifications — get alerted when something changes: delays, cancellations, gate changes, or when your flight lands
- Delay reasons — not just "delayed" but why: weather, ATC, crew, mechanical, late aircraft
- Weather at destination — see current conditions and forecasts for your arrival city
- Ride options — Uber and Lyft estimates from your arrival airport, ready to book in one tap
- Trip archive — every trip is saved and organized chronologically, with full history
How We Built It
AI Trip Tracker is a Progressive Web App — it works on any device with a browser (iPhone, Android, iPad, laptop, desktop) and can be installed to your home screen for a native app experience. We chose this approach because we wanted one codebase that works everywhere, with offline access to your itineraries when you lose signal.
The backend runs on Python with FastAPI, PostgreSQL for data, and Redis for caching and real-time operations. The AI parsing is powered by Claude, Anthropic's language model, which gives us the flexibility to handle the enormous variety of booking confirmation formats without maintaining thousands of templates or regex patterns.
Flight tracking data comes from multiple aviation APIs — we aggregate from several sources to maximize coverage and accuracy. Push notifications are delivered through web push, and we use ntfy for real-time alerting.
What's Next
This launch is just the beginning. We're actively working on trip sharing (send a read-only link to fellow travelers), multi-city trip visualization, and deeper integrations with booking platforms. We're also expanding our AI parsing capabilities to handle even more edge cases — conference registrations, cruise itineraries, train bookings, and more.
We'd love for you to try it. Every new account gets a 14-day free trial with full access to every feature. No credit card required. Just sign up, forward a booking email, and see what happens.