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bothways vs planning your trip in a Google Sheet

The spreadsheet is the incumbent, and it's genuinely good at some things: it's free, it does maths, and everyone already knows how it works. It's also the reason one person ends up doing all the planning. Here's the honest trade-off.

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Best forA group planning together on phonesBudgets, columns and custom structure
Collaborative editingYes — shared link, everyone editsYes, but editing on mobile is painful
Usable on a phone mid-tripBuilt mobile-firstTechnically possible, practically not
Flight trackingLive status for the whole groupManual — you type the times in yourself
Timezone handlingTimes shown in airport-local timeWhatever you typed, interpreted however people read it
Saved placesYes, with notesA column of links
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Shared packing listYes, with claimingAnother tab nobody opens
Maths and budgetingNot built for itExcellent — this is the real advantage
Setup effortNoneYou build it, every trip
PriceFree to startFree

Plenty of groups use both: {brand} for the plan and a sheet for the money. Our free budget splitter template is a good starting point for the spreadsheet half.

Choose bothways if…

You want the group to actually contribute, not just read what you built
The plan needs to be usable on a phone while you're standing on a street corner
Flights and arrival times matter and you don't want to maintain them by hand

Choose a Google Sheet if…

The trip's main problem is money — splitting costs, tracking a budget, running formulas
You want total control over structure and columns
You genuinely enjoy building the sheet, and you're the only one who'll touch it
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