Squawk vs TripIt
TripIt files the bookings. Squawk flies the trip with you.
TripIt turns confirmation emails into one tidy itinerary. Squawk is built for the travel day itself: live times and gates on the free plan, delay forecasts, terminal maps, the way into town and a passport of every trip you've flown.
Squawk
The whole trip in one app: your flights, the airports, the way into town and every trip you've flown.
Free
Plus from $29.99 a year
TripIt
A trip organiser: forward a booking and it builds your itinerary.
$49 a year
TripIt Pro, which flight alerts need
The short answer
Squawk or TripIt?
Squawk is for you if
- You want live times, gates and terminals for your flights free, where TripIt needs Pro for any flight status
- You want delay forecasts and to see where your plane is coming from, which TripIt doesn't do
- You want the airport covered: terminal maps, lounges, and trains, buses and ride apps into town
- You want every flight kept: a flight log, a passport stamped for every country and a year card
- You want a live map of every plane in the sky
TripIt still makes sense if
- You want hotels, cars, trains and dinners in one itinerary, added from your inbox
- You want fare-refund, seat and points trackers
- You use Android, a Mac or the web, or your employer gives you TripIt Pro
Feature by feature
Squawk and TripIt, side by side.
A tick names the plan it needs. Coming is built or planned for Squawk but not in the app yet.
| Feature | Squawk | TripIt |
|---|---|---|
| Your flights | ||
| Live times, gates and terminals | Yes: on Free | Yes: on Pro, From 72 hours out |
| Gate, delay and cancellation alerts | Coming soon | Yes: on Pro |
| Delay forecasts | Yes: on Plus | Partly: on Pro, Possible-delay alerts |
| Where your plane is coming from | Yes: on Plus, The inbound aircraft | No |
| A live link for family | Yes: on Plus, Free to follow | Partly: on Pro, Shares alerts, not a live page |
| Live Activities | Yes: on Plus | No |
| Home and Lock Screen widgets | Yes: on Pro | Yes: on Free, Status on Pro |
| Apple Watch | Coming soon | Yes: on Free |
| Your travels | ||
| Flight log and stats | Yes: on Free, Every flight on Plus | Partly: on Free, Trip stats, no flight log |
| Passport stamps and a year card to share | Yes: on Free | Partly: on Free, Year card, no stamps |
| Import flights from other apps | Yes: on Free, Flighty, MyFlightradar24, TripIt, CSV | No: Forward old emails |
| Forward booking emails | Coming soon | Yes: on Free, And inbox sync |
| Friends and their travels | Yes: on Free | Partly: on Free, Shares trips |
| At the airport | ||
| Terminal maps with gates | Yes: on Free, Where mapped | Yes: on Pro, About 113 airports |
| Your connection, step by step | Yes: on Free, Passport control included | Partly: on Pro, Gate-to-gate directions |
| Trains, buses and ride apps into town | Yes: on Free, Ride apps on Plus | Partly: on Free, Estimates, then a maps app |
| Lounges | Yes: on Free | No |
| Live map | ||
| Every aircraft in the sky, live | Yes: on Free | No |
| Spotter tools: runways, frequencies, spots | Yes: on Free, With an airport chat | No |
| Live ATC audio | No: Frequencies only | No |
| The app | ||
| No ads | Yes: on Every plan | Yes |
| Android | No: iPhone only | Yes |
| Family plan | Yes: on Family, Pro for 6 | No |
TripIt checked 22 October 2026 against its own website and App Store listing (sources below). Apps change; if something here is out of date, tell us at support@thesquawkapp.com.
Prices
What each one costs.
| Plan | Squawk | TripIt |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Monthly | Plus $3.99Pro $6.99 | |
| Yearly | Plus $29.99Pro $49.99 | Pro $49 ($48.99 in the app) |
| Buy once | Plus $149.99Pro $299.99 | |
| Free trial | 7 days on yearly plans | 30 days, on the website |
| Family | $99.99 a year, 6 people |
US prices. Your App Store shows your local currency. TripIt's prices are its own, as listed on tripit.com and the App Store.
Fair's fair
Where TripIt shines.
Every booking, not just flights
Hotels, cars, rail, ferries, restaurants and events land in one itinerary, free, from forwarded emails or a connected inbox, whichever site you booked on.
Trackers for the money side
TripIt Pro watches for fare drops you could claim back, better seats, and your points across more than 150 loyalty programmes.
Everywhere you are
iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Android and the web, with sharing for family, colleagues and travel arrangers.
Switching
Bringing your TripIt flights.
- On tripit.com, open Trips and choose a trip.
- Open More Options and choose Export trip to calendar, then save the .ics file to Files.
- In Squawk, open Settings, tap Import from another app and choose the file. Each trip is its own file.
Squawk keeps the flights from the file and leaves hotels and cars out. Many people keep TripIt for bookings and use Squawk on the day.
Questions
Squawk and TripIt.
Is Squawk a TripIt alternative?
For flights and airports, yes: live times, gates and terminals are free on Squawk, where TripIt's flight monitoring needs Pro. For hotels, cars and the rest of an itinerary, TripIt does what Squawk doesn't try to, and the two work well together.
Can I move my TripIt flights into Squawk?
Yes. Export a trip from tripit.com as a calendar file and import it in Squawk's Settings. The flights come across; hotels and cars stay in TripIt.
Do I need to pay for live flight status?
Not on Squawk: live times, gates and terminals for your flights are on the free plan. On TripIt, flight monitoring is part of TripIt Pro and starts 72 hours before departure.
Is Squawk on Android?
No. Squawk is an iPhone app; TripIt is on Android and the web as well.
Sources
Where this comes from.
Squawk's side is the app as it is today, from the same plan list as our Pricing page. TripIt's side was checked on 22 October 2026:
- TripIt Pro pricing (tripit.com)
- TripIt Pro (tripit.com)
- TripIt on the App Store
- Flight alerts (TripIt help)
- Interactive airport maps (TripIt help)
- Travel stats (TripIt help)
- Share flight notifications (TripIt help)
- Navigator (TripIt help)
TripIt is a trademark of Concur Technologies, Inc., an SAP company. Squawk isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Concur Technologies, Inc., an SAP company. Also compared: Squawk vs Flighty · Squawk vs Flightradar24 · Squawk vs FlightAware.
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