Kayak Trips is free. The price is your inbox and a seat inside Kayak's booking funnel.
Kayak Trips does the core job well. Forward a confirmation to trips@kayak.com, or connect your Gmail or Outlook, and it builds an itinerary you can open on the web or in the Kayak app. It is genuinely free.
But it is free because it is part of Kayak. It works best when you hand over standing access to your inbox, and it lives inside a product whose business is selling you the next flight, hotel, and car.
Travel Sane does the same core job — one itinerary from your confirmations — without either of those trades.
No inbox access, any format
The default is paste or upload — you send only the confirmation you want read, nothing else. Forwarding is opt-in and one-way, to a private address. And because Travel Sane reads each booking with a language model rather than matching Kayak's known templates, the messy end — Agoda, Trip.com, regional rail, direct hotel emails, non-English confirmations — comes through where a template parser gives up.
Yours to share, download, and keep
Every trip has a private view-only link anyone can open without an account. Download the itinerary as a clean PDF. Every trip stays saved in your account — a travel history that isn't wrapped around someone else's ad business. One-time $25, no subscription.
Side by side
| Kayak Trips | Travel Sane | |
|---|---|---|
| One itinerary on a timeline | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Add a booking | Forward to trips@kayak.com or connect Gmail/Outlook | Paste, forward, PDF, or screenshot |
| Any provider, any language, any format | Common ones | ✓ Yes |
| Needs inbox access | Yes, to auto-import | No (paste or upload) |
| Shareable view-only link | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| PDF download | Limited | ✓ Yes |
| Saved travel history | Yes (Kayak account) | Yes, in your account |
| Tied to a booking / ads funnel | ✓ Yes | — No |
| Price | Free | $25 one-time |
Which one to use
Use Kayak Trips if free is the only thing that matters and you are comfortable connecting your inbox to Kayak. Use Travel Sane if you would rather not hand over your mailbox, want the messier bookings to actually parse, and would rather pay $25 once than be inside a booking funnel.
Try the demo. Paste a booking, see what comes back. No signup.
See a sample tripQuestions
- Kayak Trips is free — why pay $25?
- Because free has a cost here: Kayak Trips works best when you connect your Gmail or Outlook, and it sits inside Kayak's search-and-booking funnel. Travel Sane never touches your inbox, isn't trying to sell you the next flight, and is a one-time $25 with no ads and no subscription.
- Do I have to connect my email to Travel Sane?
- No. The default is paste or upload — you send only what you choose. Forwarding is opt-in and one-way, to a private address. Travel Sane never reads your mailbox.
- Does Travel Sane handle bookings Kayak Trips misses?
- Often, yes. Travel Sane reads each confirmation with a language model instead of matching known templates, so Agoda, Trip.com, regional rail, direct hotel emails, and non-English confirmations tend to come through cleanly.
- Can I share and download my itinerary?
- Yes. Every trip has a private view-only link anyone can open without an account, and you can download the full itinerary as a PDF.
- Is there a free tier?
- Yes — one active trip and ten bookings. Pro is a one-time $25 for unlimited trips and bookings.