What "no account" means here
There is no PlanToTrip account to create, and no login screen. Open the app, describe the trip, and the itinerary is built. The trip is stored on the iPhone. The app collects no email, phone number or contacts, and location is optional with its own permission.
Planning together, still without accounts
Invite someone into a trip and every change syncs between the phones. To make that work, a copy of the trip is stored on PlanToTrip's servers, encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM and deleted automatically 180 days after the trip ends. The private parts stay private: booking confirmation numbers, prices, passenger names and scanned documents are not part of the synced trip and never leave the phone of whoever added them.
What does reach a server, and when
- AI features. Planning, chat, document scanning and route building need a connection. A scanned document is sent once for field extraction and is never stored.
- Sharing. A read-only link or an invitation stores a copy of the trip, as described above.
- Optional nearby suggestions. Only if you switch on "Suggest great places around me" does the app send a position rounded to about 100 metres, which the server does not store. It is off by default.
Why most planners want an account
An account is how a web-first planner keeps your trips in sync between a browser and a phone, and how it attaches collaborators to a trip. Wanderlog runs on the web, iOS and Android and puts its web app behind a login (wanderlog.com/home). PlanToTrip made the opposite choice: the phone is the source of truth, so no account is needed, and the trade-off is that a trip lives on the phone that created it.
How to check any planner's policy yourself
Open the app or site and try to plan a trip before tapping any sign-in button. If a plan appears, the planner works without an account. If a Google or Apple button appears first, it does not, whatever the marketing page says. This page only records what each planner states on its own pages; where a site is silent, the table says "not stated".