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Monara and Airbnb Trips
The short answer
Use Airbnb Trips if your stay, experiences and services are booked on Airbnb and you want them in one place with nothing to set up.
Use Monara if your bookings come from different places, you plan with a group that needs to decide things, and you want a plan that is checked against the real world but never changed without your say.
Side by side
| Area | Airbnb Trips | Monara |
|---|---|---|
| Where bookings come from | Airbnb homes, experiences and services. Other bookings can be pinned as places, not added as reservations. | Anywhere. You add flights, trains, hotels, meals and activities yourself. Email import is built, and not in the beta yet.Coming soon |
| Day-by-day itinerary | Yes, built from your Airbnb reservations, plus places you add to a date. | Yes, in the destination's local time, for any trip. |
| Map and travel times | Reservations and nearby places, with travel times from your stay. | Every stop on a map, with routed transfers between them. Change how you get there from the map. |
| Planning with others | Guests on the reservation share the itinerary and pins. Group planning and a friends' travel map since autumn 2026. | Invite by link. Owner, co-owner and member roles. Notes on the trip and on activities. |
| Deciding together | Not documented. | Polls with a deadline. The owner applies the result and says why. |
| Changes to your plan | You edit it. | Nothing changes without your approval, including suggestions from Monara. |
| Weather, delays, closures | Not documented for the itinerary. | Weather and disruptions next to your plan, with options that keep your commitments.Coming soon |
| Booking things | Yes: homes, experiences, grocery delivery, airport pickup, luggage storage, car rental, meals, laundry, baby gear. | No. Monara never takes a booking or a payment. |
| Finding things to do | Search in your own words across homes, experiences and services, with summaries of reviews. | Explore: three to five explained picks from published local guides.Coming soon |
| Help | Support in more than 50 languages, partly automated. | Email during the beta. English only. |
| Where your data goes | Airbnb (United States) and its AI systems. | Stored in the EU. No trackers. Personal data never goes to third-party AI services. |
| Price | Free with your Airbnb booking. | Free during the beta. |
| Platforms | iOS, Android and web. | Web now. iPhone and Android apps are in testing. |
| Made by | Airbnb, a public company. | One founder. In beta since September 2026. |
Where Airbnb Trips is better
- Everything you can book: the stay, experiences and services during it, filled into the itinerary for you.
- Support in more than 50 languages.
- Recommendations from friends' trips.
- Free, from a company you probably already have an account with.
- A product that ships hundreds of changes a year, with an AI agent announced for 2027.
Where Monara is better
- Bookings from anywhere on one timeline, not only the ones made on one site.
- Roles and polls, so a group can decide and move on.
- Suggestions arrive as proposals. Nothing changes without your approval.
- Your data stays in the EU and never goes to third-party AI services.
- No inventory to sell you, so suggestions are not a storefront.
What Monara doesn't do yet
- Email import of bookings
- Weather, disruptions and live trip review
- Explore recommendations
- Apps in the App Store and Google Play
- A paid plan
Airbnb and Airbnb Trips are trademarks of Airbnb, Inc. Monara is not affiliated with Airbnb. Details about Airbnb Trips come from Airbnb's public announcements and help centre on the date above.