Troupe Shut Down. Here's What Happened and Where to Move Your Group Trip

If you're here because the Troupe app stopped working, or the website won't load, or you tried to re-download it and couldn't find it: you're not imagining it. As of mid-2026, Troupe appears to be gone. The app is no longer listed on the US App Store, and troupe.com no longer resolves at all (we checked the DNS records directly before writing this).

This is a quick, honest guide to what Troupe was, what we know about the shutdown, and where to take your group trips now, especially if the thing you loved about Troupe was voting on decisions together.

What Troupe was

Troupe launched in September 2022 under JetBlue Travel Products, and it did something genuinely rare: instead of another itinerary organizer, it let a group vote on the trip. Propose dates, destinations, and places to stay, then poll the crew and see what won. For a category where every other app assumes one person plans everything, that was the right idea.

What we actually know about the shutdown

We couldn't find a formal shutdown announcement, so here is the observable evidence, checked on July 7, 2026:

1. The app is delisted. Searching the US App Store returns no Troupe result, and Apple's own search API returns nothing for it.
2. The website is offline. troupe.com has no DNS records anymore. It doesn't redirect anywhere; it simply doesn't resolve.
3. The last app update we can find references dates in early 2024.

If your trips lived in Troupe, there is no longer an obvious way to get them out. That's the painful lesson of trip tools that live and die inside a bigger company's portfolio.

Where to move your group trips

Different apps kept different pieces of what Troupe did. Honest rundown:

If what you loved was the voting: Limbo. We'll be upfront that this is our app, but it's also the closest thing to a direct successor to Troupe's core idea, and in one way it goes further: votes on Limbo stay sealed until a deadline, so nobody piles onto the early leader, then the reveal settles it. Propose plans, the crew votes, the deadline decides. It also splits costs, tracks flights, and works fully offline. And if half your crew refuses to install anything, they can vote from a browser link, no app, no account. Your first trip is free.

If you mostly wanted a shared itinerary: Wanderlog. The strongest collaborative itinerary and map tool. It doesn't force decisions the way a ballot does, but for organizing what's already been decided, it's excellent.

If you only need to split money: Splitwise. The default for group expenses. No planning, no voting, just who-owes-who.

If you only need to pick a date: When2meet or a Limbo date ballot. When2meet shows everyone's availability grid; a sealed date ballot forces the actual commitment.

The part Troupe got right

Troupe's insight holds up: group trips don't fail at the itinerary stage, they fail at the decision stage. The chat goes 450 messages deep, nobody commits, and the trip quietly dies. Whatever tool you move to, keep the mechanism that made Troupe useful: a proposal, a vote, and a deadline that ends the debate.

That mechanism is exactly what we built Limbo around, and why we think the ballot deserves to outlive the app that first tried it.

FAQ

Q: Is the Troupe app coming back?

We can't say for certain, but the signals point the other way: the app is delisted from the App Store and the website's domain no longer resolves at all. If it returns, it would effectively be relaunching from zero.

Q: Can I recover my trips from Troupe?

There's no working website or app to export from, so as far as we can tell, no. If you still have the app installed on a device, screenshot anything you need before it stops working entirely.

Q: What's the closest replacement for Troupe's group voting?

Limbo is built around the same propose-and-vote idea, with sealed ballots and deadlines added so votes are honest and decisions actually close. Friends can vote from a browser link without installing anything, and your first trip is free.