The trip planner with friends
Plan a trip with friends — and actually decide
You don't need an app to find friends. You need one to get the friends you already have to commit. Limbo turns the group chat with 40 unread messages and zero decisions into a single sealed vote — so the trip actually happens. Your first trip is free.
Just need one quick decision? Start a free group vote in 30 seconds — no app, no signup.
The problem was never finding friends — it's getting them to commit
Search “trip planner with friends” and half the results try to introduce you to strangers. That's not your problem. You have the friends. What you don't have is a decision. The trip lives in a group chat with 40 unread messages, three date suggestions, one “I'm so down!!” from someone who never books, and a plan that never quite happens.
Limbo starts from the decision instead of the debate. Turn any idea — the dates, the destination, the Airbnb, the one dinner worth splurging on — into a proposal, set a deadline, and let the group vote. It's the ballot box for group trips. If you want the step-by-step, here's how to plan a group trip without losing your mind.
Put it to a vote — so the loudest friend doesn't win by default
Group decisions usually go to whoever types fastest or argues longest. Limbo fixes that with sealed ballots: votes stay hidden until the deadline passes or everyone has voted, so early votes don't sway the rest and the quiet friend's opinion counts as much as the loud one. When the ballot closes, the reveal shows the full tally — including who never bothered to vote.
The threshold you set decides it, 60% by default, and a question can stay open for up to 30 days — but it can't stay open forever. Every open ballot across every trip lands in one Decisions inbox on your home screen, so nothing quietly stalls. Need a spark before you vote? Browse group trip ideas and put each one to the crew.
Get everyone in — even the flaky friend who won't install anything
Share one link or a six-character code and friends jump straight into the trip — joining is free, no hoops. But every group has that one friend who refuses to download another app. So Limbo doesn't make them. Send a web ballot from web.getlimbo.app/new and they vote right in the browser — no app, no account, about 30 seconds. Their vote counts exactly the same as everyone else's.
That's the difference for a trip with friends who are scattered across three group chats and two levels of commitment: you don't have to convert the whole group before you can get a decision. Downloading Limbo and making an account are free too — your first trip is free to run end-to-end, and more trips are a small in-app upgrade. It's just as handy for a bachelorette weekend as it is for a family trip.
Everything friends actually fight about, handled
Two things end more friendships than any missed flight: money and “wait, nobody told me.” Limbo handles both. Track the budget as you plan, split any cost equally or by custom shares, and let Settle up turn it into a clean who-owes-whom list — so nobody's stuck being the group bank or chasing friends for $23.
And there's one shared timeline the whole group can see, so “I didn't see the plan” stops being a thing. Forward a booking confirmation (PDFs too) and it files itself into the right trip, live flight tracking pushes delay and gate alerts, and group chat keeps the banter (photos, reactions, polls) out of the decisions. Divvy up errands with Pitch In tasks and shared checklists — start from a ready-made group trip checklist — or see the full feature rundown and the wider group trip planner app.
Planning a trip with friends, answered
Do all my friends need the app to plan a trip together?
No. Friends join your trip with a six-character code or a link, and joining is free. And the one friend who never downloads anything? Send them a web ballot from web.getlimbo.app/new and they vote right in the browser — no app, no account, about 30 seconds. You run the trip in the app; they can weigh in from a link.
How do you decide when a group of friends can't agree?
You stop debating and put it to a vote. In Limbo, anyone proposes a plan, you set a deadline, and everyone votes. Votes stay sealed until the deadline passes or everyone has voted — so nobody just piles on the first loud opinion. When the ballot closes, the reveal shows the full tally, including who didn't vote. The threshold you set decides it, 60% by default, so the decision gets made instead of dying in the chat.
How do you split costs with friends without it getting weird?
Track the budget as you plan, split any cost equally or by custom shares, and let Settle up turn the whole mess into a clean who-owes-whom list. No one gets stuck being the group bank, and nobody has to be the person chasing everyone for $23. It's math, not a favor.
What's the best way to plan a trip with a big friend group?
Give the group one shared timeline so nobody can say they didn't see the plan, and route every real fork — the dates, the Airbnb, the splurge dinner — through a vote instead of a 200-message thread. Use the Decisions inbox to keep open ballots from stalling, split costs as you go, and hand out errands with Pitch In tasks. Your first trip is free; more trips are a small in-app upgrade.
You found the friends. Now make the decision.
Get Limbo on iOS and Android — your first trip is free. Start a trip, share the link, and let the whole group actually decide.