How Stopful works

Stopful is a free, map-first road-trip planner. Drop stops on a map, see drive times and transport options, find places to stay and charge, see what the whole trip will cost before you book anything, keep your bookings and budget in one place, and share the trip with whoever's coming along. Here's everything it can do.

Build your route

• Add a stop — search a place in the search box, or press and hold anywhere on the map.
• Move a stop — drag its pin to a new spot.
• Set how long you stay — tap a pin and set the number of nights (0 = just passing through).
• Stopful draws the driving route between your stops and adds up the distance and time as you go.

Stops & legs

• Tap a pin for a stop's details — set nights, check the weather, browse things to do, and find a place to stay.
• Tap the route line between two stops to see that leg's drive time and distance, switch how you travel it (drive, flight, train, or bus), find EV chargers along the way (how the EV planning works), and open turn-by-turn directions.

What will the trip cost?

The Budget tab has two views. Estimate answers the question you ask first — roughly what will this cost, and if it's too much, where do I cut? — on a trip with nothing booked yet.

• It prices the whole trip, not just the driving: stays per night, food and getting around per person per day, things to do, flight, train and bus fares, plus fuel and tolls from your actual route.
• It knows where you're going — over 150 regions and cities have their own price level, so Sardinia isn't priced like mainland Italy — and when, with month-by-month seasonality (the Med peaks in August, the Alps in February).
• It knows who's going: rooms are priced by who's actually sleeping in them, with weekend nights costing more and long stays a little less per night.
• Pick Budget, Standard or Comfort and the whole thing re-prices.
• You get a range rather than a fake-precise number, ranked by what costs most and grouped by stop or by category — so it's obvious where the money is going.

It updates as you plan: add a night, change the party, swap a drive for a flight, and the number moves. And because it never touches your real expenses, you can price two different trips and compare them before booking either.

Track what you actually spend

The Actual view keeps real money in one place: set a spending target, add expenses by hand (or let forwarded bookings fill them in automatically), see a breakdown by category, and get an estimated fuel or EV-charging cost based on your drive legs.

Where to stay

For every overnight stop you can search places to stay right from the pin. Stopful also flags any overnight stop with no hotel booked yet, so a night doesn't slip through unplanned.

Plan with AI

Sign in and describe a trip in plain words — "a week around the Dolomites in September, no more than 300 km a day" — and the AI travel agent maps out a full route with stops and nights. Keep chatting to refine it: add stops, reorder them, or change how long you stay. It can also answer questions about your trip and about how to use Stopful.

Share & plan together

• Share copies a link anyone can open to view your trip.
• Share for editing (in the More menu) creates an edit link so friends or family can plan the trip alongside you.
• Version history (More menu) lets you look back and restore an earlier version.
• More on all of this: plan a road trip with friends — no accounts needed.

Save, sync & export

• Sign in with Google to sync your trips across your devices.
• Print / Save as PDF from the More menu for a clean, day-by-day itinerary to take with you — what's on the printout.
• Export and Import a trip as a file to keep your own backup.

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