Junto is a shared calendar built for one trip: add each activity as an event, and everyone RSVPs to that specific activity, not just the weekend.
It shows who's actually doing the 8am lift and who's skipping the hike, right on the event.
No login, no app, free for groups up to 8.
Trip planning tools stop at finding a weekend. Doodle and Rallly poll a group and land on dates, then hand you nothing for the actual trip.
A ski trip or a bachelorette weekend has a dozen moving pieces: the early lift, the group dinner, the hike some people skip. None of that fits in a date poll.
Search for a trip planner and you mostly get itinerary builders or invitation design tools. Neither one tells you who's actually showing up to any given activity.
Junto does not do availability polling. If your group hasn't picked a weekend yet, use Doodle or Rallly first.
Doodle's free tier gives you one group poll and one booking page; Rallly lets anyone create a poll with no account, though a poll gets deleted after 30 days of inactivity.
Once the weekend is set, bring it into Junto and build the actual schedule.
Create a calendar with a custom URL, like tryjunto.app/ski-trip, and share the link. Anyone you send it to can join by typing their name: no account, no app to install.
Add each activity as its own event and tag it with a category: Travel, Active, Food or Chill. The month or week view shows the whole trip at a glance, and an upcoming list keeps the next activity in front of everyone.
Planning more than one trip a year with the same friends? Each trip gets its own calendar and its own link, so a ski weekend and a summer reunion don't end up tangled together on one page.
Every event gets its own RSVP: going, maybe, or not going. Turn on who's going and each event shows the names, so you know who signed up for the 8am lift before you show up short two people.
That's the actual gap in a trip planner: most tools RSVP the traveller to the trip, not to the individual activity, so the schedule tells you nothing about who's doing what on any given day.
A bachelorette or stag weekend is the same problem with higher stakes: a spa slot, a dinner reservation, a night out, and a group that half opts out of at least one of them.
Junto will not make you a pretty invitation. It's the schedule everyone actually opens the morning of, with the who's-going tags settled the night before instead of guessed at.
Junto has no availability polling, so it can't find your weekend for you. Pair it with Doodle or Rallly for that step.
It also has no chat, no packing lists, no expense splitting and no itinerary map. It is a calendar with RSVPs, not a full trip-planning suite.
A date-poll tool and a trip calendar solve different problems. Here is where each one actually helps.
Group trip tools compared
| Doodle | Rallly | A group chat | Junto | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Picks a date | Yes | Yes | No, informal | No |
| Holds the whole itinerary | No | No | Buried in messages | Yes |
| RSVP per activity | No | No | No | Yes |
| Who's going visible | No | No | No, scroll to find it | Yes |
| Account needed | Creator: yes | No, to create | Yes, the app | No |
| Price | Pro $11/mo billed annually | Pro $6/mo billed yearly | Free | Free to 8, one-time $4.99 plus tax for more |
Checked 2026-09-23. Doodle and Rallly pricing from doodle.com/en/premium and rallly.co/pricing.
Once the dates are set, creating the calendar takes under a minute. Share the link, everyone types their name, and the schedule fills in as people RSVP.
Free for groups up to 8 people. Bigger group, like a 12-person ski house? A one-time $4.99 plus tax removes the member cap on that calendar, no subscription.
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For finding a date, use a poll tool like Doodle or Rallly. For running the actual trip, that's where Junto fits: a shared calendar where every activity gets its own RSVP, so you can see who's doing the early lift and who's sleeping in. Create a calendar with your trip dates and add the itinerary as events.
Start with a Junto calendar at a custom link like tryjunto.app/ski-trip. Add each day's activities (lift time, lunch, apres) as separate events tagged Active, Food or Chill, and let each person RSVP to the ones they're actually doing. The month view shows the whole week; the upcoming list keeps today's plan visible. Share the link and everyone joins by typing their name.
Yes. Turn on who's going in Junto and every event shows the names of the people who RSVP'd going, maybe or not going. That's the difference between a trip itinerary and a real schedule: you know before the morning of who signed up for the hike and who's skipping it. Add your activities as events to try it.
No. Junto does not do availability polling, so it will not find your weekend for you. Use Doodle (one free group poll) or Rallly (unlimited polls, no account to create, though inactive polls are deleted after 30 days) to pick the dates first, then build the itinerary in Junto once the weekend is locked in.
Doodle is for picking one date, and its free tier is one group poll and one booking page (Pro is $11/mo billed annually). If you need a full trip schedule instead of a single date, that's not what Doodle does, and it's where Junto comes in: build the whole itinerary as events once the date's set, with RSVP on each one. Doodle still wins for the date-picking step itself.
List out the weekend's activities (brunch, spa, dinner, the night out) as separate events in a Junto calendar and share one link with the group. Each person RSVPs per activity, so you know who's in for the spa slot and who's skipping to rest before the night out. Junto won't design your invitation, but it is the schedule the group actually opens that morning. Create the calendar and add the itinerary.
No. Junto runs in a browser, so nobody installs anything. Send the link, each person types their name, and they can view and RSVP right away. Anyone who wants the schedule on their own calendar app can download a .ics file per event. Share your trip link to get everyone in within a minute.
Junto is free for private trip calendars up to 8 members, and public calendars have no member limit at all. Past 8 members on a private calendar, a one-time $4.99 plus tax removes the cap, with no subscription. Create a calendar for your next trip and invite the group to find out if you need the upgrade.
Up to 8 members on a private Junto calendar at no cost. If your group is bigger, for example a 12-person ski house, a one-time $4.99 plus tax unlocks unlimited members on that calendar, and it's a single payment, not a subscription. Start the calendar first; you'll only need the upgrade once the ninth person joins.
You can keep using the Junto calendar as a record of the trip, and download a .ics file per event if you want it on your own calendar app too. If you're planning a new trip with the same group, it's easier to start a fresh calendar with its own link than to reuse an old one.
Yes. Every event on a Junto calendar has its own .ics download, so anyone who wants the lift times or dinner reservation on their personal phone calendar can grab just that event. You don't have to give up your own calendar app to use Junto for the group schedule. Open any event and download its .ics file.
Yes. Each Junto calendar has its own custom URL, so a spring ski trip and a fall camping trip can live at two different links with two different member lists, even with the same people in both. Create a new calendar for each trip so old itineraries do not clutter the next one. Set one up for your next trip to keep it separate.
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Last updated 2026-09-23