How to export your trip from Wanderlog (and what you lose)

Wanderlog Pro is listed from $5.99 per month and $31.99 to $59.99 per year in Apple's App Store in-app purchase tiers for the app, checked 22 August 2026.

Wanderlog is one of the better trip planners, which is exactly why its exits deserve documentation nobody else bothers to write - vendors document ways in, never ways out, and the gap is where trips get stuck. We checked every export path against Wanderlog's current help center, its shipped web app, and its app-store listings on 22 August 2026, verifying absences as carefully as features. The summary: two real doors out, both narrower than you expect, and several exports the internet confidently claims exist that simply do not.

What can and cannot leave Wanderlog?

The full accounting, before the how-to:

How do you print a Wanderlog trip?

The one export everyone actually has: open the trip on the Wanderlog website - not the mobile app - click the three-dots menu in the upper right, and choose Print this trip. The help center documents the path, and it is free. The print view carries the plan as a reader sees it: days in order, places with their notes, and the reservations you forwarded in by email. Reservations deserve a word here, because they are the part people assume is portable and is not: Wanderlog ingests flight, hotel, and rental-car confirmations through a per-trip email address and files them beautifully, but the only way those details leave again is inside this same print view. What the printer produces is paper-shaped output, not data - fine as a backup and a migration reference, useless for importing anywhere. Check it page by page before you rely on it: collapsed sections and long notes render differently than the app shows them, and a backup you never proofread is a surprise wearing a safety vest.

How do you get a PDF out of Wanderlog?

Through the browser, not the app. Wanderlog has no dedicated PDF button; the working method, documented by users on the Rick Steves forum, is the website's print view plus your browser's save-as-PDF destination. Do it from a laptop, check the page count before saving, and store the file with your travel documents. A trip you might leave the app over is a trip worth PDF-ing today - the print view is only as available as your subscription state and the company's product decisions.

What does the Google Maps export actually move?

Saved places, and saved places only. Wanderlog's own feature copy says it exports saved places to Google Maps, auto-updated when plans change, and the destination is a list of pins in Google Maps' saved places - the company's co-founder described choosing saved places over My Maps as a deliberate design decision. Useful - your restaurant research survives as dots on the map you navigate with anyway. But the feature is Pro-gated (both Wanderlog's shipped feature list and its App Store description say so), and no Wanderlog source claims the day structure, times, notes, or bookings transfer, because they do not. A trip is not a bag of pins; the export is.

Can you export to a calendar or a spreadsheet?

No, and we verified the absence rather than assuming it. Wanderlog's help center search returns zero results for calendar, CSV, and iCal; the shipped web application contains no such trip-level export; and forum users confirm the workaround is typing events into their calendar by hand. If calendar events are what you actually need, the least-painful manual path is one event per day rather than one per activity - a single all-day event holding the day's plan in its description survives the retyping with your patience intact, and your phone's agenda view becomes a passable offline itinerary. One nuance found in the app's own code: an export-expenses-to-CSV control exists for the budget section - money out, itinerary not. And a warning about the wider internet: aggregator sites currently claim Wanderlog exports KML, KMZ, and full-trip CSV files. No Wanderlog documentation, code, or store listing supports any of that, and repeating it is how migration guides break people's trips.

If this is the kind of logistics you would rather not run by hand: 7 Wanders builds the whole day-by-day plan from one description of the trip, and researches the real trains and flights instead of inventing them.

What does leaving actually cost you?

Wanderlog's free tier is genuinely free - its help center commits to unlimited trips and collaborators - so your data is not hostage. The cost of leaving is structural: the day-by-day plan exists only as the print view, the budget's planned-versus-actual history exists only inside the app (minus the expenses CSV), and the collaboration history does not export at all. One conflict worth flagging because Wanderlog's own pages disagree: its 2024 blog said basic offline itinerary access was free with offline maps in Pro, while its current help center describes offline trip plans as a Pro, app-only feature. We cite both; plan around the stricter one.

How do you rebuild the trip in 7 Wanders?

By hand, and we will not pretend otherwise - there is no automated Wanderlog importer in 7 Wanders today. The honest workflow: the printed PDF on one screen, 7 Wanders on the other, and the trip described once - destinations, dates, pace, budget - so the days rebuild with transit legs that are live-researched rather than pasted. Saved lists and research notes come across as exactly that, your own research folded into the plan. Ten to twenty minutes of retyping for a two-week trip is the real price; what you buy for it is a plan that keeps itself current instead of a snapshot.

Keeping a usable archive, whatever you use

Three habits make any planner safe to leave, Wanderlog and 7 Wanders alike. Print-to-PDF every finished trip while your account is in good standing - it is the only format guaranteed to outlive product decisions. Pull the expenses CSV if the numbers matter to you. And keep the irreplaceable research - the friend's restaurant list, the museum-hours screenshot - in storage you own, referenced by the planner rather than trapped in it.

The pre-cancellation checklist, if you are leaving Pro specifically: run the Google Maps export one last time while the subscription is live, since the synced list stops updating with it; save the PDF of every trip you might travel again; download any attachments you uploaded, because the print view references them without embedding them; and screenshot the budget summary if the expenses CSV does not carry the split you need. Ten minutes, once, against an unknowable future product decision - the trade is lopsided in your favor. An app should earn each trip; the archive is what makes that a choice instead of a hostage situation.

The bottom line

Wanderlog is a good planner with a narrow door out - a print view for the whole trip and a Pro places-export that carries pins, not days. Budgets, booking details, and the day-by-day structure effectively stay behind, and the claims elsewhere about KML or CSV trip exports do not survive contact with the actual product. Print the PDF before you need it. And think twice before making any single app the only home of years of travel research - ours included.