Version 0.1 · Community project
Free Tools for the Travel Community
Plan better road trips, build better travel content, and use free travel tools created for travellers, creators and the open web.
Free to use. Community focused. Built for the open road.
Free Tools
Useful tools. Completely free.
Small, fast, practical utilities for planning and sharing journeys. No accounts,
no paywalls. These are the first tools being built — each one will get its own page
under /tools/ as it ships.
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Road Trip Planner
Build a multi-stop route, add overnight stops and see the shape of your trip before you drive it.
Coming soon
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Fuel Cost Calculator
Estimate what a journey will cost in fuel from distance, mileage and current fuel price.
Coming soon
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Trip Budget Calculator
Add up fuel, stays, food, tolls and activities, then split the total across travellers.
Coming soon
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Packing Checklist Generator
Generate a packing list from trip type, season and length — then tick it off as you pack.
Coming soon
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Embeddable Travel Map
A lightweight route map you will be able to drop into your own blog post or website.
Coming soon
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EV Road Trip Planner
Plan an electric road trip around range, charging stops and realistic driving days.
Coming soon
Want to help decide what gets built first? Ideas and contributions are welcome on GitHub.
For Creators
Built for Travel Creators Too
Travel bloggers, influencers and website owners will be able to use RenTrip.org widgets and tools directly on their own sites — free, lightweight and without tracking your readers. Embed a route map in a trip report, or let readers work out their own fuel cost without leaving your page.
Nothing here is ready to embed yet. These are the formats being designed first.
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Embeddable Route Maps
Show a trip route inside your own post.
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Fuel Calculators
Let readers price their own version of your route.
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Trip Budget Widgets
Turn a "what it cost us" section into something interactive.
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Packing Checklists
Share a reusable, tickable list with your audience.
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Travel Badges
Simple, honest badges for routes and trips you've covered.
Community
Built with the Travel Community
The most useful road information usually comes from people who have just driven the road. Over time, RenTrip.org aims to collect and share that knowledge openly, and to let the community shape the tools themselves.
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Traveller-contributed road information
Road conditions, seasonal closures, fuel stops and detours, described by people who have actually been there.
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Road-trip knowledge
Realistic driving days, good places to break a journey, and the practical detail route planners leave out.
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Useful travel resources
Checklists, guides and references kept free and easy to link to, without gates or sign-ups.
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Open information
What the community contributes should stay readable, shareable and useful outside this website.
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Community improvements to tools
The site is developed in the open, so fixes, ideas and new tools can come from anyone.
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Join in early
The project is at version 0.1. The best time to influence what gets built is now.
Open Travel
Open Travel
RenTrip.org aims to make useful travel information, tools, widgets and eventually selected APIs and datasets openly accessible to creators and developers — so that travel utilities do not have to be rebuilt from scratch behind every paywall.
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Free Widgets
Embeddable tools any website can use.
In design
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Open APIs
Programmatic access to travel utilities.
Planned
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Travel Data Projects
Openly shared, community-checked datasets.
Planned
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Developer Resources
Documentation and examples for building on top.
Planned
None of these services exist yet. They describe the direction of the project, not what is available today.
Our mission
Travel knowledge should be useful, accessible and easy to share.
RenTrip.org is being developed as a community initiative to create free digital utilities for travellers and the wider travel ecosystem. Its purpose is separate from any commercial RenTrip service: everything published here is meant to be free to use, light to load, and open to the community that helps improve it.
The project is early and deliberately small. Tools are added one at a time, in the open, and only when they are genuinely useful.