Comparison
A Trail Wallet alternative for long-term travellers
Trail Wallet shut down in 2022. How Nomad Budget compares, what it does differently, and how to take your Trail Wallet history with you.
Trail Wallet was one of the first travel budget apps for iPhone, made by two long-term travellers. Its makers announced in September 2022 that it was shutting down: no more updates or support, and a backup system they called unreliable since iOS 16. Copies already installed keep running, but nothing protects the data in them any more.
If you are still using it, or miss it, this page is a fair look at how Nomad Budget compares, including the things Trail Wallet did that Nomad Budget doesn’t.
Which one is for you
Choose Trail Wallet if…
Trail Wallet can’t be downloaded any more, so the real choice is what to move to before the copy on your phone stops working.
Choose Nomad Budget if…
Nomad Budget suits you if you stay in countries for weeks or months, want each country in its own currency, and want one total across all of them.
Trail Wallet and Nomad Budget, side by side
| Feature | Trail Wallet | Nomad Budget |
|---|---|---|
| Platforms | iPhone and iPad | iPhone. Not on Android yet. |
| Updates | Shut down in September 2022; no updates or support | Active; first released in 2026 |
| Built around | Trips with start and end dates | One wallet per country, in that country’s currency; your trips and route are read from them |
| Currencies | Currencies of 218 countries, in home or local currency | Every entry in the currency you paid in |
| Exchange rate kept per entry | Automatic rates when online, or a rate you enter yourself | Yes: the rate of the day it was paid, kept for good |
| Total across countries | Per trip, in your home currency | Everything adds up in one main currency you choose, and can change |
| Budgets | A daily budget that adjusts to what you have left; monthly or trip budgets | A monthly budget with alerts (free); category and country budgets by the day or month (Pro) |
| Works offline | Yes; rates update when online | Yes |
| Travelling with others | No | Shared wallets with edit or view-only access. No bill splitting or “who owes whom”. |
| Receipt photos | Yes | No |
| Map | No | A 3D globe of where you’ve been and what each country cost, drawn from your entries |
| Compare countries’ costs | No | Yes: official price levels (World Bank ICP 2021, Eurostat) free; priced on your own spending with Pro |
| Bank connection | No | None, by design |
| Import and export | Exports CSV with receipt images | Imports CSV and Excel; exports CSV (Pro) |
| Free version includes | Up to 25 items; more with an in-app purchase | Unlimited entries, wallets and currencies, the globe, a monthly budget; one shared wallet, one goal, three recurring bills |
“Not stated in its listing” means we couldn’t confirm it from Trail Wallet’s own pages, not that it is missing.
The quickest way to judge is with your own spending: Nomad Budget is free on iPhone, and works without an account.
Where Trail Wallet is stronger
- A daily budget that recalculates what you can spend today from what is left — Nomad Budget’s budgets are monthly, or daily per category and country with Pro.
- Receipt photos attached to an entry.
- Multiple tags on one entry.
- It ran on iPad; Nomad Budget is made for iPhone.
What Nomad Budget does differently
- Countries rather than trips: each country you stay in gets a wallet in its own currency, and trips are read from where you spent.
- Every entry keeps the exchange rate of its own day, so a past month’s total doesn’t move when the rate does.
- One total across every country, in a main currency you can change at any time.
- A 3D globe of your route and of what each country cost you.
- Before a move, the cost of your own way of living in another country, from official price levels.
- Shared wallets for travelling with a partner, and an account that syncs, so a lost phone doesn’t mean lost data.
Taking your Trail Wallet history with you
Trail Wallet can still export a trip: on the Summary screen tap Share, choose All Trip Data, then Export as CSV. Its makers recommend doing it now, while the app still runs.
Nomad Budget imports CSV and Excel files and works out the columns itself. Trail Wallet isn’t one of the formats it knows by name, so check the summary it shows you; nothing is saved until you confirm, and an import can be undone for seven days.
Sources
Checked on 4 October 2026. Trail Wallet is made by Voyage Travel Apps; it is named here only to compare.