A euro trip read in dollars books a bill entered in dollars at the rate of the day, from the euro's quote: 12,345.67 USD at 1.1398 is 10,831.44 EUR. The Costs screen and the settlement then turned those euros back into dollars with the dollar's own quote, 1 / 0.87732. Frankfurter rounds the two quotes separately, so they are not exact inverses, and the bill read $12,346.05 the moment it was saved, a $250.00 one $250.01. The error grows with the amount, which is why the large rows showed it first. Paying back what settle-up offered for such a bill left the trip open with the debt flipped the other way. Both sides now convert trip money to the display currency with the trip currency's own quote, the one every entry rate is frozen from. On the server, settlement() fetches that quote for the REST route and for the MCP get_settlement_summary tool, which now makes the same call, and a legacy transfer without a currency reads back through the same factor. On the client, useExchangeRates takes the trip currency as an anchor and converts through its cached quote, falling back to the display currency's while it is missing, so it works offline from cache and needs no change to the settlement response. The final budget builds each row from the unrounded trip amount, because a euro cent is worth more than a dollar cent and 10,831.44 EUR came back as 12,345.68; the balances and settle-up still net whole trip cents. A same-day bill in the display currency now reads exactly as typed on the row, the payer chip, the day header, the totals, Outstanding and the final budget, on both shells and on the shared trip page, and paying the amount settle-up offers leaves both balances at zero. When the rate really moved, the row keeps the value the totals count, with what was entered and the euros it was booked at underneath, "$801.76 -> 685,26 EUR". One helper builds that line for the desktop list, the phone list, payments, the final budget breakdown and the shared page; it prints nothing for an amount of 0 or a bill that reads as typed. The expense editors share one module for their preview. The split summary puts the share the row lends or borrows next to the entered one, "$400.88 -> $390.53 each", and an expense saved without a currency still opens in the trip currency. Both CSV exports add the amount in the trip currency when it differs from the display currency. Kept from before: the desktop totals recompute when rates arrive, a booking's linked cost is labelled in the trip currency, a legacy transfer is read in the display currency, the shared page reads the frozen rate in whole cents, a booking import keeps the currency it was quoted in at a rate frozen before the write (REST and plugin RPC), and the MCP trip summary, the budget-overview prompt and the per-person summary add every row up in trip cents at its frozen rate. The packing-list prompt reads the trip title directly instead of building the whole summary, which could wait on a rates fetch.
A self-hosted, real-time collaborative travel planner — with maps, budgets, packing lists, a journal, and AI built in.
What you get
See all features
Most of what follows is an addon an admin switches on or off. Lists, Costs, Documents, Collab, Vacay and Atlas ship on; Journey, Collections, MCP, AI Parsing and AirTrail ship off and are marked below.
🧭 Planning
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🧳 Bookings and money
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👥 Collaboration
📔 Journal, Atlas and Vacay
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🧩 Plugins
🤖 AI and MCP
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📱 Mobile and offline
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⚙️ Admin, accounts and security
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AI usage
We use LLM-assisted coding tools across parts of this codebase. Nothing ships that a maintainer has not read and understood: every change goes through a pull request, is reviewed and tested, and has a human who can answer for it. "The AI wrote that" is not an answer any of us would accept from ourselves.
See How we use AI in TREK for the details.
Get started in 30 seconds
ENCRYPTION_KEY=$(openssl rand -hex 32) docker run -d -p 3000:3000 \
-e ENCRYPTION_KEY=$ENCRYPTION_KEY \
-v ./data:/app/data -v ./uploads:/app/uploads mauriceboe/trek
Open http://localhost:3000. On first boot TREK seeds an admin account — if you set ADMIN_EMAIL/ADMIN_PASSWORD those are used, otherwise the credentials are printed to the container log (docker logs trek).
Tech stack
Real-time sync via WebSocket (ws). Backend on NestJS 11. State with Zustand. Auth via JWT + OAuth 2.1 + OIDC + Passkeys (WebAuthn) + TOTP MFA. Weather via Open-Meteo (no key required). Maps with Leaflet and Mapbox GL.
Docker Compose (production)
The repository ships a ready-to-use docker-compose.yml
with secure defaults and every option documented inline. Download it, then:
docker compose up -d
See Install with Docker Compose for the full walkthrough.
Helm (Kubernetes)
helm repo add trek https://chart.liketrek.com
helm repo update
helm install trek trek/trek
See charts/README.md for values.
Install as App (PWA)
TREK works as a Progressive Web App — no App Store needed.
- Open TREK in the browser (HTTPS required)
- iOS: Share ▸ Add to Home Screen
- Android: Menu ▸ Install app (or Add to Home Screen)
TREK then launches fullscreen with its own icon, just like a native app.
Updating
See Updating — Docker Compose, Docker run, Helm, Portainer, Unraid and Proxmox, plus the encryption-key note.
Reverse Proxy
For production, put TREK behind a TLS-terminating reverse proxy. TREK uses WebSockets for real-time sync, so the proxy must support WebSocket upgrades on /ws.
If you use the MCP addon, the proxy must also pass the Mcp-Session-Id header through in both directions on /mcp — Nginx and Caddy do this by default, but a proxy that strips it makes every tool call open a new session instead of reusing one. See the Reverse Proxy wiki page for details.
Nginx
server {
listen 80;
server_name trek.yourdomain.com;
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 443 ssl http2;
server_name trek.yourdomain.com;
ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/privkey.pem;
# 500 MB covers backup-restore uploads (capped at 500 MB server-side).
client_max_body_size 500m;
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:3000;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
}
location /ws {
proxy_pass http://localhost:3000;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_read_timeout 86400;
}
# Only needed if you use the MCP addon. Responses are Server-Sent Events,
# so buffering must be off or tool results arrive late.
location /mcp {
proxy_pass http://localhost:3000;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_buffering off;
proxy_read_timeout 3600s;
}
}
Caddy
trek.yourdomain.com {
reverse_proxy localhost:3000
}
Caddy handles TLS and WebSockets automatically.
Environment variables
Every variable, its default and what it does: see Environment Variables.
Star History
Data sources
The Atlas map's country and sub-national (province/county) boundaries come from geoBoundaries (Runfola et al., 2020), licensed CC BY 4.0. See NOTICE.md for full third-party attributions.
License
TREK is AGPL v3. Self-host freely for personal or internal company use. If you modify and offer TREK as a network service to third parties, your modifications must be open-sourced under the same licence.



