Travel Arrow App — Flight & Hotel Deal Finder

Your browser already knows how to find flights. TravelArrow makes it find the cheapest ones.

You know that feeling when you find a flight on Google Flights, and something in the back of your mind whispers: "but is this really the cheapest price out there?" So you open Kayak in another tab. Then Skyscanner. Then Expedia. Fifteen tabs later, you've compared everything manually and you're not even sure you did it right.

That's the exact annoyance TravelArrow was built to kill. It's a free browser extension — now called TripChipper — that sits in your Chrome toolbar and acts like a little virtual travel agent. It takes the flight or hotel search you're already looking at and, in one click, transfers it to the sites that usually have the lowest fares. It also reveals the hidden names behind "mystery" hotel deals, hunts down promo codes at checkout, and compares hotel and car rental prices across dozens of booking sites.

This site is a plain-English guide to what TravelArrow is, how each of its features actually works, and whether it's worth installing. If you want the short version first, here's the full rundown of what TravelArrow does.

What TravelArrow does, in plain terms

At its core, TravelArrow does three jobs while you shop for travel:

• Flight price comparison. Found a route on Expedia or Google Flights? One click sends that exact search to Kayak and Skyscanner so you can see if someone else sells the same flight cheaper. No retyping dates, airports, or passenger counts. Our guide to the flight comparison feature walks through exactly how it works.
• Hotel deal reveal. Priceline Express Deals and Hotwire hide the hotel's name until after you pay — that's how they offer the discount. TravelArrow's most talked-about trick (it went viral on TikTok for this) reveals which hotel you're actually getting before you book. Here's how the hotel reveal works.
• Promo codes and price checks. At checkout on airlines, hotels, and travel sites, the extension searches for working promo codes in real time. It also compares hotel and rental car prices across 25 or more booking sites and tells you when its own rate beats what you found. The details are in our promo codes and deal alerts guide.

On top of that, there's a rewards feature called Miles Back: shop at regular online stores through the extension and earn miles you can redeem for airline and hotel gift cards. And if you ever get stuck, there's a 24/7 travel agent hotline for help with planning, bookings, delays, and cancellations.

Who is it for?

Honestly? Anyone who books their own travel and hates overpaying. It's most useful if you:

• Compare flight prices across multiple sites before booking (or wish you had the patience to).
• Book "mystery" hotel deals on Priceline or Hotwire and want to know what you're getting.
• Shop for hotels or rental cars and want a second opinion on whether the price is actually good.

It's less useful if you always book directly with one airline and never price-shop — the extension only earns its keep when you're comparing. Curious how it stacks up against the tools you might already use? We put together TravelArrow vs the alternatives, covering Google Flights, Honey, and RatePunk.

Is it free? What's the catch?

Yes, it's free — no subscription, no premium tier. The business model is affiliate commissions: when you book through one of its links, the travel site pays TravelArrow a cut. That arrangement is disclosed in the company's own terms. It also means the extension has a financial incentive to send you toward booking partners, which is worth knowing — though in practice users report it genuinely surfaces cheaper options, including the famous hotel reveal that saved people hundreds.

If you want the full honest picture, including permissions, privacy, and the few criticisms users have raised, read is TravelArrow safe and legit?

TravelArrow or TripChipper — what's with the two names?

If you've seen both names floating around, you're not imagining things. The product started life as TravelArrow and has been rebranded to TripChipper — the Chrome Web Store listing now reads "TripChipper (TravelArrow)". Same company (Travel Arrow LLC), same extension, new name. If a friend told you to install TravelArrow and you can only find TripChipper in the store, that's the same tool — install away.

How to get started

Installation takes under a minute: it's a Chrome Web Store extension (free, rated 4.1 stars, around 200,000 users), and the company also runs the official site at tripchipper.com. Our step-by-step install guide walks you through adding it to Chrome and turning on the features you want. Our download page links only to the official listings — no third-party download sites, ever.

Bottom line: if you book travel online and want a second set of eyes on every price, TravelArrow is one of the more genuinely useful free tools out there. Start with the guides above, install it from the official store, and let it do the tab-juggling for you.