Polarsteps - Travel Tracker

Polarsteps

About this app

Plan, track, and relive your travels. Record your route automatically, keeping your phone in your pocket and eyes on the world.

Over 5M+ explorers have chosen Polarsteps to create and capture their adventures. This all-in-one travel app shows you the world’s most enticing travel destinations, gives you insider tips and plots your route, locations and photos when the journey is underway. The result? A beautiful digital world map that is unique to you! As well as the chance to turn it all into a hardback Travel Book when you’re done. And it doesn’t stop there...

Doesn’t drain your battery, works offline and you have full privacy control.

PLAN

■ Polarsteps Guides, created by our travel-loving editors and other explorers like you, show you the best of the world (as well as giving you top tips for once you get there).
■ Itinerary Planner to build your dream (editable) itinerary.
■ Transport Planner helping you get from A to B with clear transport options between destinations.

TRACK

■ Automatically track and plot your path on a digital world map (that grows fuller as your passport does).
■ Add photos, video, and thoughts to your steps along the way making your memories all the more vivid.
■ Save spots that you love so that you can always find your way back.

SHARE

■ Leave tips for the traveling community on where to go and what to see.
■ Share your journey with friends and family if you want to. Or keep it to yourself. You have full privacy controls.
■ Follow others and share in their adventures.

RELIVE

■ Retrace your steps – scrolling through places, photos, and your travel stats.
■ Create a unique Travel Book filled with your pictures and stories with the touch of a button.

WHAT THE PRESS ARE SAYING ABOUT POLARSTEPS

"The Polarsteps app replaces your travel journal, making it easier and more beautiful." - National Geographic

"Polarsteps helps you track and share your journeys in an easy and visually appealing way." - The Next Web

"Polarsteps' resulting travel log is impressive, and is the source of a severe case of itchy feet in your correspondent." - TechCrunch

FEEDBACK

Questions, thoughts, or feedback? We'd love to hear what you think about Polarsteps. Get in touch via [e-mail].

Ratings and reviews

Disappointed. Got home and found out that I have to upload each pic for each location. I thought this would happen automatically. Turned out to be nothing more than a Google Maps timeline. I said exactly what I meant, the app did not upload pics that coincide with each stop. It just gave me a timeline with my stops but no pics for the stops unless I uploaded them manually.

Mostly very good. PS tracks your location as you move along. But if you do an end-of-day journal, it doesn't work so well. Although all photos are tagged with GPS information, they will be logged at the location where the journal entry is updated. If you go back to try to pick out where the pictures were taken, the program redraws your steps, making a mess of the path. It would be better if the program picked up the GPS data from the photo and put it in the correct spot on the path.

I like the app, particularly the ease of adding photos and zooming in to see your path. Unless I'm doing something wrong, I have two suggestions. Add the abilities to comment on individual photos and to add a step and photos without internet access (to be uploaded later). When I try to add a step without access, the app tries to download a location name (rather than simply recording the coordinates). When it can't, it won't let me proceed. I add a step later by tapping a point on the path.

What's new

We fixed a couple of minor bugs.