Long Story: Trips & Life
Trip itinerary & travel diary
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Most of our lives are poorly documented. We take thousands of photos, but a photo rarely holds the whole memory: who was there, what happened before, what made everyone laugh, what someone said.
Long Story is different. Don't write your life story. Capture little pieces of it. We'll help you remember it.
TALK, SNAP, OR TYPE
Press the microphone and say what happened. Add a few photos. Type a line. Ten seconds is useful; thirty is better. The app keeps your original words and your voice.
IT ORGANIZES ITSELF
Every moment gets a title, a short summary, and the people and places in it. Days become chapters: "Morning at the mosque, lunch in the medina, Rick's Café in the evening." Chapters, collections, and your year recap build themselves as you go.
TRIPS AND LIFE
Trips hold the moments of a journey. Life holds everything else: dinner with friends, a great round of golf, a funny conversation, or simply a good day. There's no daily obligation and no streak to keep.
TRAVEL TOGETHER
Invite the people you travel with. Everyone adds their own moments. Our Trip shows what the group shared; My Trip is your complete story, including what you kept private. Moments are private unless you say otherwise.
ASK YOUR MEMORIES
"Where was that restaurant we loved in Casablanca?" "Show me photos with Mike." Answers come only from what you captured, with the moments behind them.
RELIVE
Collections of people, places, and themes. A written recap of your year. A printable book of any trip or year, with a foreword and your own words on every page.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No feed, no followers, no ads. Your memories stay yours. Voice is transcribed on your device. Sign-in is optional and is only for backup and sharing.
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Events, and the people in them.
- Events - a dinner party, a birthday, a wedding. Everything a trip does, minus
the map and the packing. Invite the people who were there and everyone's photos
land in one place.
- A guestbook. Write a note to whoever the occasion is for, rather than a
caption on a photo. At a wedding the words are what survive.
- Occasions know what they are. A wedding opens on the guestbook; a birthday
leads with the photos.
- Hosting: remove someone who shouldn't be there, retire an invite code, take
down a note. A closed event keeps its photos inside the guest list.
- Comments. Say something under anyone's photo, and everyone in the group sees
it. The photographer is told, and so is anyone already in that conversation -
not the whole trip, every time.
- Hearts others can see. Tap the heart and the photo says who liked it.
- The description is yours to overrule. Rewrite what the app wrote about your
own photo, or clear it out and it stays cleared.
- Your calendar, both ways. Put a trip or an event in your calendar, and let
Long Story read what's already there and offer to bring it in. Nothing is added
unless you say so.
- One flight, four tickets. Everyone on a shared booking keeps their own
reference, and sees only theirs.
- Notes are plural. Keep as many as a trip needs, each with its own heading, and
the ones people wrote look different from the ones the app did.
- A two-night stay shows on both nights, and every night after.
- Every itinerary line says who can see it, on the line itself.
- Share some photos or all of them, from any trip's photo grid.
Fixed:
- Photos and itinerary lines added by other people could arrive attached to
nothing - on the phone, but in no trip, and no amount of refreshing brought them
back. They arrive properly now, and anything already lost that way is repaired.
- Events were never backed up. Every event made before this update lived on one
phone only, and nothing said so.
- Hearting someone else's photo quietly stopped that photo receiving any further
updates.
The developer, Sam Simos, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Contact Info
- User Content
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Sam Simos
- Size
- 11 MB
- Category
- Travel
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
User-Generated Content
- Copyright
- © 2026 Sam Simos
