Plan, track and relive your adventures with Polarsteps. Keep your friends and family up to date. Whether it’s a six-month trip or a weekend canoeing close to home, Polarsteps is here to capture and share your journeys as they unfold.
Awards
■ Top 26 Apps — Apple App Store (2026)
■ Top 3 Travel Apps — Apple App Store (2026)
■ App of the Day — Apple App Store (2025)
PLAN
■ AI itinerary planner: Create a personalized adventure based on past trips or current goals.
■ Destination snapshots: Get a quick overview of each place, why it fits your travel style, and which friends have already been there.
■ Trip details: Add notes, accommodation details, and must-see spots and activities.
■ Transport planner: Choose how you'll get from A to B for every leg of the trip.
■ Inspiration: Follow other explorers, see where they went, and get ideas for your own trips.
TRACK
■ Automatic route tracking: Accurately track the route you took on a beautiful digital world map.
■ Travel Buddies: Invite friends to track trips together.
■ Capture the adventure: Add photos, videos, and stories to each step to bring your journey to life.
■ Travel stats: See how much of the world you’ve traveled, with your total of countries visited, distances covered, and more.
■ Top spots: Add your favorite places and activities so they’re part of your story.
■ Transport mode: Select how you got from place to place, whether by plane, train, or even tuk tuk.
SHARE
■ Trip updates: Share your journey so friends and family can follow along from anywhere, seeing where you are and what you’ve been up to.
■ Traveler tips: Leave suggestions for other travelers on what to see and do.
■ Privacy controls: Decide who sees your adventures: everyone, followers only, or you only.
RELIVE
■ Digital memories: Scroll through the places, photos, stories, and stats you’ve captured across all your trips.
■ Trip Reels: With the press of a button, transform your trip into a memorable video (also perfect to share on socials).
■ Travel Books: Turn your trip into a beautifully printed Travel Book that showcases your route and memories.
WHAT OUR USERS SAY:
“Love this app! It tracks me on my vacation and provides real-time notifications to friends and family of my trip. At the end, I ordered a Travel Book of my photos which is very high quality.”
“The Polarsteps app is great. I am totally addicted. It is so nice to keep up with all your travels. And friends and family can follow you wherever you go. The Travel Book, which you can order afterwards, is of very good quality.”
“I’ve been using this app for years now. It’s always been good and it keeps getting better.”
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
I absolutely love this app so far and you can tell because i NEVER write reviews for apps. I've been using a page on Notion to organize all my memories and photos, and while notion is amazing, this is so much better for keeping track of everything in my life i have been lucky enough to experience in my adventures and daily life. Beyond just traveling, which I unfortunately haven't been able to do much of yet, it is just so great for organizing my life.I have three big suggestions for improving the app, however. The first is that I really wish there was a gallery view option for the photos in each step. I really dislike that i have to scroll through all of the photos to see a specific photo or video i uploaded, and i think adding a option to see a gallery view of the photos would be great for instant access to all the memories. Additionally, I think it would be amazing if you could "collaborate" with others on the app for trips. I'm planning a trip with my friend to mexico soon, and it would be nice if there was an option to tag others or contribute to a shared trip. Finally, while i love the flags concept, I do think it would be a cherry on top to have a "digital passport" kinda thing, where you can flip through a (fake) passport of all your countries with their stamps and have them all in one place given that physical passports do expire eventually. Besides these, I love this app so far and i can't wait to keep using it!
Developer Response
Thank you so much for your lovely and detailed review, your kind words made our day! ❤️ Thank you for these great suggestions as well, we're really happy with your input as it helps us to improve Polarsteps. We'll share your feedback with our product team! Additionally, we have a Travel Together feature on top of our ideas list as it's highly requested, so stay tuned! 😍 If you any other comments or feature requests you would like to share with us, please feel free to contact our Support team at support@polarsteps.com. Happy travels! 🌍
Great app, room for improvement
Kkotsuka
I’d like to start off by saying that I absolutely love the step tracking features in this app. It’s like the perfect digital journal for my trips. There are just a few features that irk me when trying to use the newer features. I don’t understand why, if you can load predicted routes using roam to rio, we can’t just use the predicted route as an actual one in step tracking. I hate having to use the steps suggested when tracking is on, but the straight lines look sooo bad in the finished trip map. Why can’t I just say, “yes I took the exact route suggested by roam to rio, use that for the map”? The tracked steps are always random and sometimes skip major sections so it doesn’t follow our route. And I want to buy one of the travel books so badly because I spent so much time documenting my trip in this app that there’s no way I’m creating a book in another one, but the features to edit the layout are extremely limited. Only getting to fit 4 photos on a page with a 400 page limit is so hard! If I have a long trip or I want a more photos I’m unable to fit everything I want to show. I took a 2 month trip and was so excited to print the book only to realize that I’d have to pick like 4 photos for each step and they don’t fit onto the page very efficiently. I would gladly drop the $200 for a large travel book if I could actually control the page layouts.Finally, is there any plan to incorporate the 3D globe that androids have for the iPhone app. I love being able to look at all the steps on the globe on my friends phones but it’s just a flat, non-interactive map on the iPhone. Again, I love the app and I use it all the time, I just wish it had a few more features to make documentation easier.
Developer Response
Thank you so much for your kind and thorough review 😊 We truly appreciate your support of the Polarsteps app and your constructive feedback 🙏 We're really happy with your input as it helps us to improve Polarsteps, and we'll share your feedback/suggestions with our product team! If you have any other comments or feature requests you would like to share with us, please contact our Support team at support@polarsteps.com. Cheers! ❤️
Amazing travel journal!!
Alexa but not Amazon
I used to keep a handwritten travel journal, but now this app has made it way more convenient to journal about my travels because I don’t have to carry it around! This app is phenomenal! The ability to add things while you’re offline is such a lifesaver, I write entries while I’m commuting somewhere or in my free time without service. It’s much better than Instagram because its sole purpose is traveling. And having the ability to share and follow others is so much fun! My dad is currently in Asia and it’s so fun to see his steps along his journey because he would never participate in social media to post things. And it makes looking back on your travels way easier! The interface is super easy to use, and I love that it suggests steps based on photos you take in different locations. It really helps me keep track of my travel timeline. This app is so cool and I am so grateful for it!! The ONLY qualm I have is uploading videos longer than one minute haha. Other than that, I absolutely LOVE this app and have recommended it to all my friends when they go abroad. They also say they love it!
Cannot get it to work for current trip!
vjaynes
I’ve been traveling for a month and found out about this from a fellow traveler. It’s brilliant in concept but I cannot get it to track my current trip. It synced all of my trips from 7 years ago from my photos with all gps location details, and attached photos to those locations. But the point of me using it is for my current trip and it is just a blank slat. Does not import my photos, location, or dates at all. I’ve done everything I can think of, went into a deep dive in my iOS settings, went through the trip settings, my account settings, read through pretty much the ENTIRE help center, scoured Reddit, updated my phone, deleted my account and reinstalled it, restarted my phone etc and NOTHING WORKS!! It wants me to add everything manually down to the date I flew and the location I flew into and then the next place I stayed etc but at no point does it ever finally pick up in syncing to fill the info in. I ended the trips, restarted the trip, every thing I can possibly think of and NOTHING works. What is the point in using this for your friends and family to track your travels if it only syncs trip details after you arrive back home?!?! The only trips it syncs are ones where I’ve ended AND flown back to my home location. Otherwise this stupid thing is WORTHLESS and you might as well just post on social media because it will be endlessly less frustrating!!!
Developer Response
Hello! Thanks for the review, we are sorry to hear that you are having some issues with your current trip not tracking correctly. Can you please send an email to support@polarsteps.com highlighting these issues so that we can look into it for you?
Hey travelers, we updated the app and resolved several reported issues. Please, feel free to continue sharing any feedback with us at support.polarsteps.com/contact
Version 9.25.0
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Information
Seller
Polarsteps B.V.
Size
195.5 MB
Category
Travel
Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Location
This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.