Polarsteps Travel

Name: Polarsteps Travel
Rating: 4.9 (6643 reviews)
Author: Polarsteps B.V.

Trip Planner & Tracker

Only for iPhone

Free

6.6K Ratings
Ages

13+
Years
Category

Travel
Developer

Polarsteps B.V.
Language

EN
+ 12 More
Size

159.2
MB

iPhone

Over 10 million explorers have chosen Polarsteps to plan, track and relive their travels. 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... Record your route automatically, keeping your phone in your pocket and eyes on the world. 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 support.polarsteps.com/contact

Ratings & Reviews

4.9

out of 5

6.6K Ratings

AMAZING
07/03/2024

Dkjfnvhkddnvijsfnv
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! 🌍
AMAZING
07/03/2024

Dkjfnvhkddnvijsfnv

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 07/05/2024
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! 🌍
Amazing travel journal!!
Feb 10

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!
Amazing travel journal!!
Feb 10

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!
12/07/2023

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?
Cannot get it to work for current trip!
12/07/2023

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 12/11/2023
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?
Cool but very bad photo suggestions / annoying to use
04/14/2024

ellliottower
I like the UI and visualization, but it is such a pain having to fight the app in order to add locations (which it renames to the county—who ever cares about the county? Just name the step the location you searched, like Grand Canyon should not be renamed to the county), then when you add photos the suggestions are always off and you have to manually look through photos. What it should do is look at your photos and suggest all the ones on that same date, even if they don’t have the geo location tag (DSLR photos). Entering in dates is also a pain, new step button for some reason always assumes you do it on a new day, so I have to go back and manually change that too. I’m sure if you use it to actively track new trips it works okay, but I’m frustrated with the experience of filling it in manually. It captured some of the trips I did in the past by analyzing my photos, but again renames all the locations to stuff nobody knows (it calls Muir Woods national monument by its county name) and will split trips into two sometimes, with no easy way to combine them. Features seem to be there but usability is lacking IMO, not really worth the effort (I did try a few other competitor apps and this is more features but still a pain).

Developer Response
Hi , thanks for your feedback! We're continuously working on improving the app and would love to hear your thoughts. Could you reach out to us at support@polarsteps.com and elaborate on your feedback a bit further? Cheers!
Cool but very bad photo suggestions / annoying to use
04/14/2024

ellliottower

I like the UI and visualization, but it is such a pain having to fight the app in order to add locations (which it renames to the county—who ever cares about the county? Just name the step the location you searched, like Grand Canyon should not be renamed to the county), then when you add photos the suggestions are always off and you have to manually look through photos. What it should do is look at your photos and suggest all the ones on that same date, even if they don’t have the geo location tag (DSLR photos). Entering in dates is also a pain, new step button for some reason always assumes you do it on a new day, so I have to go back and manually change that too. I’m sure if you use it to actively track new trips it works okay, but I’m frustrated with the experience of filling it in manually. It captured some of the trips I did in the past by analyzing my photos, but again renames all the locations to stuff nobody knows (it calls Muir Woods national monument by its county name) and will split trips into two sometimes, with no easy way to combine them. Features seem to be there but usability is lacking IMO, not really worth the effort (I did try a few other competitor apps and this is more features but still a pain).
Developer Response 04/16/2024
Hi , thanks for your feedback! We're continuously working on improving the app and would love to hear your thoughts. Could you reach out to us at support@polarsteps.com and elaborate on your feedback a bit further? Cheers!

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

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