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
This travel app is so great to keep track of visited places! Is there any feature that allows users to combine pins from different trips? That would help users to visualise places that have been in each countries from various trips. Also, it would be helpful if we can change time one on each step, I have hard time in putting up the time when the trip crosses time zone.. anyways, it’s still a five-star app!
Developer Response
Hi Gloria, thanks for your feedback and great to hear you love our app to keep track of the places you've visited. There's no feature like this yet, but you can plan your future trips in advance by creating steps in advance. This way you can already kind of see what your trip will look like. If you have any more questions about the time and timezone, it would be best to send an email to support@polarsteps.com with your trip link and screenshots. This way we can research and help you a bit further. Cheers!
I like the app BUT….
J zj
There are a few things which are a little frustrating to use for this app despite it nicely tracking the countries i have been to..The UI/UX experience is a little off. For the search engine it doesn’t really have the “smart” way of searching the location and then giving the similar options, like i have been trying to search Vatican City to include to the travel history. It’s such a prominent travel site in Rome and it being the smallest country. How can it not be on the search engine of the app?I tried so many different wording options and even tried using italian language to key in. It only gave some other fixed location that has the obvious word Vatican but is not the one i was looking for.So frustrating to use. When some locations are not in the system itself. Please refer to Google Maps search engine and refine your app for ease of use. If not it is pointless when it can’t include all places i have visited.Thanks. Once fixed i will update my review again.
Developer Response
Hi , thanks for your awesome feedback and for sharing your ideas with us! We truly appreciate it. We'll make sure to share your suggestions with our Product team!One way you can locate the Vatican City in the app: Go to your step and then click on the map and you can zoom in & choose the location on the map. If you choose right in the middle of the Vatican City Square, you will see it come up & the flag as well. If you have further feedback or suggestions, don't hesitate to drop our support team a line at support@polarsteps.com. Cheers!
Awesome concept!
crankoz
Being one of the early adopter, I love to see the development of this app. With the ability to upload the video now, it’s so much better and easier to keep the travel journal to look livelier than before. I just have one request. Please make a feature on creating a video or a slideshow by showing photos and videos with the flyover map route. It’s gonna be a killer story on the journal and I would definitely pay for that! 🙌
Time of photos
Womcat
Should capture the time of uploaded photos for better chronological continuityUpdate: Now that i have an iPad, i really hope that this app has a landscape mode. Easier to update post-travel
Developer Response
Hi there! Thanks for the 5 stars and for your feedback and feature suggestion. I've shared it with our product team. Did you know that you can manually change the order of photos by dragging and dropping them? 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
Version 10.7.3
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Information
Provider
Polarsteps B.V.
Size
211.3 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 is not open, which can decrease device battery life.
