Travel Journal - Pyxis
Bucket List Planner
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Plan smarter, remember better: Pyxis keeps your places with notes, photos, tags, weather, and sunrise/sunset times together—always within reach. All synced with iCloud.
With Pyxis: Travel Journal, you can note down places, check weather, and add photos to your collection.
• Pin locations, add a note and a photo to add context to each location.
• Check today’s weather conditions and the forecast for the next 7-days at any of your locations. You never have to guess if you should bring a poofy jacket or a wind breaker!
• Check sunrise and sunset times to catch the perfect light. Find out when the moon rises or sets to plan a perfect photoshoot.
• Check off locations you’ve already been to and places you want to go to next
• Send your locations and notes to family and friends so they don’t have to do all the hard work you’ve already done!
• Organize and categorize your location pins with tags. Customize these tags using colors and symbols
• Sort and Filter all of the annotations and list of places based on tags, dates, and/or if you’ve checked off (been to) these places
• Easily sync your information between devices with iCloud
• Export all of your notes and photos locally. Restore at a later time!
• Search local places and use the quick-add feature to add them to your collection
• Use shortcuts to automate adding locations to your collection or find the closest locations within a certain radius.
Whether you’re a photographer chasing light, a traveler charting routes, or someone who loves remembering where life happens, Pyxis stores the places that matter—beautifully organized and always within reach.
Some example of tags you can use to get started with the app:
• Bucket List – dream destinations with inspiration photos
• Itineraries – day-by-day must-see spots for upcoming trips
• Travel Diary – a running journal of every journey
• Life & Milestones – proposals, first homes, special anniversaries
• Field Work – on-site notes for outdoor pros
• Secret Shortcuts – best restrooms, hidden parking, scenic overlooks
• Foodie Finds – cafés and restaurants you can’t miss
• Event Planning – venues, décor inspo, and logistical notes
• FREE VERSION:
- You get full access to the app and all it's features with the ability to add up to five location pins
• PREMIUM VERSION:
- Unlock unlimited number of location pins
If you have any questions or feedback, please reach out by e-mail at pyxisnotes@gmail.com
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
more I’ve been using Pyxis for a bit now, and it’s quickly become one of my favorite productivity tools. The app is perfect if you like to keep track of places, notes, or detailed lists with visual markers. The interface is clean and intuitive, and the pin-based layout makes it really easy to organize information at a glance.I commute between 2–3 cities every day for work, and this app has genuinely made my routine so much easier. I really appreciate how simple it is to drop pins at my favorite coffee shops, workspaces, and reliable spots in each city. It keeps everything organized, and I love being able to visually map out my day without flipping between multiple apps.
I’ve been using Pyxis for a bit now, and it’s quickly become one of my favorite productivity tools. The app is perfect if you like to keep track of places, notes, or detailed lists with visual markers. The interface is clean and intuitive, and the pin-based layout makes it really easy to organize information at a glance.I commute between 2–3 cities every day for work, and this app has genuinely made my routine so much easier. I really appreciate how simple it is to drop pins at my favorite coffee shops, workspaces, and reliable spots in each city. It keeps everything organized, and I love being able to visually map out my day without flipping between multiple apps.
This app has a simple layout yet does so much! Love that I can mark all of my favorite spots, check the weather, keep track of locations I’ve visited vs. plan to visit, and add photos. It’s easy to search places and lets me organize my locations for easy access. Also like that the app continues to have updates with new features.
This app has a simple layout yet does so much! Love that I can mark all of my favorite spots, check the weather, keep track of locations I’ve visited vs. plan to visit, and add photos. It’s easy to search places and lets me organize my locations for easy access. Also like that the app continues to have updates with new features.
I like that this lets me organize my places but also lets me see weather and sunrise sunset time. It’s straight forward to use. And reasonable in price.
I like that this lets me organize my places but also lets me see weather and sunrise sunset time. It’s straight forward to use. And reasonable in price.
v3.1.1 contains small bug fixes
v3.1 contains some bug fixes and following improvements:
- Now you can archive tags!
- Simply go to the detail screen of any tag and you will find the option.
- Archiving tags hides away all the associated locations/notes from the map screen as well as the notes list.
- You can continue to add notes to your archived tags. You can find these tags under the "Archived" section in the tags lists throughout the app.
- This new feature can help you stay organized for future vacations, past trips, or maybe for a tag you've added too many locations too.
- Yay! to decluttering!
- Small visual update to the Manage Tag screen
- The help button on the map screen can now be hidden. Simply open it up and toggle the visibility.
Pyxis 3.0 is here and ready for the latest updates:
- Updated design utilizing iOS 26 and Liquid Glass!
- Introducing 'Tag Generation' with Apple Intelligence!
- When you add or modify a note, Pyxis now automatically suggests new tags based on your notes, associated locations, as well as city and country of the location where your note is.
- Simply tap the suggested tag and it automatically gets created and assigned to the note!
- Introducing nearby associated locations!
- When you add or modify a note, there’s a new field that lets you manually associate your note to a nearby location.
- Did you find a new favorite coffee shop, restaurant, or a park? Simply associate the location with your note and now you can access the hours, phone number, address, website, plus much more right in your notes!
3.1.1 11/28/2025
v3.1 contains some bug fixes and following improvements:
- Now you can archive tags!
- Simply go to the detail screen of any tag and you will find the option.
- Archiving tags hides away all the associated locations/notes from the map screen as well as the notes list.
- You can continue to add notes to your archived tags. You can find these tags under the "Archived" section in the tags lists throughout the app.
- This new feature can help you stay organized for future vacations, past trips, or maybe for a tag you've added too many locations too.
- Yay! to decluttering!
- Small visual update to the Manage Tag screen
- The help button on the map screen can now be hidden. Simply open it up and toggle the visibility.
Pyxis 3.0 is here and ready for the latest updates:
- Updated design utilizing iOS 26 and Liquid Glass!
- Introducing 'Tag Generation' with Apple Intelligence!
- When you add or modify a note, Pyxis now automatically suggests new tags based on your notes, associated locations, as well as city and country of the location where your note is.
- Simply tap the suggested tag and it automatically gets created and assigned to the note!
- Introducing nearby associated locations!
- When you add or modify a note, there’s a new field that lets you manually associate your note to a nearby location.
- Did you find a new favorite coffee shop, restaurant, or a park? Simply associate the location with your note and now you can access the hours, phone number, address, website, plus much more right in your notes!
3.1 11/21/2025
v3.0.2 contains small bug fixes:
- Added a new screen under Settings to better preview changing the color of the Map Marker
- Added sunrise and sunset lines to the 24 hour weather forecast harts. These can be disabled in the menu in the weather tab.
Pyxis 3.0 is here and ready for the latest updates:
- Updated design utilizing iOS 26 and Liquid Glass!
- Introducing 'Tag Generation' with Apple Intelligence!
- When you add or modify a note, Pyxis now automatically suggests new tags based on your notes, associated locations, as well as city and country of the location where your note is.
- Simply tap the suggested tag and it automatically gets created and assigned to the note!
- Introducing nearby associated locations!
- When you add or modify a note, there’s a new field that lets you manually associate your note to a nearby location.
- Did you find a new favorite coffee shop, restaurant, or a park? Simply associate the location with your note and now you can access the hours, phone number, address, website, plus much more right in your notes!
3.0.2 11/01/2025
v3.0.1 contains small bug fixes:
- y-axis values for Wind Chart for today's forecast were rendering wrong
- Added a another liquid glass effect to the adding a note action on the map screen
Pyxis 3.0 is here and ready for the latest updates:
- Updated design utilizing iOS 26 and Liquid Glass!
- Introducing 'Tag Generation' with Apple Intelligence!
- When you add or modify a note, Pyxis now automatically suggests new tags based on your notes, associated locations, as well as city and country of the location where your note is.
- Simply tap the suggested tag and it automatically gets created and assigned to the note!
- Introducing nearby associated locations!
- When you add or modify a note, there’s a new field that lets you manually associate your note to a nearby location.
- Did you find a new favorite coffee shop, restaurant, or a park? Simply associate the location with your note and now you can access the hours, phone number, address, website, plus much more right in your notes!
3.0.1 09/17/2025
Pyxis 3.0 is here and ready for the latest updates:
- Updated design utilizing iOS 26 and Liquid Glass!
- Introducing 'Tag Generation' with Apple Intelligence!
- When you add or modify a note, Pyxis now automatically suggests new tags based on your notes, associated locations, as well as city and country of the location where your note is.
- Simply tap the suggested tag and it automatically gets created and assigned to the note!
- Introducing nearby associated locations!
- When you add or modify a note, there’s a new field that lets you manually associate your note to a nearby location.
- Did you find a new favorite coffee shop, restaurant, or a park? Simply associate the location with your note and now you can access the hours, phone number, address, website, plus much more right in your notes!
3.0 09/15/2025
What's new in v2.4:
- You can now share individual images from your notes
- Improved local search. Plus the pins visible on the map are now read but if there are pins outside the map, those turn green. This helps with a good visual separation to identify in which area the search was performed in case you move the map after the search.
- Bug fix for the custom sheet sometimes not appearing when a map pin is tapped.
- The map in the notes detail screen is now moved to the top for more information about the location
Pyxis 2.0 contains a ton of new features!
• Access weather at any of your locations
- Hourly forecast for today
- 7-day weather for the coming week
- Sunrise and Sunset times
• Check off locations you’ve been to
- A to-do style list to keep track of places you’ve been to and the places you should go next
- Filter pins on the map or the list of locations based on if you’ve checked them off or not
• Updated map annotations
- All your locations now show up with a spiffy new annotation on the map
- If you want to revert back to the old style, just head to the settings and you can switch back
• Updated quick-look pop-up
- When you tap on a map annotation, the quick-look pop-up now also shows current weather conditions
- You can access the weather directly from quick-look with a button
- You can also send a note directly from quick-look
• Updates to Tags
- Customize Tags by adding symbols in addition to colors
- Sort Tags on your list alphabetically or by the date the tag was saved. You can find this in the Settings screen
• Import and Export all your notes
- Export your locations to a local folder with all your notes and images
- Restore at a later time
• Send notes to family and friends
- Planning a trip? Sharing a hidden spot? Maybe you are the one who is in charge of making a list of all the places you have to go. No need to worry! Now you can send your locations and notes to family and friends
• Images now include pinch to zoom functionality
- Images now also show in the proper aspect ratio
• Get suggestions when you are adding notes
- When you add a note at a location, the app provides you with suggestions for a quick entry
• Local Search
- You can now also search with coordinates
- You can directly add search results to your locations. These locations are automatically tagged with “Added From Search”
- The search list now includes a small icon for iOS 18 users to look up information about any place you look up
• Updated Settings Screen with new additions
- Settings for sorting Tags
- Change Weather units of measurement
- Import and Export button
• A brand new icon
2.4 08/28/2025
Version 2.3 fixes a two bugs that caused a crash on the macOS
What's new in v2.2:
- Shortcuts support! You have access to 4 shortcuts to get you started: Add a location, Find notes, List all the tags, rename any tag.
- My favorite is adding a location. You no longer have to open the app to add a location!
- You can now export data to more formats: .kml, .csv, .json, .sqlite, .gpx
- You can now also see sun and moon events for each location. These can help you plan a perfect sunrise shoot. Or plan a sunset date. The additional information really helps you understand where the sun is relative to the horizon so you know what the light will do.
- Added an option to batch delete or change the tag of multiple notes.
- The notes list screen gets a refreshed look:
- The notes have more room to breathe.
- There's a bit of color and a bit of glass.
- It changes between dark and light mode.
- You can even preview the images of a note if you tap the attachment icon.
Pyxis 2.0 contains a ton of new features!
• Access weather at any of your locations
- Hourly forecast for today
- 7-day weather for the coming week
- Sunrise and Sunset times
• Check off locations you’ve been to
- A to-do style list to keep track of places you’ve been to and the places you should go next
- Filter pins on the map or the list of locations based on if you’ve checked them off or not
• Updated map annotations
- All your locations now show up with a spiffy new annotation on the map
- If you want to revert back to the old style, just head to the settings and you can switch back
• Updated quick-look pop-up
- When you tap on a map annotation, the quick-look pop-up now also shows current weather conditions
- You can access the weather directly from quick-look with a button
- You can also send a note directly from quick-look
• Updates to Tags
- Customize Tags by adding symbols in addition to colors
- Sort Tags on your list alphabetically or by the date the tag was saved. You can find this in the Settings screen
• Import and Export all your notes
- Export your locations to a local folder with all your notes and images
- Restore at a later time
• Send notes to family and friends
- Planning a trip? Sharing a hidden spot? Maybe you are the one who is in charge of making a list of all the places you have to go. No need to worry! Now you can send your locations and notes to family and friends
• Images now include pinch to zoom functionality
- Images now also show in the proper aspect ratio
• Get suggestions when you are adding notes
- When you add a note at a location, the app provides you with suggestions for a quick entry
• Local Search
- You can now also search with coordinates
- You can directly add search results to your locations. These locations are automatically tagged with “Added From Search”
- The search list now includes a small icon for iOS 18 users to look up information about any place you look up
• Updated Settings Screen with new additions
- Settings for sorting Tags
- Change Weather units of measurement
- Import and Export button
• A brand new icon
2.3 07/28/2025
What's new in v2.2:
- Shortcuts support! You have access to 4 shortcuts to get you started: Add a location, Find notes, List all the tags, rename any tag.
- My favorite is adding a location. You no longer have to open the app to add a location!
- You can now export data to more formats: .kml, .csv, .json, .sqlite, .gpx
- You can now also see sun and moon events for each location. These can help you plan a perfect sunrise shoot. Or plan a sunset date. The additional information really helps you understand where the sun is relative to the horizon so you know what the light will do.
- Added an option to batch delete or change the tag of multiple notes.
- The notes list screen gets a refreshed look:
- The notes have more room to breathe.
- There's a bit of color and a bit of glass.
- It changes between dark and light mode.
- You can even preview the images of a note if you tap the attachment icon.
Pyxis 2.0 contains a ton of new features!
• Access weather at any of your locations
- Hourly forecast for today
- 7-day weather for the coming week
- Sunrise and Sunset times
• Check off locations you’ve been to
- A to-do style list to keep track of places you’ve been to and the places you should go next
- Filter pins on the map or the list of locations based on if you’ve checked them off or not
• Updated map annotations
- All your locations now show up with a spiffy new annotation on the map
- If you want to revert back to the old style, just head to the settings and you can switch back
• Updated quick-look pop-up
- When you tap on a map annotation, the quick-look pop-up now also shows current weather conditions
- You can access the weather directly from quick-look with a button
- You can also send a note directly from quick-look
• Updates to Tags
- Customize Tags by adding symbols in addition to colors
- Sort Tags on your list alphabetically or by the date the tag was saved. You can find this in the Settings screen
• Import and Export all your notes
- Export your locations to a local folder with all your notes and images
- Restore at a later time
• Send notes to family and friends
- Planning a trip? Sharing a hidden spot? Maybe you are the one who is in charge of making a list of all the places you have to go. No need to worry! Now you can send your locations and notes to family and friends
• Images now include pinch to zoom functionality
- Images now also show in the proper aspect ratio
• Get suggestions when you are adding notes
- When you add a note at a location, the app provides you with suggestions for a quick entry
• Local Search
- You can now also search with coordinates
- You can directly add search results to your locations. These locations are automatically tagged with “Added From Search”
- The search list now includes a small icon for iOS 18 users to look up information about any place you look up
• Updated Settings Screen with new additions
- Settings for sorting Tags
- Change Weather units of measurement
- Import and Export button
• A brand new icon
2.2 07/18/2025
v2.1 contains lots of small user interface upgrades:
- The settings screen shows the status of syncing for iCloud
- The add note screen and modify note screen got a color splash for the information relating to weather, tags, and check-offs
- The cloud cover selector got a facelift
- The weather selector between Today and 7-Days is moved to the bottom for an easier reach with your thumb and got a visual overhaul
- Added a location card to Today weather screen so you can always know which city your locations are in
- Bug fix for when the weather unit picker sometimes didn't work
A big update to import and export screen:
- Now the app archives your data into a zip file and allows you to pick where to save it.
- Made import data logic a lot more performant
Pyxis 2.0 contains a ton of new features!
• Access weather at any of your locations
- Hourly forecast for today
- 7-day weather for the coming week
- Sunrise and Sunset times
• Check off locations you’ve been to
- A to-do style list to keep track of places you’ve been to and the places you should go next
- Filter pins on the map or the list of locations based on if you’ve checked them off or not
• Updated map annotations
- All your locations now show up with a spiffy new annotation on the map
- If you want to revert back to the old style, just head to the settings and you can switch back
• Updated quick-look pop-up
- When you tap on a map annotation, the quick-look pop-up now also shows current weather conditions
- You can access the weather directly from quick-look with a button
- You can also send a note directly from quick-look
• Updates to Tags
- Customize Tags by adding symbols in addition to colors
- Sort Tags on your list alphabetically or by the date the tag was saved. You can find this in the Settings screen
• Import and Export all your notes
- Export your locations to a local folder with all your notes and images
- Restore at a later time
• Send notes to family and friends
- Planning a trip? Sharing a hidden spot? Maybe you are the one who is in charge of making a list of all the places you have to go. No need to worry! Now you can send your locations and notes to family and friends
• Images now include pinch to zoom functionality
- Images now also show in the proper aspect ratio
• Get suggestions when you are adding notes
- When you add a note at a location, the app provides you with suggestions for a quick entry
• Local Search
- You can now also search with coordinates
- You can directly add search results to your locations. These locations are automatically tagged with “Added From Search”
- The search list now includes a small icon for iOS 18 users to look up information about any place you look up
• Updated Settings Screen with new additions
- Settings for sorting Tags
- Change Weather units of measurement
- Import and Export button
• A brand new icon
2.1 05/06/2025
Pyxis 2.0 contains a ton of new features!
• Access weather at any of your locations
- Hourly forecast for today
- 7-day weather for the coming week
- Sunrise and Sunset times
• Check off locations you’ve been to
- A to-do style list to keep track of places you’ve been to and the places you should go next
- Filter pins on the map or the list of locations based on if you’ve checked them off or not
• Updated map annotations
- All your locations now show up with a spiffy new annotation on the map
- If you want to revert back to the old style, just head to the settings and you can switch back
• Updated quick-look pop-up
- When you tap on a map annotation, the quick-look pop-up now also shows current weather conditions
- You can access the weather directly from quick-look with a button
- You can also send a note directly from quick-look
• Updates to Tags
- Customize Tags by adding symbols in addition to colors
- Sort Tags on your list alphabetically or by the date the tag was saved. You can find this in the Settings screen
• Import and Export all your notes
- Export your locations to a local folder with all your notes and images
- Restore at a later time
• Send notes to family and friends
- Planning a trip? Sharing a hidden spot? Maybe you are the one who is in charge of making a list of all the places you have to go. No need to worry! Now you can send your locations and notes to family and friends
• Images now include pinch to zoom functionality
- Images now also show in the proper aspect ratio
• Get suggestions when you are adding notes
- When you add a note at a location, the app provides you with suggestions for a quick entry
• Local Search
- You can now also search with coordinates
- You can directly add search results to your locations. These locations are automatically tagged with “Added From Search”
- The search list now includes a small icon for iOS 18 users to look up information about any place you look up
• Updated Settings Screen with new additions
- Settings for sorting Tags
- Change Weather units of measurement
- Import and Export button
• A brand new icon
2.0 04/25/2025
What's new in v1.2.1:
- Some users were experiencing a bug where double tapping on a map no longer caused the map to zoom in. This is now fixed.
- Introduced this little window you are looking at which shows release notes whenever you launch the app after an update. You can also see the release notes in the settings screen.
- Added an FAQ button on the paywall screen that answers subscription related questions.
1.2.1 10/13/2024
What's new in v1.2:
- The location pin preview window now lets you see images attached to the note. Tap on a pin to bring up the preview window; then tap on the image and you'll see the rest of images come into view.
1.2 10/06/2024
What's new in v1.1:
- One less step to customize tag colors: Now you can select a color for the tag while you are creating the tag.
- The color of the 'center marker' that allows you to accurately pin a location can now be changed in the settings. Yes, you can have different color for light mode and dark mode. :)
- Text fields look a little nicer now.
- When you click on a pin on the map, a floating window pops up from the bottom. Previously, you could only press "Edit Note" to access the note. Now you can press anywhere on that window to access the note.
- Plus other bug fixes.
- Hang tight, more features coming!
1.1.1 10/02/2024
What's new in v1.1:
- One less step to customize tag colors: Now you can select a color for the tag while you are creating the tag.
- The color of the 'center marker' that allows you to accurately pin a location can now be changed in the settings. Yes, you can have different color for light mode and dark mode. :)
- Text fields look a little nicer now.
- When you click on a pin on the map, a floating window pops up from the bottom. Previously, you could only press "Edit Note" to access the note. Now you can press anywhere on that window to access the note.
- Plus other bug fixes.
- Hang tight, more features coming!
1.1 10/02/2024
What's new in v1.0.3:
- You now have the ability to search for nearby places to add them to your notes
- Added the option to turn off Haptics
- Added the a menu on the map screen to allow filtering of locations by tag
1.0.3 09/14/2024
v3.1.1 contains small bug fixes
v3.1 contains some bug fixes and following improvements:
- Now you can archive tags!
- Simply go to the detail screen of any tag and you will find the option.
- Archiving tags hides away all the associated locations/notes from the map screen as well as the notes list.
- You can continue to add notes to your archived tags. You can find these tags under the "Archived" section in the tags lists throughout the app.
- This new feature can help you stay organized for future vacations, past trips, or maybe for a tag you've added too many locations too.
- Yay! to decluttering!
- Small visual update to the Manage Tag screen
- The help button on the map screen can now be hidden. Simply open it up and toggle the visibility.
Pyxis 3.0 is here and ready for the latest updates:
- Updated design utilizing iOS 26 and Liquid Glass!
- Introducing 'Tag Generation' with Apple Intelligence!
- When you add or modify a note, Pyxis now automatically suggests new tags based on your notes, associated locations, as well as city and country of the location where your note is.
- Simply tap the suggested tag and it automatically gets created and assigned to the note!
- Introducing nearby associated locations!
- When you add or modify a note, there’s a new field that lets you manually associate your note to a nearby location.
- Did you find a new favorite coffee shop, restaurant, or a park? Simply associate the location with your note and now you can access the hours, phone number, address, website, plus much more right in your notes!
more Version 3.1.1 11/28/2025
Data Not Collected The developer does not collect any data from this app.