Polarsteps

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200K reviews
Content rating
Rated for 12+
10M+
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Editors' Choice
Content rating
Rated for 12+
Parental Guidance Recommended
Users Interact, Shares Location, In-App Purchases
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About this app

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.

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
Travel Tracker & Trip Planner for countries & U.S. states you've been to
Updated on
Nov 9, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • This app may share these data types with third parties
    Personal info, Financial info and 3 others
  • This app may collect these data types
    Location, Personal info and 6 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

195K reviews
Josh Costanza
November 24, 2024
Amazing app! Love tracking and sharing my trip. A couple bugs in the planning portion where scheduled dates for a step gets changed and not even remotely close to the original selected dates. Even some planned steps get dates added which makes it a pain if to cleanup. Feature request to share trip publicly for steps you have saved in an active trip but only show current and planned location to followers. Right now you have to finish a trip for this.
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maritimer too
September 13, 2026
It is a fun personal way to document your trip. I learned not to allow it constant access to my location as it would keep jumping about if I stayed anywhere for long and it made a mess of my map. I made sure I ALWAYS closed the app when not using it and set location permissions to when using the app only. It isn't great for sharing your trip as followers have to make an effort to download the app and open it for updates. Using Facebook or Instagram is easier for most people.
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Spencer Cook
August 8, 2026
good program for recording trips but with issues. I noticed years ago it is a CPU hog, but didn't think too much about it, I only used it for occasional trips to Scotland. However my phone overheated and stopped working twice on my recent trip to Europe. Once I disabled polarsteps, everything worked fine. I won't be using it anymore.
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Polarsteps Travel
August 10, 2026
I'm sorry to hear about your bad experiences with our app :-( Can you please contact us via support.polarsteps.com/contact so we can help look into this issue? We hope to hear from you.

What’s new

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