Polarsteps ran in the background for our entire trip to New Zealand. When we returned, it was really easy to select which photos we wanted to include in our book, and add commentary. The finished hard... See more
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Over 15M+ explorers have chosen Polarsteps to create and capture their adventures. 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 photo 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 travelling 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 control. ■ 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
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Every Day I shared my experiences with my family and friends
It was easy to do, great memories.
Possibly the worst customer service…
Possibly the worst customer service I’ve encountered. Months ago we made 3 out of 4 travel books for our trip through India Indonesia and New Zealand. The 4th book does not load, we can’t edit it or finish it. Numerous emails to customer service have been ignored or replied to with short irrelevant messages and now we are nearly in April and our travel books for our trip last winter 2024/25 incomplete. Useless

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Around the World in 30 days. taking Polar Steps with us!
Loved using Polarsteps to record our journey and allow friends and family to come along to, from a distance - a most rewarding experience! A forever keepsake, for sure!
Great quality
The travel book produced is of a high standard. The photo's look amazing
Polarsteps is the best to keep a daily journal of your voyage
Polarsteps is very nice to upload photo's and short video's from locations you are traveling to. People you allow can follow your voyage and see the highlights of your trip. Making a book afterwards is a bit challenging but worth the effort because in the end you have a beautiful journal of your voyage.
Fantastic app which helped us map and…
Fantastic app which helped us map and record our trip in New Zealand. We could upload our photos and experiences daily which ended up as a fabulous photo book which we will always have
A free, user-friendly app to track and share your adventures, with the option to create high quality photobooks of those special memories.
The Polarsteps app is free and easy to use. I had tried others, but the ability to track and share your trip in real time with followers, with no limit on text, photos & short videos was the deciding factor for me. It has numerous useful features and can be used with automated tracking, or you can do it manually as you go along - even after the trip if you missed a step. The app is free as the company make their money from selling you the photobook afterwards. This hardback book is printed on quality paper and the photographs look amazing. You choose your own cover photo and title and can arrange your photos to your own liking, making some as full-page spreads and others in groups. The information (date, location, altitude, weather, etc) and my own narrative is well presented at the start of each step. We had been on a 6-week trip to Aotearoa/New Zealand and I had no problem creating the largest possible book: 398 pages! It's a huge volume that makes a fantastic 'coffee table' book for guests to browse through. I wish I'd known about Polarsteps earlier - we've done many trips that this format would be perfect to capture for posterity. I will definitely be using the app again to share our adventures in real-time and to create permanent memories of our future adventures.
Beautiful coffee table book.
Once I'd got the hang of using the app it was so easy to use. The book is very well presented although there are are a few mistakes which I know aren't mine!
Very bad print quality of Travel Book
We ordered a travel book (86€), but the print quality was very disappointing.
The original photos we uploaded were high quality, yet in the final book they appeared to be heavily downscaled, resulting in blurry and low-quality prints.
After contacting customer service, we received a reprint. I explained that the problem likely originates from the book creation tool compressing the images, and indeed this book was of very bad quality aswel. I have never received a follow-up response from their customer service.

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Use Polar Steps for holiday memories
Polar Steps is the best way to log your trip with photos and narrative that is easy to use and produces a top quality book. It looks so professional with excellent quality photos arranged as you choose. A way of treasuring memories forever.
Beautiful memory book!
Beautiful memory book!
Great quality!
Quick delivery!
It was a beautiful trip
It was a beautiful trip. And our daily short stories on Polar makes it a beautiful memory
Do not use this company
Do not use this company. They have put up their prices up and even if you delete some photos the same is still the same. They printed a date over someone’s face on the front cover & told me it was my fault as I should have checked it. They have refused to re-print it for me even though they know how unhappy I am!

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Excellent way of recording trips
We have been using PS for 5 years, most recently for a campervan trip in France and Spain. It is a very easy way of sharing journeys with friends, tracking and recording our travels. The travel books are of very high quality, delivered very quickly and will provide wonderful memories to look back on.
Since years crazy flightlines in my…
Since years crazy flightlines in my cruise tracking - it looks horrible and Polarsteps is not able to fix this Bug, which I experience since 2023!!

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Prefer to use website, but am being forced to get the app.
I have been following a friend on PolarSteps for a few years, on the website, which has been good. It keeps, however, trying to force me to install the app to continue doing so, and I don't want the App. This is frustrating--I don't want the app out of privacy concerns and also because of the battery power it constantly uses. As of today, I can see only the name of my friend's current trip and am directed to the app to see the actual post.

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Beautiful picture book
Beautiful picture book, easy to make, good quality, nice extra's like your route or the weather that day. Love it!!!
A very special keepsake.
A Polarsteps travel book is a special keepsake that is extraordinarily easy to create. By keeping the information in mind during the trip, you create a book with your unique content, featuring photos that look amazing, page by page.
Amazing quality of the book
Amazing quality of the book. So easy to make. Absolutely love this app, that I have been using for years to document our travels, and the books !
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